EP0331263A2 - Objet ornemental comprenant des éléments à faces planes et parallèles et jeu de pièces détachées - Google Patents
Objet ornemental comprenant des éléments à faces planes et parallèles et jeu de pièces détachées Download PDFInfo
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- EP0331263A2 EP0331263A2 EP89200484A EP89200484A EP0331263A2 EP 0331263 A2 EP0331263 A2 EP 0331263A2 EP 89200484 A EP89200484 A EP 89200484A EP 89200484 A EP89200484 A EP 89200484A EP 0331263 A2 EP0331263 A2 EP 0331263A2
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
- A63F9/12—Three-dimensional [3D] jig-saw puzzles
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
- A63F9/12—Three-dimensional [3D] jig-saw puzzles
- A63F2009/124—Three-dimensional [3D] jig-saw puzzles with a final configuration being a sphere
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- the invention relates to ornamental objects, elements to be used with two plane-parallel sides and building packages thereof.
- the objects according to the invention can be used for different purposes. For example, these can be used for constructive, decorative, educational or recreative purposes.
- curved elements according to the invention can be used for the construction of domes or, in a smaller embodiment, for the manufacture of table or lamp bases.
- elements according to the invention can be assembled into table tops and floors;
- crystal shapes or geometric figures can be produced according to the invention, and three-dimensional puzzles for recreational purposes.
- the invention can be expressed in the form of building packages.
- the objects according to the invention can be produced from different materials, for example from metal, plastic, decorative stones or from different types of wood.
- the latter material is particularly suitable.
- each element being formed by six identical edges standing perpendicular to one another, each edge forming part of the surface of the cube and each element forming part of three inches forms a point of meeting surfaces of the cube.
- From the American patent specification 3,578,331 is a three-dimensional puzzle for the formation of a hollow decorative object known, which has a surface of revolution. The surface is formed by a multiplicity of essentially identical parts of the puzzle, the parts lying against one another being provided with interlocking projecting parts or recesses.
- an "octant” is understood to mean a body which is delimited by three flat surfaces which lie in the planes of a Cartesian coordinate system and by a fourth outer surface which is remote from the zero point of the Cartesian coordinate system - hereinafter referred to as "outer surface" for short - the octant.
- outer surface for short - the octant.
- the invention relates in particular to ornamental objects which are characterized in that they are constructed in a special way in the form of an octant from plane-parallel elements.
- the invention consists of an ornamental object made up of plane-parallel elements, which are characterized in that the plane-parallel elements form an octant as defined above, each of the three mutually perpendicular surfaces being different from another plane-parallel surface of three plane-parallel elements and the outer surface of the octant, as defined above, is formed by the surfaces of the plane-parallel elements facing away from the zero point of the Cartesian coordinate system in such a way that the others, which follow one another towards the center of the outer surface of the octant, are partly perpendicular to the plane-parallel surfaces standing parallel to each other and partially parallel to each other with the plane-parallel surfaces plane-parallel elements.
- the invention is intended to easily assemble ornamental objects consisting of one or more octants in a relatively arbitrary shape, for example regular or irregular polyhedra or objects with a closed, curved outer surface.
- Objects can be named as such, the outer surface of which is formed, for example, by triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons or hexagons or by parts or combinations thereof, or whose cross-sections by the outer surface by a circle, an ellipsoid, a parabola, hyperbole or parts or Combinations of these can be described.
- Objects are also possible, the surface of which consists of one or more combinations of flat polyhedra with curved surfaces.
- the invention is particularly suitable for the production of octants or combinations thereof, whose outer surface of an octant is to be described using one or more mathematical formulas.
- the objects according to the invention are hollow or solid and, viewed over the entire outer surface, can comprise flat, concave or convex parts.
- the outer surface of an octant can be self-contained or have one or more gaps.
- the three faces of an octant that lie in a Cartesian coordinate system can be closed or open up to the zero point of the coordinate system.
- the shape of the individual elements can be determined as follows.
