Card house toy

Claim 1

A card house toy comprising, in combination: a plurality of planar members having a pair of opposed, flat, axial outer surfaces, side and end edges, and a plurality of connector means each of which receives an edge of one of said planar members for securely though releasably connecting said edge to an edge of another of said planar members, said connector means including at least two sets of three substantially parallel, laterally spaced locking panels, two of which are of the same length and are in a common plane having flat inner surfaces engaging one outer axial surface of a planar member, the third panel interposed between and offset from the aforesaid two panels and having a flat outer surface engaging the other outer axial surface of said planar member and having a different length than said two locking panels whereby to facilitate the edge-wise insertion of a planar member between the adjacent surfaces of said locking panels, the locking panels of each set adapted to engage the endadjacent portions of the outer axial surfaces of different planar members, the free outer ends of said locking panels tapered to facilitate the edge-wise entry of a planar member between the panel-engaging, adjacent surfaces of the locking panels, and those surfaces of the locking panels which engage axial surfaces of the planar members including elevated areas for increasing the frictional engagement of said panels with said surfaces.