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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Kaj S. Mikkelsen, Billund, DK;
Hans Damgård Nielsen, Billund, DK;
Kim Pagel, Billund, DK;
Carsten RØN, Billund, DK;
Erik Fuglsang, Kolding, DK;
Erik Bach, Billund, DK;
Interlego AG, Baar, CH;
Abstract
A toy building set comprising a plurality of building elements which each are provided with hinge parts, a first type of hinge parts comprising a substantially cylindrical rod-shaped shaft part of a building element, a second type of hinge parts comprising a claw device consisting of two elastic fingers extending outwards from a building element at a distance from each other, so that the two elastic fingers between them form a track which is narrowed at the distal end of the fingers with respect to the building element, so that the rod-shaped shaft part may be pressed into the track through the narrowed part of the track, said hinge parts additionally comprising a third type of hinge parts being provided with a shaft stud which has an external diameter corresponding to the thickness of the rod-shaped shaft part.