Model track section
OwnerSze Hong Makinventor
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Abstract
A model track section for model vehicles, which is releasably interengageable in end-to-end connection with a like track section, wherein the section includes a generally flat bed having thereon a pair of longitudinal rails, one end of the bed being cut away in the space between the adjacent rail ends and having resilient backing portions on outer sides of the rail ends, the other bed end having a pair of laterally spaced cutouts or openings on outer sides of the associated rail ends, which latter rail ends are configured for contacting engagement between the first mentioned rail ends upon end-to-end connection of a pair of such sections.
Claims10
A model track section comprising a generally flat bed having one end region and an other end region, a pair of conductive rails on said bed longitudinally coextensive therewith and having a pair of adjacent facing sides and a pair of nonfacing sides, said one end region of said bed having a longitudinally inwardly extending opening substantially occupying the space between the adjacent facing sides of said rails, the other end region of said bed having a pair of longitudinally inwardly extending cutouts on the nonfacing sides of and containing said rails, the rail ends at said one bed end region being spaced apart a greater distance and the rail ends at said other bed end region being spaced apart a lesser distance for longitudinal insertion of the lesser spaced rail ends between a pair of greater spaced rail ends of a like track section when said track sections are moved in longitudinal end-to-end assembled relation, and resilient means associated with at least one of said greater and lesser spaced rail ends for deflection thereof upon said insertion. said resilient means comprising a longitudinally extending slit in said one end region of said bed spaced outwardly from each of said rails, the region of said bed between each of said slits and the rail adjacent to a respective slit defining a resilient backing portion.
A track section comprising a generally flat bed having one end region and an other end region, a pair of conductive rails on said bed longitudinally coextensive therewith and having a pair of adjacent facing sides and a pair of nonfacing sides, said one end region of said bed having a longitudinally inwardly extending opening between the adjacent facing sides of said rails, the other end region of said bed having a pair of longitudinally inwardly extending cutouts along the nonfacing sides of said rails, the rail ends at said one bed end region being spaced apart a greater distance and the rail ends at the other bed end region being spaced apart a lesser distance for longitudinal insertion of the lesser spaced rail ends between a pair of greater spaced rail ends of a like track section when said track sections are moved in longitudinal end-to-end assembled relation, resilient means associated with at least one of said greater and lesser spaced rail ends for deflection thereof upon said insertion, and snap formations on opposite bed end regions for interfitting engagement with opposite bed end regions of like track sections upon said longitudinal end-to-end assembly, certain of said snap formations being in at least one of said cutouts spaced from said at least one of said greater and lesser spaced rail ends, said resilient means comprising a slit extending longitudinally inwardly from said one end region of said bed and spaced outwardly from each of said rails, the region of said bed between each of said slits and the rail adjacent to a respective slit defining a resilient backing portion.
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