Amusement devices: toys – Inflatable – Including externally applied sealing element
Patent
1989-03-17
1990-06-19
Hafer, Robert A.
Amusement devices: toys
Inflatable
Including externally applied sealing element
446220, A63H 306
Patent
active
049349864
ABSTRACT:
An inflatable ballon including an elastically expansible material formed into a closed shape so as to define an expansible chamber therein, the material having an inflation opening for supplying a pressurized gas thereto so as to inflate the material; an upper eye unit having an upper portion and a lower portion partially depressed into a top portion of the material substantially opposite to the inflation opening so that the top portion of the material surrounds the lower portion of the upper eye unit and the upper portion extends out from the material and by which the balloon can be connected to another object; a cylindrical tubular valve extending partially into the inflation opening for supplying the pressurized gas to the chamber, the valve including an inflation channel providing fluid communication between the chamber and ambient atmosphere; a plug insertable into the valve for closing the inflation channel; a lower connecting loop unit secured to a lower portion of the valve that extends from the inflation opening for securing the balloon to another object; and a strengthening joiner cord contained entirely inside of the chamber for connecting the upper eye unit to the valve when the balloon is inflated and for strengtheining the balloon when inflated.
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Hafer Robert A.
Rimell Sam
S.E.N.O.C.T. Corporation
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