IL27078A

IL27078A - Toy building set with electrical components

Info

Publication number: IL27078A
Application number: IL27078A
Authority: IL
Original assignee: Fischer Artur
Priority date: 1966-01-11
Filing date: 1966-12-18
Publication date: 1970-10-30
Also published as: NO120261B; FI44877C; AT283970B; ES334547A1; GB1129783A; US3484984A; CH458168A; FI44877B; DK123388B; SE327356B; FR1507688A; NL6615701A; BE689924A

Description

of Toy building electrical components The present invention relates to an assembly kit of the type comprising building blocks which are provided with at least one connecting portion and electrical Known kits comprise a variety of building each of which is provided with at least one connecting portion mating with at least one complementary connecting portion provided on another building Such connecting portions may comprise undercut grooves provided in a face of one building and a projecting portion provided on the face of another building block and matching the groove or grooves so that the projecting portions ca be introduced into the grooves the open ends thereof and are prevented from withdrawal from the grooves in the direction normal to the elongation of the latter by the faet that the grooves have an undercut con Building kits of this type have met with outstanding particularly in the toy in view of the fact that they permit extremely easy connection of the various elements to one and at the same time assure reliable maintenance of such building kits of this type are frequently provided with various electrical components to increase their For it may be desired to provide lighting possibilities for buildings constructed with such or to provide headlamps for a vehicle which is constructed a kit this This means that the building kit must provided with sockets for light conductors and so the connection of these elements to one as as their securing to the mechanical building elements has caused and has necessitated the provision of auxiliary assembly such as or similar This has made suck kits unnecessarily complicated and and at the same time rendered their construction and their assembly relatively which is particularly undesirable if the kits are to be used as The present invention overcomes the disadvantages which are known from the prior art in a The invention consists in an assembly kit comprising a plurality of building blocks each provided with at least one mechanical eonneetioa an electrieal other than an electric motor by a element having a plurality of external faces and being at least in part located that mechanical connecting portion provided on at least one the faces of the element and mating with a connecting portion of one of the building and an electrical contact carried by element accessible on a t least one other its and being trically conductively connected ith the electrical component within the With this the connection of the various electrical components of the electrieal system with which the kit is such as adjustable lamp transformers and the the structural elements of the namely the actual structural building reatl sim At the the electrical components provided in accordance with the present invention can themselves be utilized in conjunction with the and can serve structural the arrangement according to vention makes possible not a mechanical connection between the electrical components and the etructural elements of the assembly but also a simple electrical connection between the individual electrical components of the electrical In a preferred embodiment of the elements have four lateral faces and two end faces extending normal to the lateral and at least one of these faces is provided with an electrical component whereas at least one other extending at a right angle to the one is provided with a male or female connecting portion mating a connecting portion on a structural building block of the assembly A further preferred embodiment of the invention provides male or connectin means on all lateral faces of the elements to facilitate the tion of the components to one another to the structural building blocks in a great variety of different It is preferred to provide each of the components with a male contact en at least one of its lateral and with female contact in each the remaining lateral so that any two of these elements can be connected to one another without any need for additional tacts or other Since it is frequently necessary to position the electrical component means at a from one and in such position to establish conductive contact the invention provides electrical conductors as a part of the assembly and in a preferred these electrical conductors are rigid so that they can serve as structural Pre the electrical which of course carry only oltage current from a former or from are so that current be at any point therealong by sliding or other Also in accordance with the a base plate is provided which has on one side mechanical electrical connecting means so that a plurality of electrical components can be mechanically electrically connected to the base and on another surface one or more connecting portions mating with complementary connecting portions on building blocks of the assembly This makes it possible to assemble all or most of the components of electrical system on such a base plate and in turn to secure the entire assembly quickly and easily to the building blocks at a suitable location of the vehicle or other model which has been constructed from such building The invention is by way of example in the accompanying drawings in which 1 is a p elevation a element including a lamp 2 is a of another Fi 2a shows a to lan view of the element of Fi 2 3 shove a element including a socket in a further 4 and 5 show different of several elements of the type shown in 2a and is a perspective view of yet a including a lamp 7 is a view to 6 showing a shaped element including a 8 shows a combination of the components of 6 and 9 shows a base plate en which several may be and 10 shows a perspective view of the base plate of 9 with a cover applied 1 shows a ed element 1 having end face a recess accommodating a socket A lamp 13 is screwed into the lamp socket 2 with its base At the opposite end face of the element 1 there is provided a connecting which serves for mechanically connecting the element 1 to structural blocks utilised this The member 5 is of undercut that it has a neck which connects a head of larger cross seetioa than the neck to the end face of the element when the member 5 is received in an undercut such as the groove 26 illustrated in 8 on the building block it cannot be withdrawn transversely of the elongation of such One lateral of the is provided w ith two male electrical contact pint 4 one The opposite lateral face is formed with recesses in which there are provided sockets 3 one Vith this arrangement a plurality of such 1 can be connected in a series both electrically Of the pins 4 are electrically connected with the sockets 3 side the element The element 6 of 2 and 2a differs from the one shown in 1 in that it comprises several pairs 9 of electrical sockets extending inwardly from different lateral faces of the 2 and 2a show that the pair 7 extends inwardly from one lateral f the pair 8 from the opposite lateral and the pair from two opposite lateral faces which extend at right angles to the lateral fnces in which the pairs 7 and 8 are As the embodiment of the 6 of 2 and 2a is provided with a sale connecting portion 3 shows a element which constitutes essentially a combination of the embodiments of 1 and 2a and comprises a lamp or bulb socket 2 provided in one of end faces and arranged to accommodate the base 13a of a bulb and a male electrical contact 5 en other of its end A first pair of electrical sockets 11 accessible from two opposite lateral faces of the element whereas a second pair of such sockets 12 is accessible two opposite lateral faces which extend at a right angle to the faces of the first 4 by way of how the embodiments described before can be secured to one A plurality of elements 10 ie arranged in each provided a bulb The elements 10 are connected with one another and are constituted by rigid The electrical sockets 7 accommodate sale connecting pins 15 v in turn are connected vith flexible conductors leading to a suitable source of electrical Λ somewhat similar arrangement is shown in 5 where an element also provided with a bulb is connected by eleetrical conductors 16 to an element 6 and from there via male contacts to the source of electrical The conductors 16 are rigid and nsulated so that conductive contact can be established at any point along their The embodiment shown in 6 differs the previous embodiments in that the element 19 is provided vith pairs 23 of electrical soekets ia two of its lateral faces which extend at a right angle to one and the sockets are accessible only from one lateral face not also from the op osite faee as in the preceding At least one further lateral face is provided a pair one of male contact A further difference of the in 6 over the preceding embodiment is that all of the female sockets as well as the male pins are located in a common The element 18 shown in is essentially the same as that shown in except that instead of a socket for a bulb 13 i has a switch with an actuating member 27 extending outwardly beyond one end The embodiments of 6 and 7 both possible a direct connection of two or more of the elements 19 by securing them to a common As shown ia two structural cut grooves aligned and secured to one and oae each of the 19 is secured to the blocks introducing the respeetire male connecting portions 5 of the elements 19 into the grooves 26 of the building blocks At the sane time the sale electrical connecting pins 24 of the element 19 are introduced into a pair of female connecting sockets the thus tablishing an eleetrieal connection between the two electrical component elements 19 so that the bulb ef the element 19 can be controlled by the 9 and 10 illustrate a base plate 20 which at its underside can be provided with one or more connecting here illustrated as a connecting portion and at its upper side with electrical mechanical connecting not specifically identified herein but similar to the electrical mechanical connecting means described This makes possible the assembly of elements of the type herebefore described on such a base plate 20 into a compact which can then be secured at a suitable location of a vehicle or other project constructed with the assembly by introducing the male connecting portion 5 into an undercut groove on a suitable building To cover the electrical component elements thus secured to the base plate 20 against dust damage or accidental a iover 21 can be provided which of course must be of height which makes it possible to elements and their electrical components such as those fied with reference numerals or 19 in the space between the base plate 20 and the cover As also indicated in but not specifically identified with reference through which an electrical connection can for instance introducing contact pine through such apertures into female sockets with apertures and belonging to elements supported on the base plate It will be understood that oaeh of the described or two or more also find a useful application in other types of assembly kits differing from the types described insufficientOCRQuality

