Abstract:
The present invention is a manipulative toy formed of a collection assemblage of three dimensional shape members that can be any multiplicity of desired shapes. The embodiments of the various members can be formed in any abstract shapes. Moreover, variant embodiments of the members can have hollow or solid shapes, can have partial surfaces, and surfaces can be flat or non flat. The present invention includes a multiplicity of differently configured spring biased interconnection means by which any adjacent shape members are interconnected.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
   1. Field of the Invention 
   The present invention is related to the field of three dimensional interlocking puzzles toys which can be manipulated and configured into a multiplicity of different shapes and orientations. 
   2. Description of the Prior Art 
   In general, manipulative toys and interlocking building block puzzles are known in the prior art. The following 16 patents and published patent applications are the closest prior art references which are related to the present invention. 
   1. U.S. Pat. No. 2,115,012 issued to Harry A. Douglas on Apr. 26, 1938 for “Connecting Means” (hereafter the “Douglas Patent”); 
   2. U.S. Pat. No. 3,523,384 issued to Louis Adelsohn on Aug. 11, 1970 for “Fastenable Three-Dimensional Puzzle Pieces” (hereafter the “Adelsohn Patent”); 
   3. U.S. Pat. No. 4,484,406 issued to Takao Matusmoto et al. on Nov. 27, 1984 for “Connected Prism Elements Swivellingly” (hereafter the “Matsumoto Patent”). 
   4. U.S. Pat. No. 4,511,144 issued to Patrick A. Roberts on Apr. 16, 1985 for “Multi-Cube Puzzle” (hereafter the “Roberts Patent”); 
   5. U.S. Pat. No. Des. 285,226 issued to Kenzou Kassai on Aug. 19, 1986 for “Construction Toy” (hereafter the “Kassai Design Patent”); 
   6. U.S. Pat. No. 5,344,147 issued to Sand-dae Lee on Sep. 6, 1994 for “Multi-Cube Puzzle” (hereafter the “Lee Patent”); 
   7. U.S. Pat. No. 5,992,850 issued to Chen Sen Li on Nov. 30, 1999 for “Four-Layer Intellectual Cube”) (hereafter the &#39;850 Li Patent”); 
   8. U.S. Des. Pat. No. 422,036 issued to Santiago Laserna Fernandez on Mar. 8, 2000 for “Toy Block” (hereafter the “Laserna Fernandez Design Patent”); 
   9. U.S. Pat. No. 6,129,356 issued to Chen Sen Li on Oct. 10, 2000 for “Five-Layer Intellectual Cube” (hereafter the “356 Li Patent”); 
   10. U.S. Pat. No. 6,241,248 issued to Stephen J. Winter on Jun. 5, 2001 for “Interlocking Solid Puzzles With Sliding Movement Control Mechanisms” (hereafter the “Winter Patent”); 
   11. U.S. Pat. No. 6,460,850 issued to Samuel M. Dodek II on Oct. 8, 2002 for “Cube Puzzle” (hereafter the “Dodek Patent”); 
   12. U.S. Des. Pat. No. D470,196 issued to Soren Christian Sorensen on Feb. 11, 2003 for “Toy Building Element” (hereafter the “Sorensen Design Patent”); 
   13. U.S. Pat. No. 6,655,685 issued to Ching-Hung Tsai on Dec. 2, 2003 for “Three-Dimensional Jigsaw Puzzle” (hereafter the “Tsai Patent”); 
   14. U.S. Pat. No. 6,679,780 issued to Sywan-Min Shih on Jan. 20, 2004 for “Polyomino Piece For Games” (hereafter the “Shih Patent”); 
   15. U.S. Pat. No. 6,682,385 issued to Bent Atzen et al. on Jan. 27, 2004 for “Toy Building Element With Transversal Openings” (hereafter the “Atzen Patent”); 
   16. U.S. Des. Pat. No. D490,483 issued to Benoit M. Auberger on May 25, 2004 for “CUBE” (hereafter the “Auberger Design Patent”); and 
   17. U.S. Published patent application No. 2005/0133994 issued to Keshavalyenger Yoga Narasimhan on Jun. 23, 2005 for “Self-Interlocking Cubic Puzzle” (hereafter the “Narasimhan Published Patent Application”). 
   The Douglas Patent discloses the concept of having a jack with a multiplicity of intersecting bores as illustrated in  FIG. 5  including having female threaded members  21  and  22  having a transverse internal screw-threads  23  and  24 . There is a threaded stud  2  that is threaded directly therein. A tight engagement between the stud and the jack is shown by having a biasing means including a steel ball and the spring. This device is for a different purpose than the present invention. 
   The Adelsohn Patent discloses a concept of having a triad of male prong members  14  which are inserted into receiving bores  32  as best illustrated in the mating figure of  FIG. 7 . It differs from the present invention in that the means by which the building blocks of the invention re held together is not flexible; once a piece is assembled together with another, it cannot be rotated or put in a different position, unless jarred apart and assembled in an alternative position. 
   The Matsumoto Patent discloses a multiplicity of interlocking triangular members which are interlocked together by a screw thread assembly  32  so that one member can be rotated relative to the other member to create an infinite number of shapes as illustrated in  FIGS. 5 ,  6 , and  7 . However, the device operates by rotation on a threaded swivel joint. 
   The Roberts Patent discloses a multi-cube puzzle with means to obtain the individual cubes  14  in an assembled relation for ease of manipulation. There is included end retaining members or caps  20  and  22  disposed at the distal end of each leg  18  of the core  12 . Each retaining member possess a flange-like exterior periphery slightly larger than a single face of smaller cube  14 . Each of the smaller cubes  14  is free to slide laterally or vertically into the single hole or void cube space provided in the cubical array. 
   The Kassai Patent is a design which discloses a construction toy having a multiplicity of male threaded members which can be threaded into female receiving members. 
   The Lee Patent discloses a multi-cube puzzle wherein there are female members and male members so that one can be inserted into the other to create a different design. The pieces contain color elements to facilitate creation of a color pattern design. Each body element  2  of the body assembly  100  is made of transparent plastic and has a cubic structure, the top of which is hollow with flanges with rounded corners as shown in  FIG. 5 . The body element  2  has a screw hole  22  in the center of the bottom part  24 A to fix the body element  2  to the central core  50 . The bottom part  24 A of the body element has four legs  25  along the side of the bottom, each of which is half the dimension of one side, to be cross-combined with the corresponding leg of another body element positioned at a right angle to the first body element. 
   The &#39;850 Li Patent discloses a four-layer intellectual cube with the operating mechanism best illustrated in  FIGS. 9 and 10 . The axle block  10  is assembled with the rotatable blocks  20 . Each of the square limiting plates  22  of the rotatable blocks  20  is drilled to form a through hole  23  on the tailing end of its corresponding pivot joint  21 , and a sleeve  24  with a flange on the outer end thereof is inserted in the through-hole  23 , aligning the inner end of the sleeve  24  with a corresponding pin hole  11 . A screw  25  is threaded in the sleeve  24  and is fixedly screwed in the in hole  11 , so that the rotatable block  20  is confined on the hole  11  but is rotatable about it. 
   The Laserna-Fernandez Design Patent discloses male and female interlocking members wherein the male is inserted into a group therein within the female so that the blocks can form any multiplicity of designs. 
   The &#39;356 Li Patent is a five layer intellectual cube. Referring to assembled structure of the first blocks  10  and the central axle block  100  a shown in  FIGS. 4 to 6 , the first blocks  10  are hollow and are generally “T” shaped. The tops thereof face outwardly and form rotatable plates  11 , and a rotation axle  12  is provided on the bottom of each of them. The bottom surfaces of the rotatable plates  11  are all arciform, and the rotation axles  12  can be pivotally inserted into the six axle rods  101  of the central axle block. The device operates differently from the present invention. 
   The Winter Patent discloses an interlocking cube puzzle with sliding movement control mechanism. The concept here is to have a multiplicity of interlocking channels with male and female interlocking members. Specifically referring to  FIGS. 1 ,  2  and  3  there are different various channels carved into the sides of the cuboid with male interlocking members to interlock female members so that the puzzle can be created in any shape. 
