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US3486268A
US3486268A US540775A US3486268DA US3486268A US 3486268 A US3486268 A US 3486268A US 540775 A US540775 A US 540775A US 3486268D A US3486268D A US 3486268DA US 3486268 A US3486268 A US 3486268A
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    • 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
    • A63H33/062—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements with clip or snap mechanisms
    • 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

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  • a toy construction kit includes a socket member of plate-shaped configuration having two substantially parallel major surfaces and a third surface inclined to both of them and extending from one to the other.
  • the socket member is provided with at least one recess which extends inwardly from the third surface and which has a portion extending from the remainder of the recess to one of the major surfaces.
  • the portion decreases in cross-sectional area in the direction towards this one major surface and has an end section located adjacent to the third surface whose cross-sectional area is greater than the cross-sectional area of the remainder of the portion.
  • An auxiliary element has a male coupling portion of a cross-sectional area so configurated that it can be introduced through the recess portion into the recess for coupling the auxiliary element to the socket member.
  • the present invention relates to a construction kit. More specifically, the invention relates to a construction kit of the type in which structural members are secured together by means of push-pull-type connections. Still more specifically, the invention relates to a socket member in such a construction kit to which auxiliary elements can be secured in the above-mentioned manner.
  • a more specific object of the present invention is to nited States Patent ice provide a base or socket member to which individual structural auxiliary elements can be secured.
  • Still a further object of the invention is to provide such a socket member to which auxiliary elements can be secured by the insertion of male connecting portions provided on either the socket member or the elements into complementary recesses provided on the respectively opposing element.
  • an additional object is to provide a socket member which is highly versatile in that auxiliary elements can be secured thereto in a variety of different positions, locations and manners.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a socket member as outline above which is also usable, individually or together with auxiliary structural elements secured thereto, as a pulley or for similar purposes.
  • a construction kit which comprises a socket member having two major surfaces.
  • the socket member further has a third surface which extends from one to the other of the major surfaces and is provided with at least one recess extending inwardly and having a portion extending a portion extending to at least one of said aforementioned major surfaces.
  • My construction kit further comprises an auxiliary element provided with a male coupling portion which is receivable in the recess of the socket member for coupling the auxiliary element to the latter.
  • FIG. 1 shows one embodiment of the invention in a top-plan view
  • FIG. 2 is a section taken on the line IIII of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a partially sectioned elevational view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, taken on the line III-III thereof;
  • FIG. 4 is a top plan view, partly sectioned, of a further embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a partly sectioned side-elevational view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 6 is a front-elevational view of the embodiment of FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 7 is a top-plan view, partly in section, of yet a further embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 8 is an elevational view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 7, partly sectioned.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown therein a round socket member or first member in form of a plate 1, which is provided in its peripheral surface 1c with radially inwardly extending recesses 2 which are open over part of their entire length to one or the other, or else to both major surfaces of the plate 1.
  • the cross sectional areas of each of the recesses 2 increases; in other words, the recesses 2 are of the undercut type so that adjacent each of the major surfaces there are provided one or two ridges 20 extending partly across the width of the recess 2.
  • the cross sectional area of the necks 5a corresponds to the cross-sectional area of the recesses 2, measured between corresponding cooperating ridges 2a on one or the other of the major surfaces of the plate 1.
  • the heads or male connecting portions 5 may, as also described in my copending application, be of cylindrical configuration or, alternately and as shown for example in FIG. 1 of the present application, they may be provided with a flattened surface facing away from the respective auxiliary element on which they are carried.
  • the configuration of the heads 5 is cylindrical, then only one of the heads 5 will fit into each one of the recesses 2. If, however, the heads have a configuration such as is shown in FIG. 1, and if the recess is open to both major surfaces of plate 1, then it is possible to secure two of the auxiliary elements to the plate 1, abutting against the opposite major surfaces thereof, by inserting the respective heads 5 together into a single one of the recesses 2. Of course, care must be taken that the distance between the surface of the auxiliary element carrying the head 5 and the flattened face of such head is at most half of the cross-sectional area of the respective recesses 2. Such a connection is shown in FIG. 3, where the heads are indicated with reference numeral 5.
  • connecting elements such as cylindrical rods 4 and the like, can also be inserted into the respective recesses 2 (see FIG. 2) and it will be understood that the portion of widened cross sectional area adjacent the periphery of the plate 1 is provided in each of the recesses 2 so as to make the introduction of the respective coupling or connecting element or portion easier.
  • the plate is advantageously formed with through-going slots 6 which, since the plate is to be made from a plastic material such as polyamide, enable readier yielding of the material of the plate to thereby compensate for tolerance variations occurring in the manufacture both of the recesses 2 with their associated ridges 2a and of the connecting elements or coupling portions.
  • socket member or plate 1 can be still further enhanced by providing it with blind or throughgoing bores 9 so that, if desired, several of the plates 1 may be joined together in form of a stack or may even be vertically spaced from one another by inserting connecting rods through the respective bores 9 of the various plates 1.
  • auxiliary elements 3 may similarly be provided with bores or passages and such connecting rods 4 may also be received in the bores or passages of the auxiliary elements so that in this manner, also, these auxiliary elements can be secured to the plate 1 if for any reason this type of securing is preferred or required.
