Patent ID: 6322107
Filing Date: 2001-11-27
Classification: B42D

Abstract:
An inflatable calendar formed of thin flexible plastic sheet defining when inflated a fourteen-sided polyhedron enclosure comprising (a) opposite top and bottom hexagonal walls, each of which has six peripheral edges, (b) six consecutive trapezoidal upper side walls each having its shortest edge sealed to one of said peripheral edges of said top hexagonal wall and extending downward from said top wall, and (c) six consecutive trapezoidal lower side walls each having its shortest edge sealed to one of said peripheral edges of said bottom hexagonal wall and extending upward from said bottom wall, each of said side walls having a pair of opposite side edges, each of said side edges of one side wall being sealed to a side edge of the side wall adjacent thereto, each of said top and bottom side walls having a base edge opposite its shortest edge, each top side wall base edge being adjacent and sealed to the base edge of one bottom side wall, the mutually adjacent edges of all mutually adjacent walls being sealed together, said polyhedron enclosure further compromising a valve for inflating, deflating and maintaining inflated said enclosure, and graphic indicia on said six upper and lower side walls respectively displaying the twelve months of a selected year, where each side wall displays the days of one month. wherein said top wall comprises a laminate of two hexogonal sheets of said plastic sheet and a hexogonal sheet of cardboard between said two plastic sheets for stiffening same.