A bean bag (also beanbag) is a sealed bag containing dried beans Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae used for human food or animal feed, PVC Polyvinyl chloride, (IUPAC Poly) commonly abbreviated PVC, is the third most widely used thermoplastic polymer after polyethylene and polypropylene.[citation needed] In terms of revenue generated, it is one of the most valuable products of the chemical industry. Around the world, over 50% of PVC manufactured is used in construction. As a building pellets or expanded polystyrene Polystyrene (IUPAC Poly(1-phenylethane-1,2-diyl)), sometimes abbreviated PS, is an aromatic polymer made from the aromatic monomer styrene, a liquid hydrocarbon that is commercially manufactured from petroleum by the chemical industry. Polystyrene is one of the most widely used kinds of plastic, with various applications. As bean bag games are not apt to cause injury, they are referenced in the famous aphorism The word aphorism denotes an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and easily memorable form by the Irish-American Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,495,800 Americans (more than 12% of total population) reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American Community Survey. The only self-reported ancestral group larger than Irish Americans are German Americans. This figure does not include those politico A politico or pol is a person involved in politics. The word comes from the Greek languageπολιτικός, where it means "politician". In the modern usage it refers to people involved in political behavior of any sort. For instance, the term is often used to describe people who have overly political viewpoints or who spend Finley Peter Dunne that "Politics ain't bean bag."
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Games
- Bean bag toss Cornhole a.k.a "tailgate toss," "bean bag toss," "baggo," or "bags" is a lawn game in which players take turns pitching cornhole bags—cotton duck bags filled with feed corn—at a raised platform with a hole in the far end. These platforms are usually made with plywood or occasionally plastic, and are (sometimes called cornhole in the Ohio Valley of the United States), is a game similar to horseshoes and quoits, played with bean bags and two goals.
- Footbag A footbag is a small, round bag, sometimes referred to generically as a hacky sack. . The western incarnation of the sport was invented in 1972 by two men from Oregon City, Oregon, Mike Marshall and John Stalberger. Marshall and Stalberger later sold the rights to the Hacky Sack to Wham-O inc in 1983 (also known as Hacky Sack, which is actually a trademark) is a type of ball-shaped bean bag that is used to play various games.
- Bean bags are also commonly used for juggling Juggling is a physical human skill involving the movement of one or more objects, usually through the air, for entertainment or sport . The most recognizable form of juggling is toss juggling, where the juggler throws objects through the air. Jugglers often refer to the objects they juggle as props. The most common props are balls, beanbags, rings,.
- In gridiron football Gridiron football is an umbrella term used to refer to several similar codes of football played primarily in the United States and Canada. The term refers to the sport's characteristic field of play, which is marked with a series of parallel lines resembling a gridiron. The term Gridiron, although rarely used to describe the sport in Anglo-America beanbags are used to mark the point of a change of possession (where a punt A punt in some codes of football, especially American football, rugby league and rugby union, is performed when the ball is kicked without letting it hit the ground first — in contrast to a drop kick. In Rugby football codes, the ball may be punted in open play by any player in order to gain field position, or a short-high punt known as an up or kickoff A kickoff is a method of starting a drive in American football or Canadian football is caught, an interception An interception or intercept is a move in many forms of football, including Canadian and American football football, as well as rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules football and Gaelic football, and involves a pass being cut off by an opposition player who usually gains possession for their team is made, or a fumble A fumble in American and Canadian football is when a player, who has possession and control of the ball, drops the ball. By rule, it is any act other than passing, kicking or successful handing that results in loss of player possession. A fumble may be forced by a defensive player who either grabs or punches the ball or butts the ball with his occurs)
Furniture
Bean bag chairs are a popular form of furniture made of fabric A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw wool fibres, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands. Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or pressing fibres together and filled with small chunks of styrofoam Styrofoam is a trademark of Dow Chemical Company for extruded polystyrene foam presently made for thermal insulation and craft applications. or PVC pellets. They were hugely popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their popularity resumed in the mid 1990s, as companies began selling chairs filled with shredded polyurethane A polyurethane, IUPAC abbreviation PUR, but commonly abbreviated PU, is any polymer consisting of a chain of organic units joined by urethane links. Polyurethane polymers are formed through step-growth polymerization by reacting a monomer containing at least two isocyanate functional groups with another monomer containing at least two hydroxyl ( foam, charging a premium[citation needed] for the extra comfort this can provide. Bean bag chairs are known to bean bag enthusiasts by many names, such as "Physics Bag"[citation needed] or "Oversized Sac"[citation needed].
Polystyrene bead originally comes in a sugar form and steam is blown into the sugar to expand it[citation needed]. It is also called expanded polystyrene or EPS in the industry. The diameter of the bead that goes into the bean bag does vary from about 3-9 mm, however you can now also purchase micro-bead which is 1 - 3 mm in diameter. After a couple of years use, the beans within a bean bag will become compressed and comfort will be reduced. One can generally obtain smaller bags of refill to top them up.
See also
- Footbag A footbag is a small, round bag, sometimes referred to generically as a hacky sack. . The western incarnation of the sport was invented in 1972 by two men from Oregon City, Oregon, Mike Marshall and John Stalberger. Marshall and Stalberger later sold the rights to the Hacky Sack to Wham-O inc in 1983
- Cornhole
- Love sac
References
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External links
- Footbag WorldWide Information Service
- Bags of Style, Time Magazine Article on Bean Bag Chairs.
- Bean Bag Game Plans Online Instructions For Constructing a Bean Bag Toss Game
- Bean Bag Rules and Equipment
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