  • FIGS. 4-6 A further embodiment of the invention is shown in FIGS. 4-6 and it will be seen that the socket member or plate in this case is of rectangular configuration. Again it is provided with the recesses 2 extending inwardly from the periphery of the plate. In this case, however, the recesses 2 are spaced about the periphery and do not extend radially as is the case in the embodiment of FIG. 1. However, it will be noted that in FIG. 4, as
  • the recesses are spaced equi-distantly, although this also need not necessarily be the case.
  • Slots 6 are again provided on one or both sides of the respective recesses 2 to provide for elastic deformation of the material of the plate if such should be necessary.
  • the arrangement of the recesses leaves free a center portion of the plate extending over the length thereof intermediate the respective side edges and the inwardly extending recesses 2 associated with these side edges.
  • This center portion is designated with reference numeral 7a and, when the auxiliary elements 3 are secured to the plate by being moved inwardly from the periphery towards the portion 7a as shown in phantom-lines by way of a single exemplary element 3, the center portion 7a can be bridged by means of additional connecting members 8 shown in FIG. 6.
  • center portion 7a thereof may further be provided with male connecting portions or heads 5 similar to those shown for instance in FIG. 1 on the auxiliary element 3, and further with circular bores 9 and elongated bores or cutouts 10 which additionally serve to secure a further auxiliary element and/or separate connecting members to the plate.
  • the plates can additionally be provided in their peripheral surfaces with undercut grooves or even single continuous groove 11, as well as with inwardly extending bores 11' or bores 11" provided with additional frictional retaining means.
  • the bores 11' or 11" can be provided independently of a peripheral recess 11, or all of them can be combined.
  • FIG. 5 An alternate possibility is shown in FIG. 5 Where the (in the drawing uppermost) recess 2 is shown to communicate not only with the two major surfaces of the plate 7, but also directly with a peripheral surface thereof, as indicated by the phantom-line.
  • the auxiliarly elements to the plate 7, namely one from each opposite major surface and one from the peripheral surface with which the respective recess 2 communicates, provided only that the heads or male coupling members on the auxiliarly elements are suitably configurated so that the three together are receivable in the recess 2.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 A final further embodiment of the invention is shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, where it will be seen that the socket member is again provided in form of a circular plate 1.
  • the provision of the recesses 2 and the bores 3 therein is identical with the embodiment shown in FIG. 1.
  • the embodiment of FIGS. 7 and 8 differs from that of FIG. 1 is in the provision of a peripheral recess 12 which in cross section section may be semi-circular, trapezoidal or triangular, for instance.
  • the purpose of this peripheral recess 12 is to enable use of the plate 1, either individually or, if desired, with the additional auxiliary elements secured thereto, as a pulley or for similar purposes.
  • the plate 1 is utilized as a pulley a belt, band, or rope or similar motion-transmitting means will be received in the peripheral groove 12.
  • the plate 1 shOWn in FIGS. 7 and 8 is additionally provided with a central aperture 13 which, in the embodiment shown, will be seen to be bounded by a serrated wall so that, if a complementarily configurated shaft is inserted into this aperture 13, relative rotational displacement between the shaft (non-illustrated) and the plate 1 is not possible.
  • a construction kit comprising, in combination, a first member having two substantially parallel major surfaces and a peripheral surface inclined to the general planes of both of said major surfaces and extending from one of said surfaces to the other of said parallel major surfaces one of said surfaces of said parallel major surfaces, said first member being provided with at least one recess extending intermediate said major surfaces inwardly from said peripheral surface and having a portion extending to and decreasing in cross-sectional area in the direction of at least one of said major surfaces; and a second member having a male coupling portion receivable through said portion of decreasing cross sectional area in said recess for coupling said second member to said first member.
  • said recess has an end section located adjacent to said peripheral surface and having a cross-sectional area greater than that of the remainder of said recess; and further comprising securing means provided on said first member.
  • said securing means comprises at least one passage provided in said first member for receiving a complementarily shaped securing element.
  • said securing means comprises at least one securing head projecting from one of said surfaces for engagement in a complementary recess of an element to be secured to said first member.

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US3827177A (en) * 1972-01-24 1974-08-06 Memory Plastic Wengel G Construction game
US4121374A (en) * 1976-05-26 1978-10-24 Artur Fischer Toy assembly kit
US4130286A (en) * 1973-10-23 1978-12-19 Skf Industrial Trading And Development Company B.V. Packing means for shaft bushings
US4136482A (en) * 1976-10-06 1979-01-30 Artur Fischer Mating plate and axle element, with undercut connector
US4617001A (en) * 1981-06-02 1986-10-14 Parein Eric W Elements of a construction or assembly set, and accessories
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US3623756A (en) * 1968-07-06 1971-11-30 Artur Fischer Assembly kit with socket member
US3583091A (en) * 1969-02-17 1971-06-08 Howard Brockway Manual spinning toy
US3757393A (en) * 1970-05-15 1973-09-11 J Bucheli Toy building element constructions
US3827177A (en) * 1972-01-24 1974-08-06 Memory Plastic Wengel G Construction game
US4130286A (en) * 1973-10-23 1978-12-19 Skf Industrial Trading And Development Company B.V. Packing means for shaft bushings
US4121374A (en) * 1976-05-26 1978-10-24 Artur Fischer Toy assembly kit
US4136482A (en) * 1976-10-06 1979-01-30 Artur Fischer Mating plate and axle element, with undercut connector
US4617001A (en) * 1981-06-02 1986-10-14 Parein Eric W Elements of a construction or assembly set, and accessories
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