   The Dodek Patent discloses a cube puzzle wherein the members are interlocked by having an opening extending through the puzzle through which a threaded member can be extended and fastened in place by a wingnut. The blocks can be assembled together in only a single predetermined manner. 
   The Sorensen Patent is a design patent which discloses male and female slotted members in a block for the toy building block. 
   The Tsai Patent is a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. It consists of a multiplicity of male prong members inserted into a multiplicity of female members with various orientations as illustrated in  FIGS. 1 and 2  to create a multiplicity of different shapes. The design can also be varied so that the overall shape of the figure can be varied as shown in  FIG. 8 . 
   The Shih Patent discloses polyomino pieces which basically interact having a male and female member to enable any type of design to be created as illustrated in  FIGS. 4 ,  5 , and  6 . Specifically, the male members  18  can be inserted into the rectangular openings  1  as illustrated in  FIG. 7 . There are also various shapes for male members including round a shown in  FIG. 7 , polyomino as shown in  FIG. 8 , crosses as shown  FIG. 10 , etc. 
   The Atzen Patent is a toy building element with transversal openings. There are a multiplicity of male and female interlocking members and circular openings  7  to receive a male member in a snap fit to create a structure. 
   The Auberger Design Patent discloses a cube with male and female members on its sidewalls so that the cubes can be interlocked. 
   The Narasimhan Published Patent Application discloses a self-interlocking cube. It is a spatial logical toy composed of twenty-four identical elements plus eight identical tetrahedral solid elements and a central solid core member arranged in a self-interlocking manner to form a cube. External triangular surfaces of eight toy elements form one face of the overall large cube, and each toy element can be rotated in any direction of the spatial axis within the cube. By rotating the toy elements, several combinations become possible. 
   There is a significant need for an improved three dimensional puzzle with improved interlocking features which enable a large multiplicity of different puzzle orientation to be formed. 
   SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
   The present invention is a manipulative puzzle or toy formed of an assemblage of three dimensional abstract shapes. The embodiments of each member can be formed from any abstract shape which can have any kind of surfaces. Moreover, variant embodiments of the members can be hollow or solid (with at least one interior chamber), having at least one surface which has an opening or having an entirely closed surface, and can be made from any type of material. The present invention includes a multiplicity of differently configured spring biased interconnection means by which any adjacent member or members can be interconnected to one or more adjacent member or members. This means that one member can “branch” into many members and also many adjacent members can “converge” into one adjacent member. This relationship of connectivity betweens the member is called “many to many” and it creates a kind of convoluted arrangement of all of the members in the three dimensional space. All of those arrangements of the members can also be considered as an “open ended” toy, meaning that the user can always add more shape members to any part of the toy. 
   The central innovation of the present invention is the flexible interlocking mechanism that keeps any adjacent members together while allowing the interconnected members a certain degree of freedom for sliding and rotational movement relative to each other. By manipulation of one member, or some of the members or all of the members having different shapes belonging to an assemblage toy, many multiplicities of final stable shapes can be created. In addition, if more than one assemblage toy is used, they can be entangled together without any interconnection means to create more sophisticated and complex final stable shapes. 
   There are two interconnecting mechanisms of the present invention. The first interconnecting mechanism comprises a bolt-spring-cup mechanism in which the spring is sleeved onto a bolt, the bolt head or any stopped means acts as a stopper that prevents the spring from getting out from that side, and from the other side there is a cup with a hole in its center that is free to move on the bolt and that is sleeved on the bolt after the spring is sleeved on, and prevents the spring from getting out on that side. The bolt acts like a core for the spring and the spring is trapped between the bolt head or any stopper means and the moving cup. Another small variant on this mechanism is that the position of the spring can be relocated to be attached from one end to the bolt head or any stopper means and from the other end to the bottom of the member&#39;s cavity where the mechanism is to reside, and this variation eliminates the cup. Consequently, the function of the spring is changed from being a compressed spring at the time that the member is in movement to being a stretched spring at the time of the movement. 
   The following definitions apply in this application: Starting shape members are members that are not presently connected to other members but can be interconnected to other members. Ending shape members are members that can have other members interconnected to them but they do not interconnect to any other members. 
   With the use of the present invention mechanism each shape member (besides starting shape members) will have at least one small hole, a receiving hole on its surface to permanently receive the end of the bolt from the interconnection mechanism of the adjacent members. The end of the bolt from the adjacent member will screw in or be pushed in and for either also glued into that hole, or any other attaching means so that the attachment is permanent, and will ensure that each shape member will be permanently connected by interconnection means to each other. 
   In addition, each shape member (beside end shape members) of the present invention mechanism has at least one opening on its surface, called “outgoing opening” with a small locally flat area on it. This “outgoing opening” gives the freedom to the interconnection mechanism that resides inside the member cavity to move from one position to another relative to its adjacent member. The “outgoing openings” can be made of multiple sets of openings on each surface where one set of openings is defined as one mesh of many slots (not necessarily straight) on the surfaces that connect together like tunnels and they all terminate by one cavity (in case of non-hollow shapes). The end of the bolt of the interconnection mechanisms will stick out from those slot holes to be connected to the adjacent member. There can be more than one cavity in each shape member (beside “end shape members”) and therefore there can be more than one set of mesh slots (hollow shape can have different mesh slots as well, without the need for a cavity). Also, there can be more than one interconnection mechanism residing in each shape member. There can be multiple interconnections in each mesh/cavity of slots and multiple interconnections in multiple meshes. In summary, the multi mesh slots with multi cavities and with multi interconnection mechanisms will enable a member to interconnect to multiple members. There are some correlation requirements between the width of the slots and the diameter of the cup, so the cup will not be able to get out of the opening slots. Each member shape will have at least one interconnection mechanism reside inside his cavity beside each “end shape members”. The user of the toy will use a pulling force on one of the members, overcoming the spring biasing force and enabling that member and the bolt to moved together to a new position where the bolt will rest in one of many positions, called “rest point”, on the “outgoing opening” on the face of an adjacent member. After the user releases the member, the biasing spring retains the two adjacent members in the new fixed position. 
   The second interconnection mechanism that gives maximum flexibility on movement of adjacent members and also symmetrical movement between two adjacent members that are interconnected comprises a bolt with a head or a stopper plate or other stopper means in one of its end, a spring sleeved on the bolt blocked by the stopper means, a cup with an opening toward the spring sleeved after, another cup with opening facing to other direction sleeved on a second spring sleeved after and another stopper plate, or a lock nut, or other stopper means closing the other side of the bolt. The bolt with the first spring and the first cup is inserted into the first shape member cavity so that the bolt extend through the opening slots of the shape member to enter to the second shape member through its opening slots, into it cavity and than a second cup sleeved on, and the second spring sleeved after and closed by the second stopper plate or the lock nut in a permanent manner. 
   That interconnecting mechanism gives the ability to both adjacent members to move independently of each other and with that creates more possibilities of relative movement between each other. The interconnection mechanism is like taking the first interconnection mechanism and doubling it by a mirror image. This mechanism creates symmetry between “incoming openings” and “outgoing openings” so that they become the same. There is no need for any permanent attachment means to the other member shape any more and also there is no need for a hole for the incoming receiving interconnecting mechanism. All the sets of meshes on a member serve with the same purpose. Any combination of the interconnection mechanisms described above can be used on the same toy. Without limiting this invention, it is mentioned we need to mention that is order to create stable final shapes, some more restrains can be added: 
   1. Any adjacent members have to touch each other at the interconnection rest point. Otherwise, if the shape members do not touch each other, there will be no friction between the members and the bolt of the interconnecting mechanism will be exposed in the air and the members will freely swing and rotate around the bolt. In order to increase stability and achieve a “locking mechanism” that will avoid the rotation between members, it is required that the shape members themselves be designed to touch at the rest touching point of the adjacent members, without any obstacles (as an example of parts that are designed not to touch is two opposite crests that can not touch each other in the center). The other requirement is on the bolt size and the size of cavities, so where member&#39;s parts are attached, there will be sufficient room to retain the bolt inside the cavities of the members. 
