US1111642A - Toy balloon. - Google Patents

Description

F. F. BRUGKER.

TOY BALLOON.

. APPLICATION FILED MAY 27, 1914.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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' TOY BALLOON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed m 27, 1914'. Serial No. 841,289.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FERDINAND FRANCIS BaUoKnR, a citizen of the United States, residin' at Akron, in the county of Summit and tate of -Ohio, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Balair in through a mouth piece and. can be readily deflatedatwill by allowing the air to escape through the same.

The. principal object of the invention consists in providing a toy balloon of the type above described with an improved form of valve for maintaining the air within the balloon when the latter is in its inflated condition.

'A further object consists in making the balloon and mouth piece out of a single integral piece of material and forming the valve as a separate member loosely carried within the body of the balloon adapted to lodge in a valve seat in the neck or mouth iece.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in a balloon constructed as hereinafter more fully described in the following specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and more specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation showing the balloon inflated; Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of same; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail view showing the ball valve lodged inits valve seat Fig. 4 is a sectional detail of the ball valve; Fig. 5 is an elevation showing balloonfdeflated.

Referring to the drawings, the balloon comprises a hollow body B made of thin rubber of pure quality and extreme elas- .ticity which will permit of its being inflated and expanded to many times its normal size. The balloon B in its normal deflated condition is preferably of elliptical form, and

' is. provided with a tubular neck "or mouth small rubber ball D of larger diameter than body of the balloon B an ,its neck C, where i the balloon is deflated, is confined within the piece C extending from one end, and in sub stantial alinement with its longer axis. A

the restriction E at the o ening between the constriction E between the pocket F and the Patented Sept. 22,, 1 914.

mainjbfod portion B becomes sufficiently.

enlarges .and the neck C shortens until'the 'cnlargedto allow the ball'l) to drop into the pocket F. The constriction E then serves to hold the ball firmly within the pocket F until it is dislodged by blowing in at the mouth piece, whereupon the balloon is quickly and easily deflated. This form of valve enables the deflation of the balloon to take place quickly and completely, as after the rubber ball D has once been dislodged from the pocket F there'is opened at once a passage unrestricted by any valve mechanism. Should the ball not easily dislodge itself by blowing in the mouth piece, it is only necessary to grasp the neck of the balloon at the point e and by pinching the neck of the balloon with the thumb and finger and pushin toward the center of the body portion of te balloon the small ball will be injected into the body portion, allowing the air to escape freely.

The rubber ball cooperating with the pocketin the mouth piece not onlyforms a most eflicacious form of air valve which will prevent the inflation of the balloon beyond a point of safety, but affords novel features of attraction, not usually found in a toy balloon of this type. For example, by inflating the balloon and holding the bee. Also the toy may afford consi erable amusement by holding the balloon in the right hand with the opening closed with the fingers, and trying to toss the ball up and down within the balloon until it lodges in the pocket of the neck, a

neck closed with the fingers of the right.

-' of elastic material and provided valve member confined within the balloon,

The balll) may be formed of any suitable material, and may be solid'or hollow, as desired, It will be understood that I do. not wish. to limit myself to the precise details of construction herein disclosed, but wish to avail. myself of all modifications that will propfall within the scope of the invention.

erlfi a'ving thus described my invention what I clalm is: 1. A toy balloon formed of a single piece with a valve member loosely carried therein, substantially as described.- I e 2. A toy balloon having a tubular neck portion integraltherewith. and a separate substantially as described.

3. A toy balloon of thin rubber having a tubular neck or-mouth piece formed integral therewith, loosely inclosed within stantially as described.

4. A toy balloon of thin rubber having a tubular neck or mouth piece formed intesaid balloon, suband self-closmg valve means' I. gral therewith anda ball valve loosely carried within said balloon adapted to close .said mouth piece -when ithe balloon is inflated, substantially as'd'scribed.

5. A toy "balloon of thin rubber having a tubular neck or mouth piece integral there- .with, a hollow ball valve loosely contained within said balloon, neck portion ada valve when the ba tially as described.

ted to receive the. ball loon is inflated, substantubular mouth piece integral therewith .a hollow rubber ball valve loosely earned within said balloon; a constriction formed piece, and an enlarged pocket in themoutli piece t-ially as described.

n presence of two witnesses.

' FERDINAND F. BRUCKER. Witnesses I J R. T. GRIFFITH, C. A. WOLF.

6. A toy balloon of thin-rubber having a i at the junction of the balloon and the mouth I In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature a pocket formed in said- I adjacent said constriction, substan-

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