Balloon holding device

• US 5,240,199 A
• Filed: 02/27/1991
• Issued: 08/31/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William H. Peters
• Original Assignee: William H. Peters
• Inventors: Peters, William H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jillions, John M.
• Application Number:
  US07/661,259
• Time in Patent Office: 916 Days
• Field of Search: 242/85.1, 242/96, 242/71.8, 242/132, 242/137, 242/146, 242/118.4, 242/118.6
• US Class Current: 242/405.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/143 at least one end flange being shaped to cover the windings
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/406 hand-held during use B65H75/48, B65H75/4473 take precedence

Abstract

The subject device is a balloon holding device adapted to be attached to a balloon string and functioning to prevent a balloon filled with a lighter-than-air gas from rising above a given tethered length, such device comprising in general a spool member having a central cylindrical shaft flanked on each end by opposing circular plate members, each such plate having a circumferential rim. The spool member is adapted to have the balloon string wrapped around it to be unravelled at will. Integrally disposed between the inner face of such circular plate members are integrally affixed means to partially retard the process of unravelling of the balloon string so that the balloon string and thus the balloon do not become beyond the control of the person holding the balloon.

Claims

1. A holder for the end of a balloon string for an inflatable balloon having a stem, such device comprising:

(a) spool member having an internal spindle of cylindrical configuration, such spool member having a first end and second end, with such spool member having circular rim members integrally and concentrically joined to said first end and said second end of the spindle of such spool member, with each such rim member being larger in diameter than the spindle member, and wherein each rim member has an inner surface and an outer surface, as well as each rim member having an outer circumference;

(b) abutment means, comprising at least one pair of opposing projecting teeth integrally affixed to the respective opposing inner surfaces of the first and second rim member;

(c) circular ridges disposed integrally on each of the inside faces of the circular rim members, with each such ridge member abutting one another to form a partially enclosed circular space between the inner faces of such rim members and the inner spindle member and said circular ridges.

2. A holder for the end of a balloon string for an inflatable balloon having a stem, such device comprising:

(a) spool member having an internal spindle of cylindrical configuration, such spool member having a first end and second end, with such spool member having circular rim members integrally and concentrically joined to said first end and said second end of the spindle of such spool member, with each such rim member being larger in diameter than the spindle member, and wherein each said rim member has an inner surface and an outer surface, as well as each rim member having an outer circumference;

(b) abutment means, comprising at least one pair of opposing projecting teeth integrally affixed to the respected opposing inner surfaces of the first and second rim member;

(c) circular ridges disposed integrally on each of the inside faces of the circular rim members, with each such ridge member abutting one another to form a partially enclosed circular space between the inner faces of such rim members and the inner spindle member and said circular ridges.