Construction set for building structures
AssigneeAcademy of Applied Science
InventorsRaymond Morales, Richard Sheron Sherin, Princess Izevbua Uerenikhosen Imoukhuede, Damien Burke, Maribel Gomez, Desiree Lin Ramirez, Antonio Castaneda
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Abstract
A novel construction set particularly useful for children safely to assemble and use two-and three-dimensional structures of a wide range of sizes and shapes with flexible foam-like tubes or rods detachable to male or female elements carried by foam-like connectors, and preferably of hexaoctahedral or spherical contour, and with such novel geometric design also useful with other construction materials for other uses as well.
Claims15
A flexible-construction set comprising a plurality of tubes or rods inter-connectable by connector nodes and wherein the connector nodes are made of foam-like material and formed in a three-dimensional geometric shape such as to provide a surface contour of successive adjacent surface portions each containing an attachment element therein to provide a plurality of adjacent connection attachment elements spherically distributed over the connector node surface contour for receiving the tubes or rods to be attached thereto and to extend radially therefrom at predetermined desired angles of a corresponding plurality of angles radially diverging from the connector node, wherein the tubes or rods are made of resilent flexible material, and wherein the resilent flexible material is a closed-cell foam material wherein the attachment elements are exteriorly fluted.
A flexible-construction set comprising a plurality of tubes or rods inter-connectable by connector nodes and wherein the connector nodes are made of foam-like material and formed in a three-dimensional geometric shape such as to provide a surface contour of successive adjacent surface portions each containing an attachment element therein to provide a plurality of adjacent connection attachment elements spherically distributed over the connector node surface contour for receiving the tubes or rods to be attached thereto and to extend radially therefrom at predetermined desired angles of a corresponding plurality of angles radially diverging from the connector node, wherein the attachment elements are male prongs and wherein the prongs are exteriorly fluted.
An assembled flexible-construction set comprising a plurality of tubes or rods inter-connectable by connector nodes and wherein the connector nodes are made of foam-like material and formed in a three-dimensional geometric shape such as to provide a surface contour of successive adjacent surface portions each containing an attachment element therein to provide a plurality of adjacent connection attachment elements spherically distributed over the connector node surface contour for receiving the tubes or rods to be attached thereto and to extend radially therefrom at predetermined desired angles of a corresponding plurality of angles radially diverging from the connector node, wherein the set is assembled into a two or three-dimensional structure of interconnected tubes or rods and connector elements, and wherein resilient clamp means is provided along one or more of the tubes or rods to attach covering material over the structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.