The present disclosure provides toy building blocks that easily stack and break apart. The blocks may include posts that nest inside receptacles to facilitate stacking of the blocks. The blocks may be figure 8-shaped, and may include bevels and/or protrusions to facilitate decoupling of stacked blocks without any tools.
A63H 33/08 - Building blocks, strips or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails
The present disclosure provides toy building blocks that easily stack and break apart. The blocks may include posts that nest inside receptacles to facilitate stacking of the blocks. The blocks may be figure 8-shaped, and may include a steep draft angle, bevels and/or protrusions to facilitate decoupling of stacked blocks without any tools.
A63H 33/08 - Building blocks, strips or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails
E04B 2/08 - Walls having neither cavities between, nor in, the solid elements using elements having specially-designed means for stabilising the position by interlocking of projections or inserts with indentations, e.g. of tongues, grooves, dovetails
E04C 1/00 - Building elements of block or other shape for the construction of parts of buildings
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
Goods & Services
Custom manufacture of molds for use in industry; Injection molding of plastic for others; Manufacture of plastic parts and injection molds to order and/or specification of others; Custom manufacturing of plastic injection-molded parts and injection molds for others
A lockable skewer for loading stacks of plastic cutlery into dispensers is described. The skewer comprises a vertical shaft that passes through holes in the cutlery. The vertical shaft includes a flange located below the bottom of the stack. The vertical shaft is configured to rotate between an unlocked position in which the flange is configured to pass through the holes in the cutlery pieces and a locked position in which the flange is not configured to pass through the holes in the cutlery pieces.
A plastic cutlery dispenser having a base and a cartridge is described. The cartridge may be slideable relative to the base. In some embodiments, the base has a base dispensing mechanism and the cartridge has a cartridge dispensing mechanism configured to mate with the base dispensing mechanism. In some embodiments, when the base and cartridge dispensing mechanisms mate, the cutlery dispenser is configured to dispense cutlery located within the cartridge one piece of cutlery at a time.
A banded cutlery system for loading stacks of plastic cutlery into dispensers is described. The banded cutlery system includes a front tab and a rear tab, and at least one of the front tab and the rear tab comprises a contour that mates with a contour on the adjacent side of the cutlery pieces. The front tab may releasably attach to the rear tab by a fastener that may be located under the stack of cutlery pieces. The front tab may be configured to pivot relative to the rear tab from a locked position in which the front tab is generally parallel to the stack height (and the front and rear tabs are attached by the fastener) to an unlocked position in which the front tab is not parallel the stack height (and the front and rear tabs are not attached by the fastener).
A skewer for loading stacks of plastic cutlery into dispensers is described. The skewer includes a vertical shaft that protrudes through holes in the stacked cutlery pieces and a front tab that may be removably attached to the vertical shaft. In some embodiments, the front tab is rotatable relative to the vertical shaft. The front tab may have a locked position in which the front tab is fixed to the vertical shaft and extends along the height of the stack and an unlocked position in which the front tab is disengaged from the vertical shaft and rotates forwardly relative to the stack and the vertical shaft to allow the user to remove the skewer after loading the stack into a dispenser.