   2. The “locking mechanism” can be imposed to avoid rotation or sliding between two adjacent members once they have been interconnected at a rest point and thus create very stable shapes. Around each of the holes on the surface a bolt is permanently attached into the “incoming opening” and around the designed rest point on the “the outgoing opening” meshes where the bolt can move from one position to another and the adjacent member can rest, as in interconnection mechanism # 1 , or around the designed rest point where there are any opening meshes in interconnection mechanism # 2 , there can be added either a male or female “locking mechanism”. Once members are touching each other at the design rest point, the mating of the female from one adjacent member and male from another adjacent member take place. On any given member there can be mixes of female or male “locking mechanisms”. 
   3. An additional benefit of the “locking mechanism” is that it gives some degree of freedom to orient one member relative to another, meaning that it limits the number of rotational positions that one member can interconnect with another member on the same rest point. For example, if the locking mechanism is made up of a recess of an equal side triangle on the surface of the member shape, then the members that will be interconnected and mate on to this surface will have three rotational possibilities of orientation relative to each other. 
   Further novel features and other objects of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, discussion and the appended claims, taken in conjunction with the drawings. 

   
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     Referring particularly to the drawings for the purposes of illustration only and not limitation, there is illustrated: 
       FIG. 1  is an exploded perspective view of one preferred embodiment of an interconnecting means of the present invention; 
       FIG. 2  is an assembled perspective view of the interconnecting means illustrated in  FIG. 1 ; 
       FIG. 3  is an assembled perspective view of an alternative embodiment of an interconnecting means of the present invention; 
       FIG. 4  is an exploded perspective view of a third embodiment of an interconnecting means of the present invention; 
       FIG. 5  is an assembled perspective view of the interconnecting means illustrated in  FIG. 4 ; 
       FIG. 6  is an exploded side-perspective view of a preferred embodiment of one possible shape member which is a cube of the present invention; 
       FIG. 7  is a bottom perspective view of the shape member illustrated in  FIG. 6 ; 
       FIG. 8  is a top perspective view of the shape member, assembled with an interconnecting mechanism inside as illustrated in  FIG. 6 ; 
       FIG. 9  is an exploded side-perspective view of one possible embodiment of the present invention of a shape member which is a cube with the interconnection mechanism in  FIG. 1 ; 
       FIG. 10  is an exploded side-perspective view of one possible embodiment of the present invention of a shape member which is a cube with the interconnection mechanism in  FIG. 2 ; 
       FIG. 11  is an exploded side perspective view of the two assembled shape members and the way that they going to be interconnecting; 
       FIG. 12  is a perspective view of a multiplicity of shape members as illustrated in  FIG. 6  though  FIG. 8  interconnected by either the interconnecting means of  FIG. 1  and/or  FIG. 2 , with the shape members all attached in one aligned row; 
       FIG. 13  is a perspective view of a mulitplicity of shape members as illustrated in  FIG. 6  through  FIG. 8  interconnected by either the interconnecting means of  FIG. 1  and/or  FIG. 2 , or the interconnecting means of  FIG. 3 , with a shape member moved to one alternative side face of an adjacent shape member; 
       FIG. 14  is a perspective view of two shape members interconnected by the third variation of the interconnecting means illustrated in  FIG. 4  and  FIG. 5 ; 
       FIG. 15  is a perspective view of an alternative embodiment of a shape member having three different types of slots and rest spots on three different faces, each one illustrating the different numbers of rotation positions; 
       FIG. 16  is a perspective view an another alternative embodiment of a shape member illustrating different types of entrance and exists slots which can be incorporated into the present invention; 
       FIG. 17  is a perspective view of the shape member having an alternative shape which is a tetrahedron; 
       FIG. 18  is a perspective view of an alternative of two portion pieces of one alternative shape member alternative joining mechanism to join two building blocks together; 
       FIG. 19  is a perspective view illustrating a multiplicity of differently shaped members retained together by the present invention interconnecting means; 
       FIG. 20A  is s a perspective view of shape members with an alternative slot arrangement on its faces that can serve as incoming and outgoing slots; 
       FIG. 20B  is a perspective view of the same shape as in  FIG. 20A , but illustrating the other side of the shape member; 
       FIG. 21  is a perspective view of an alterative shape member used with the present invention, illustrating a multiplicity of different slot arrangements which can be incorporated in one or more faces of a shape member used with the present invention; 
       FIG. 22  is a perspective view of an alternative shape member which is an open shape that does not have all its surfaces and which is used the present invention; 
       FIG. 23  is a perspective view of a combination of two different shape members incorporating the present invention interconnecting means; 
       FIG. 24  is a perspective view of an alternative configuration of a two pyramid shape interconnected to one cube shape member and their possible movements; 
       FIG. 25  is a perspective view of a shape member with an alternative configuration for an entrance or exit slot, illustrating that the slot can be sinusoidal or wavy and does not have to be straight; 
       FIG. 26  is a perspective view illustrating alternative attaching means such as male pins and female openings to attach two shape members together which then can be movably attached to adjacent shape members through the present invention; 
       FIG. 27  is a perspective view illustrating entanglement of two toys, without any interconnecting means; 
       FIG. 28  is the exploded view of the connection between each of two members in each toy as described in  FIG. 27 ; 
       FIG. 29  is a perspective view illustrating six balls with different slots schemes and different interconnection means; 
       FIG. 30  is a top view of one toy which incorporates different types of members with different types of interconnection mechanisms; 
       FIG. 31  is the exploded view of some three members from  FIG. 30  showing how two shapes can interconnect; and 
       FIG. 32  is a view of a toy with it members and possible movements. 
   

   DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
   Although specific embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings, it should be understood that such embodiments are by way of example only and merely illustrative of but a small number of the many possible specific embodiments which can represent applications of the principles of the present invention. Various changes and modifications obvious to one skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains are deemed to be within the spirit, scope and contemplation of the present invention as further defined in the appended claims. 
   The present invention is a unique three dimensional puzzle or toy which is configured from a multiplicity of members of abstract shapes wherein each can be any desired shape and wherein adjacent shape members are interconnected by alternative unique interconnecting means which enable one shape member to be rotated or shift relative to an adjacent shape member. By manipulation of the members with all the possible relative positions and movements one can create an infinite variety of possible final shapes. 
   The key innovative feature of the present invention is the creation of unique spring biased interconnecting means by which at least two adjacent shape members can be movably retained together. Referring to  FIG. 1  and  FIG. 2 , one preferred embodiments of an interconnecting means is illustrated.  FIG. 1  is an exploded view to show the component parts and  FIG. 2  is an assembled view with the parts placed together. 
   A first interconnecting means  100  comprises a retaining cup  110  which has a bottom opening  112  which is preferably centrally disposed on the bottom wall  114  of the retaining cup  110 . The bottom wall  114  extends into a circumferential sidewall  116  and the bottom wall  114  and circumferential sidewall  116  surround an interior chamber  118  of the retaining cup  110 . A biasing spring  120  has a first end  112  and a second end  124 . The first end  122  is press-fitting into the retaining cup  110  and is retained within interior chamber  118  and presses against bottom wall  114  and is surrounded by circumferential sidewall  116 . A bolt  130  is threaded and glued or pushed and glued into a spacer stop plate  140  having interior opening  142  to receive a second end  134  of bolt  130 . The biasing spring  120  surrounds bolt  130  and is compressed between the interior face  146  of spacer stop plate  140  and retaining cup  110 . A first end  132  of the threaded bolt  130  extends through opening  112  in the bottom wall  114  of retaining cup  110  and extends so that it can be threaded and glued or pushed and glued into a receive hole of another shape member. The assembly of the stop plate  140 , portion of the bolt  130 , biasing spring  120  and retaining cup  110  are retained within a chamber of a shape member. The biasing spring permits  120  the distance that the threaded bolt extends out of the retaining cup  110  and therefore out of a shape member to vary so that as the spring is compressed, the amount of extending bolt is increased so that one shape member can be moved relative to a adjacent the shape member as will be described later on. Instead of being a separate stop plate  140 , the member  140  can instead be an integrated head of the bolt attached at the end  134  of the bolt so that the interior surface  146  is the interior surface of the bolt head  140  and the second end  124  of biasing spring  120  is pressed against the interior surface of the bolt head. For convenience the bolt  130  can be fully threaded, but it is not a necessity and as illustrated in  FIGS. 1 and 2 , only the one adjacent second end  124  is threaded. 
