A toy construction and use of such a toy construction set

Abstract

A toy construction set comprising a number of toy building blocks with one or more coupling knobs and coupling sockets adapted for releasable frictional engagement with the couplings knobs on another building block in the toy construction set, and wherein the toy construction set further comprises a building element comprising a bistable band, and where the band has a first stable shape where it is curved about a first curvature axis extending parallel with the longitudinal direction of the band and at a distance from a first side of the band, and a second stable shape where it is curved about a second curvature axis extending substantially perpendicular with the first curvature axis, and where the bistable band on the first side of the bistable band comprises multiple coupling knobs arranged in a uniform, preferably square pattern, and where each coupling knob is adapted for frictional engagement with a coupling socket of another building block in the toy construction set.

1 . A toy construction set comprising a number of toy building blocks each having an upper surface provided with one or more coupling knobs arranged equidistantly in a uniform pattern, and a lower surface provided with one or more coupling sockets adapted for releasable frictional engagement with the couplings knobs on another building block in the toy construction set, and wherein the toy construction set further comprises a building element comprising a bistable band, and where the band has a first stable shape where it is curved about a first curvature axis extending parallel with the longitudinal direction of the band and at a distance from a first side of the band, and a second stable shape where it is curved about a second curvature axis extending substantially perpendicular with the first curvature axis, and where the first side of the bistable band comprises multiple coupling knobs arranged in a uniform pattern, and where each coupling knob is adapted for frictional engagement with a coupling socket of building block in the toy construction set. 
     
     
         2 . The toy construction set according to  claim 1 , wherein the second curvature axis extends at a distance from the second opposite side of the bistable band. 
     
     
         3 . The toy construction set according to  claim 1 , wherein the bistable band comprises a body made from a bistable metal band. 
     
     
         4 . The toy construction set according to  claim 3 , wherein the coupling knobs are injection moulded onto the bistable metal band. 
     
     
         5 . The toy construction set according to  claim 4 , wherein the bistable metal band is embedded in a plastic cover. 
     
     
         6 . The toy construction set according to  claim 5 , wherein the plastic cover is injection moulded onto the bistable metal band, so that the bistable metal band is completely enclosed by the plastic cover, and where the plastic coupling knobs are integrally moulded with the plastic cover. 
     
     
         7 . The toy construction set according  claim 1 , wherein the coupling knobs are arranged in one or more rows extending parallel with the longitudinal direction of the bistable band. 
     
     
         8 . The toy construction set according to  claim 7 , wherein the length of the bistable band measured in the longitudinal direction of the bistable band is so that the ends in the longitudinal direction of the bistable band are overlapping when the bistable band is in said second stable shape being curved about the second curvature axis. 
     
     
         9 . The toy construction set according to  claim 2 , wherein the rows of knobs ends at a distance from one end of the bistable band seen in the longitudinal direction, and so that the first side of the bistable band, when it is positioned in the second stable shape, abuts the second side of the bistable band. 
     
     
         10 . The toy construction set according to  claim 9 , wherein the number of toy building blocks further comprises one or more building blocks without couplings knobs and having only one coupling socket adapted for frictional engagement with only one coupling knob of the bistable band. 
     
     
         11 . The toy construction set according to  claim 1 , wherein the bistable band is used as a slap bracelet, and the building blocks are used as ornaments on the slap bracelet. 
     
     
         12 . The toy construction set according to  claim 1 , wherein the uniform pattern of the coupling knobs on each of the toy building blocks is square. 
     
     
         13 . The toy construction set according to  claim 1 , wherein the uniform pattern of the coupling knobs on the bistable band is square.