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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1984
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Walter Moe, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Charles M Diker, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ; A63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
46218 ; 46201 ; 46 25 ;
Abstract
A unique block construction for forming toy blocks which can be either interconnected to form a train, or stacked on top of each other. A block according to the invention includes a coupling which has a retracted position in which it forms part of the basic block contour when the block is to be stacked, and which can be manipulated into a protracted position for coupling the block to another block to form a train.