Assembly kit for three dimensional works

摘要

Kits designed to stimulate creativity, to provide exercise for fine motor skills, and to improve spatial perception. The kits may be useful as a stimulating “toy” for children to develop creativity, spatial perception and motor skills, as a therapeutic kit for the elderly or those requiring rehabilitation of fine motor skills; as a diversion to relieve stress, to create unique works for the home or office, to display photos and memorabilia, and for a host of other purposes, limited by the imagination. The kits include at least shaped components, fasteners, and a platform onto which a three-dimensional work is mounted.

主权项

1. A kit for assembling a multi-level, three dimensional work comprised of a plurality of components of the kit, the kit comprising:
a plurality of shaped components, each component having a through-hole, a length, a width and a thickness, the through-hole having a perimeter completely within the component and penetrating through the thickness of the component; a plurality of fasteners each having a shank portion sized to fit through the through-hole of a shaped component, and configured to lock together vertically spaced-apart shaped components, each of the plurality of fasteners having a male connector at a first end and a corresponding female connector at a second, opposing end, wherein the plurality of fasteners are configured to connect to each other end-to-end to thereby provide combination fasteners of fixed length increments; a plurality of spacers, the spacers configured to mechanically engage either end of the fasteners, the spacers each having a central through-bore configured to receive an end of a fastener, each spacer comprising bore protrusions in its through-bore for engaging corresponding grooves recessed along a shank portion at both ends of a fastener such that engaging spacers may be held at predetermined positions along either end of an engaged fastener by corresponding bore protrusions and recessed grooves, and each spacer having a support surface configured to abut against a surface of a shaped component to support vertically spaced-apart stacked shaped components and to maintain separation between adjacent vertically spaced-apart stacked shaped components in an assembled multi-level, three dimensional work; wherein a support surface of a first spacer mechanically engaged on a first end of a first fastener supports a first surface of a shaped component, and a support surface of a second spacer mechanically engaged on a second end of a second fastener supports a second, opposing surface of the shaped component, when the male connecter of the first fastener is received by the female connector of the second fastener; and a platform for mounting the multi-level, three dimensional work thereto.