US1549790A - Inflatable toy - Google Patents

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Aug. 18, 1925;

AL. NEUSELLA INFLATABLE TOY Filed Oct. 31, 1923 v Zw Aug. 13, 1925..

ALBERT NEUSELLA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ENFLATABLE TOY.

Application filed October 31, 1923. Serial No. 671,870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT llnusnLLs a citizen of the United States residing at Chicage, in the county of Cook and State ot' Illinois, have invented certain new and uset'ul Improvements in inflatable Toys of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in inflatable toys designed chiefly tor the amusement of the younger members of so ciety; and it consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereiiiafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms apart oi this application and in which- Fig. 1 is a view of the toy in elevation.

2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the same.

Fig. 3 is a trao'mentary sectional view, illustrating a sli itly modified form of the torn on a somewhat larger scale.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views. The invention comprises the main or body ortion 1 formed preferably of a rubber tube signed to be inflated, one end 2 thereof being composed of a relatively thin fabric and the opposite end 3 01 a thicker fabric so that the entire boey portion, inflated, is of greater diameter at one end than at the other the object being to give it the general appearance of a base ball bat the extreme ends of the tube being provided with hard or solid inserts or plugs 4, o and the plug 5 being provided with the air-intake valve 6.

A hollow spherical member 7 designed to resemble a base ball is connected by a plug 8 to the portion 2 of the body 1, or it may be connected by a piece of hollow tubing 9 to said portion 2, and said member 7 is adapted to be inflated as the member 1 is inflated due to its connection to said member. The tubing 9 is formed of a material substantially thicker than that composing either the body portion 2 or the spherical member 7.

The toy in either of its forms is carried by the smaller end 3 of the body portion 1, as a handle, and in the form shown in Fig. 3 the ball member 7, due to the flexibility of the member 9, may be struck by the member 1 and caused to bound about in an amusing manner, while at the same time such use will not cause separation of said members or loss of either.

What is claimed. is

In an inflatable toy a pneumatic body member of substantially uniform diameter adapted when inflated, to assume the shape of a baseball bat, an air valve for said body member.v a pneumatic spherical member, and a flexible tubular member connecting said body and spherical member and having its wall thicker than the walls of said members. 5

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature.

ALBERT NEUSELLA.

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