Model toy train track
US6796509B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 15, 2003 |
| Grant date | Sep 28, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 15, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S104/01
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A rail system for a toy train having at least one elongate rail with a hollow cross-section having a surface defining a connection portion along at least part of the outer periphery of the rail. The hollow rails are reinforced with at least one rib molded into the track bed. Each end of the elongate outer rails is either preassembled with corresponding pin or adaptable for receiving a pin preassembled in an adjacent track segment. An intermediate pin is operably engaged with each end of an intermediate rail and is slidingly engagable with a corresponding intermediate pin located in an adjacent intermediate rail connected to an adjacent intermediate track segment. The connection portion of each pin extends beyond the end of the rail for operable engagement with the corresponding connection portion of an adjacent rail communication electrically with the adjacent rails on an adjacent track segment.
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