Fluid decoration

• US 6,612,053 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2000
• Issued: 09/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chu-Yuan Liao
• Original Assignee: Chu-Yuan Liao
• Inventors: Liao, Chu-Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): DAVIS, CASSANDRA HOPE
• Application Number:
  US09/731,749
• Publication Number:
  US 20020069565A1
• Time in Patent Office: 998 Days
• Field of Search: 404/06, 404/07
• US Class Current: 40/406
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/02 incorporating moving display members

Abstract

Fluid decoration including a soft transparent or semitransparent envelope body and a seat body. At least two kinds of fluids with different specific weights and colors are filled in the envelope body. An inlaid member is placed in a bottom end of the envelope body. The bottom end is then sealed. The inlaid member has an upward extending patterned article. An ejecting device is disposed in the patterned article. The ejecting device is composed of a tube body and a driving unit connected with the tube body. A top end of the tube body is formed with an ejecting opening. The periphery of the tube body near the bottom thereof is formed with through holes. When the driving unit is powered on, the heavier fluid is pumped through the through hole into the tube body and forcedly pushed upward. The heavier fluid is then upward ejected from the ejecting opening of the ejecting device. Thereafter, the heavier fluid gradually splashes down onto the bottom of the envelope body. The above cycle is repeated to achieve a dynamic colorful decorative view.

Claims

1. Fluid decoration comprising an envelope body and a seat body, the envelope body being a soft transparent or semitransparent envelope body, at least two kinds of fluids with different specific weights and colors being filled in the envelope body, an inlaid member being placed in a bottom end of the envelope body, the inlaid member having an upward extending patterned article, an ejecting device being disposed in the patterned article, the ejecting device including at least one fluid passage formed in the patterned article, a periphery of the fluid passage near the bottom thereof being formed with through holes, the fluid passage being formed with an ejecting opening communicating with outer side of the patterned article, a driving unit being disposed in the fluid passage, the seat body defining therein a chamber, a top end of the chamber being formed with an opening, an inner circumference of the opening being formed with an insertion section, the inlaid member being enclosed in the envelope body and inlaid in the insertion section, whereby when the ejecting device is driven, a heavier fluid contained in the envelope body is pushed through a through hole into the fluid passage and upwardly ejected from the ejecting opening thereof and then the heavier fluid gradually splashes down to create a dynamic decorative view.

2. Fluid decoration as claimed in claim 1, wherein a sucking section is formed near a bottom end of the fluid passage, a periphery of the sucking section being formed with at least one through hole, a rotary flow-guiding vane assembly being disposed in the sucking section.

3. Fluid decoration as claimed in claim 2, wherein the driving unit is composed of a motor and a flow-guiding vane assembly fitted with a shaft of the motor.

4. Fluid decoration as claimed in claim 2, wherein a power supply is installed in the seat body for supplying power for the driving unit.

5. Fluid decoration as claimed in claim 1, wherein the driving unit is composed of a motor and a flow-guiding vane assembly fitted with a shaft of the motor.

6. Fluid decoration as claimed in claim 1, wherein a fixing member is engaged with lower side of the insertion section to isolate a bottom end of the envelope body from the interior of the seat body.

7. Fluid decoration as claimed in claim 6, wherein a lower end of the envelope body is an open end, after the inlaid member is enclosed in the envelope body, the lower open end of the envelope body under the inlaid member being sealed.

8. Fluid decoration as claimed in claim 1, wherein a lower end of the envelope body is an open end, after the inlaid member is enclosed in the envelope body, the lower open end of the envelope body under the inlaid member being sealed.

9. Fluid decoration as claimed in claim 1, wherein a power supply is installed in the seat body for supplying power for the driving unit.