Illuminated ball

• US 10,434,376 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2016
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oyster Oasis Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey Scott Larson
• Inventors: Larson, Jeffrey Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Maust, Timothy L
• Application Number:
  US15/388,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20170100645A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 141329
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/75 Humidity
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/801 Contact switches
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/833 Sensors arranged on the exercise apparatus or sports implement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/605 Floating
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/74 with powered illuminating means, e.g. lights
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 39/00 Hollow non-inflatable balls , i.e. having no valves rigid balls A63B37/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 39/027 using special inflation gases
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 39/04 Pricking-balls; Tools for blowing them up
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 41/00 Hollow inflatable balls
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 41/085 Closures
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 41/12 Tools or devices for blowing up or closing balls for pricking-balls A63B39/04
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/004 electrically conductive, e.g. for automatic arbitration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/06 with illuminating devices ; with reflective surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2027/1033 Inflation devices or methods for inflating balloons
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2027/1058 associated with light or sound
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2027/1083 Valves or nozzles
• 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: B67D 7/0288 Container connection means for dispensing beverages on draught B67D1/0829
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/42 Filling nozzles

Abstract

A filling device may be used to fill a ball or other inflatable item from a water source such as a hose. A filling device may include an adapter having a cylindrical body with a hollow threaded interior, one closed end and one open end. A filling coupler is coupled to the one closed end of the cylindrical body. The one closed end of the cylindrical body has an opening formed therethrough and the filling coupler is coupled to the one closed end covering the opening. The filling coupler has a hollow threaded interior in fluid communication with the opening. A tip may be removably coupled to the filling coupler. The tip may be a ball inflation needle, a water balloon filling tip or the like.

Claims

1. A filling adapter comprising:

a first hollow cylindrical body having an open end and a partially open end;

threads formed in the interior of said first hollow cylindrical body, and at least one flexible washer contained in said first hollow cylindrical body;

a second hollow cylindrical body coupled to an opening in said partially open end of said first hollow cylindrical body;

a filling tip having a coupling portion having a lip, and at least one flexible washer coupled around the coupling portion; and

a coupler coupled to said second hollow cylindrical body, wherein said coupler is configured to removably couple said coupling portion of said filling tip to said filling adapter, wherein coupling the coupling portion of said filling tip to said coupler compresses the at least one flexible washer coupled around the coupling portion between the lip of said coupling portion and the coupler, and wherein the at least one flexible washer contained in said first hollow cylindrical body and said at least one flexible washer coupled around the coupling portion of the filling tip seal the filling adapter from leaking liquid when the filling adapter is in use.

2. The filling adapter of claim 1, further comprising indentations formed on an outside surface of said first hollow cylindrical body.

3. The filling adapter of claim 1, wherein said coupler comprises threads on an interior of said second hollow cylindrical body.

4. The filling adapter of claim 1, wherein said filling tip is a ball filling needle.

5. The filling adapter of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of additional filling tips for filling a plurality of different items.