Amusement devices: toys – Construction toy – Including abutting elements having slots or apertures...
Patent
1984-09-20
1986-05-20
Hafer, Robert A.
Amusement devices: toys
Construction toy
Including abutting elements having slots or apertures...
446111, 446104, A63H 3312
Patent
active
045898537
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a construction set, preferably a toy set, which comprises building members and coupling members.
There are a large number of constructional toys known all over the world which are popular and fashionable. These toys help developing children's manipulating ability, provide free scope for imagination, therefore they are toys of fancy, they develop children's creativity and inspire them to realize their ideas.
The constructional toys can be divided in two basic groups, i.e. planar and spatial toys. Planar toys comprise mainly planar elements, while the elements of spatial toys are bodies with three dimensions.
One of the most popular planar constructional toys is the so called Marklin-toy, which has perforated metal lamina as building members, metal-screws as coupling members and auxiliary members [e.g. wheels] made also of metal. The members can be mounted by means of tools only [e.g. pliers, fork wrench, screw driver]. This toy is used mainly for assembling machines [e.g. cars, cranes, etc] Its main advantage lies in that it helps children learning the use of tools; its disadvantage is on the other hand that it might develop a technocrate attitude and does not increase children's aesthetical sense and artistic instinct.
A spatial building toy has been placed on the market with the trade-name Matador. It has a set of members consisting of bodies of most common basic geometrical types made of wood [Such types are cubes, prisms, bricks and cylinders]. There are holes provided in the members and the members are interconnected by means of wood pins. The mounting of the members inevitably requires the use of various tools, first of all a hammer and pliers. This toy can be used also mainly for the assembling of machines, vehicles [airplanes, cars, helicopter]. The drawback of this system lies in that it also helps developing a technocratic attitude.
There is a spatial building toy known designed for developing manual skill and sense of proportion of children in the age of 1-3 years, which comprises basic geometrical bodies as constructional members, mainly rounded cylinder segments or rectangular prisms, and all of these members comprise a central bore by means of which they can be assembled on a vertical rod. This toy is disadvantageous in the sense that it has only very limited variational possibilities.
The object of the invention is to provide a construction set which can be used for assembling spatial bodies e.g. spatial toy figures in which the assembling operation does not require any tools what-so-ever, and which can develop children's manipulating ability, creativity, which can offer free scope to fantasy and has a large variability and can develop artistic instinct, too.
According to the present invention it has been discovered that the aforementioned drawbacks of conventional constructional toys can be eliminated or substantially reduced if the building and coupling members are selected in such a way, that their forms and shapes reflect certain geometrical proportions, by means of which the advantages of the planar and spatial toys will be combined.
According to the invention a construction set has been provided which can be used preferably as a toy set, which comprises building members and coupling members in which according to the present invention the building members comprise: common thickness which forms a basic thickness which is at least one sixth and at most one third of the basic size, the disc members have respective central throughgoing holes with a common diameter which forms a basic hole diameter and it is at least one sixth and at most one third of the basic size; transversal axes thereof, the elongated members have a common width which is substantially equal to the basic size, and they have a common thickness substantially equal to the basic thickness, and the contour lines of the elongated elements in their end regions approach respective semi-circles whose diameter is substantially equal to the basic size, there are respective throughgoing holes in the end regio
REFERENCES:
patent: 1996722 (1935-04-01), Gilbert et al.
patent: 3355837 (1967-12-01), Pedersen
Hafer Robert A.
Kozponti Valto- es Hitelbank Rt. Innovecios Alap
Nolan Daniel
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