   An alternative embodiment of spring biased interconnecting means  200  is illustrated in  FIG. 3 . The bolt  230  is threaded and glued or pushed and glued into spacer stop plate  240  threaded hole, or just a hole  242 . Instead of a spacer stop plate, the member  240  can be the head of the bolt  230  and the head is attached to the bolt at end  234 . The biasing spring  220  is affixed to the upper surface  246  of spacer stop plate  240  so that the bottom  222  of biasing spring  220  rests against the top surface  248  of the spacer stop plate  240  (or head of the bolt) and the top  224  of the biasing spring  220  is pressed against the lower interior surface of a shape member as will be described later on (in case of shape member of  FIG. 6 , it will pressed against the sealing member retaining plate  150 ). The first end  232  of bolt  230  will extend out of an opening in a shape member. The assembly of the biasing spring  220 , spacer stop plate  240  (or head of the bolt) and portion of the bolt  230  is retained within a chamber of a shape member so that a portion of the bolt  230  adjacent first end  232  extends out of a shape member and the rounded cup shaped surface  246  of spacer stop plate  240  prevents the assembly from entirely being pulled or pushed out of the interior chamber of the shape member. The biasing spring permits  220  the distance that the bolt extends out of the shape member to vary so that as the spring is expanded, the amount of extending bolt is increased so that one shape member can be moved relative to an adjacent the shape member as will be described later on and thereafter returned by the compression force of the spring. 
   The third variation for the interconnecting means  300  is illustrated in the exploded view of  FIG. 4  and the assembled perspective view of  FIG. 5 . The third variation is a double interconnecting means taken from the first variation of  FIG. 1 . A third interconnecting means  300  comprises a pair of oppositely oriented retaining cups, namely first retaining cup  310  and which has a bottom opening  312  which is preferably centrally disposed on the bottom wall  314  of the retaining cup  310 . The bottom wall  314  extends into a circumferential sidewall  316  and the bottom wall  314  and circumferential sidewall  316  surround an interior chamber  318  of the retaining cup  310 . The second retaining cup  310 A is a mirror image of the first retaining cup  310 . The second retaining cup  310 A has a bottom opening  312 A which is preferably centrally disposed on the bottom wall  314 A of the retaining cup  310 A. The bottom wall  314 A extends into a circumferential sidewall  316 A and the bottom wall  314 A and circumferential sidewall  316 A surround an interior chamber  318 A of the retaining cup  310 A. 
   A first biasing spring  320  has an inner end  322  and an outer end  324 . The inner end  322  is press-fitted into the first retaining cup  310  and is retained within interior chamber  318  and presses against bottom wall  314  and is surrounded by circumferential sidewall  316 . A bolt  330  is threaded and glued or pushed and glued into a first spacer stop plate  340  having interior hole threads  342  to receive a first outer end  334  of threaded bolt  330 . Alternatively, the member  340  can be the head of the bolt  330  and is attached at end  334 . The first biasing spring  320  surrounds a portion of bolt  330  and is compressed between the interior face  346  of first spacer stop plate  340  (or bolt head or any other stopper means) and first retaining cup  310 . For first biasing spring  320 , its outer end  324  is adjacent the interior surface  346  of first spacer stop plate  340  (or bolt head or any other stopper means) and its inner end  322  rests within interior chamber  318  of first retaining cup  310 . 
   A second outer end  322  of the bolt  330  extends through opening  312  in the bottom wall  314  of first retaining cup  310  and extends so that it passes through opening  312 A in second retaining cup  310 A and is threaded and glued or pushed and glued into threads  342 A of second spacer stop pate  340 A (or alternatively attached to the bolt head or any other stopper means  340 A). A second biasing spring  320 A surrounds another portion of bolt  330  and is compressed between the interior face  346 A of second spacer stop plate  340 A (or bolt head or any other stopper means) and second retaining cup  310 A. For second biasing spring  320 A, its outer end  324 A is adjacent the interior surface  346 A of second spacer stop plate  340 A and its inner end  322 A rests within interior chamber  318 A of second retaining cup  310 A. 
   The assembly of first spacer stop plate  340  (or bolt head or any other stopper means), first biasing spring  320 , first retaining cup  310  and a potion of bolt  330  rests within an interior chamber of one shape member. The assembly of second spacer stop plate  340 A (or bolt head or any other stopper means), second biasing spring  320 A, second retaining cup  310 A and a portion of bolt  330  rests within an interior chamber of an adjacent shape member. The two shape members are interconnected by a portion of the bolt  330  between first retaining cup  310  and second retaining cup  310 A. The interconnection assembly between two adjacent shape members will be described later on. 
   Any one of the present invention interconnection means  100 ,  220  or  300  can be used with any type of shape member assembly and it will be appreciated that the interconnection means can be incorporated into any desired shape member assembly. While customarily one type of interconnection means  110   200  or  300  is used with a complete puzzle toy comprised of many shape members, it is within the spirit and scope of the present invention to have more than one variation of the interconnection means incorporated into a toy assembly. 
   Referring to  FIG. 6 , there is illustrated an exploded side perspective view of an embodiment of a square shape  10 .  FIG. 7  is a bottom perspective view of and embodiment of a shape member  10 .  FIG. 8  is a top perspective view of the shape member  10  with the sealing member in place and with the interconnection mechanism inside. Referring to  FIGS. 6 through 8 , shape member  10  includes a top face  20 , a bottom face  30 , a first sidewall  40 , a parallel oppositely disposed sidewall  50 , and a third sidewall  60  and a parallel oppositely disposed fourth sidewall  70 . In this preferred embodiment  10 , the four sidewalls  40 ,  50 ,  60  and  70  are identical. Referring to  FIG. 8 , first sidewall  40  has an interior slot  42  extending from bottom face  30  upwardly and terminating in recess  44  having a recessed face  46  and surrounded by a recess wall  48 . The recessed face  46  and recess wall  48  form a rest point on first sidewall  40 . Referring to  FIG. 6 , second sidewall  50  similarly has an interior slot  52  extending from bottom face  30  upwardly and terminating in recess  54  having a recessed face  56  and surrounded by a recess wall  58 . The recessed face  56  and recess wall  58  form a rest point on second sidewall  50 . In this embodiment of shape member  10 , interior slots  42  and  52  are parallel and recessed faces  46  and  56  and recessed walls  48  and  58  are parallel. 
   Referring again to  FIG. 8 , second sidewall  60  has an interior slot  62  extending from bottom face  30  upwardly and terminating in recess  64  having a recessed face  66  and surrounded by a recess wall  68 . The recessed face  66  and recess wall  68  form a rest point on third sidewall  60 . Referring to  FIG. 6 , fourth sidewall  70  similarly has an interior slot  72  extending from bottom face  30  upwardly and terminating in recess  74  having a recessed face  76  and surrounded by a recess wall  78 . The recessed face  76  and recess wall  78  form a rest point on fourth sidewall  70 . In this embodiment of shape member  10 , interior slots  62  and  72  are parallel and recessed faces  66  and  76  and recessed walls  68  and  78  are parallel. 
   Referring to  FIG. 6 , shape member  10  has an interior chamber  6  which terminates in a threaded opening  18  at upper face  20 . A retaining plate  150  has exterior threads  158  by which it is threaded into receiving threads  18  to close the upper surface of shape member  10 . The upper surface  154  of retaining plate  150  has a “male” cap member  82  which projects outwardly from the upper surface  154  and interior threads  81  in “male” cap member  82 . The “male” cap member  82  sides are aligned with sides of face  20 . 
   Each recessed face  46 ,  56 ,  66 , and  76  and its associated recessed wall  48 ,  58 ,  68 , and  78  are called rest spots. 
