An appendage for novelty balloon products is disclosed. A pair of heat-sealable strips are secured relative to one another to provide oppositely extending loops, having a predetermined loop configuration upon full extension of the appendage.

A covered balloon for use as a toy or in a display, which includes a cover formed of a plastic film and a rubber balloon inside the cover. More specifically, the cover is formed of two superposed sheets of substantially gas impervious plastic film whose peripheral edges are welded to form a seam. In a one embodiment, the cover and the rubber balloon each have a nozzle and the rubber balloon is inflated so as to fill the entire space within the cover and eliminate any wrinkles in the cover and adhere to an interior surface of said cover with the nozzle of the rubber balloon protruding from the cover through the nozzle of the cover. A welding flap formed along the seam when the cover is formed by welding together the plastic sheets, may be substantially reduced in size by cutting the flap along the seam. The cover may be formed of a transparent film such as a film of ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers so that the rubber balloon inside is visible. According to another embodiment, the rubber balloon fills only a portion of the space within the cover, the remainder being inflated with a gas.

The invention is an inflatable balloon, having an inflatable chamber; a graphic design on at least a portion of the inflatable chamber; a flap member adjoining the inflatable chamber; the flap member having a first position and a second position, wherein the first position conceals at least a portion of the graphic design on the inflatable chamber; and the second position allows at least a portion of the concealed portion of the graphic design to be exposed.

An electric coupler for a lighted inflatable device comprising a base attached to a cloth of a lighted inflatable device at the inside through the process of heat sealing with a passage way defined therein for inserting a light string from the outside into the lighted inflatable device, and a sealing cap to block up the passage way is disclosed. The sealing cap has terminals for connecting an external power supply to the light string inserted inside the lighted inflatable device by connectors. The light string is separately packed during delivry, and inserted inside the lighted inflatable device when in use.

A non-latex inflatable toy is disclosed which includes a first inner balloon encompassed by a partially transparent second outer balloon. An inflation unbilical extends from the stem of the outer balloon to the inner balloon, thereby defining various inflation paths. In one preferred embodiment, the balloons are inflated through two separate passageways in the outer balloon stem. In another, the outer balloon is inflated via the umbilical and the inner balloon.