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Balloon Arches
Balloon arches are ideal for photo backdrops, entryways, and to hi-light different areas around your party room and are easy to make. Never underestimate the power of decorating with party balloons, as they can transform any room into a fun party place for you in minutes and at a very low cost.

Balloon Trees
Colour co-ordinate latex balloons connected to a striped pole. These balloon trees look good in pairs for either side of your entrance doorway.

Top Table Cloud Balloon Decoration
Three clouds joined together with colour co-ordinated latex balloons appearing to float.

Double Pearl Arch Party Balloon Decoration
These balloon arches create a spectacular backdrop.

Spiral Arch Party Balloon Decoration
These decorative balloon arrangements are normally situated behind the top table, and consist of helium filled colour co-ordinated balloons to form an eye-catching backdrop.

Balloon Heart Party Balloon Decoration
This balloon decoration can be situated anywhere or hung on a wall. Made from 5" balloons twisted together and colour co-ordinated.Choo se from our superb range of party supplies - streamers, party bombs - table bombs, exploding party bombs, bug bombs, hen and stag night bombs, champagne bubble bottles.

Balloon Ceiling Decoration - Balloon Net
Balloons can be used to hide that ceiling in a several ways. One way to hide a ceiling is to cover it with helium balloons. Another ceiling cover technique, or to lower ceiling for a more intimate gathering, is to create a balloon net. To create the net, run streamers, yarn, or fishing wire at the height you want back and forth across the hall from the north wall to the south wall. Run the net material from the east and west walls interwoven with the material already in place. Use double-sided tape at the intersections to assure your net stays in place. Blow up balloons and toss them into the net

Putting a robot in the middle of a group of children or adults is sure to be a fun occasion. With some of the robots special toys you will certainly have a time to remember - and that's a promise!

I can be hired to suit every budget - I Have eyes that flash - Arms that move - Can talk or sing - Wheels to move around - Dress up in a number of outfits - Advertise your products

Trade Shows and Corporate Events
I will enhance your exhibit and attract crowds of people. I can roam about advertising your company and its products

I have a holder and can hand out leaflets or brochures. I have already been voted as the Best Promotion at a number of trade shows!

Grand Openings
Need that eye catching something for an opening event?

Try a robot to interact with the crowd, you will definitely not be forgotten!

Presentations
You will have no problem grabbing everyone's attention when VIP is around!

Let the robot convey your message across. It's simple when you the full attention of the audience!

Other Usage and Benefits
Fund raising for schools and hospitals, grand openings for shopping malls and retail stores, celebrations, weddings, sporting events, corporate events, sales meeting, unique adverts, trade shows, point of sale adverts and on and on and on!

Party Rubber Balloons
The first rubber balloons were made by Professor Michael Faraday in 1824 for use in his experiments with hydrogen at the Royal Institution in London. `The caoutchouc is exceedingly elastic', he wrote in the Quarterly Journal of Science the same year. `Bags made of it...have been expanded by having air forced into them, until the caoutchouc was quite transparent, and when expanded by hydrogen they were so light as to form balloons with considerable ascending power....' Faraday made his balloons by cutting round two sheets of rubber laid together and pressing the edges together.

The tacky rubber welded automatically, and the inside of the balloon was rubbed with flour to prevent the opposing surfaces joining together. Toy balloons were introduced by pioneer rubber manufacturer Thomas Hancock the following year in the form of a do-it-yourself kit consisting of a bottle of rubber solution and a condensing syringe. Vulcanized toy balloons, which unlike the earlier kind were unaffected by changes in temperature, were first manufactured by J.G. Ingram of London in 1847 and can be regarded as the prototype of modern toy balloons."

Party Foil Balloons
Foil balloons, also referred to as metallic or mylar and are actually two sheets of plastic (polyethylene) and nylon that are sandwiched together, then coated with a thin layer of aluminium. Mylar balloons first appeared in New York City in the late 70's and quickly became popular worldwide. A mylar balloon can float 30 times longer than a standard latex balloon, but the float time depends on just how well the two sheets of plastic were sealed at the factory and the altitude. Most foil (mylar) balloons will not float at altitudes over 6500 feet. Foil (metallic) balloons are not biodegradable and they can (and will) conduct electricity, they should never be released outdoors because they could become entangled with power lines and lead to power outages.

The concept and technology for the "metalization" of plastic sheeting that has given us foil balloons comes directly out of the NASA Space Mission. By the way, all of us sculptors should stop referring to foil balloons as Mylar (a trademarked name for a certain type of polyester film) balloons. The balloon industry refers to them as "foil" balloons, because they are made of nylon sheet, coated on one side with polyethylene and metallized on the other. It's evidently so much harder to make balloons out of aluminized Mylar (and probably so much more expensive) that nobody does it.

Party Latex Balloons
Latex balloons are made from 100% natural latex - not plastic. Latex balloons come from rubber trees. Latex is collected by cutting the trees bark, then catching the latex in a cup. Latex harvesting doesn't harm the tree. A tree can produce latex for up to 40 years

Helium Flotation - Helium balloons
Helium Balloons work by the law of buoyancy. As long as the helium plus the balloon is lighter than the air it displaces, the balloon will float in the air. Helium is a lot lighter than air. The difference is not as great as it is between water and air (a litre of water weighs about 1,000 grams, while a litre of air weighs about 1 gram), but it is significant. Helium weighs 0.1785 grams per litre. Nitrogen weighs 1.2506 grams per litre, and since nitrogen makes up about 80 percent of the air we breathe, 1.25 grams is a good approximation for the weight of a litre of air.

Therefore, if you were to fill a 1-litre soda bottle full of helium, the bottle would weigh about 1 gram less than the same bottle filled with air. That doesn't sound like much -- the bottle itself weighs more than a gram, so it won't float. However, in large volumes, the 1-gram-per-litre difference between air and helium can really add up. This explains why blimps and balloons are generally quite large -- they have to displace a lot of air to float.

If you put helium in a balloon and let go of the balloon, the balloon rises until it pops. When it pops, the helium that escapes has no reason to stop -- it just keeps going and leaks out into space. Therefore, in the atmosphere there is very little helium at any given time. The helium that is there comes from alpha particles emitted by radioactive decay. In places that have a lot of uranium ore, natural gas tends to contain high concentrations of helium (up to 7 percent). This makes sense, since the decay of uranium emits lots of alpha particles and a natural gas pocket tends to be a sealed container underground. Helium is cryogenically distilled out of natural gas to produce the helium we put in balloons.

What causes helium balloons to lose their lift after a day or two?
In brief, because the helium leaks out, they shrink, and become heavier than the volume of air they displace. This causes them to lose buoyancy and "sink" in the air. The weight balance that keeps a balloon afloat does not leave a lot of room for leakage, so once a little leaks out the balloon falls.

Sometimes you can catch a balloon right around the time it is neutrally buoyant, and applying heat (your hand, for instance) or cold (rub with ice cube) will change its volume just enough to make it rise or sink in the air.

Rubber balloons lose helium quite quickly because of the nature of the material. Thin rubber is not a real good barrier for helium gas. Mylar does a much better job of keeping helium inside, and mylar balloons have much longer "lifetimes" than rubber ones

What is helium?
Helium is a colourless, odourless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe

BALLOON SAYINGS

Balloon Goes Up! (meaning action - particularly trouble commencing)
This saying actually dates from the first world war when observation balloons were hoisted close to the trench lines so that the enemy positions and movements could be watched - observers were also used to help range their own artillery before a bombardment. The hoisting of balloons was often for the infantry a sign that a major attack was imminent. Nowadays though "what time does the balloon go up?" simply means "what time does it start"

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