Claims

1. CLAIMS An comprising plurality of building blocks each with at least one mechanical connection an electrical other than an electric motor by a having a plurality of external faces and being at least in part located vithin that a mechanical connecting portion provided on at least one of the faces of the element and mating with a connecting portion of one of the building and an electrical contact carried the shaped element accessible on at least one other of its faces and being electrically coaductively connected with the electrical component vithin the An assembly kit as in Claim the electrical component is a socket a light bulb or a An assembly kit as claimed in Claim 1 or vherein said face of the element carrying is vith reference to the connecting the face thereof carrying the at a right An assembly as claimed in

2. Claim 2 or vherein the element has four lateral faces and t o end faces extending normal to the lateral and the contact carrying is one of the lateral faces An assembly k t as claimed in Claim comprising additional electrical contacts on the remaining lateral faces the connecting portion is provided on one of the end 12 Aa assembly kit as claimed wherein the electrieal contacts includes and female An assembly kit as claimed in 5 or wherein the electrieal contact one lateral face is stituted by a pair of male contacts and the additional electrical contacts on the remaining lateral faces are female An assembly kit as in any of Claims 1 to wherein the mechanical connecting portions on the building blocks and on the element include male and female An assembly kit as claimed in Claim wherein the female portions are constituted as undercut open elongated and the male connecting portions constituted aa projections having a con tary to that of such undercut open An assembly kit as claimed in Claim including at least one additional ed element carrying at least one additional electrieal and an electrieal conductor for connection to the electrical components of both An assembly kit as claimed in Claim wherein the electrieal conductor is An assembly kit as claimed in Claim wherein the electrieal conductor is elongated and and electrical connection can be made with th conductor at any desired point 13 An assembly kit in 11 or comprising a base plate for mounting a plurality of elements which base plate has on one side at least one connecting portion for permitting coupling of the base plate to at least one building and on a second side a plurality of connecting and eleistrieal contacts for permitting electrically conductive connection of a plurality of elements and the associated electrical components to the base For the insufficientOCRQuality