   Referring to  FIG. 6-8 , bottom face  30  has a central recessed cavity  32  having four rounded recessed corners  33 ,  34 ,  35 , and  36 . The recessed cavity is connected with all four interior slots  42 ,  52 ,  62  and  72 . The recessed cavity  32  and its four rounded corners  33 ,  34   35  and  36  form a rest point on bottom face  30 . The dimension of the “male” cap member  82  is sized to correspond with the recessed cavity  32  and is also designed to align with the sets of recessed faces and recessed walls  46 ,  48 ,  56 ,  58 ,  66 ,  68 ,  76  and  78 . 
   Top face  20  supports the protruding generally square “male” cap member  82  which is a rest spot mating means. The parts are sized so that the rest spot mating means such as the generally square cap member  82  fits into recessed cavity  32  and the corners  84 ,  85 ,  86  and  87  of the “male” cap member  82  are respectively received in the rounded corners  33 ,  34 ,  35  and  36  of recessed cavity  32 . The rest spot mating means  82  is also sized so that it can fit within the respective rest spots of the four faces so that the top  83  of the “male” cap member  82  abuts a recessed face  46 ,  56 ,  66  and  76  and the sidewall  88 ,  89 ,  90  and  81  of the cap member  82  is surrounded by a respective recessed wall  48 ,  58 ,  68  and  78 . 
   Two adjacent shape members  10  are movably retained to each other by one of the three novel interconnecting means of the present invention. By way of illustration, the first interconnecting means  100  will be described for interconnecting a multiplicity of shape members  10 . As discussed, first interconnecting means  100  comprises a retaining cup  110  into which is press fitted one end of a biasing spring  120 . A bolt  130  is threaded into a spacer stop plate  140  having interior threads  142  to receive one end of bolt  130  (or member  140  can be the bolt head or any stopper means attached at one end of the bolt). The “male” cap member  82  is affixed to the exterior face  154  of a retaining plate  150 , and also has interior threads  83  which are aligned with the interior threads  152  of retaining plate  150 . Retaining plate  150  has exterior threads  158  by which it is threaded into receiving threads  18  which are in the interior of shape member  10  and terminates at upper face  20 . The biasing spring surrounds bolt  130  and is compressed between the interior face  146  of spacer stop plate  140  and retaining cup  110 . The retaining cup also has an interior opening  112  through which the bolt  130  extends so that it extends out of the bottom face  30  of block shape member  10  as illustrated in  FIG. 8 , and is threaded into the interior threads  81  of “male” cap member  82  and interior threads  152  of retaining plate  150  and preferably are glued or otherwise affixed so that it can&#39;t be unthreaded. The shape member  10  has an interior chamber  6  which terminates in the threaded opening  18  at upper face  20  and bottom recessed opening  32  in bottom face  30 . A multiplicity of shape members  10  are movably retained together as illustrated in  FIG. 12 . The assembly of the retaining cup  110 , the biasing spring  120 , a portion of the bolt  130 , and retainer stop plate  140  (or bolt head or any stopper means) are retained within the interior chamber  6  so that a pulling force on one shape block member  10  which receives the end of the bolt  130  into its “male” cap member  82  and retaining plate  150  causes the biasing spring to be compressed so that the bolt  130  is slightly forced further out of the bottom opening  32  of shape  10  so that the bolt can be moved into any one of the four slotted openings  42 ,  52 ,  62  and  72  of the respective faces  40 ,  50 ,  60  and  70 , so that the block shape member  10  can be oriented so that its “male” cap member  82  rests within a rest spot on a face of an adjacent shape member and retained thereon by the compression force of the biasing spring  12  after the moving force which compressed the spring is released. The retainer cup member  110  and spacer stop plate  140  (or bolt head or any other stopper means) prevents the interconnecting assembly from being entirely pulled out of the interior chamber  6  of the shape member  10 . Therefore, through its unique spring biasing interconnection, one shape member can be moved to any one of five positions relative to an adjacent shape member and coming to rest at a rest spot on one of the four faces or on the rest spot on the bottom face of the shape member  10 . 
   Referring to  FIG. 9 , there is illustrated an exploded view of how mechanism  100  is assembled in shape member  10 . It comprises the bare shape member  10  with the cup  110  and with the spring  120  and with the bolt  130  with its stopper means and in the end the closing cap  150 . 
   Referring to  FIG. 10 , there is illustrated an exploded view of how mechanism  200  is assembled in shape member  10 . It comprises the bare shape member  10  with a spring  220  and with the bolt  230  with its stopper means and in the end the closing cup  150 . 
   Referring to  FIG. 11 , there is illustrated an exploded view of two assembled shape members  10  and the way that they are going to interconnect to each other with interconnection mechanism  100  or  200  residing inside of their respective cavities. 
   Referring to  FIG. 12 , five shape members  10 ,  10 A,  10 B,  10 C and  10 D are aligned in a straight row with the “male” cap member  82  of each shape member at rest within the rest spot formed by the opening  32  and four corners  33 ,  34 ,  35  and  36  of the immediately adjacent block shape member and retained in that position by the force of the compression spring. Referring to  FIG. 13 , there is illustrated one alternative configuration with a sixth shape member  10 E moved so that its “male” cap member  82  is within a rest spot on one lateral face of the adjacent shape member  10 D. 
   While discussed with the first interconnecting means  100 , the configuration illustrated in  FIGS. 12  and  FIG. 13  can also be interconnected by the second interconnecting means  200 . As shown in  FIG. 3  and discussed, the bolt  230  is threaded into spacer stop plate  240  (or alternatively to the bolt head or any other stopper means) so that the lower surface  246  of spacer stop plate  240  faces the bolt  230 . The biasing spring  220  is affixed to the upper surface  246  of spacer stop plate  240  (or bolt head or any other stopper means) and is pressed against the lower interior surface  156  of retaining plate  150  of the sealing member. The retaining plate  150  has exterior threads  158  by which it is threaded into receiving threads  18  which are in the interior of shape member  10  and terminates at upper face  20 . Alternatively, the retaining plate can be integrally formed with the top face  20  of building block  10 . The biasing spring  230  pushes down on the bolt so that a portion of the bolt  230  extends out of the bottom face  30  of shape member  10  and is threaded into the interior threads  81  of “male” cap member  8  and interior threads  152  of retaining plate  150  of an adjacent shape member  10  and preferably permanently affixed therein. As before, the shape member  10  has an interior chamber  6  which terminates in the threaded opening  18  at the upper face  20  and bottom recessed opening  32  in bottom face  30 . The assembly of the biasing spring  220 , retaining stop plate  240  (or bolt head or any other stopper means) and a portion of the bolt  230  are retained within the interior chamber  6  so that a pulling force on one cube or shape member  10  which receives the end of the bolt  230  into its “male” cap  82  and retaining plate  240  causes the biasing spring to be expanded so that the bolt  230  is slightly forced further out of the bottom opening  30  of the shape member  10  so that the bolt can be moved into any one of the four slotted openings  42 ,  53 ,  62  and  72  of the respective faces  40 ,  50 ,  60  and  70 , so that the shape member  10  can be oriented so that its “male” cap member  820  rests within a rest spot on a face of an adjacent shape member and retained thereon by the pulling force of the biasing spring  230  after the moving force which expanded the spring is released. The retainer stop member  240  (or bolt head or any other stopper means) prevents the interconnecting interconnecting assembly from being entirely pulled out of the interior chamber  6  of the shape member  10 . As with the previous interconnecting means, through this unique biasing interconnection, one shape member can be moved to any one of five positions relative to an adjacent shape member and come to rest at a rest spot on one of the four faces or on the rest spot on the bottom face of the shape member. 
   While the interconnection of a multiplicity of shape members  10  can be respectively interconnected by using interconnecting means  100  or interconnecting means  200 , it is also possible to use a combination so that interconnecting means  100  can be used with some of the shape members such as  10 A,  10 C and  10 E and interconnecting means  200  can be used with other shape members  10 B. 
     FIG. 13  also shows the “start shape member”  10  does not need to have entrance holes and that “end shape member”  10 E does not need to have any interconnecting mechanism  100  or  200  residing inside and does not need any outgoing opening slots, when it implemented with mechanism  100  or  200 , and  10 D. 
