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US 4,951,333 AGranted
Beach blanket
OwnerRichard Kaiser, John T. Gutch +1inventors
InventorsRichard Kaiser, John T. Gutch, Richard Rasof
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Abstract
A self-supporting beach blanket having two layers of fabric joined at their edges with a single spring steel hoop inside sized to hold the blanket open and flat on the ground. The hoop is compressible so that it can be removed through a small slit in the side allowing the blanket to be machine washed.
Claims10
A foldable, internally supported beach blanket comprising:
- a pair of similarly shaped membranes joined to each other about substantially all of their peripheral edges;
- a small slit opening along a portion of said peripheral edges;
- a single springable hoop of length approximately equal to the internal length of said peripheral edges, said hoop having a spring characteristic such as to permit a portion of the hoop to be compressed to a diameter small enough to allow the hoop to pass through said slit opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.