Railways: surface track – Portable track – Simulated roadbeds
Patent
1987-09-17
1989-05-02
Kashnikow, Andres
Railways: surface track
Portable track
Simulated roadbeds
238 10A, 104124, 104125, 104126, 446117, A63H 1802
Patent
active
048260762
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a device for supporting driving tracks for toy vehicles, in particular tracks consisting of trackway segments which are plugged together and have a center section laterally bounded by guiding elements of predetermined shape and forming driving lanes designed to be driven on which are spaced above the surfaces on which such trackways are set up.
It is known to promote the desire for playing with track-bound toy vehicles by extending the driving tracks or driving track segments with a spacing above the surface on which the trackway is set up. For this purpose, the driving tracks or driving track segments have to be supported by supporting elements, for example building blocks supporting such tracks or track segments above the surface with suitable spacings. It is understood that this type of support for the trackway segments leads only to unstable trackways, which has an adverse effect on the desire to play with such toys. Furthermore, such supports can be adjusted in height only in a complicated manner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The objective of the invention is to support driving track segments in such a way that their height or level and extension above the set-up surface can be varied in any desired manner.
According to the invention, this objective is accomplished by the arrangement of an upright column, which is connected by plugging with a base plate and consists of upright column segments, which are axially and detachably plugged into each other and which have supporting arms suspendable in prepared holes or symmetrically supportable on the free end of the upright column by means of a sleeve part, with guiding means formed on the top side of the supporting arms for fixing the segments of the trackway. The upright column segments, of which any desired number can be plugged together, permit the formation of a more or less high device which, by means of the plugged-on supporting arms, is capable of supporting in a stable manner trackway segments selectively in a straight line or in the curved form in the manner of ramps.
Preferably, the holes are formed in the same planes of the upright column segments and one hole is provided in each side surface of the upright column segments. In this way, individual or several driving tracks can be extended next to one another or one on top of the other lengthwise or crosswise by plugging the supporting arms as required for such configurations. Furthermore, the holes create the condition permitting the support of the supporting arms by two upright columns set up parallel next to each other, or to attach to the upright column segments two or more supporting arms at the same time in a cantilever-type of construction or set-up.
Preferably the segments of the upright column have the shape of a pot and are provided in the circumferential surface of the closed end with an outside groove for receiving by plugging the marginal surface enclosing the open side of an adjacent segment of the upright column. The connection between the segments of the upright column can be effected by friction grip, so that the disconnection of the plug connection requires simple pulling apart only. Also, locking elements may be conceivably arranged in the common surfaces of separation of plugged segments of the upright column, which locking elements, when overcome, permit a separation of the segments of the upright column. The arrangement of such click-stops leads to a particularly stable and also transportable upright column.
The segments of the upright column, of course, may have any desired cross sectional form as hollow or solid bodies. According to a preferred embodiment, the segments of the upright column have a square cross section and rounded corner zones. It is in conformity with the nature of the present invention that the segments of the upright column may have the same axial lengths or different axial lengths.
A particularly safe set-up of the upright column can be accomplished if the segments of the upright column or the upright
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Kashnikow Andres
Le Mark T.
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