   The third alternative embodiment for the interconnecting means  300  is shown in use in  FIG. 14 . The interconnecting means  300  comprises two oppositely disposed adjoining interconnecting means as previously discussed and illustrated in  FIGS. 4 and 5 . Referring to  FIG. 14 , shape member  400  has an interconnecting assembly comprising a retaining cup  110  into which is press fitted one end of a biasing spring  120 . A bolt  130  is threaded into a spacer stop plate  140  having interior threads  142  to receive one end of bolt  130  (or alternatively member  140  is the head of the bolt to which one end is attached). The biasing spring  120  surrounds bolt  130  and is compressed between the interior face  146  of spacer stop plate  140  (or bolt head or any stopper means) and retaining cup  110 . The retaining cup also has an interior opening  112  through which the bolt  130  extends so that it extends out of the bottom face  430  of shape member  400  as illustrated in  FIG. 13 . Adjoining shape member  500  has the identical interconnecting means but rotated 180 degrees and also includes the bolt  130  which is threaded into a spacer stop plate  140 A having interior threads  142 A to receive one end of bolt  130  (or alternatively a bolt head or any stopper means to which the end of the bolt is attached). The biasing spring  120 A surrounds bolt  130  and is compressed between the interior face  146 A of spacer stop plate  140 A (or bolt head or any other stopper means) and retaining cup  110 A. The retaining cup  110 A also has an interior opening  112 A through which the bolt  130  extends so that it extends out of the bottom face  530  of shape member  500  as illustrated in  FIG. 14 . The key difference in this interconnecting means  300  is that the bolt  130  is the same bolt for the interconnecting means in each shape member  400  and  500 . Each shape member  400  and  500  has a respective interior chamber  406  and  506  which terminates in a bottom opening  432  in bottom face  430  and  532  in bottom face  530 . The assembly of the retaining cup  110 , the biasing spring  120 , a portion of the bolt  130 , and retaining stop plate  140  (or bolt head or any other stopper means) are retained within the interior chamber  406  and the oppositely oriented assembly of retaining cup  110 A, the biasing spring  120 A, a portion of the bolt  130 , and retainer stop plate  140 A (or bolt head or any stopper means) are retained within the interior chamber  506  with the common bolt  130  extending out bottom openings  432  and  532  and being biased by the two springs  120  and  120 A so that a pulling force (or forces) on either one of the shape members  400  or  500  which receives the end of the bolt  130  causes at least one the biasing spring  120  or  120 A or both biasing springs  120  and  120 A to be compressed so that the bolt  130  is slightly force further out of the bottom opening  432  or  532  of shape member  400  or  500  so that the bolt can be moved into any one of the four slotted openings  42 ,  52 ,  62  and  72  of the respective faces  40 ,  50 ,  60  and  70 , so that the shape member  400  can be oriented at a different orientation to shape member  500  and thereafter retained in that orientation by the compression forces of the biasing springs  120  and  120 A after the moving forced which compressed the spring is released. Each retainer cup member  110  and  110 A and spacer stop plate  140  and  140 A (or bolt head or any other stopper means) prevents the interconnecting assembly from being entirely pulled out of the interior chamber  406  of the shape member  400  and interior chamber  506  of the shape member  500 . Therefore, through its unique spring biasing interconnection, one shape member can be moved to any one of five positions relative to an adjacent shape member and come to rest at a rest spot on one of the four faces or on the rest spot on the bottom face of the adjacent shape member. The opposite top face  420  and  520  of each building bock member can have other interconnecting means such as the “male” cap  82  and can have different shapes to mix and match to receive a bolt from either of the interconnecting means  100  or  200 . 
   In addition to the generally cube shaped shape member having faces with identical slots and recessed rest spots as illustrated in  FIGS. 1 through 14 , it is within the spirit and scope of the present invention to have numerous other shaped shape members utilized with the three alternative interconnecting means to form a three dimensional puzzle having an infinite number of shapes and orientations. 
   By way of example,  FIG. 15  illustrates a shape member  600  having three different types of slots and rest spots on three different faces. Upper face  610  has an entrance slot  620  leading to a rest spot  622  which is generally rectangular in configuration and having a rectangular recessed face  624  and a rectangular recessed wall  626 . The entrance slot  620  is connected and continues to entrance slots  623  and is connected to  640  on face  630  and from the other side it is connected to entrance slot  660 , so all the entrance slots from  660 , to  620 , to  623 , to  640  all are connected. One side face  630 , the entrance slot  640  leads to rest spot  642  which is generally circular in configuration and has a circular recessed face  664  and circular recessed wall  646 . One second side face  650 , the entrance slot  660  leading to rest spot  662  is generally triangular in configuration and has a triangular recessed face  664  and triangular recessed wall  666 , however the recess walls are not going all the way down to the cavities that terminated all those slots. 
   The shape member  600  has an interior chamber into which is inserted and retained any of the alternative interconnecting members  100 ,  200  or  300 . It is demonstrated that the locking mechanism implemented by recess walls, can also serve to determine the numbers of rotation positions by which one member can be attached to another member at that rest point. There is a circular  646  that has infinite positions, equal side triangle  662  and a square  622 . A shape member that will have a male triangle cap on its face will interconnect to face  650  with three different ways to attach. The same for a shape member that has a rectangular male cap on its face and will interconnect to face  610  with four possible ways. The symmetry of those rest point will the determine the numbers of possible positions. It also will be appreciated that the rest spots can also be of other configurations such as pentagonal, hexagonal, and octagonal. As a result, the combination of different shaped rest spots on the faces of the building blocks combined with different spring biased interconnecting means enables the three dimensional puzzle of the present invention to be created having an infinite number of shapes and orientations to create an infinite variety of puzzles. 
   Another variation on the types of openings in a shape member face which can be used with the present invention is illustrated in the shape member  700  in  FIG. 16 . The face  710  has a diagonal mesh of slot  720  with a central rest spot  730  in the middle of face  710 . The slots then extend into lengthwise slots  740 ,  750 ,  780  and terminate in the perpendicular slot portion on each face. This is to demonstrate that even though the five rest point are in the middle of each face  710 ,  785 ,  795 ,  755 ,  760  of the shape member, these are the same as the shape member in  FIG. 6  through  FIG. 8  so it can use a different mesh of opening slots to achieve the same rest points  730 ,  731 ,  732 ,  733 ,  734 . 
   In addition to cube shape members, it is within the spirit and scope of the present invention to use other abstract shape members  800  as illustrated in  FIG. 17  which is a tetrahedron. 
   By way of example, only, each face can have a slotted entrance  810 ,  811  leading to a triangular shaped rest spot  820 ,  831 , having a triangular recessed face  830 ,  831 , and triangular wall  840 . It will further be appreciated that it is within the spirit and scope of the present invention to incorporate any of the slotted shapes and rests spots illustrated in  FIGS. 8 and 9  into the tetrahedron shape member illustrated in  FIG. 14 . 
   Another alternative embodiment for a shape member  900  is illustrated in  FIG. 15  where two cubic shape members can be made of two parts are joined by having mating pins (not shown) inserted into receiving openings  910  and the blocks  920  and  930  further held together by tongue  940  and groove  950  assemblies. Any of the entrance slots and recessed faces illustrated in  FIGS. 1 through 14  can be incorporated into this double shape member structure. 
     FIG. 19  illustrates that any multiplicity of different shapes of shape members can be utilized with the slot and rest spot designs and any of the three spring biased interconnecting means previously discussed. As illustrated in  FIG. 19 , a pentagonal shape member  1000  is connected to a cubic shape member  1010  which in turn is connected to a hexagonal shape member  1020 . 