- a straight line is drawn from the zero point of the Cartesian coordinate system to a point on the outer surface of the octant facing away from the zero point (referred to above and hereinafter as the "center"), after which the model or in the illustration, the Cartesian coordinate system is displaced parallel to itself in order to have the surfaces of the Cartesian coordinate system intersect with the model or the representation of the ornamental object according to the invention to be produced at predetermined points on this straight line - hereinafter referred to as the "straight line of displacement".
- the shape of the ornamental object to be produced can be chosen as desired.
- the straight line of displacement should be a continuous straight line, without retrograde parts or loops.
- a straight line offers a strict ornamentation, especially the straight line that runs symmetrically with the axes of the coordinate system. This is particularly the case in situations in which one or more axes of symmetry of the object to be produced coincide or coincide with one or more axes of the Cartesian coordinate system.
- the composition of the plane-parallel elements to form an octant poses no problems, because the finished plane-parallel elements, starting with the largest, can simply be pushed into a shape consisting of a construction of vertically intersecting surfaces, the plane-parallel elements parallel to the vertical surfaces in the form.
- an octant so assembled is self-supporting, which means that little connecting means, for example glue, is required to protect an octant from falling apart.
- the self-supporting character of the construction does not suffer if the width of the plane-parallel elements, i.e. the distance between the outward and the inward-facing surfaces of a plane-parallel element, is relatively small. This also means that the inwardly facing surface of a plane-parallel element is not bound to a specific shape. This also advantageously allows residual materials such as bar, board or slat remnants that are already plane-parallel in their nature to be used advantageously for the production of the plane-parallel element in the material processing industry. These can also be used excellently for the production of hollow articles according to the invention.
- the plane-parallel elements each form a set of three in the sense that three corresponding plane-parallel surfaces of each set lie in the surfaces of the same Cartesian coordinate system.
- the following can be said about the shape of the individual plane-parallel elements.
- the length, width and thickness ratios of the plane-parallel elements of two further congruent octants can be very different.
- the length (i.e. the distance between two end faces, measured along the outward facing surface) of a plane-parallel element will be several times greater than the thickness (i.e. the distance between two plane-parallel surfaces) of this element.
- the relationship between length and thickness is largely determined by the distance between two corresponding parallel surfaces of subsequent Cartesian coordinate systems and the positions of the zero point of this coordinate system on the line of displacement.
- the width of a plane-parallel element i.e.
- the greatest distance between the outer and inner surface of a plane-parallel element, measured in a plane-parallel plane in the direction of the zero point of the corresponding coordinate system) in comparison with the length of this element can also be very different.
- One of the decisive factors is, for example, whether or not the surfaces of a plane-parallel element extend to the zero point of the corresponding Cartesian coordinate system. Since saving material is one of the achievable advantages in the production of the objects according to the invention, it will be preferred to work with plane-parallel elements whose plane-parallel surfaces do not continue to the intended zero points. This offers the possibility of producing ornamental objects according to the invention from plane-parallel elements which together form only a shell of the outer surface of the octant. This offers the additional advantage that the shape of the inner surface of the plane-parallel elements can be arbitrary.
- the three outer, mutually perpendicular surfaces of an octant according to the invention do not need to continue to the zero point of the corresponding Cartesian coordinate system. Of course, these must be able to be firmly connected.
- the invention thus offers the possibility of producing hollow ornamental objects which have been constructed entirely from edge-like plane-parallel elements.
- a completely closed outer surface of an octant according to the invention can also be achieved with a large number of three plane-parallel elements.
- the last three plane-parallel elements are not inserted as such separately in the octants, but in the form of a single whole, in the sense that this last element of three meeting in one point intersecting at an angle of 90 ° flat surfaces and is limited by a fourth surface facing outwards, which fourth surface coincides with the remaining part of the outer surface of the octant.
- the inner surface of the octant is stiffened at the center with a hardening putty or from an object that is in any case partially delimited by three surfaces that meet at one point and intersect at an angle of 90 °, for example a cube or a cuboid.
- the question should of course be taken into account in which way the end surfaces of a plane-parallel element should be in contact with the ends of other plane-parallel elements standing upright thereon.
- two plane-parallel elements can rest vertically on a third horizontally lying plane-parallel element, but it is also possible that a horizontally lying plane-parallel element lies on both between two vertically passing elements.
