US3442044A - Construction set with modular elements - Google Patents

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US3442044A
US3442044A US495236A US3442044DA US3442044A US 3442044 A US3442044 A US 3442044A US 495236 A US495236 A US 495236A US 3442044D A US3442044D A US 3442044DA US 3442044 A US3442044 A US 3442044A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/12—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H33/00—Other toys
    • A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
    • A63H33/06—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements
    • A63H33/08—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails
    • A63H33/084—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails with grooves
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H33/00—Other toys
    • A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
    • A63H33/06—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements
    • A63H33/08—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails
    • A63H33/088—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails with holes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
    • B44C3/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing ornamental structures
    • B44C3/12—Uniting ornamental elements to structures, e.g. mosaic plates
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/16—Two dimensionally sectional layer
    • Y10T428/163—Next to unitary web or sheet of equal or greater extent

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BE (1) BE673170A (xx)
CH (1) CH429537A (xx)
DK (1) DK114603B (xx)
ES (1) ES324801A1 (xx)
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US3594940A (en) * 1968-08-19 1971-07-27 Yonezawa Toys Co Assembly toy set
US3603025A (en) * 1967-12-01 1971-09-07 Walter Heubl Elements with plural surfaces having uniformly spaced interfittable projections
US3707989A (en) * 1969-12-22 1973-01-02 Crouzet Sa Modular system for pneumatic control
US3713248A (en) * 1971-05-03 1973-01-30 W Heubl Wheel element for toy building set
US3748752A (en) * 1971-01-21 1973-07-31 A Quercetti Mosaic play
US4164091A (en) * 1978-03-30 1979-08-14 Lin Wen Ping Building blocks set
EP0121433A1 (en) * 1983-03-30 1984-10-10 Novation Design Ltd. Interconnectible polygonal construction modules
US4569665A (en) * 1984-05-04 1986-02-11 Timothy Belton Play building element
US4988322A (en) * 1986-11-26 1991-01-29 Interlego A.G. Toy building set for building tree-like models
EP0427698A1 (en) * 1989-10-10 1991-05-15 Ronald L. Lyman A toy construction set formed from plural building blocks
US5183430A (en) * 1986-04-28 1993-02-02 James Swann Geometric toy construction system
US5472365A (en) * 1993-05-17 1995-12-05 Engel; Richard J. Polygon attachment system for constructing polyhedra
US5795210A (en) * 1993-09-22 1998-08-18 Interlego Ag Toy building set and building elements therefor
US6386542B1 (en) * 2000-11-27 2002-05-14 Nick Lore Unique puzzle and puzzle piece
US20040145105A1 (en) * 2001-02-14 2004-07-29 Halford Ben John Workpiece support
US20060163811A1 (en) * 2005-01-24 2006-07-27 Shih-Hung Chuang Jigsaw puzzle assembly
US20090056517A1 (en) * 2005-09-14 2009-03-05 Surface Generation Limited Reconfigurable tooling system for supporting a workpiece
US20120161392A1 (en) * 2009-09-03 2012-06-28 Nagy Richard Game accessory, especially dice
US20120211460A1 (en) * 2011-02-18 2012-08-23 Guala Pack S.P.A. Cap for Containers
US20140270934A1 (en) * 2013-03-15 2014-09-18 Michael James Acerra Construction system using a comb connector
US20150260206A1 (en) * 2013-03-15 2015-09-17 Michael James Acerra Construction system using a comb connector
US20180071651A1 (en) * 2016-09-13 2018-03-15 Brian's Toys, Inc Modular block toy compatible panels and storage unit assembled therefrom
US20190091596A1 (en) * 2017-09-26 2019-03-28 Elenco Electronics, Inc. Two-sided grid with electrically conductive connections for a snap-together electronic toy set
IT201800004839A1 (it) * 2018-04-24 2019-10-24 Elementi modulari a piastra per costruzioni leggere.
US20200246717A1 (en) * 2016-01-25 2020-08-06 Rodions ZENEVICS Building toy
WO2020157097A1 (en) * 2019-01-29 2020-08-06 Lego A/S Toy constrution and storage system
US20200316456A1 (en) * 2019-04-06 2020-10-08 Angela L. Fairhurst Manipulation system for the stimulation of cognitive abilities
USD923230S1 (en) * 2021-03-18 2021-06-22 Guixiang Liu Solar light
US20220042307A1 (en) * 2020-08-06 2022-02-10 Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee Gigacubes coasters & lids
USD945534S1 (en) * 2019-06-04 2022-03-08 Ten Square Inc. Building block

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US1894061A (en) * 1931-04-08 1933-01-10 Reginald E Sanders Toy construction block
FR990651A (fr) * 1944-03-23 1951-09-25 Jeu de construction
FR1053237A (fr) * 1952-03-31 1954-02-01 Jeu de construction à système d'attaches élastiques
FR1219634A (fr) * 1959-04-02 1960-05-18 éléments parallélépipédiques avec tenons et doigts d'assemblage pour jeux de construction
DE1169821B (de) * 1959-03-14 1964-05-06 Dr Med Ernst Frimberger Mosaikspiel

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1894061A (en) * 1931-04-08 1933-01-10 Reginald E Sanders Toy construction block
FR990651A (fr) * 1944-03-23 1951-09-25 Jeu de construction
FR1053237A (fr) * 1952-03-31 1954-02-01 Jeu de construction à système d'attaches élastiques
DE1169821B (de) * 1959-03-14 1964-05-06 Dr Med Ernst Frimberger Mosaikspiel
FR1219634A (fr) * 1959-04-02 1960-05-18 éléments parallélépipédiques avec tenons et doigts d'assemblage pour jeux de construction

