Construction toy

• US 3,355,837 A
• Filed: 02/25/1965
• Issued: 12/05/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harlan H. Pedersen
• Original Assignee: Harlan H. Pedersen
• Inventors: Pedersen, Harlan H.
• Application Number:
  US04/435,225
• Time in Patent Office: 1,013 Days
• US Class Current: 446/94
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/12 Perforated strips or the like assembled by rods, bolts, or the like

Claims

2. A CONSTRUCTION TOY COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF RIGID STRUCTURAL MEMBERS CONNECTABLE IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT POSITIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS BY INTERNALLY THREADED CONNECTORS AND EXTERNALLY THREADED TIE MEMBERS, SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBER HAVING A PLURALITY OF TRANSVERSE OPENINGS THERETHROUGH COMPRISING A FIRST RELATIVELY LONG LARGE-DI AMETER PORTION AND A SECOND RELATIVELY SHORT SMALL-DIAMETER PORTION, A PLURALITY OF CONNECTOR MEMBERS AND A PLURALITY OF THREADED TIE MEMBERS, SAID CONNECTOR MEMBERS CORREPONDING GENERALLY TO THE LENGTH AND DIAMETER OF SAID FIRST PORTIONS SO AS TO BE RECEIVED LOOSELY THEREIN AND HAVING A THREADED AXIAL BORE AT EACH END AND AT LEAST ONE THREADED DIAMETRIC BORE EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY THERETHROUGH, SAID THREADED TIE MEMBERS BEING INSERTABLE THROUGH ALIGNED OPENINGS OF TWO OR MORE OF SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBERS AND ADAPTED TO BE THREADED INTO THE THREADED BORES OF SAID CONNECTOR MEMBERS AND EFFECTIVE WHEN TIGHTENED TO HOLD SAID LAST MENTIONED STRUCTURAL MEMBERS IN ASSEMBLED RELATION.