US3484982A - Structural elements including rack,blocks,shafts,and endless resilient means - Google Patents

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US3484982A
US3484982A US613199A US3484982DA US3484982A US 3484982 A US3484982 A US 3484982A US 613199 A US613199 A US 613199A US 3484982D A US3484982D A US 3484982DA US 3484982 A US3484982 A US 3484982A
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    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
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  • STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS INCLUDING RACK, BLOCKS, SHAFTS, AND
  • a kit including connectable construction elements and at least one rack member for holding portions of shaft members.
  • the rack has recesses configurated to accept one of these shaft portions or connecting portions of the other connectable elements with a tight frictional fit.
  • An endless coil spring coacts with the rack to retain the shafts therein for storage. The spring is also usable as a transmission element in a toy.
  • shafts are not particularly large and can therefore be easily lost, not only when the building kit is in the possession of a child, but even during storage at the factory or at a store, for instance if the package or the wrapping thereof is damaged.
  • the present invention overcomes the disadvantages outlined above, and provides the desired improvements.
  • the present invention provides a rack, for shaft members and similar elements of a toy building kit, which is re-usable for an almost unlimited number of times.
  • the rack may comprise at least one support member which is provided with a plurality of recesses, and each of the latter is adapted to receive a portion of one of the above-mentioned elements. It will be clear that the respective element is thus positioned and maintained in predetermined relationship relative to the support member.
  • FIG. 1 is a top-plan view of a rack in accordance with the invention, showing the rack as holding a plurality of shafts in place;
  • FIG. 2 is an end view of two of the support members constituting the rack shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a side-elevational view of a structural element of the type utilized in toy building kits in which the novel rack may find use;
  • FIG. 4 is a side-elevational view of an exemplary instance of use of my novel rack
  • FIG. 5 is a partially sectioned side-elevational view showing another exemplary instance of use of the novel rack.
  • FIG. 6 is a fragmentary view of the arrangement in FIG. 4, as seen in the direction of the arrow Z thereof.
  • the invention comprises a rack consisting of three support members which are respectively designated with reference numers 1, 1 and 2.
  • the support members 1 and 1 are identical and are arranged, as clearly evident from FIG. 1, in mirror-symmetrical relationship.
  • the support member 2 which differs fom the support members 1 and 1 as an examination of FIG. 1 establishes.
  • FIG. 2 represents an end view of support member 1 as seen in the direction from the support member 2, and further an end view of the support member 2 as seen from the direction either of support member 1 or of support member 1. It should be noted that FIG. 2 does not show an end view of the support member 1' because, as pointed out above, this is identical with support member 1.
  • FIG. 2 indicates that the support members are each provided with a plurality shaft-receiving means in form of recesses, which in the case of the support member 1-and of the non-illustrated identical support member 1'are designated with reference numeral 4.
  • the recesses in the illustrated embodiment are of quadratic cross-section and are separated by wall portions 3. The showing of the quadratic cross-section is intended only as an example since the cross-section could be selected as desired, of
  • the recesses 4 in the support members 1 and 1' are in effect blind bores, which is to say that they do not go through the entire member and thus have only one open end. This is evident most clearly from FIG. 1 Where the recesses are shown in dashed lines. By contrast, the recesses which in FIG. 2 are indicated with reference numerals 14 and which are separated by wall portions 13, will be seen on the basis of the dashed lines in FIG. 1 to extend through the entire support member 2.
  • the novel rack shown in FIG. 1 can be used for the packaging arrangement illustrated in that figure. It will be seen that a plurality of shafts 8 are secured by the rack to one another for storage purposes by having their respective opposite end portions extend into the recesses 4 of the support members 1 and 1. To support the shafts 8 in the middle, they can be inserted through the recesses 14 of the support member 2, as illustrated in FIG. 1. Frequently, a toy building kit will contain a plurality of shafts which all have a certain length, and another plurality of shafts which also have a certain length probably different from the length of the first shafts.
