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Rectangular planar support members are slotted and interlocked to form vertical support structures. Elongated members slotted at each end are interlocked into the vertical support structure in horizontal and vertical orientations. The system is expansible in aligned or angled planes between vertical

Rectangular planar support members are slotted and interlocked to form vertical support structures. Elongated members slotted at each end are interlocked into the vertical support structure in horizontal and vertical orientations. The system is expansible in aligned or angled planes between vertical support structures spaced apart by the length of the elongated members. Components are easily assembled into myriad structures and disassembled to stack flat for storage. Each rectangular planar support member is slotted on four edges and provided with a tab on one edge. When the planar support members are interlocked together they form a column cross-shaped in cross-section and having slots extending in all four directions. The structural system therefore may be expanded in any of these directions by inserting elongated members in the slots and by adding columns as desired for multidirectional multiform structures.

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A modular interlocking structural system, expansible in size and shape and requiring no fasteners or external support, which interlocking structural system comprises: a series of vertically interlocking planar structural support elements, each comprising a substantially rectangular flat rigid surfac

A modular interlocking structural system, expansible in size and shape and requiring no fasteners or external support, which interlocking structural system comprises: a series of vertically interlocking planar structural support elements, each comprising a substantially rectangular flat rigid surface with at least two opposing edges each provided with a slot from the edge into the planar surface approximately one fourth the distance between the opposing edges, wherein the slot width is approximately equal to the thickness of the planar support element, and further comprising, at one slotted edge, a protruding tab extending beyond the edge a distance equal to the thickness of a planar support element centrally positioned on approximately half the edge and split by the slot, and further protruding from the tab, a tab extension means, and on an edge opposite to the tab edge, a recessed portion sufficiently large to receive a tab extension means, and wherein planar support elements are interlocked in alternating angular alignment by intersecting a tab edge of a first planar support element with a recessed edge of a second planar support element so that the slots interconnect thereby interlocking the two elements for half the length of each, and interconnecting a recessed edge of a third planar support element with the tab edge of the second planar support element at an angle so that the slots interconnect overlapping the second and third elements for half the length of each and thereby inserting the tab extension means of the first planar support element into the aligned recessed edge of the third planar support element, and thereby leaving lateral slots between the first and third planar support elements, so that all planar support elements are rigidly interconnected and multiple interlocked planar support elements form a vertical support structure; a series of elongated planar members each comprising a long flat surface with at least one slot in each end extending from an edge into the surface of the elongated member for approximately one fourth the width of a planar support element, wherein each slot is approximately equal in width to the thickness of a planar support element; wherein the elongated planar members are inserted into the vertical support structure by interlocking slots with at least one pair of vertical support structures serving to support at least one elongated planar member therebetween.