Set of elements articulated to each other
AssigneeTrigam S.A.
InventorsJean Bauer, Jean-Philippe Lebet
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Abstract
The four elements are each provided with protrusions constituted by forks the branches of which are resilient, which are each provided with a recess and with an embossment. These protrusions engage with each other, their embossments and their recesses hooking each other, and are thus articulated to each other around rotation axes. The series of protrusions and of the free spaces which separate them are determined in such a way that the four plates can be articulated to each other two by two, that has for consequence they can be articulated all the four to each other. With respect to a central axis, the half-series of each element are not symmetrical but they can be identical.
Claims16
A set of elements for being interconnected with one another in a mating relationship along rectilinear edges, said set of elements comprising a plurality of separate elements, and each said separate element comprising:
- a planar member having at least three rectilinear edges, each one of said at least three rectilinear edges having a plurality of teeth supported therealong, said plurality of teeth being located along each of said at least three rectilinear edges in an asymmetrical arrangement, each of said plurality of teeth having a substantially identical shape to one another and said plurality of teeth being irregularly spaced along each one of the at least three rectilinear edges, and each of said plurality of teeth having a width dimension being measured along the rectilinear edge supporting said plurality of teeth;
- a combined width dimension of all of said plurality of teeth, located along each one of said at least three rectilinear edges, being about one quarter of a total length dimension of each one of said three rectilinear edges to facilitate connection of at least four mating elements with one another along each one of said at least three rectilinear edges;
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- at least two of said plurality of teeth, provided along any one of said at least three rectilineal edges, being utilized for releasable locking engagement with at least two of said plurality of teeth of a mating element, of said set of elements, for lockingly interconnecting two mating elements with one another.
A set of elements for being interconnected with one another in a mating relationship, said set of elements comprising at least two separate elements, and each separate element comprising:
- a planar member having at least three rectilinear edges, each one of said at least three rectilinear edges having a plurality of teeth located therealong, said plurality of teeth being located along each of said at least three rectilinear edges in an asymmetrical arrangement, and each of said plurality of teeth having a width dimension being measured along the rectilinear edge supporting said plurality of teeth;
- a combined width dimension of all of said plurality of teeth, located along each one of said at least three rectilinear edges, being less than one half of a total length dimension of each one of said three rectilineal edges to facilitate connection of at least three mating elements with one another along each one of said at least three rectilineal edges;
- the plurality of teeth and the spacing between said plurality of teeth being arranged along each said rectilinear edges in a pattern which permits any one of said elements, of said set of elements, to be assembled with another one of said elements, of said set of elements, along any one of said at least three rectilinear edges supporting a different pattern therealong;
- at least two of said plurality of teeth, provided along any one of said at least three rectilinear edges, being utilized for releasable locking engagement with at least two of said plurality of teeth of a mating element, of said set of elements, for lockingly interconnecting two mating elements with one another;
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- the plurality of teeth and the free spacing intervals being distributed along each rectilinear edge of said plurality of elements so as to allow each of the elements to be assembled with one another.
A set of elements for being interconnected with one another in a mating relationship along rectilinear edges, said set of elements comprising a plurality of separate elements, and each said separate element comprising:
- a planar member having at least three rectilinear edges, each one of said at least three rectilinear edges having a plurality of teeth located therealong, said plurality of teeth being located along each of said at least three rectilinear edges in an asymmetrical arrangement;
- and said plurality of teeth each having an identical width dimension measured along the rectilinear edge supporting said plurality of teeth;
- a combined width dimension of all of said plurality of teeth, located along each one of said at least three rectilineal edges, being about one quarter of a total length dimension of each one of said three rectilinear edges to facilitate connection of at least three mating elements with one another along each one of said at least three rectilinear edges;
- at least two of said plurality of teeth, provided along any one of said at least three rectilinear edges, being utilized for releasable locking engagement with at least two of said plurality of teeth of a mating element, of said set of elements, for lockingly interconnecting two mating elements with one another;
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- each of said plurality of teeth comprising two branches being separated from one another by a small longitudinal slot thereby forming two resilient branches.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.