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US 5,176,354 AGranted
Blanket anchor
OwnerVirgil P. Feigenbaum, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A portable device for anchoring a blanket in sand or soft earth. In another aspect of the invention, the blanket anchor includes an adapter plug for receivably supporting a dispenser for a useful product (e.g., suntan lotion).
Claims8
A new and improved anchoring device comprising:
- a head portion,
- a stake portion having a free end depending from said head portion,
- means associated with said head portion activatable to clamp a portion of an article to be held on a penetrable substance and
- wherein said head portion has a convex surface for transmitting a force to said stake sufficient to cause said stake free end to penetrate said substance.
- wherein said stake portion tapers longitudinally from said head portion toward said free end of said stake portion,
- wherein said head portion has a flat surface opposed to said convex surface, said stake intercepts said flat surface, and said clamping means is mounted on said flat surface adjacent to said stake portion
- wherein said stake portion tapers longitudinally from said head portion toward said free end of said stake portion, and
- wherein said head portion opposed flat surface is circular in shape, said stake portion has a hollow, tapered tube defining an interior cavity, said head portion having a recess disposed in said convex surface, said recess communicating with said interior cavity, and said cavity and said recess being co-axial,
- further comprising an adapter plug adapted to be removably received within said recess, said adapter plug having a central bore therethrough whereby an article may be inserted through the central bore of said plug and into said interior cavity when said adapter plug is received in said recess.
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A new and improved anchoring device comprising:
- a head portion,
- a stake portion having a free end depending from said head portion, and
- means associated with said head portion activatable to clamp a portion of an article to be held on a penetrable substance,
- wherein said head portion has a convex surface for transmitting a force to said stake sufficient to cause said stake free end to penetrate said substance and has a flat surface opposed to said convex surface such that said stake intercepts said flat surface, and said clamping means is mounted on said flat surface adjacent to said stake portion,
- wherein said stake portion tapers longitudinally from said head portion toward said free end of said stake portion and comprises a pair of webs joined to each other, said webs forming a stake portion having a V-shaped transverse cross-section,
- wherein said head portion opposed flat surface is elliptically shaped and said stake portion having a v-shaped cross-section is offset laterally with respect to the central axis of said head portion, and
- wherein said clamping means comprises a jaw pivotal with respect to said flat surface, and resilient biasing means for maintaining said jaw in engagement with said flat surface, said clamping means jaw having a peripheral extent coincidental with the peripheral extent of said head portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.