Improvements in Toy Building Blocks or Bricks.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 13:2
Complete Specification Left, 31st M³r., 1892—Accepted, 7th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toy Building Blocks or Bricks.
1, CARL FRIEDRICH VOIT, of Koepnickerstrasse 145, Berlin, Germany,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Toy building blocks or bricks as at present constructed, have the great
disadvantage that they cannot be firmly joined together, but can only loosely be
placed one upon another or side by side."
Now this invention has reference to improvements in the construction of such
toy blocks or bricks whereby such blocks or bricks can be readily and firmly
secured together and the disadvantage mentioned thus obviated. For this purpose
the blocks or bricks are each formed at certain intervals with recesses of suitable
shape, such as shewn in Figs. 1, 25 and in Figs. 11 to 14 inclusive of the
accompanying drawings there being left between these recesses, raised or projecting
portions a the arrangement being such that the raised or projecting portions a of
one block or brick can enter and be firmly held in the recesses of another block
or brick to which the first is to be united. Toy building blocks or bricks in the
form of columns and the like may also be formed with a recess (or recesses) of
suitable form as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4. With bricks formed in this manner
various structures can be built up such for example as a table (as shewn in Fig. 15)
or a chair (as shewn in Fig. 16).
Figs. 6 to 14 inclusive represent various examples of modified forms of building
blocks or bricks constructed with grooves or recesses according to this
invention.
Dated thin outh 1... of March 1900'
C. F. VOIT,
By L. W., per W. C.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toy Building Blocks or Bricks.
I, CARL FRIEDRICH VOIT, of Koepnickerstrasse 145, Berlin Germany,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Toy building blocks or bricks as at present constructed, have the great
disadvantage that they cannot be firmly joined together, but can only loosely be
placed upon one another or side by side."
Now this invention has reference to improvements in the construction of such
toy blocks or bricks whereby such blocks or bricks can be readily and firmly
secured together and the disadvantage mentioned thus obviated. For this purpose
the blocks or bricks are each formed at certain intervals with recesses of suitable
shape, such as shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 5 and in Figs. 11 to 14 inclusive of the drawings
filed with my Provisional Specification and in Figs. 17 to 20 inclusive of the
accompanying drawings, there being left between these recesses, raised or
projecting portions a, the arrangement being such that the raised or projecting
portions a of one block or brick can enter and be firmly held in the recesses 6 of
another block or brick to which the first is to be united. Toy building blocks or
bricks in the form of columns and the like may also be formed with a recess b (or
recesses) of suitable form as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4. With bricks formed in this
Al

page_text: manner various structures can be built up such for example as a table (as shewn in
Fig. 15) or a chair (as shewn in Fig. 16).
b
Figs. 6 to 14 and 17 to 20 inclusive represent various examples of modified
forms of building blocks or bricks constructed with grooves or recesses
according to this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what J
claim is:-
The hereinbefore described improvements in toy building blocks or bricks
according to which the blocks or bricks are formed with grooves or recesses such
as whereby the bricks or blocks can be readily and firmly secured together
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the several examples
illustrated in the drawings.
Din 2104 dow of Moval, 1902
C. F. VOIT,
By L. W., per F. B.