Amusement devices: toys – Convertible from – or serving as diverse article – Including container or storing toy parts
Patent
1997-02-07
1998-10-13
Hindenburg, Max
Amusement devices: toys
Convertible from, or serving as diverse article
Including container or storing toy parts
446118, A63H 3304
Patent
active
058204369
ABSTRACT:
A carrying case provides a storage space for toy building system components which include couplers and building pieces. The case has a hinged lid with apertures which can detachably receive and lockably mount the couplers. The apertures are arranged in an array of staggered rows laid out so that couplers mounted on the lid can be interconnected by the building pieces. Models can be built upon the mounted couplers in a desired form and configuration. Each aperture on the lid is configured to receive a coupler peg in an insertion area. The peg includes a neck and a head. In order to lockably mount the coupler, it is shifted laterally from the insertion area, so that the peg neck moves through a transition channel and into a clasping area where the coupler is locked in position. The coupler cannot be removed vertically from the locked position because the peg head is trapped below the lid, compressing the lid between the coupler and the peg head. A U-shaped guide surrounds three sides of the aperture and butts up against a square shoulder on the coupler, aligning the coupler and preventing rotation of the coupler about a vertical axis. The coupler can be removed from the lid by shifting it in a reverse direction from the clasping area through the transition channel to the insertion area where it can be removed vertically.
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Hindenburg Max
Marmor II Charles
Mattel Inc.
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