- the length of the horizontal plane-parallel element is the sum of the thicknesses of the vertically standing elements greater than the length of the horizontal plane-parallel element in the second case (in this case, the distance between two plane-parallel elements is below the thickness Roger that).
- the one perpendicularly standing plane-parallel element passes the horizontal plane-parallel element at one end and for the other vertically standing plane-parallel element to rest on the same horizontal plane-parallel element on the other side.
- the end faces of a plane-parallel element are always perpendicular to the plane-parallel surfaces of this element. It can be noted that the intersection lines of each plane-parallel element of each plane-parallel surface with the plane-parallel surfaces of the two other elements standing upright on this element form an angle of 90 ° form, and that these intersection lines run parallel to two axes of the Cartesian coordinate system belonging to this octant when this element is inserted in the corresponding octants.
- the invention further relates to plane-parallel elements for use in the composition of the ornamental objects according to the invention.
- plane-parallel elements are characterized in that the intersecting lines of the end faces with a plane-parallel surface have an angle of 90 ° to one another.
- the invention further comprises a package of plane-parallel elements for assembling an ornamental object according to the invention, which is characterized by a series of plane-parallel elements with two plane-parallel surfaces, two end surfaces, whose intersecting lines with the plane-parallel surfaces have angles of 90 ° to one another, one facing outwards Surface which corresponds to a corresponding part of the ornamental object and an inward-facing surface such that when the plane-parallel elements are composed almost an octant as defined above can be formed from the ornamental object, and further an element if necessary, of which three sides are formed by three mutually perpendicular surfaces and the remaining part of the outer surface coincides with the part of the surface of the octant that remains free after the plane-parallel elements have been assembled.
- the ornamental element After the individual plane-parallel elements and the last element have been put together to form the ornamental element according to the invention, it can still be desired to post-process the octants, or a construction of octants, to correct irregularities in the outer surface. This can be done, for example, by scouring or sanding, grinding or polishing with the means or devices provided for this purpose.
- An octant according to the invention can in itself be an ornamental object. It is of course also possible to combine such an octant with one or more other octants according to the invention or with other types of objects, for example with likewise plane-parallel elements.
- plane-parallel elements or the octants can also be joined together by means of magnets, screws, pins, knobs or clamps.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| NL8800518A NL8800518A (nl) | 1988-03-01 | 1988-03-01 | Segment van een sferisch lichaam opgebouwd uit planparallelle elementen, daaruit samengestelde sferische lichamen, gedeelten daarvan, bouwpakketten en meubilair. |
| NL8800518 | 1988-03-01 |
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| EP0331263A2 true EP0331263A2 (fr) | 1989-09-06 |
| EP0331263A3 EP0331263A3 (en) | 1990-12-27 |
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| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| EP19890200484 Withdrawn EP0331263A3 (en) | 1988-03-01 | 1989-02-28 | Ornamental object with plane-parallel elements, and assembly kits thereof |
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| EP (1) | EP0331263A3 (fr) |
| NL (1) | NL8800518A (fr) |
Cited By (1)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE9012333U1 (de) * | 1990-08-28 | 1990-11-15 | Asch, Sabine, 7120 Bietigheim-Bissingen | Dreidimensionales Puzzle |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US3578331A (en) * | 1969-02-20 | 1971-05-11 | Hilaire G Degast | Three dimensional puzzles |
| US3981506A (en) * | 1975-06-23 | 1976-09-21 | Vesta | Three dimensional relief puzzle |
| US4643427A (en) * | 1986-05-05 | 1987-02-17 | Wozniak Robert A | Set of sculptural construction pieces |
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- 1988-03-01 NL NL8800518A patent/NL8800518A/nl not_active Application Discontinuation
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- 1989-02-28 EP EP19890200484 patent/EP0331263A3/de not_active Withdrawn
Cited By (1)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE9012333U1 (de) * | 1990-08-28 | 1990-11-15 | Asch, Sabine, 7120 Bietigheim-Bissingen | Dreidimensionales Puzzle |
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| EP0331263A3 (en) | 1990-12-27 |
| NL8800518A (nl) | 1989-10-02 |
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