Doll house with connector element connecting three wall members
OwnerHarry E. Walmer, Judd Horbalyinventors
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Abstract
A doll house has a base with a series of interconnected grooves, a first front wall, two tall vertical front walls, a shorter side wall and a shorter interior wall. A floor member engages those walls and cantilevers outward over the shorter interior wall. Together the floor member and base and walls form a rigid frame to which remaining panels of the doll house are connected. A front door assembly with side lights and platform steps are grooved to be tightly held within a door opening. A second short front wall and a side wall are captured between the cantilevered portion of the floor member and the base, further promoting stability. An intermediate floor and front, top, and side roof panels and chimney connectors complete the basic structure.
Claims9
An easily assembled knock-down doll house apparatus comprising a base having plural connected angularly oriented slots for receiving bottom edges of vertical walls, the slots comprising a first elongated slot slightly spaced inward from a first elongated edge of the base for receiving a front vertical wall member and plural slots communicating with the first elongated slot and extending angularly therefrom toward a second opposite elongated edge of the base, and a further slot extending angularly outward from an outer one of the plural slots and extending toward an edge of the base intermediate the first and second elongated edges, a remote slot extending from a portion of the further slot remote from the outer one of the plural slots toward the second elongated edge of the base, a front vertical wall member mounted in the first elongated slot, vertical transverse wall members mounted in the plural slots, the vertical transverse wall members comprising at least one relatively short outer wall member mounted in the outer one of the plural slots and at least one relatively tall inner wall member, a floor member fitted together with the vertical transverse wall members parallel to the base and spaced therefrom, the floor member extending over the relatively short outer wall member and through the relatively tall inner wall member, and the floor member cantilevering outward beyond the relatively short outer wall member and over the further slot and remote slot, a second front vertical wall member mounted in the further slot and extending between the base and a cantilevered portion of the floor member, a vertically extending connector element having a transverse portion extending between the edge of the front vertical wall member adjacent the outer one of the plural slots and the edge of the second front vertical wall member adjacent said outer one of the plural slots, a first longitudinal portion extending from an end of the transverse portion and overlying the front portion of the front vertical wall member adjacent the transverse portion, a second longitudinal portion extending from the opposite end of the transverse portion in a direction opposite the first longitudinal portion and overlying the rear portion of the second front vertical wall member adjacent the transverse portion, the portion of the transverse portion adjacent the second longitudinal portion being provided with a rearwardly opening vertical slot which receives the front vertical edge of the relatively short outer wall member, and means for connecting the base, the vertical transverse wall members and the floor member for forming thereby a rigid skeletal frame of the base, vertical transverse wall members and floor member by which a doll house comprising the members is rigidly supported.
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