FR2521433A1 - AUTOMATIC CLOSURE AND BALLOON PREVENTION DEVICE - Google Patents

Abstract

A. THE INVENTION RELATES TO A DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC CLOSING AND HANDLING BALLOONS. B. DEVICE CHARACTERIZED IN THAT IT INCLUDES A TIGHTENING MEANS 2 COOPERATING WITH A LOCKING CUP 6 EQUIPPED WITH A CENTRAL ORIFICE 7 IN WHICH THE TIGHTENING BUCKLE 4 SLIDES BY TRACTION ON THE HANGING AND PREHENSION RING 3 FOR CLOSING THE MOUTH 11 OF THE BALLOON 8. C. THE PRESENT INVENTION FINDS ITS MAIN APPLICATION IN THE TOY INDUSTRY.

Description

The invention relates to a device for closing and gripping

  balloons, in particular game balls intended to be released or used as advertising media and

  can be inflated either with air or with gas.

  Balloon-closing devices are already known for attachment to ball-ends in order to achieve a seal to maintain the balloon in an inflated state. However, these shutter devices conform to the technological background are often of a complex implementation and do not allow a quick and effective shutter

  of the balloon tip The complexity of their design requires

  site also very often unhelpful manipulations of o a loss of time detrimental when the balloons must be distributed to a large number of people during an advertising operation for example during which the

  balloons should be inflated and sealed very quickly.

  s There are also shut-off devices

  the manufacturing cost is much too high.

  The present invention aims to overcome these disadvantages and proposes to create a device for automatic closure and gripping balloons, a simple design,

  extremely low manufacturing cost and handling

  Extremely practical, automatic shutter

fast and effective.

  The present invention also aims to create

  an automatic closing and gripping device

  both to obtain the closure and the rapid sealing of the neck of a balloon while constituting a gripping means for the user who can then manipulate with a lot

of ease the inflated balloon.

  Finally, the object of the present invention is to create a device for automatic closure and gripping of balloons, which can be applied to inflated balloons or to air

either on gas.

  For this purpose, the invention relates to a device for automatically closing and gripping balloons, characterized in that it comprises a clamping means consisting of a ring

  gripping and prolonged grip at one point of his

  a clamping loop allowing engagement of the neck of the balloon, said clamping means cooperating with a locking cup provided with a central orifice in which the pulling buckle slides by pulling on the fastening ring and

  gripping to close the neck of the balloon.

  The particular design of the device, comprising a clamping means cooperating with a locking cup, facilitates the manipulations of the user who can obtain the

  quick and efficient automatic locking of the inflated balloon.

  According to another characteristic of the invention,

  the hanging and gripping ring is an open ring.

  This allows the user to be able to hang very

  quickly a large number of balloons on a wire stretched for example

  to store balloons when inflated. This allows

  also to engage and fix on the ring a stem pre-

  For example, it is possible to use a rigid material

  to set, for example, a competition card for a

of balloons.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, the opening of the ring consists of a break located at a point diametrically opposite to the point of attachment of the loop.

  tightening on the periphery of the ring.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, the

  Clamping loop consists of two preformed strands suf-

  farther apart from each other for a quick set-up

  the neck of the balloon, both strands having a general shape

almonds.

  The fact that the strands of the loop are preformed,

  allows the rapid introduction of the neck of the balloon, that is to say

  say the engagement of the tip inside the clamping loop. According to another characteristic of the invention, the strands of the clamping loop are fixed on the periphery of the gripping and gripping ring by a connecting plate. According to another characteristic of the invention, the

  device is made of a semi-rigid synthetic material.

  Finally, according to another characteristic of the invention

  tion, the device is made by molding.

  The present invention will be better understood with the aid of an embodiment of the automatic closing and gripping device according to the invention, shown schematically by way of non-limiting example on the single attached figure which is a perspective view. top of the closing device

automatic gripping.

  According to this figure, the device 1 comprises a clamping means 2 The clamping means 2 consists of a hooking and gripping ring 3 This ring is extended on its periphery with a clamping loop 4 connected to the ring

  3 at a point P by means of a connecting plate

5.

