Inflatable aerial toy

• US 3,225,488 A
• Filed: 01/13/1964
• Issued: 12/28/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Adolph E. Goldfarb
• Original Assignee: Adolph E. Goldfarb
• Inventors: Goldfarb, Adolph E.
• Application Number:
  US04/339,067
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• US Class Current: 446/224
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2027/1066 Having means to guide movement, e.g. propeller or wings
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2027/1075 Special shapes or constructions for aircraft type balloons A63H2027/1066
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 27/10 Balloons connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B60C29/00; other than toy aspects B64B1/40

Claims

1. AN INFLATABLE TOY COMPRISING:

AN ENVELOPE MADE OF A FLEXABLE MATERIAL, SAID MATERIAL HAVING SUFFICIENT WEIGHT THAT SAID TOY, WHEN INFLATED CAN BE KICKED LIKE A FOOTBALL;

VALVE MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID ENVELOPE FOR INFLATING IT, SAID ENVELOP WHEN INFLATED BEING CIRCULAR IN TRANSVERSE CROSS-SECTION AND HAVING TAPERED FORWARD AND REARWARD PORTIONS;

AND FIN MEANS PROVIDED ON SAID REARWARD PORTION OF SAID ENVELOPE, SAID FIN MEANS EXTENDING REARWARDLY OF SAID REARWARD PORTION FOR SUPPORTING SAID TOY IN KICKING POSITION, WHEREBY SAID TOY MAY BE EMPLOYED AS A FOOTBALL, SAID FIN STABILIZING SAID TOY DURING FLIGHT THEREOF, SAID FIN MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF FINS, ONE OF SAID FINS BEING POSITIONED AT A RELATIVELY SMALL ANGLE TO A PLANE NORMAL TO THE PLANE OCCUPIED BY OTHERS OF SAID FINS OF CAUSING ROTATION OF SAID TOY ABOUT ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS IN FLIGHT.