Balloon tying aid
OwnerMarque Plouffeinventor
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Abstract
A device and technique for knotting an inflated balloon or forming a knot in another material is provided. One approach includes: holding a knot tying aid by a handle portion, the handle portion being positioned opposite a distal portion, the distal portion including several prongs (in one nonlimiting example at least three) extending away from the handle and being spaced apart from one another in correspondence to vertices of a triangle; winding a tag end portion of the inflated balloon about the prongs to form a loop; and passing part of the tag end portion through the loop to form a knot.
Claims9
A device for formation of a knot in a balloon after inflation thereof, the balloon including a tag end portion with a fluid port, the device comprising:
- a proximal end portion including a handle;
- a distal end portion opposite the proximal end portion, the distal end portion including three elongated prongs and three arms, the arms each being connected between a respective one of the elongated prongs to form an elbow shape therewith and the arms being connected to the handle, the arms each extending laterally away from the handle in relation to a longitudinal centerline axis of the handle, the elongated prongs each projecting away from the arms to terminate in a corresponding number of projection end portions in a spaced apart relationship relative to one another;
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- wherein the projection end portions correspond to vertices of a triangle, and are sized and shaped to wind the tag end portion of the balloon thereabout to form a closed loop with a crossed portion and define an opening, the opening being receptive to positioning of the tag end portion therethrough to form a knot in the tag end portion and slip the loop off the prongs as the knot is tightened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.