  The clamping means 2 cooperates with a cup of

  locking 6 provided with an orifice 7 in its central zone.

  The orifice 7 allows the engagement and the displacement, in transla-

  tightening buckle 4 through the glass cup.

rusting 6.

  The locking ring is an open ring at a point P 'diametrically opposite the point P constituting the point of attachment of the clamping loop 4, via the

plate 5 on the ring 3.

  It is possible to provide an opening on the ring 3 located at any point of the periphery, for example,

  in the vicinity of the connecting plate 5.

  The opening of the ring at point P 'consists of a rupture This rupture allows the user to engage

  quickly the ring 3 on a wire for hanging and hand-

  in place of the balloon 8 when inflated It is also possible, by means of the rupture at the point P1, to put in place a means for gripping the balloon which would consist for example of a rod made of rigid material. in addition, the clamping means 2 and more particularly the ring 3 act as gripping means for the balloon in the inflated state, ie

air, or gas.

  The clamping loop 4 consists of two strands 9, preformed and spaced from each other sufficiently to pass the neck 11 of the balloon 8 inside the clamping loop 4 The two strands 9 and 10 present a general shape almond These strands 9, 10, preformed, the clamping loop 4, prevent the locking cup 6 does not escape after the introduction of the latter by passing the loop of

tightening 4 through the hole 7.

  The clamping means 2 and the cover plate

  6 are made by molding in a semirigid synthetic material It is possible, however, to imagine other

  embodiments of these two elements.

  The operation of the device 1 is carried out in the following manner The user engages the neck 11 in the clamping loop 4 whose strands 9 and 10 are spaced to allow easy introduction of the neck 11 inside the loop 4 The neck 11 is connected by means of

  inflating Then the user holds the cup 6 and ef-

  makes a rapid traction movement on the ring 3 so as to tighten the neck 11 and make the balloon tight This sealing is obtained by the fact that the clamping loop 4

  acts as a collar by cooperating with the cup 6 by trac-

  The user makes a pull on the ring 3 until the clamping loop 4 has completely passed through the orifice 7, which causes the neck 11 of the balloon 8 to fold and its maximum tightening. inside the orifice 7. Thus, the device 1 allows both a closure

  rapid automatic ballooning is a means of preven-

if we.

Claims (2)

CLOSURE) Automatic closing device and ball prehension, characterized in that it comprises a clamping means (2) consisting of a hooking and gripping ring (3) extended at a point (P) of its periphery of a clamping loop (4) allowing the neck (11) of the balloon (8) to engage the inside of the buckle (4), this clamping means (2) cooperating with a cup of lock (6) provided with a central opening (7) in which the clamping loop (4) slides by pulling on the hooking and gripping ring (3) to close the neck (11) of the balloon (8) . ) Automatic closure device and prehension according to claim 1, characterized in that the hooking and gripping ring (3) is an open ring.   30) Automatic closing device and preheating   according to the preceding claims 1 and 2, characterized   in that the opening of the ring (3) consists of a rup-   located at a point (P ') diametrically opposed to the point of attachment (P) of the clamping loop (4) on the periphery of the ring (3).   ) Automatic closing and pre-closing device   in accordance with the preceding claims 1 to 3, characterized   in that the opening of the ring (3) consists of a rup-   ture arranged in the vicinity of the connecting plate (5).   50) Automatic closing and pre-closing device   in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 4   cedeentes, characterized in that the clamping loop 4 consists of two strands (9, 10) preformed, sufficiently spaced apart from each other for rapid introduction of the neck (11) of the balloon (8), the two strands (9) and (10) having a shape general almond.   ) Automatic closing and pre-closing device   in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 5   cedeentes, characterized in that the strands (9, 10) of the loop   clamping elements (4) are fixed on the periphery of the ring of   hooking and gripping (3) by a connecting plate (5).   ) Automatic closing and pre-closing device   according to any one of claims 1 to 6   cedentes, characterized in that it is made of a material semi-rigid synthetic.   ) Automatic closing and pre-closing device   according to any one of claims 1 to 7   cedeentes, characterized in that it is made by molding.