Patent Publication Number: US-2019170173-A1

Title: multi-angle toothed interlocking system

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
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     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     Field of the Invention 
     The present disclosure relates generally to an attachment element. More so, the present invention relates to a gear-shaped attachment element. 
     Description of the Related Art 
     Building blocks are commonly used in several applications such as children games, modular construction materials, and so forth. Building blocks for children games allow children to make various three dimensional shapes. The use of building blocks enables modular construction techniques for building bridges, buildings, and so forth. 
     With typical building blocks like Lego for instance, one push fits the blocks only in parallel or perpendicular to the interlocking axis. Only parallel or perpendicular interlocking of building blocks limits the possibility of making three dimensional complex shapes. 
     In light of the above mentioned drawbacks, there exists a need of building blocks that can be interlocked along multiple axis. 
     BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     A primary object of the disclosure is to provide building blocks that can interlocked on incremental angles. 
     Another object of the present disclosure is to provide building blocks that can interlocked on incremental angles around a single axis. 
     Yet another object of the present disclosure is to provide building blocks that can be used for several applications such as construction, machine, games and so forth. 
    
    
     
       DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       Having thus described the disclosure in general terms, reference will now be made to the accompanying figure, wherein: 
         FIG. 1  illustrates an attachment element, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, 
         FIG. 2  illustrates a one or more toothed heads, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, 
         FIG. 3  illustrates a one or more toothed cavities, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, 
         FIG. 4  illustrates an interlock between an attachment element and a second attachment element, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, and 
         FIG. 5  illustrates an interlock between a one or more toothed heads and a one or more toothed cavities, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
     
    
    
     It should be noted that the accompanying figures are intended to present illustrations of exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure. This figure is not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. It should also be noted that accompanying figure is not necessarily drawn to scale. 
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     Reference will now be made in detail to selected embodiments of the present disclosure in conjunction with accompanying figures. The embodiments described herein are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure, and the present disclosure should not be construed as limited to the embodiments described. This disclosure may be embodied in different forms without departing from the scope and spirit of the disclosure. It should be understood that the accompanying figure is intended and provided to illustrate embodiments of the disclosure described below and are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawing, like numbers refer to like elements throughout, and thicknesses and dimensions of some components may be exaggerated for providing better clarity and ease of understanding. 
     It should be noted that the terms “first”, “second”, and the like, herein do not denote any order, ranking, quantity, or importance, but rather are used to distinguish one element from another. Further, the terms “a” and “an” herein do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one of the referenced item. 
       FIG. 1  illustrates an attachment element  100 , in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The attachment element  100  has a base  105 . The base  105  is defined by a plane  110  and an interlocking axis  115 . The interlocking axis  115  is substantially perpendicular to the plane  110 . It will be understood to a person ordinarily skilled in the art that the interlocking axis  115  and the plane  110  can be in the range of 80 to 100 degrees. 
     The base  105  has one or more toothed heads  120  and the one or more toothed cavities  125 . The one or more toothed heads  120  are elevated compared to the plane  110 . The one or more toothed heads  120  and the one or more toothed cavities  125  are explained in detail with respect to subsequent FIGs. The one or more toothed heads  120  and the one or more toothed cavities  125  are mating structures. 
       FIG. 2  illustrates the one or more toothed heads  120 , in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The one or more toothed heads  120  has a periphery  205 . In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the one or more toothed heads  120  are gear like structures. The toothed head  210  has a plurality of notches  210  at the periphery  205 . The plurality of notches  210  are spaced apart at a predefined incremental degree. It will be understood to a person ordinarily skilled in the art that the plurality of notches  210  can be of any shape such as a triangular shape, a rectangular shape, a curved shape, and a random shape. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the predefined incremental degree is 30 degrees. It should be understood that the predefined incremental degree can be any fixed interval such as 1 degrees, 5 degrees, and so forth, without impacting the scope of the disclosure. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the one or more toothed heads  120 , the one or more toothed cavities  125  and the base  105  are defined by a first predefined height. 
       FIG. 3  illustrates the one or more toothed cavities  125 , in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The one or more toothed cavities  125  has a shape that enables mating with the one or more toothed heads  120 . A plurality of cavity notches  305  allows it to be interlocked with the plurality of notches  210  of the one or more toothed heads  120  of a second attachment element. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the attachment element  100  interlocks with a second attachment element. Interlocking of the attachment element  100  and the second attachment element is described in subsequent FIGs. 
       FIG. 4  illustrates an interlock  400  between the attachment element  100  and a second attachment element  405 , in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The attachment element  100  and the second attachment element interlocks such that the plurality of notches  210  of the one or more toothed heads  120  of the second attachment element  405  interlocks with the plurality of cavity notches  305  of the one or more toothed cavities  125  of the attachment element  100 . It will be understood to a person ordinarily skilled in the art that several of such attachment elements can be interlocked at various orientations to form random and complex shapes. 
       FIG. 5  illustrates an interlock  500  between the one or more toothed heads  120  and the one or more toothed cavities  125 , in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. It will be understood that the FIGs are for illustration purpose only and the disclosure can be practiced various combinations of shapes, sizes, number and orientation of notches, toothed heads and toothed cavities. Also, the attachment element  100  can have any number of toothed heads and toothed cavities. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, attachment elements can have different number of toothed heads and toothed cavities on them. 
     Present disclosure provides several advantages over existing art. The attachment elements can be push fit with each other in incremental degrees depending on the total number of teeth. It allows creation of more random and complex structures that are not possible with the current available building blocks.