Carrying attachments for umbrellas

In an umbrella frame including an elongated stick having a longitudinal axis and first and second ends, a handle on said first end and a crown on said second end, at least one of said handle or crown having an eyelet extending transversely through opposite sides of an intermediate portion of said at least one of said handle or crown and at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of said stick, a flexible and manually-and-tensionally deformable carrying member threaded through said eyelet and being slidable in said eyelet and substantially filling the cross section of said eyelet when said crarying member is relaxes and in a non-tensionally-deformed condition, said at least one of said handle or crown through which said eyelet extends having a combination threading-slot-and-clamping channel comprising a pair of spaced wall portions each having a respective inner, abrupt transverse edge originating at said eyelet and extending parallel the entire extent of said eyelet, said walls extending radially from said eyelet the entire length of said eyelet and continuing radially into the outer surface of said at least one of said handle or crown and forming a transverse open slot at the outer surface of said at least one of said handle or crown, said abrupt transverse inner edges of said walls being spaced a wisth substantially less than a cross section of said eyelet and the cross section of said carrying member in its relaxed condition but permitting passage of said carrying member when the carrying member is tensionally deformed to a reduced cross section for permitting the deformed carrying member to be drawn manually past said abrupt inner edges, along the spaced walls, and through the slot in the outer surface of said/one of said handle or crown and away from the stick of said umbrella frame.