Umbrella, umbrella cover, and method of making
AssigneeHot Off The Press Promotions, Inc.
InventorsHay Man Tsui, Harry Campbell, Joel Greenstein
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Abstract
An umbrella cover if formed from a unitary piece of material, an octagonal piece of material having eight corners, which may be decorated, such as by printing, without image segmentation. The cover has eight generally triangular slits therein extending one from each corner of the octagon toward, but in spaced relation from, a center point, a point of each triangle at the inner end of the slit. The sides of each slit are sewn together to form a dart. The cover is tacked to an eight-rib frame, with each dart tacked adjacent a flexion point in a rib.
Claims18
A method of making an umbrella cover comprising the steps of:
- folding a substantially octagonal unitary sheet of fabric, the sheet having eight sides, each adjacent two sides meeting at a corner, in half along a line extending approximately from a midpoint of a first side to a midpoint of a second side, the second side opposed to the first side;
- cutting a slit at each corner, each slit extending from the respective corner to an apex toward, but in spaced relation from, a centerpoint of the sheet, the slit substantially isosceles triangular in shape;
- joining, for each slit, opposing sides thereof together to form darts;
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- affixing piping along the eight sides.
A method of making an umbrella comprising the steps of:
- folding a substantially octagonal unitary sheet of fabric, the sheet having eight sides, each adjacent two sides meeting at a corner, in half along a line extending approximately from a midpoint of a first side to a midpoint of a second side, the second side opposed to the first side;
- cutting a slit at each corner, the each extending from the respective corner to an apex toward, but in spaced relation from, a centerpoint of the sheet, the slit substantially isosceles triangular in shape;
- joining, for each slit, opposing sides thereof together to form darts;
- affixing piping along the eight sides;
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- affixing each dart to a frame rib.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.