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Filed March 23, 1932

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patented June 6, 1933

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

SHOZABUROAKI, 0F MILL HILL, LONDON, AND GUNJI KOIZUMI, OF LONDON, ENGLAND
BALLOON

Application ?led March 28, 1932, Serial No. 600,696, and in Great Britain April 7, 1931.

This invention relates to devices for ad sions as when inserted through the seating vertising displaying, decoration and amuse ring or washer (B) in the envelope provides ment and more particularly to that class of an airtight joint when the envelope is in
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devices comprising an in?atable balloon the ?ated. It will be observed that the yielding rub surface or envelope of which is adapted to
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be illuminated from within.

ber seating ring B is provided with a wide

is a front elevation of the device with the margin of the aperture inside the balloon in
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In the accompanying drawing, the ?gure base ?ange which is secured gas tight to the

closure plug for the seating ring removed. any preferred manner and also that the ring According to the present invention the en is provided with a conical top which rises velope of the balloon which in the pre from the base ?ange inside the balloon. By ferred embodiment is constituted by silk, is virtue of the yielding elastic character of the provided with an aperture in which is lo ring and by virtue of the shape of the conical cated a seating ring or washer (B) of ro top of the ring, pressure of the in?ating gas
bust construction. The seating ring or washer which is conveniently made of resili ent rubber, is preferably circular in cross section, but the shape may be varied to ac commodate illuminating device of any de sired form.
For purposes of illumination an incan

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in the balloon will coact with the tendency

of the ring to hug the lamp holder or socket, and will compress the ring so tightly upon the
lamp socket as to seal the socket gas tight in
the balloon.

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We claim:

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An in?atable balloon having an aperture, a

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holder (E) or pocket electric torch of such, secured gas tight to the margin of said aper shape and dimension as to make a gas tight ture and having a substantially conical top ?t into the seating ring or washer is insert rising from the base ?ange inside the balloon, ed through the aperture in the envelope. The a lamp holder extending through the ring balloon is then in?ated through thecustom to the exterior of the balloon, a bulb in the ary valve (C) or nozzle provided for the pur inner end of the socket inside the balloon, and pose and it will be understood that the gas a valve for in?ating the balloon, pressure of tightness between the seating ring or washer the in?ating gas in the balloon compressing and the illuminating device is thereby in the conical top of the yielding ring against the lamp holder, to seal the holder gas tight creased. The device according to the invention may in the balloon. SHOZABURO AKI. serve a variety of useful purposes of which GUNJI KOIZUMI. the following are given by way of example. The envelope may carry or have printed thereon advertising matter and be mounted
on a base or be suspended from a ceiling for

descent light bulb attached to airtight lamp yielding ring having a wide base ?ange se

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display in shop windows, or the envelope may have a map printed thereon showing shipping
or air routes etc. or the envelope or the illu

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minating device or both may be given vari

ouscolours and the device be used as a comi

cal novelty, the illuminating device in this

instance being electricity e. g. a pocket torch.

The balloon constituted by silk- is in?ated

through the customary valve (0) and the

illumination is provided by an incandescent electric light bulb attached to an airtight
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lampholder

of such shape and diinen~