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Toy construction system

US5984756A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 18, 1998
Grant dateNov 16, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 18, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63H33/10
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

The invention relates to a toy construction system comprising building elements of a first type having a pair of opposed walls that define a space between said opposed walls, wherein the space has, at the free edges of the opposed walls, an open end and two opposed open sides, and wherein those sides of the walls that face towards the space are provided with protrusions, and building elements of a second type having a coupling head that may, by snap-fit with the protrusions, be received and releasably secured in the space between the walls on a building element of the first type. The toy construction system is characterised in that the protrusions are situated at the free edges of the walls.

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