Beach blanket with sand-fillable bags
OwnerLindsay Pauletinventor
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Abstract
A beach blanket including a stretchable main panel having two opposite sides comprising a body supporting top side for individuals to sunbath on and a bottom side for resting on a sandy beach surface, and a plurality of invertible bags attached to perimeter of the stretchable main panel. Each bag pivots about the stretchable main panel to allow users to scoop a large quantity of sand within each bag. The sand-filled bags are positioned on the beach to provide opposing tension on the main panel to easily eject sand off the blanket, and to securely anchor the beach blanket onto a beach which also prevents wind from blowing the beach blanket away.
Claims18
A beach apparatus comprising:
- a stretchable main panel;
- a plurality of bags, each bag including:
- a collapsible surrounding wall defining a cavity for removably holding a ballast, and a plurality of hand sleeves disposed on the collapsible surrounding wall;
- wherein each of the plurality of hand sleeves is configured to receive a hand of a user and to allow the user to manipulate a bag of the plurality of bags to scoop the ballast into the cavity;
- wherein the cavity of each bag has a first volume configured to retain a quantity of the scooped ballast greater than a second volume defined by each one of the hand sleeves;
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- wherein a portion of each of the plurality of bags is attached to a corner of the stretchable main panel to provide an articulated connection that permits the bag of the plurality of bags to pivot relative to the stretchable main panel during scooping.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.