Amusement devices: toys – Convertible from – or serving as diverse article – Including container or storing toy parts
Patent
1993-12-03
1996-01-09
Hafer, Robert A.
Amusement devices: toys
Convertible from, or serving as diverse article
Including container or storing toy parts
446 80, 446109, 446478, A63H 3316
Patent
active
054824907
ABSTRACT:
A doll's house comprises a plurality of separable components including walls, a floor, a roof, and internal dividing partitions, each component being separable from the other components, and foldable into a collapsed configuration. Two of the components form the base and top of an elongate rectangular box and the other components, when collapsed, are sufficiently compact to fit within the box. The floor forms the base of the box and has upstanding flanges around its periphery and the walls, when in their erected condition are being located inside of the upstanding flange and are held there. The roof comprises a pitched part which is collapsible into a flat form, and a lid adapted to locate over and support the upper edge of the walls when in their erected condition. The lid has a downwardly extending flange which extends around the upper edges of the walls when in their erected condition. The floor and the lid have a groove defined around the periphery thereof just inside of their respective flanges and the upper and lower edges of the walls locate in those respective grooves to be frictionally held therein and thereby rigidify the erected structure.
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"Self Storing Doll House", Popular Mechanics, Nov. 1962, pp. 158, 159.
Carlson Jeffrey D.
Hafer Robert A.
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