Shipbuilding toy
AssigneeExin-Iber S. A.
InventorJose M. Arnau Pibet
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Abstract
A toy block shipbuilding kit, with specially formed pieces to provide realistic ships stems and sterns. A number of first blocks are provided with curved sides, and interlocking projections and projection-receiving portions formed on the top and bottom faces. When stacked upon each other, the blocks are staggered and form a continuous upwardly sloping stem or stern portion, and can interlock with other conventional parallelepiped blocks to form the ship body. Specialty second blocks are provided for forming the top or bottom terminations of stacked first blocks, and specialty third blocks may be provided having sides extending above the top faces thereof to constitute side rails for a ship's stem and stern.
Claims14
A toy block for use with other toy blocks for the construction of a toy ship, said block comprising
- a generally planar bottom face,
- a generally planar top face,
- symmetrically spaced projections extending upwardly from the plane of said top face,
- projection-receiving means associated with said bottom face for receiving symmetrically spaced projections like those on said top face for interlocking engagement therewith,
- a plurality of side faces consisting of first, second, and third side faces,
- said first and second side faces each having curved portions converging toward the other and adjoining the other at tip portions including tip portions disposed in the planes of said top and bottom faces, and
- said third side face disposed in a plane generally perpendicular to said top and bottom faces, said tip portion in said plane of said top face being spaced farther from said third face than is said tip portion in the plane of said bottom face.
A toy block shipbuilding kit comprising a plurality of first blocks adapted to form a ship stem or stern, each of said first blocks comprising
- a generally planar bottom face,
- a generally planar top face,
- symmetrically spaced projections extending upwardly from the plane of said top face,
- projection receiving means associated with said bottom face for receiving symmetrically spaced projections like those on said top face for interlocking engagement therewith,
- first and second side faces, each having curved portions converging toward the other and adjoining the other at tip portions, including tip portions disposed in the planes of both said top and bottom faces,
- at least a third side face, disposed in a plane generally perpendicular to said top and bottom faces,
- said block side faces generally extending from said bottom face in a direction perpendicular to said bottom face a distance equal to the distance said top face is spaced from said bottom face, to join said top and bottom faces, and
- said tip portion in the plane of said top face being spaced further from said third face than is said tip portion in the plane of said bottom face.
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