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US 4,051,621 AGranted
Homohedral module genus extender
OwnerJohn Paul Hoganinventor
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Abstract
The genus extender is a toy block designed to be used with a plurality of homohedral modules, either by itself or with other genus extenders, in constructing geometric models with a topological genus of two or more.
Claims18
A toy block of convex-concave design in which the convex surface is identical to a surface on two joined, double truncated icosahedra, the truncations being formed by removal of a cluster of five icosahedral faces which form a pentangular pyramid about a vertex, said truncated icosahedra being joined along two truncation surfaces thus formed;
- and in which the concave surfaces are located at the remaining two truncation surfaces and are of such a degree of concavity that when a wholly convex surface surrounding a vertex on a similar block, an analogous icosahedron block or homohedral module, is fitted within it, a set of pentangular edges on each block are made tangent to one another.
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