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US 10,870,396 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for storing an umbrella in a motor vehicle
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsLuis Adrian Tena Han, Carmen Frida Vargas Garcia
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Abstract
An apparatus for holding an article such as an umbrella includes a housing having a receiver, a sidewall and a guideway on the sidewall. The apparatus also includes a plunger held in the receiver and displaceable between a first position and a second position. The plunger includes a follower that slides along the guideway. A method of releasing an umbrella from a receiver in a housing held in a motor vehicle component is also provided.
Claims17
An apparatus, comprising:
- a motor vehicle component;
- a cylindrical housing, held in the motor vehicle component, having a sidewall, a receiver within the sidewall and a guideway on said sidewall wherein the guideway is a helical guide track in the sidewall;
- a plunger held in said receiver and displaceable between a first position and a second position, said plunger including a follower that slides along said guideway;
- and
- an elongated guide track carried on said motor vehicle component.
2 more elements
A method of releasing an umbrella from a receiver in a housing held in a motor vehicle component, comprising:
- engaging an actuator to rotate said housing in said motor vehicle component;
- and
- displacing a displaceable plunger in said receiver from a first position to a second position whereby said umbrella is pushed by said displaceable plunger from said receiver in said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.