WO2012052475A1 - A toy building set - Google Patents
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- WO2012052475A1 WO2012052475A1 PCT/EP2011/068255 EP2011068255W WO2012052475A1 WO 2012052475 A1 WO2012052475 A1 WO 2012052475A1 EP 2011068255 W EP2011068255 W EP 2011068255W WO 2012052475 A1 WO2012052475 A1 WO 2012052475A1
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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
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
- A63H3/00—Dolls
- A63H3/16—Dolls made of parts that can be put together
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
- A63H3/00—Dolls
- A63H3/36—Details; Accessories
- A63H3/46—Connections for limbs
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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
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- the present invention relates to a toy building set comprising separate building elements adapted for building a toy figure, the building elements compris- ing a number of body elements that are interconnected or adapted for being interconnected by means of articulated joints, and where the toy building set also comprises a number of dressing elements and means for mounting the dressing elements on the body elements.
- the body elements are designed to be connected to each other via the articulated joints, in order to provide the possibility of building a toy figure.
- the purpose of the separate dressing elements is to provide the possibility of dressing the toy figure to illustrate clothes, helmets, armour or the like.
- EP patent no. 856341 e.g. is known a toy building set comprising a torso element, and a number of body elements that can be attached to the torso and to each other by means of ball and socket joints.
- a problem with this kind of building sets is that the body elements do not look very much like real body parts or limbs, and therefore they do not provide much appeal to e.g. a child, using the toy building set.
- a lot of other toy building sets also exist, such as disclosed in GB patent no. 1313277, where the body parts are designed to look like real or fantasy body parts, and thereby providing the possibility of building a complete figure by using the body parts only, where the complete figure to a much higher degree gives the impression of a real person, animal, monster, robot or creature.
- a problem with this last mentioned kind of toy building set is that a lot of the body elements have to be designed for a dedicated use in a specific toy figure, and thereby the freedom to build other figures by using the dedicated body elements is limited. As an example it is evident that a body element, being designed to look very much like an arm, would not be a very good element for a tail.
- the main object of the present invention is therefore to provide a toy building set giving a high degree of freedom with respect to different use of the body elements, and on the same time the possibility of building bodies of persons or the like with very different designs.
- the toy building set further comprises a number of design elements, and in that at least one design element and at least one body element has a first type of complementary coupling means adapted for re- leasably mounting the design element on the body element, and where at least one dressing element and the design element has a second different type of complementary coupling means adapted for releasably mounting a dressing element on the design element.
- the first type of complementary coupling means is incompatible with the second type of complementary coupling means, so that the dressing elements can not be mounted on the first type of coupling means on the body elements.
- the first type of complementary coupling means is adapted for providing a snap function for mounting the design element on the body element.
- the snap function comprises a ball and a socket.
- the ball can advantageously be a part of the body element, and the socket be a part of the design element.
- the body element and the design element comprises positioning means adapted for fixing the two elements in a mutual position with respect to each other, when the design element is mounted on the body element by means of the first type of complementary coupling means.
- the second type of complementary coupling means comprises at least one coupling pin arranged on one of the ele- merits and a corresponding coupling hole arranged on the other one of the elements, and where the coupling pin and the coupling hole are formed so that insertion of the coupling pin into the coupling hole requires elastic deformation of at least one of them.
- the coupling pin is arranged on the dressing element, and the coupling hole is arranged on the design element.
- the dressing element can advantageously be made of a more resilient material than the design element, so that the pin on the dressing element can be made relatively thin and still be very resistant to breaking.
- the second type of complementary coupling means comprises at least two coupling pins arranged on the same element, and a corresponding number of coupling holes arranged on the other element, and where the coupling pins and coupling holes are arranged with a mutual distance, allowing simultaneous insertion of at least two coupling pins into two coupling holes.
- Figure 1 shows a toy figure.
- Figure 2 is a sectional view of one of the design elements according to the invention, and shown on the figure in figure 1 .
- Figure 3 shows a dressing element.
- Figure 4, 5 and 6 show different embodiments of body elements shown in figure 1 . Detailed description of the embodiments
- the toy figure according to figure 1 has an articulated bone structure built by a number of the elements 1 , 2, 3 shown in figure 4, 5 and 6, and on this bone structure a number of design elements 4 are releasably attached by means of snap couplings.
- At least some of the design elements 4 shown on figure 1 also have a coupling socket 8 comprising a pair of holes for mounting one or more dressing elements shown in figure 3.
- the dressing element 5 according to figure 3 has for this reason a pair of coupling pins 9 designed for insertion into the holes in the coupling socket 8 on the design elements.
- FIG. 2 An example of a design element 4 is shown in figure 2, and this design element is formed as a shell part.
- the shell part has the coupling socket 8 ar- ranged on one side of the shell, and another coupling socket 7 arranged on the other side for mounting the design element on a body element.
- the bone structure is therefore possible to build at first, so that it is easy to build a figure having the wanted bone structure and articulation, and thereaf- ter it is possible to select and mount the design elements that give the wanted design of the toy figure.
- a second layer of elements, namely the dressing elements can be mounted on the design elements.
- Figure 4, 5 and 6 shows different embodiments of body elements 1 , 2 and 3 according to the present invention, and as all of the body elements 1 , 2 and 3 has at least one ball 1 1 , and the two body elements 2, 3 shown on figure 5 and 6 has a socket being formed as a complementary formed cup 13 such that it is possible to snap the complementary formed cup 13 on each of the balls 1 1 .
- the body element 1 according to fig- ure 4 as a corpus for the figure according to figure 1
- the two body elements 2, 3 according to figure 5 and 6 can be mounted on the corpus in order e.g. to represent an upper arm and a forearm respectively.
- the two balls arranged at the middle of the upper arm and the forearm can be used for mounting a design element by snapping the socket 7 on the ball 1 1 such as it is shown in figure 5.
- the socket 7 comprises side flanges 10 arranged on each side of the socket, so that the side flanges 10 engages with the outer surface of the connection rods 12 that connects the balls 1 1 and the cups 13.
- the connections rods 12 has a square cross section at least at the end near the ball 1 1 , and thereby the side flanges 10 arranged on the design element 4, ensures that the design element 4 is held in a fixed position in relation to the body element 2. It will be evident to the skilled person that it is possible, without departing from the idea of the present invention as defined in the claims, to design a lot of different embodiments of the body elements, the design elements and the dressing elements according to the present invention.
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DK11784439.9T DK2629861T3 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | a toy |
PL11784439T PL2629861T3 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | A toy building set |
BR112013009860-0A BR112013009860B1 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | set for building toy |
EP11784439.9A EP2629861B1 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | A toy building set |
CA2813853A CA2813853C (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | A toy building set |
CN201180048448.5A CN103153413B (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | A toy building set |
JP2013534307A JP2013540531A (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | Toy assembly set |
ES11784439.9T ES2516820T3 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | A toy building game |
KR1020137012937A KR20130141537A (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | A toy building set |
US13/880,324 US20130324002A1 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | Toy building set |
MX2013004099A MX354985B (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2011-10-19 | A toy building set. |
HK13109041.5A HK1181694A1 (en) | 2010-10-22 | 2013-08-02 | A toy building set |
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CN (1) | CN103153413B (en) |
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HK (1) | HK1181694A1 (en) |
MX (1) | MX354985B (en) |
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