  • first shafts can be supported by having their end portions extend into the bores 14 of the support member 2 and into the bores 4 of one of the support members 1 or 1', whereas the end portions of the second plurality of shafts extend into the bores 14 of the support member 2 from the other side thereof and into the bores 4 of the other of the support members 1 or 1'.
  • the bores 4 do not extend all the way through the support members 1 or 1' and FIG. 1 shows the wall portion of these support members which remains free from penetration by the bores 4.
  • FIG. 4 shows an exemplary construction different from that in FIG. 1.
  • the support members are indicated with the same reference numerals as in FIG. 1, but in FIG. 4 it will be seen that two different shafts 8 and 8" are maintained in predetermined relationship by being secured to the support members 1 and 2, respectively.
  • the components of the rack do not act as a packaging arrangement, but rather as components of the construction kit since the arrangement shown in FIG. 4 is intended as a replica of :a fence.
  • FIG. 6 is a view of the support member 1 shown in FIG. 4, as seen in the direction of the arrow Z and indicates that the non-apertured wall portion 9 is provided with an inwardly extending recess or groove 10, which is also indicated in FIG. 1.
  • the purpose of this groove 10, as apparent from FIG. 1, is to accommodate an endless elastically extensible element, such as a spring 7 which can serve as a transmission element for constructions erected with the toy building kit and, when placed around the assembly shown in FIG. 1 so that it is received in the grooves 10 of support members 1 and 1', acts not only to oppose movement of the support members 1 and 1 away from each other, thus maintaining the arrangement in its desired state of assembly, but also stored in this manner.
  • an endless elastically extensible element such as a spring 7 which can serve as a transmission element for constructions erected with the toy building kit and, when placed around the assembly shown in FIG. 1 so that it is received in the grooves 10 of support members 1 and 1', acts not only to oppose movement of
  • FIG. 3 shows a building block member 6 common in toy building kits such as are described in my above-mentioned copending application and which have interconnecting means in form of recesses and this, in case of the illustrated block 6, a projecting coupling head 5 which serves to connect the block 6 to other similar building blocks of the kit in the manner set forth in my copending application.
  • the coupling head 5 which preferably has a square cross-section can be received and frictionally retained in any of the recesses 4 or 14, thus making possible the action of the building block 6 to any of the support members 1, 1 or 2, and vice versa.
  • Such action is shown in FIG. 5 where a portion of the support member 1 is broken away to show the coupling head 5 received in one of the recesses 4 of the support member 1.
  • a toy building kit comprising a plurality of structural elements including shaft members and building block members, said building block members being pro vided with interconnecting means in the form of recesses and male coupling heads, rack means including at least one support member having a plurality of shaft-receiving means in the form of recesses each adapted to receive a portion of one of said shaft members, whereby the respective shaft members may be positioned and maintained in predetermined relationship relative to each other and to said support member for storage purposes, said shaft-receiving means being additionally adapted for securement with said coupling heads.
  • said rack means comprises an additional support member also having a plurality of shaft-receiving means in form of recesses each adapted to receive a portion of one of said shaft members.
  • each of said support members has two sides, said recesses respectively extending inwardly from one of said sides toward the other but terminating short thereof.
  • a toy building kit comprising, in combination, a plurality of structural elements, including building blocks provided with interconnecting means for interconnecting said building blocks with one another, and further including elongated shaft members; rack means including at References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,172,856 2/1916 Williams 20666 1,201,710 10/1916 Finch 46-26 2,587,798 3/ 1952 Wilcox 4629 X 3,274,728 9/ 1966 Koch 4629 FOREIGN PATENTS 559,934 8/1957 Belgium. 78,042 4/ 1962 France. 553,254 6/1932 Germany. 809,236 7/ 1951 Germany.

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US2587798A (en) * 1948-07-20 1952-03-04 Philip E Wilcox Construction toy
FR78042E (fr) * 1960-07-08 1962-05-26 Plique & Dussauge Bande matelassée servant à l'emballage d'articles fragiles
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US1172856A (en) * 1915-05-21 1916-02-22 Williams Purchas Mfg Co Needle-holder.
US2587798A (en) * 1948-07-20 1952-03-04 Philip E Wilcox Construction toy
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