Umbrella holder for vehicle
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroyuki Fujiki, Yoshiharu Michiura, Masafumi Abe
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Abstract
Herein disclosed is an umbrella holder which comprises an elongate casing, a tip holder axially movably disposed in the casing and having a catch portion by which a tip portion of an umbrella is caught upon insertion of the umbrella into the casing through an umbrella inlet opening of the casing, a biasing structure for biasing the tip holder toward the umbrella inlet opening, a locking device for locking the tip holder at a desired position relative to the elongate casing, and an unlocking device for disabling the locking device when the tip holder is rotated in a given direction about the axis thereof.
Claims18
An umbrella holder comprising:
- an elongate casing having one end opened and the other end closed;
- a tip holder axially movably disposed in said elongate casing, said tip holder having a catching portion by which a tip portion of an umbrella is caught upon insertion of the umbrella into the casing through the opened end;
- first biasing means for biasing said tip holder toward the opened end;
- locking means for locking said tip holder at a desired position relative to said elongate casing, said locking means suppressing said tip holder from moving toward the opened end while permitting the same from moving toward the closed end;
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- unlocking means disabling said locking means when said tip holder is rotated in a given direction about the axis thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.