Switchable inflation device
AssigneeRobert B. Chaffee
InventorRobert B. Chaffee
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Abstract
The invention relates to a fluid moving device for use with inflatable articles. The fluid moving device includes a fluid intake port, a motor and impeller assembly, and a fluid transfer orifice that provides the fluid. The fluid moving device also includes a power switch. The fluid moving device may be provided with a hand-holdable housing. The fluid moving device may also be provided with a battery compartment sized and arranged to fit a standard size set of batteries, and a removable battery container. The removable battery container may be sized and arranged to adapt differently sized batteries to the battery compartment. The power switch may also be a self-sealing power switch that seals the intake port when the power switch is in a deactivated position.
Claims34
A device for filling a receptacle with a fluid, the device comprising:
- an intake port that provides for a fluid to be drawn into the device;
- a pump for moving the fluid through the device to provide the fluid for filling the receptacle;
- a fluid transfer orifice that provides the fluid to the receptacle;
- a power switch for manually activating and deactivating the pump;
- a battery compartment having a size, arrangement and electrical contacts to accommodate and provide electrical connection between a standard size set of batteries and the pump;
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- a hand-holdable housing that houses the intake port, the pump, the fluid transfer orifice, the power switch, and the battery compartment, the hand-holdable housing being shaped and arranged so that it may be cradled in one hand of a user, the hand-holdable housing allowing the fluid transfer orifice to be rotated into and out of engagement with the receptacle and also allowing the user to move the switch with the same one hand to activate and deactivate the device.
A fluid moving device comprising:
- a self-sealing intake port that provides for a fluid to be drawn into the fluid moving device;
- a pump for moving the fluid through the fluid moving device;
- a fluid transfer orifice that provides the fluid;
- a battery compartment having a size, arrangement and electrical contacts to accommodate and provide electrical connection between a standard size set of batteries and the pump;
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- a power switch for activating and deactivating the pump, wherein the power switch includes a self-sealing structure that seals the self-sealing intake port when the power switch is in a deactivated position, and that unseals the self-sealing intake port when the power switch is not in the deactivated position.
A fluid moving device, comprising:
- a housing sized and adapted to be cradled in a single hand;
- a fluid pump positioned within the housing such that at least a portion of the fluid pump is positioned within the single hand when the housing is cradled in the single hand, and sized and arranged to move fluid through at least a portion of the housing;
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- a power switch positioned on the housing and coupled to the pump and a power source, the power switch being switchable to activate and deactivate the fluid pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.