US20080125005A1

US20080125005A1 - Cloth Inflatable Toys

Info

Publication number: US20080125005A1
Application number: US11/946,842
Authority: US
Inventors: Zhuangyi Lu
Original assignee: Five Stars Hk Ltd
Current assignee: Five Stars Hk Ltd
Priority date: 2006-11-29
Filing date: 2007-11-29
Publication date: 2008-05-29
Also published as: CN201006319Y; EP1930057A1

Abstract

The present application relates to a cloth inflatable toy with high safety and convenience of carrying. The cloth inflatable toy includes a fan and a number of cloth pieces. The cloth inflatable toy further includes a tube bracket having two or more interlinked cloth tubes. An air outlet of the fan is connected with an air inlet of the tube bracket, and the sides of the cloth pieces used as the walls of the cloth inflatable toy are sewed on the corresponding cloth tubes respectively.

Description

FIELD OF THE APPLICATION

The present application relates to toys, and more particularly to cloth inflatable toys.

BACKGROUND

Most present toys are made of rigid plastic or metal. Their shortcomings are as follows: it is inconvenient to carry them; when they collide with human body, they can easily injure it and therefore they are of low safety.

SUMMARY

The object of the present application is to solve the problems of low safety in and inconvenience of carrying the existing toys and provide a cloth inflatable toy which is of high safety and convenient to be carried.
A cloth inflatable toy includes a fan and a number of cloth pieces. The cloth inflatable toy further includes a tube bracket which has two or more interlinked cloth tubes. The air outlet of the fan is connected with the air inlet of the tube bracket, and the sides of the cloth pieces used as the walls of the toy are sewed on the corresponding cloth tubes respectively.
The cloth inflatable toy may include an air discharge opening assembled on the tube bracket. The air discharge opening of the tube bracket may be far away from the air inlet opening.
At least one of the cloth pieces may be used as a curtain.
The cloth inflatable toy may include an entrance which is opened on at least one of the cloth pieces.
The cloth tubes may be sewed with cloth and can allow air to pass through. When the cloth inflatable toy is in use, the fan is switched on and air is being blown into the tube bracket through its air inlet to inflate the tube bracket so as to make it become three-dimensional. The cloth inflatable toy can be entered into when the cloth piece used as curtain is raised. After the cloth inflatable toy is used, the fan is switched off and then the whole toy, as it being made of cloth pieces, can be folded together for convenience of carrying.
As a result of the application of the solution described in the present patent application, the main part of the cloth inflatable toy except the fan outside the tube bracket is made of cloth. Therefore, people will not be injured by hard objects while playing and the toy is of high safety. Moreover, since the tube bracket and its connected cloth pieces can be folded into a flake, it is very convenient to carry the toy.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of the cloth inflatable toy.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the cloth inflatable toy.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, wherein the label 11 depicts lower cloth tube; label 12 depicts upper cloth tube; label 13 depicts top cloth tube; label 14 depicts upper cloth tube; label 15 depicts pentagonal cloth tube; label 2 depicts fan; label 21 depicts connecting tube; label 31 or 32 depicts cloth piece; label 34 depicts curtain; label 22 depicts air discharge opening; label 41 depicts quadrangular cloth tube; label 51 depicts curtain; label 52 depicts cloth pieces; label 46 or 47 depicts cloth tube; label 53 depicts cloth piece; label 44, 43, 45 or 42 depicts cloth tube; and label 54 depicts cloth piece.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Referring to FIG. 1, the embodiment 1 is a cloth inflatable toy house, which can also be used as a field tent for adults or children, comprising a tube bracket formed by two pentagonal cloth tubes 15 and 16, two opposite lower cloth tubes 11 (only one can be seen in FIG. 1), two upper cloth tubes 12 and 14, and a top cloth tube 13. The lower cloth tube 11 is connected with the air outlet of the fan 2 through the connecting tube 21, the other end of the lower cloth tube 11 is assembled with an air discharge opening 22. The cloth piece used as the curtain 34 is pentagonal, its two upper bevel edges are sewed on two bevel edges of the pentagonal cloth tube 15 respectively, and there is an opening or cut in the center of the curtain 34. The space surrounded by the upper cloth tube 12, the lower cloth tube 11, one side of the pentagonal cloth tube 15, and one side of the pentagonal cloth tube 16 is covered with the cloth piece 31 and it is sewed on the corresponding cloth tubes. Similarly, the four sides of the cloth piece 32 are sewed on the top cloth tube 13, the upper cloth tube 12, and two bevel edges of the pentagonal cloth tubes 15 and 16 respectively. The spaces surrounded by other corresponding cloth tubes are also covered by cloth pieces and they are sewed together. Therefore, a toy house is formed. FIG. 1 shows the inflatable state of the inflatable toy house. When the fan 2 is switched off, the whole toy house can be folded together like clothing.
Referring to FIG. 2, the embodiment 2 is a cloth inflatable toy boat, the upper side of the rectangular cloth tube 41 is sewed on the cloth piece which is used as the curtain 51, four cloth tubes are assembled on the left side of the cloth inflatable toy boat (unmarked or unseen in FIG. 2) which are symmetrical with the four cloth tubes 42, 43, 44 and 45 on the right side. The tube bracket supported by cloth tubes becomes the bracket of the ship and strains the cloth pieces, wherein the cloth tube 47 is used for decoration, and decorative holes are opened on the cloth pieces 53 and 54 respectively. When children raise curtain 51, they can enter into the inflatable toy boat to play.
The inflatable toy can also be other shapes and no more embodiments would be described herein.
It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the present application is not limited to what has been particularly shown and described herein above. In addition, unless mentioned was made above to the contrary, it should be noted that all of the accompanying drawings are not to scale. A variety of modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teachings without departing from scope and spirit of the application.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A cloth inflatable toy comprising a fan, a plurality of cloth pieces, and a tube bracket comprising two or more interlinked cloth tubes, an air outlet of the fan being connected with an air inlet of the tube bracket, and the sides of the cloth pieces used as the walls of the toy being sewed on the corresponding cloth tubes respectively.

2. The cloth inflatable toy according to claim 1 further comprising an air discharge opening assembled on the tube bracket.

3. The cloth inflatable toy according to claim 2, wherein the air discharge opening of the tube bracket is far away from the air inlet opening.

4. The cloth inflatable toy according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the cloth pieces is used as a curtain.

5. The cloth inflatable toy according to claim 1 further comprising an entrance which is opened on at least one of the cloth pieces.