     FIGS. 20A and 20B  illustrate an alternative configuration for an implementation of the mechanism  300 . It has double slot arrangement in which shape member  1100  has one face  1110  with an entrance slot  1120  leading to a rest spot  1130  and perpendicular face  1210  has an entrance slot  1220  leading to a rest spot  1230  and the two entrance slots  1120  and  1220  are interconnected. Face  1250  has an exit slot  1260  leading to a rest spot  1270  and face  1280  has an exit slot  1290  leading to a rest spot  1300  and slot  1350  also leads to rest point  1400 . Exit slots  1260  and  1290  can also be interconnected. One interconnection mechanism  300  that can serve for interconnecting other shape member as incoming opening and reside inside the cavity terminating the mesh of slots  1120  and can move from rest point  1130  to rest point  1230 , and another interconnection mechanism  300  that can serve for interconnecting other shape member as outgoing opening and reside inside the cavity terminating the mesh of slots  1260  and can move between rest points  1270 ,  1300  and  1400 . 
   In another variation, each shape member  2000  can have a multiplicity of meshes of opening slots on each face. Referring to  FIG. 21 , a shape member  2000  is illustrated with a face  2010  having different sinusoidal slot such as  2020 ,  2030  and  2040  on the same face. One or more interconnecting means can be connected through each of those slots. On each of those slots there can be many rest points such as  2050 ,  2060 ,  2070 , and  2080 . 
   In addition to having a closed shape member which has an interior chamber to accommodate at least one of the interconnecting means  100 ,  200  or  300  it is also within the spirit and scope of the present invention to have an open shape member  3000  as illustrated in  FIG. 22 . The shape member  3000  is a shell having an outer face  3010  with at least one slot  3020  and the interconnecting means  100 ,  200  or  300  is retained so that it protrudes from the back face and out the slot  3020  in the front face  3010 . It will be appreciated that the shell shape member  3000  can be any shape and can have any one or more slots of any configuration extending through it. 
   It is also possible to take any shape combination of shape members or blocks and create a more sophisticated entangled design as illustrated in  FIG. 23 . Two different shape members can create interesting blocks as illustrated in  FIGS. 9 and 10  can be extended and then a series or row of shapes can be wrapped around another series or row of shapes in any infinite variety of configurations. 
   Referring to  FIG. 24 , as illustrated shape members can be a cube with two square pyramids interconnecting to the cube with interconnection means  100 ,  200  or  300 . Pyramid  7000 A can move from position  7001  to  7002  on the faces of the cube  8006  and vice versa and pyramid  8000 A can move from position  8001  to position  8002  on the faces of the cube  8006  and vice versa. 
   Those two pyramids than can interconnect other shape members and it create like a split point that one shape member (cube  8006  will split like into two branches of interconnecting members. Also the cube from side  8005  will interconnected to some other shape members, protruding from at least one and as illustrated in  FIG. 21  three of the faces or another one of the infinite shapes of building blocks which can be used with the present invention. 
   In addition, as illustrated in  FIG. 25 , the entrance slot  4010  in shape member  4000  does not have to be straight and can be wavy or undulating and can take any shape or configuration desired. While illustrated in two faces, it will be appreciated that the entrance slot can be on all or some faces and can be any desired shape. 
   While one way to interlock shape members was illustrated in  FIG. 18 , it will be appreciated that any number of shape members can be interlocked in any way and used with the present invention. For example, as shown in  FIG. 23 , interlocking male pins and female openings can be used to lock two adjacent shape members together and then the shape members can be movably attached to other shape members blocks by any of the previous methods discussed. 
     FIG. 27  illustrates entanglements of two toys, one made of collection of right angle tubes  200101 ,  200102 ,  200103 ,  200104  and the second made of a collection of left angle tubes  200105 ,  200106 ,  200107 , and  200108 . Each toy had interconnection mechanism type  100 ,  200  and receiving slots as indicated in  FIG. 28 , the bottom curve shape  20201  going to interlock with  20202  rest point, and it has a slot to move to the other side  20200  so it has some freedom of movement of right and left. Therefore, each right angle tube can move in each toy. 
   The entanglements enable parts to be held tighter without any interconnecting mechanism between the toys. 
     FIG. 29  illustrates that even round shape balls can be interconnected. Balls  20060 ,  20010 ,  20070 ,  20030 ,  20040 ,  20050  are all interconnected by mechanism  100 ,  200 , and  300 . Ball  20010  is interconnected to two balls  20030  and  20060 . Ball  20060  interconnected at the same time to  20070 ,  20010 ,  20040 , and  20050 . 
   Ball  20010  has one mesh of slots that interconnection can move and several rest point  20021 ,  20020 , and  20022 . Ball  20060  has two set of meshes of slots. The one that connects with rest points  20023 ,  20024 ,  20025 ,  20026 , and the other mesh is connected to  20050 . 
     FIG. 30  illustrates a top view of a toy that looks like a person, which comprises many different kinds of shapes, some with flat surfaces like  5002 ,  5001  and some with non flat surfaces like  5009 ,  5007 ,  5019 . Each shape can interconnect to each other by any interconnecting means  00 ,  200  or  300 . 
   In particular the exploded view on shapes  5014 ,  5015 ,  5011  where shape  5015  which is a prism is interconnected to two shapes  5014 ,  5011  at the same time and the available movement for this piece will be to lift  5015  up and down between two rest points. The two sides of the interconnecting mechanism will move with it on shapes  5014  and  5011 . Of course shape  5014  continues to interconnect to shape  5010  and shape  5011  to  5010  as well. 
     FIG. 32  illustrates a toy resembling a human being&#39;s face. Shape  30000  is a ball with some decoration  30001  such as hair,  30002 ,  30003  resembling eyebrows,  30004  resembling a nose and  30005  resembling the mouth. There are two moving shapes that are interconnected to the main shape  30000 . One is the tongue  30100  with interconnection mechanism  30090  that can be  100 ,  200 . 
   On the tongue surface  30200  there is female rectangular rest  30201  that will match the two males  30080  and  30070  on the mouth. The tongue can move from and rest from the right side of the tongue to left side of the tongue and also can be rotated in two position with one wide and one where the tongue is on the side. 
   The other shape that is interconnected is a cylinder  30300 . On the first base of the  30300  there is a male triangle  30308  that will match the female rest area  30050  and  30040  on the main shape  30000  at the area of the eyes. (Of course the rest spots can also be on the second eye on  30020 ). Interconnection  30060  connects the cylinder  30300  to the main shape  30000  with interconnection mechanism  300 . On the main face in the eye area the interconnection can move through the circular slot across the eye and can rest at four rest points  30040 ,  30050 ,  30030 ,  30020 . Some are female  30040 ,  30050  and  30020 ,  30030  are male.  30050 ,  30040  have three rotational positions and  30020 ,  30030  has two rotational positions. The interconnection  30060  connected to male rest point  30308  and from there is a slot  30301  that connects to another female rest rectangular rest point on the surface of the round cylinder  30300 . This rest area  30302  point will match the male  30020 ,  30030  rest areas. 
   There will be marking of eyelashes on the other side of the round cylinder  30300  opposite from area  30302 . So if part  30300  will interconnect with  30302  on  30030 , or  30020  it can have two possible orientations one with eyelashes up and other with eyelash down. On the other flat side of the cylinder  300300 , the surface  300306  will have three different marking for the eyes ball  300305 ,  300304 ,  300307 . So every time the cylinder will interconnect through  300302  and will rest on  30040  and  30050  rest points on the main shape  30000  it will have a place to rest on the right side of the eye or left side of the eye and it will also have three possible arrangements of the eyeballs. 
   This example demonstrates toys formed of different shapes are not necessarily flat. They can also include different mesh slots and more than on slot on each shape. In addition, each mesh can be a different shape and can have a different shape rest area such as triangular and rectangular and a mix of male and female locking mechanisms on the same slot and with a different number of rotation and orientation and provide a locking fit. 
   Therefore, it is within the spirit and scope of the present invention to incorporate any assembly of any combination of any shape members to form an extended multi three dimension shapes which are interconnected by one or more spring biased interconnecting means to form an infinite variety of the final multi-shaped toy which can be oriented to an infinite variety of shapes for pleasure and amusement. In particular interest will be assembly of a multiple of polyhedron shapes, all the same shapes in one chain. The scope is to move, shift and rotate all the members on the chain in order to create a larger symmetrical shape like if the shapes members are 27 cubes, than the challenge will be to form a 3×3×3 cube. In addition, if each side of the shape member cubes will be painted with a different color the challenge will be increase and will be to solve the puzzle not only to create the larger cube, but to create it to match a certain color pattern on the side of the final large cube. 
