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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:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ole Vestergaard Poulsen, Vejle, DK;
Jo slashedrgen Tho slashed.gersen, Vejle, DK;
Assignee:
INTERLEGO AG, Baar, CH;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ; F16C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
446120 ; 446104 ; 446107 ; 446127 ; 403294 ; 745026 ;
Abstract
A coupling mechanism comprises a rod-shaped object (10) and a coupling head (20, 30) and is adapted to be used in a toy building set containing various building elements with other types of coupling means, e.g. bushings or ball heads. The rod-shaped object (10) has at least one terminal part (12-15) adapted to be releasably engaged with the coupling head (20, 30). The terminal part (12-15) is adapted to be received between two resilient walls (27, 37) on the coupling head (20, 30). The coupling head (20, 30) has secondary coupling means (21, 31) for connection with other parts belonging to the toy building set.