Constructional modular system with removable magnetic framework
View Patent ↗The system comprises a plurality of modular blocks ( 10, 14 ) of nonmagnetic material, to be assembled to create compositions imitating, for example, a building, a doll, an animal, a vehicle or any other fancying assembly; a framework for connecting the blocks, comprises a plurality of magnetic frame members ( 11, 12 ) removably disposable into corresponding seatings ( 13, 17 ) in each modular block ( 10, 14 ), or between adjacent blocks of the composition. The modular blocks ( 11, 12 ) and the magnetic frame members of framework have shoulder surfaces ( 18, 19 ) mutually engageable in the assembled condition of the assembly.
1. A constructional modular system comprising:
a first set of magnetically anchorable elongated frame members having a magnetic pole at each end;
a second set of shaped frame members in ferromagnetic material, magnetically anchorable to the elongated frame members of said first set of frame members; and
a third set of covering block members for the elongated frame members, in non magnetic material, each block member having side mating and end shoulder surfaces;
wherein each of the covering block members has an elongated through hole extending between a respective pair of end shoulder surfaces,
the elongated through hole of each block member having a cross sectional diameter larger than a corresponding cross sectional diameter of the elongated frame members, so that each of the elongated frame members is slidably movable completely through and slidably removable entirely from the elongated through holes of the covering block members,
wherein the elongated frame members have a length the same as the distance between the pair of the end shoulder surfaces of the block members, and
wherein the elongated and the shaped frame members of said first and second sets of frame members, are magnetically anchorable with each other and arranged, in the assembly, to provide a removable framework that retains the covering block members in an assembled condition of the assembly.
2. The modular system according to claim 1 , wherein the end shoulder surfaces are conformed to partially house said second frame members.
3. The modular system according to claim 1 , wherein the end should surfaces are conformed to totally house said second frame members.
4. The modular system according to claim 1 , wherein the block members are provided with a longitudinal slot on at least one side mating surface.
5. The modular system according to claim 1 , wherein the block members comprise at least one through hole transversally arranged to said elongated through hole.
6. The modular system according to claim 1 , wherein the block members comprise a half through hole transversally arranged to said elongated through hole at least one end of a block member.