   Defined in detail, the present invention is a three dimensional puzzle or toy comprised of: (a) at lest two interconnecting abstract shape members in which each abstract shape member can be a different shape; (b) at least one surface on each abstract shape member; (c) each abstract shape member must be interconnected by at least one interconnection means to at least one other abstract shape member; (d) at least one of the abstract shape members being an “end shape member”, having at least one opening entrance hole on its surface for the receiving at least one bolt of an interconnection mechanism means that is retained inside a cavity of an adjacent abstract shape member; (e) at least one of the shape members being a “start shape member” having at least one mesh of interconnected opening slots on its surface and with at least one cavity terminating in the end by a mesh of opening slots, wherein the bolts of the interconnection mechanism means that is retained inside one of the cavities can move throughout the mesh of interconnected opening slots, from one position on the mesh to another position on the mesh, and the end of the bolts of the interconnection mechanism means are attached by any permanent means to the adjacent abstract shape members, with at least one interconnection mechanism means which comprises a biasing spring, a retaining cup into which is fitted one end of a biasing spring, a bolt retained at one end by a bolt head or any stopper means and the opposite end of the bolt extending through an opening in the retaining cup so that the biasing spring surrounds a portion of the bolt and is positioned between the bolt head or any stopper means and the retaining cup, the end of the bolt which extends through the retaining cup extending out of the mesh of opening slots on the face of the abstract shape members and is retained permanently within the opening entrance hole of an adjacent abstract shape member, the bolt head or any stopper means portion of the bolt and retaining cup retained within interior cavities of the abstract shape members; (f) a pulling force on at least one of the abstract shape members overcoming the spring biasing forces and enabling the bolts to be moved into at least one position on the mesh of opening slots on the surface of adjacent abstract shape members and after the pulled abstract shape members are released, the biasing spring retains the adjacent abstract shape members in that fixed position; (g) at least one member of each toy must be an “end shape member” and another separate member must be “start shape member”; (h) each abstract shape member having at least one entrance hole on its surface like an “end shape member” or at least one mesh of opening slots, with at least one cavity terminating in the end by a mesh of opening slots, and with at least one interconnection mechanism like a “start shape member” or both; (i) the cup diameter being larger than the width of the slot; (j) the cup diameter being larger than the spring diameter; (k) the spring diameter being larger than the bolt diameter; (l) the bolt diameter being smaller than the width of the slots; (m) the bolt head or any stopper means diameter being larger than the spring diameter; and (n) the bolt head or any stopper means diameter being larger than the width of the slots. Two shape members or more can be interconnected to one other shape member. In addition, each toy can have more than one “end shape member” and more than one “start shape member”. On each shape member including a “start shape member” and an “end shape member” there can be many entrance holes and there can be many sets of opening slots on its surface with many cavities, each terminating by the end of each opening slots, with many interconnection mechanisms as described above retained in each cavity. 
   Defined broadly, the present invention is a three dimensional puzzle or toy comprised of: (a) at least two abstract shape members, in which each abstract shape member can be a different shape; (b) at least one surface on each abstract shape member; (c) each abstract shape member must be interconnected by at least one interconnection means to at least one other abstract shape member; (d) at least one of the abstract shape members being an “end shape member” which has at least one opening entrance hole on its surface for the receiving at least one bolt of the interconnection mechanism means that is retained inside a cavity of an adjacent abstract shape member; (e) at least one of the abstract shape members being a “start shape member” having at least one mesh of interconnected opening slots on its surface and with at least one cavity terminating in the end by a mesh of opening slots, wherein the bolts of the interconnection mechanism means that is retained inside one of the cavities can move throughout the mesh of interconnected opening slots, from one position on the mesh to another position on the mesh, and the end of the bolts of the interconnection mechanism means are attached by any permanent means to the adjacent abstract shape members, with at least one interconnection mechanism means comprising a bolt, a spring biasing means affixed at one end to a bottom of the surface of a bolt head or any stopper means and an opposite end of the spring biasing means pressed against an interior surface of one of the cavities of the abstract shape members, an opposite end of the bolt extending out of the mesh of opening slots on the surface of the abstract shape member and is retained permanently within the opening entrance hole of an adjacent abstract shape member, the bolt head or any stopper means, biasing spring and portion of the bolt retained within the cavities of the abstract shape members; (f) a pulling force on at least one of the abstract shape members overcoming the spring biasing forces and enabling the bolts to be moved into at least one position on the mesh of opening slots on the surface of adjacent abstract shape members and after the pulled shape members are released, the biasing spring retains the adjacent shape members in that fixed positions; (g) at least one member of each toy must have an “end shape member” and a separate “start shape member”; (h) each abstract shape member having at least one entrance hole on its surface like an “end shape member” or at least one mesh of opening slots, with at least one cavity terminating in the end by a mesh of opening slots, and with at least one interconnection mechanism like a “start shape member” or both; (ii) the bolt diameter being smaller than the width of slots; and (j) the bolt head or any stopper means diameter being larger than the width of the slots. Two shape members or more can be interconnected to one other shape member. In addition, each toy can have more than one “end shape member” and more than one “start shape member”. On each shape member including a “start shape member” and an “end shape member” there can be many entrance holes and there can be many sets of opening slots on its surface with many cavities, each terminating by the end of each opening slots, with many interconnection mechanisms as described above retained in each cavity. 
   Defined more broadly, the present invention is a three dimensional puzzle or toy comprising: (a) at least two abstract shape members, in which each abstract shape member can be a different shape; (b) at least one surface on each abstract shape member; (c) each abstract shape member must be interconnected by at least one interconnection means to at least one other abstract shape member; (d) at least one mesh of interconnected opening slots on the surface of each abstract shape member with at least one cavity terminating in the end of the mesh of the opening slots and with at least one interconnection mechanism means retained in one of the abstract shape member cavities which consist of a retaining cup into which is fitted one end of a biasing spring, a bolt retained at one end by the first bolt head or any stopper means the opposite end of the bolt extending through an opening in the retaining cup so that the biasing spring surrounds a portion of the bolt and is positioned between the bolt head or any stopper means and the retaining cup, the end of the bolt which extends through the retaining cup extending out of the mesh of opening slots on the face of abstract shape members and extends into the opening in the adjacent abstract shape members and is incorporated as part of the interconnecting means of the adjacent shape members as well, which includes a retaining cup into which is fitted one end of a biasing spring, the bolt retained at one end by a stop plate or a lock nut or any other stopper means on the other side and on the opposite end of the bolt extending through an opening in the retaining cup so that the biasing spring surrounds a portion of the bolt and is positioned between the stop plate or any other second stopper means and the retaining cup, with the same bolt incorporated into both interconnecting means; (e) a pulling force on at least one of the shape members overcoming one or both of the spring biasing forces and enabling the bolts to be moved into at least one position on the mesh of opening slots on the surface of the adjacent shape members, and the bolts can move within the same shape members that have been pulled between its mesh of opening slots as well as to a new position and after the pulled shape members are released, the biasing spring retains the adjacent shape members in that fixed position; (f) the cup diameter being larger than the width of the slots; (g) the cup diameter being larger than the spring diameter; (h) the spring diameter being larger than the bolt diameter; (i) the bolt diameter being smaller than the width of the slots; and (j) the bolt head or any stopper means diameter being larger than the width of the slots. Two shape members or more can be interconnected to one other shape member. In addition, each toy can have more than one “end shape member” and more than one “start shape member”. On each shape member including a “start shape member” and an “end shape member” there can be many entrance holes and there can be many sets of opening slots on its surface with many cavities, each terminating by the end of each opening slots, with many interconnection mechanisms as described above retained in each cavity. 
   Of course the present invention is not intended to be restricted to any particular form or arrangement, or any specific embodiment, or any specific use, disclosed herein, since the same may be modified in various particulars or relations without departing from the spirit or scope of the claimed invention hereinabove shown and described of which the apparatus or method shown is intended only for illustration and disclosure of an operative embodiment and not to show all of the various forms or modifications in which this invention might be embodied or operated.