Inflatable ornament
AssigneeSatellite Balloon Manufacturing Co.
InventorS. David Walker
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Abstract
An inflatable ornament suitable for hanging on a Christmas tree limb or the like is formed from a pair of flexible plastic sheets joined along their periphery to define a collapsible, substantially fluid-tight envelope. The envelope includes a reduced neck portion having a valve therein for filling the ornament with a suitable fluid such as air. The valve comprises a stem extending laterally outward from one of the sheets and a removable plug for sealing the stem. A hook member connected to the stem, or formed integral with the plug, is adapted to suspend the ornament from the limb. A reflective metal coating applied to the envelope gives the appearance of a glass ornament.
Claims21
A decorative ornament adapted to be suspended from a support, comprising:
- a pair of flexible plastic sheets continuously joined together along their entire periphery to define a fluid inflatable envelope, said envelope having an opening therein;
- valve means adjacent said periphery and communicating with said opening for selectively directing fluid through said opening into the interior of said envelope to inflate said envelope, said valve means being secured to one of said sheets adjacent the top of said envelope and including at least a portion thereof extending laterally outward from said one sheet to define a generally horizontal protection on said envelope;
- and,
- means connecting said portion of said valve means with said support for suspending said envelope from said support.
A collapsible ornament adapted to be inflated with gas and hung from a tree limb or the like, comprising:
- a flexible, gas inflatable envelope defined by a pair of sheets joined together, said envelope having a reduced neck portion in upper regions thereof and an opening in said neck portion through which gas may be introduced into the interior of said envelope for inflating said envelope, said neck portion being defined adjacent the periphery of said sheets;
- a reflective coating of metal on at least one side of the exterior surface of said envelope;
- valve means on said neck portion for closing said opening, including a lateral projection on one of said sheets extending generally horizontally outward from said neck portion;
- and,
- means secured on said lateral projection for hanging said envelope on said limb.
A decorative ornament suitable for decorating a Christmas tree or the like and which may be gas inflated from a collapsed condition to an inflated condition, comprising:
- a pair of flexible sheets joined along their mutual peripheries to define a gas tight envelope, said sheets being substantially in face-to-face contact and parallel to each other when said ornament is in said collapsed condition thereof, said envelope including an opening therein through which gas may be introduced to inflate said envelope;
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- valve means on said envelope adjacent the top thereof for directing said gas through said opening and for selectively closing said opening to maintain said ornament in said inflated condition thereof, said valve means extending laterally, generally horizontally outward from said envelope.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.