Adornment for crank
OwnerLausan Chung-Hsin Liuinventor
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Abstract
An adornment for mounting a crank which is to control extension and folding of an umbrella includes a first shell located between the umbrella shaft and a crank arm of the crank, and a second shell encasing another side of the umbrella shaft and matching and engageable with the first shell. The first and second shell have respectively a matching symmetrical first coupling section and a second coupling section to engage with a matching first fastening cap and a second fastening cap movable on the umbrella shaft for a selected displacement to form a completed adornment for the crank.
Claims5
An adornment for a crank which has a crank arm and a crank shaft attached to the crank arm passing through and mounting on an umbrella shaft for controlling extension and folding of an umbrella, comprising:
- a first shell located between the umbrella shaft and the crank arm having a first aperture to allow the crank shaft to pass through and at least a first coupling section and a second coupling section located at two ends thereof;
- a second shell encasing another side of the umbrella shaft and matching and engageable with the first shell, and having at least a first coupling section and a second coupling section located at two ends thereof symmetrical to the first coupling section and the second coupling section located on the first shell;
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- a first fastening cap and a second fastening cap movable on the umbrella shaft for a selected displacement matching and engageable respectively with the first coupling sections and the second coupling sections for forming the adornment to decorate the crank;
- wherein the first aperture in the first shell is located in a midsection of the first shell,
- the first coupling section and the second coupling section of both the first shell and the second shell have external screw threads, and the first and second fastening caps have internal screw threads that mate with the external screw threads of the first and second shells,
- the first shell and the second shell have contact edges formed of a first coupling edge and a second coupling edge with the first coupling edge and the second coupling edge being matching bulged rib and indented recess, and
- a height of the first fastening cap is at least a fourth of a height of one of the first and second shells and wherein a height of the second fastening cap is at least a fourth of the one of the first and second shells.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.