Cited By (42)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3603025A (en) * 1967-12-01 1971-09-07 Walter Heubl Elements with plural surfaces having uniformly spaced interfittable projections
US3594940A (en) * 1968-08-19 1971-07-27 Yonezawa Toys Co Assembly toy set
US3707989A (en) * 1969-12-22 1973-01-02 Crouzet Sa Modular system for pneumatic control
US3748752A (en) * 1971-01-21 1973-07-31 A Quercetti Mosaic play
US3713248A (en) * 1971-05-03 1973-01-30 W Heubl Wheel element for toy building set
US4164091A (en) * 1978-03-30 1979-08-14 Lin Wen Ping Building blocks set
AU571207B2 (en) * 1983-03-30 1988-04-14 James T. Ziegler Connectable polygonal construction
JPS59183783A (ja) * 1983-03-30 1984-10-18 ジエ−ムス・テイ・ジ−グラ− 接続可能多角形組み立てモヂユ−ル
US4731041A (en) * 1983-03-30 1988-03-15 Ziegler James T Connectable polygonal construction modules
EP0121433A1 (en) * 1983-03-30 1984-10-10 Novation Design Ltd. Interconnectible polygonal construction modules
US4886477A (en) * 1983-03-30 1989-12-12 Novation Design Ltd. Connectble polygonal construction modules
US4902259A (en) * 1983-03-30 1990-02-20 Novation Design Ltd. Connectable polygonal construction modules
US4569665A (en) * 1984-05-04 1986-02-11 Timothy Belton Play building element
US5183430A (en) * 1986-04-28 1993-02-02 James Swann Geometric toy construction system
US4988322A (en) * 1986-11-26 1991-01-29 Interlego A.G. Toy building set for building tree-like models
EP0427698A1 (en) * 1989-10-10 1991-05-15 Ronald L. Lyman A toy construction set formed from plural building blocks
US5472365A (en) * 1993-05-17 1995-12-05 Engel; Richard J. Polygon attachment system for constructing polyhedra
US5795210A (en) * 1993-09-22 1998-08-18 Interlego Ag Toy building set and building elements therefor
US6386542B1 (en) * 2000-11-27 2002-05-14 Nick Lore Unique puzzle and puzzle piece
US20040145105A1 (en) * 2001-02-14 2004-07-29 Halford Ben John Workpiece support
US7703190B2 (en) * 2001-02-14 2010-04-27 Surface Generation Limited Tooling system and method
US20060163811A1 (en) * 2005-01-24 2006-07-27 Shih-Hung Chuang Jigsaw puzzle assembly
US8128077B2 (en) * 2005-09-14 2012-03-06 Surface Generation, Ltd. Reconfigurable tooling system for supporting a workpiece
US20090056517A1 (en) * 2005-09-14 2009-03-05 Surface Generation Limited Reconfigurable tooling system for supporting a workpiece
US20120161392A1 (en) * 2009-09-03 2012-06-28 Nagy Richard Game accessory, especially dice
US8678388B2 (en) * 2009-09-03 2014-03-25 Co And Co Communication Reklam Es Hirdetesszervezo Kft Game accessory, especially dice
US20120211460A1 (en) * 2011-02-18 2012-08-23 Guala Pack S.P.A. Cap for Containers
US9016473B2 (en) * 2011-02-18 2015-04-28 Guala Pack S.P.A. Cap for containers
US20140270934A1 (en) * 2013-03-15 2014-09-18 Michael James Acerra Construction system using a comb connector
US20150260206A1 (en) * 2013-03-15 2015-09-17 Michael James Acerra Construction system using a comb connector
US20170014728A1 (en) * 2013-03-15 2017-01-19 Michael James Acerra Construction system using a comb connector
US9643101B2 (en) * 2013-03-15 2017-05-09 Michael James Acerra Construction system using a comb connector
US20200246717A1 (en) * 2016-01-25 2020-08-06 Rodions ZENEVICS Building toy
US11141674B2 (en) * 2016-01-25 2021-10-12 Rodions ZENEVICS Building toy
US20180071651A1 (en) * 2016-09-13 2018-03-15 Brian's Toys, Inc Modular block toy compatible panels and storage unit assembled therefrom
US20190091596A1 (en) * 2017-09-26 2019-03-28 Elenco Electronics, Inc. Two-sided grid with electrically conductive connections for a snap-together electronic toy set
IT201800004839A1 (it) * 2018-04-24 2019-10-24 Elementi modulari a piastra per costruzioni leggere.
WO2020157097A1 (en) * 2019-01-29 2020-08-06 Lego A/S Toy constrution and storage system
US20200316456A1 (en) * 2019-04-06 2020-10-08 Angela L. Fairhurst Manipulation system for the stimulation of cognitive abilities
USD945534S1 (en) * 2019-06-04 2022-03-08 Ten Square Inc. Building block
US20220042307A1 (en) * 2020-08-06 2022-02-10 Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee Gigacubes coasters & lids
USD923230S1 (en) * 2021-03-18 2021-06-22 Guixiang Liu Solar light

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ES324801A1 (es) 1967-10-16
DE1478652A1 (de) 1970-07-16
CH429537A (it) 1967-01-31
GB1060200A (en) 1967-03-01
SE302096B (xx) 1968-07-01
AT272899B (de) 1969-07-25
BE673170A (xx) 1966-04-01

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