Amusement devices: toys – Construction toy – Including permanent magnet or suction cup to secure elements
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-25
2007-09-25
Kim, Eugene (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: toys
Construction toy
Including permanent magnet or suction cup to secure elements
C446S085000, C446S114000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10966011
ABSTRACT:
Magnetic structural components utilized to permit construction of a wide variety of structural profiles and to thereby increase design and/or construction flexibility and choice. The structural components each include a number of magnets operatively associated with a periphery thereof to provide a number of points of magnetic connection. In addition, each structural component has at least one mechanical connector operatively associated therewith to provide at least one point of mechanical connection. The structural components can be magnetically and/or mechanically interconnected to form a variety of different two or three-dimensional structural profiles of varying complexities.
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