US 5,785,069 AGranted

Standing umbrella

AssigneeGlatz AG

InventorGustav Adolf Glatz

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Abstract

A standing umbrella has a mast on which the inner end of an outwardly and inwardly movable carrier beam is guided with the outer end of the beam carrying an umbrella stick of a collapsible umbrella and with the carrier beam being held by a connecting strut linkedly arranged between the upper end of the mast the carrier beam. A drive mechanism shifts the inner end of the carrier beam along the length of the mast and the mast has two guide tracks spaced from one another and so profiled that guide elements running there along and carried by the inner end of the mast are held by the shape of the tracks against movement transversely to the direction in which the inner end of the carrier beam is shifted; and the drive mechanism for shifting the inner end of the carrier beam and a drive mechanism for opening and closing the umbrella are so combined with one another that they operate simultaneously in common.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A standing umbrella comprising:

a stand (2) having a mast (6,6a,6b,6c) with an upper end (16),
a carrier beam (10) having an inner end (8) and an outer end (12), with said inner end (8) of said carrier beam being guided on said mast for outward and inward movement of said carrier beam relative to said mast,
an umbrella stick (38) of a collapsible umbrella (14) carried on said outer end (12) of said carrier beam,
a connecting strut (18,142) linkedly connected between said upper end (16) of the mast (6,6a,6b,6c) and said carrier beam (10),
a drive mechanism (20,20a,24,24a) shifting said carrier beam (10) relative to said mast in a shifting direction as well as opening and closing said umbrella (14),
said mast (6,6a,6b,6c) having two guide tracks (64,66,154,156,168,170,180,182) spaced from one another, and
guide elements (22,166,176,178,184,186) on said inner end of said carrier beam in cooperation with said two guide tracks,
said guide tracks being so profiled that said guide elements (22,166,176,178,184,186) are held by the shape of said tracks transversely to said shifting direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/693,321Filed 19 Aug 1996
Priority: CH 631/943 Mar 1994
Granted: 28 Jul 1998
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

A45B 23/00
Walking sticks: other umbrellas
A45B 25/14
Details of umbrellas: devices for opening and for closing umbrellas
A45B 2023/0012
Other umbrellas: ground supported umbrellas or sunshades on a single post, e.g. resting in or on a surface there below
A45B 2023/0043
Cantilever umbrellas or sunshades with a support arm: the support arm being attached to the stick or to runner, the canopy being suspended there above