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US 7,581,504 B1Granted
Printed umbrella, umbrella cover, and method of making
AssigneeBrandbrella, LLC
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. An image is printed on the cover. 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.
Claims36
A method of making a printed umbrella cover comprising the steps of:
- providing a substantially octagonal unitary sheet of fabric, the sheet having eight sides, each adjacent two sides meeting at a corner;
- cutting a slit at each corner, each slit extending from the respective corner to an apex toward, but with the apex of each slit in spaced relation from, a centerpoint of the sheet, the slit substantially isosceles triangular in shape;
- printing a unitary image substantially across an unslitted portion of the slitted sheet, the unitary image comprising at least one of a graphic and indicia;
- joining, for each slit, opposing sides thereof together to form darts;
- and
- affixing piping along the eight sides.
3 more elements
A method of making an umbrella comprising the steps of:
- providing a substantially octagonal unitary sheet of fabric, the sheet having eight sides, each adjacent two sides meeting at a corner;
- 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;
- printing a unitary image substantially across an unslitted portion of the slitted sheet, the unitary image comprising at least one of a graphic and indicia;
- joining, for each slit, opposing sides thereof together to form darts;
- affixing piping along the eight sides;
- and
- affixing each dart to a frame rib.
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A method of making a printed umbrella cover comprising the steps of:
- cutting a slit at each corner of a substantially octagonal unitary sheet of fabric, the sheet having eight sides, each adjacent two sides meeting at a 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;
- printing a unitary image on an unslitted portion of the slitted sheet, the unitary image comprising at least one of a graphic and indicia;
- joining, for each slit, opposing sides thereof together to form darts;
- and
- affixing piping along the eight sides.
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A method of making an umbrella comprising the steps of:
- folding 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 of a substantially octagonal unitary sheet of fabric, the sheet having eight sides, each adjacent two sides meeting at a 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;
- printing a unitary image on an unslitted portion of the slitted sheet, the unitary image comprising at least one of a graphic and indicia;
- joining, for each slit, opposing sides thereof together to form darts;
- affixing piping along the eight sides;
- and
- affixing each dart to a frame rib.
4 more elements
An umbrella cover comprising:
- a substantially octagonal unitary sheet of fabric, the sheet having eight sides, each adjacent two sides meeting at a corner, the sheet further having 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, the sheet further having a unitary image printed thereon, the unitary image comprising at least one of a graphic and indicia substantially without seams across the image, wherein opposing sides of each slit are joined together to form darts;
- and
- piping affixed along the eight sides.
An umbrella comprising:
- a substantially octagonal unitary sheet of fabric, the sheet having eight sides, each adjacent two sides meeting at a corner, the sheet further having 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, the sheet further having a unitary image printed thereon, the unitary image comprising at least one of a graphic and indicia substantially without seams across the image, wherein opposing sides of each slit are joined together to form darts;
- piping affixed along the eight sides;
- and
- a frame having eight ribs, each dart affixed to one of the ribs.
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