US 10,822,827 B1Granted

Multifunctional racks, sunshades and tents on floating devices

OwnerRay Yan, Jing Fu Yaninventors

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Abstract

Embodiments of racks are assembled on floating devices to secure mobile devices, foldable sunshades and foldable tents. A rack is composed of rack poles, pole holders, a hub, a cup lock, a pipe connector or a hub bottom screw. The pole holders are fixed around a floating device. The pole top ends may be inserted into the receptacles of a hub. A cup lock may cover the hub to lock the pole top ends in the receptacles. A pipe connector may connect to a hub with its top screw and connect to a mobile device holder or a pouch with its bottom end. Embodiments of foldable sunshades may be secured on the rack with elastic straps and hooks. Embodiments of foldable tents with a bottom hook-side belt of hook-and-loop may bind with a loop-side belt of hook-and-loop fixed on an inflatable raft or boat or on a low-profile hard-hull boat.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A device for supporting a shade comprising:

a plurality of poles each having first and second opposed ends, and a widened end portion at the first end;
a hub forming a body defining a perimeter having a receptacle for each of the plurality of poles, each receptacle sized to admit insertion of the widened end portion of a pole;
and
a blocking body forming a perimeter side wall and an open end, the side wall sized and shaped to be mateable to nest with the hub, the blocking body having a plurality of slots each extending along the blocking body perimeter, each slot open at the open end, each slot having a width wider than each of the plurality of poles and a width narrower than the widened end portion of each of the plurality of poles;
the blocking body sized and dimensioned to be nestable with the hub after the widened end portion of each of the plurality of poles is inserted into a receptacle, each slot of the blocking body sized and dimensioned to admit passage of a pole, the perimeter of the blocking body surrounding each of the widened end portions and sized and dimensioned to thereby prevent movement of each of the widened end portions out of the receptacle into which the widened end portion has been inserted and through the slot through which the pole has been passed, the nested blocking body thereby preventing each of the plurality of poles from moving out of the receptacle into which it has been inserted;
and
a flexible rod fastenable to the blocking body and hub and having a ball portion at a distal end.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/564,915Filed 9 Sep 2019
Granted: 3 Nov 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

E04H 15/06
Tents combined or specially associated with other devices: tents at least partially supported by vehicles
B63B 17/02
Vessels parts, details, or accessories, not otherwise provided for: awnings , including rigid weather protection structures, e.g. sunroofs;…
B63C 9/03
Lifeboats, life-rafts or the like, specially adapted for life-saving: enclosed
E04H 15/02
Tents or canopies, in general: tents combined or specially associated with other devices