Foldable construction blocks
AssigneeImpossible Objects, Inc.
InventorsRobert Swartz, Joseph Fallon, Robert McClure
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Abstract
In an exemplary embodiment of this invention, corrugated board is folded into a building system. The building system comprises a plurality of blocks and connectors. The blocks are rectangular cuboid in shape. The bottom and top sides of the blocks have rectangular arrays of holes. The blocks may be releasably connected by aligning the top holes of one block with the bottom holes of another block, and then inserting connectors into the aligned pairs of holes, one connector per aligned paid of holes. The ends of the connectors that are inserted are circular or equiangular polygonal in shape. In some embodiments, compression is used to releasably hold the connectors in place.
Claims4
A system, comprising:
- corrugated board, said corrugated board is folded, or is configured by cuts and scores to be folded, into at least a plurality of blocks, said corrugated board comprising at least one of corrugated cardboard and corrugated plastic, wherein:
- (a) each block, out of the plurality of blocks, includes
- (i) a main body that is rectangular cuboid in shape,
- (ii) a rectangular array of protuberances on a side of the main body, said protuberances are equiangular polygonal in cross-sectional shape and comprise corrugated board, and
- (iii) a rectangular array of holes in another side of the main body;
- (b) the plurality of blocks are releasably connected to each other, each respective connection being by insertion of the protuberances of one of the plurality of blocks into the holes of one or more other blocks, wherein the protuberances of each respective block, out of the plurality of blocks, are not part of and are releasably connected to the main body of the respective block;
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- (c) the plurality of blocks are configured in such a manner that, when specified blocks, out of the plurality of blocks, are releasably connected to each other, a first layer of corrugated board is positioned between and compressed by a second layer of corrugated board and a third layer of corrugated board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.