RETRACTABLE AIR INFLATABLE DISPLAY

• US 20200129876A1
• Filed: 09/17/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2018
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Aqua Leisure Industries Incorporated (Aqua-Leisure Industries)
• Original Assignee: Aqua Leisure Industries Incorporated (Aqua-Leisure Industries)
• Inventors: Autore, Gregory J.
• Application Number:
  US16/573,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20200129876A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2027/1008 Anchoring means or weights
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2027/1033 Inflation devices or methods for inflating balloons
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2027/1075 Special shapes or constructions
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 27/10 Balloons connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B60C29/00; other than toy aspects B64B1/40
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/08 Dolls, faces, or other representations of living forms with moving parts in the nature of toys A63H

Abstract

A continuous-air-inflatable display includes an air blower to cause the air-permeable display body to rise from a container and then remain in its expanded state while air flows into the body. After the airflow is terminated, the body gradually collapses back into the container as the air escapes from the body. A motor-retracted cord attached to the display body assists in causing the display body to fall back into the container as the air in the body gradually escapes.

Claims

1. An air inflatable display comprising:

an air permeable, inflatable body;

an air blower adapted to inflate said inflatable body;

a container in which the uninflated body rests;

a winding motor;

at least one cord attached at one end to the inflatable body and at the other end to the winding motor;

wherein as the inflatable body is being inflated by the air blower the cord is caused to unwind from the winding motor, and wherein when the air blower is not operating, the inflatable body deflates, and the winding motor rewinds the cord, thereby pulling the inflatable body back into the container.

2. The air inflatable display of claim 1, further comprising a programmable timer to allow selection of the amount of time during which each of the air blower and the winding motor is activated.