Amusement devices: toys – Inflatable
Patent
1983-10-28
1984-12-18
Yu, Mickey
Amusement devices: toys
Inflatable
A63H 306
Patent
active
044883749
ABSTRACT:
A new article dropping tow consists of a suitably buoyant body or the like, such as a gas-filled balloon, carrying one or more releasable articles, such as a glider, a toy parachutist or a bomb, retained on the buoyant body by, for example a hook on one engaged in an opening in the other, arranged to release automatically when the upwardly-moving body suddenly changes its vertical movement, e.g. by bumping against an overhead surface, such as the ceiling of a room in which the toy is released, or by reaching the end of its tether string, or by the operator jerking on the string. The release is then effected by the movement of the body which disengages the article and allows it to drop. The body can be a balloon of spherical shape that is tilted to one side by the weight of the article and the attachment hook, so that the balloon ascends in this tilted attitude and rolls and bumps upon hitting the overhead surface, or rolls when the tether string tightens, the change in attitude facilitating the release of the article. The body can instead be a balloon of oval shape that is held by the weight of the article and the attachment hook to an upwardly-inclined attitude during ascent, so that it also rolls and bumps upon hitting the ceiling. A number of different release systems are provided other than the hook and aperture.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2701935 (1955-02-01), Florence
patent: 4408412 (1983-10-01), Forker
patent: 4424643 (1984-01-01), Tilghman
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