Toy building set with wall elements

Details Toy building set with wall elements Toy building set with wall elements

1996-03-19

1998-09-08

Hafer, Robert A.

Amusement devices: toys

Construction toy

Interfitting elements

446102, 446110, A63H 3308

Patent

active

058037837

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention concerns a toy building set with wall elements which are constructed as box-shaped elements having outer and inner facade sides, said inner facade side being open, said wall elements comprising a first type having at least one opening in the outer facade side, said opening serving as a window or a door in the element, and a second type formed with partitions to define shelves having shelf openings in the inner facade side of the element, hinge parts being provided at the window openings or the door openings and the shelf openings for the mounting of a removable, pivotable plate element.
2. Description of the Prior Art
These wall elements may thus be used for the construction of facades of a toy house in which windows or doors may selectively be mounted on the outer side of the facade and shelf systems may be provided on the inner side of the facade. Since the wall elements thus comprise a type which is provided with shelves on the inner facade side of wall elements, this prior art provide the advantage that it is not necessary for the toy building set to use separate shelf elements for mounting interiorly in a toy house which is constructed from the wall elements, since the shelf parts are built into individual ones of the elements.
These known elements e.g. from U.S. Pat. Design No. 291,217, may moreover be provided with doors and windows, as needed.
Thus, when these wall elements are used in connection with toy building sets, the interconnection of the elements may be varied to a very great extent, such that a relatively small number of elements provides many possible variations for the construction of toy houses.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In this connection, it is the object of the present invention to provide a toy building set with wall elements which, other things being equal, is capable of offering even more variations for the construction of toy houses, using the same number of or fewer individual parts in the toy building set.
This is achieved using wall elements of the type mentioned in the opening paragraph, which are constructed such that the hinge parts of the door or window openings and the shelf openings are identical, and in that the size of the window openings and of the shelf openings corresponds to integer multiples of the size of the plate element.
Since the plate element may thus constitute a door, a window or the like, it is possible to change these plate elements about, so that the plate element may have several functions. This means that e.g. a plate element intended for use as a window in a facade element can also be used as a door in the system of shelves, i.e. the interior which is established in the construction of a toy house. In contrast, a plate element according to the prior art intended to be included in the toy building set as a window element can just be used for this purpose.
Thus, the use of the wall elements of the invention makes it possible to build a house facade with e.g. windows which are completely open, i.e. no pivotal plate elements are mounted in the window opening, without the plate elements necessarily being superfluous since these may be used in this situation as doors for the shelves on the inner side of the house facade.
Particularly discrete hinge parts without protruding parts are obtained when the hinge parts are positioned interiorly in the door or window openings and the shelf openings on the elements, as stated in claim 2.
The door or window openings and the shelf openings may either be provided with hinge parts just at one side of the openings, or at both sides of the openings, as stated in claims 3 and 4, thereby enabling the plate elements to be positioned in different ways in the openings.
The engagement means defined in claim 5, which protrude into the openings, ensure that the plate elements cannot be pressed into the wall element.
It is stated in claim 6 that the wall element may have the same outer dimensions, although this is not a prerequisite for the advantages

REFERENCES:
patent: D308234 (1990-05-01), Fish, Jr.
patent: D309332 (1990-07-01), Olsen
patent: 5154656 (1992-10-01), Milstein

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