Umbrella tip structure for vertical placement of umbrella
AssigneeDongguan Weikuan Plastic Products Co., Ltd.
InventorTa-Wei Hsu
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Abstract
An umbrella tip structure for vertical placement of an umbrella is disclosed, including a fixed pillar, a movable barrel, a spring, and at least two tip blades. The umbrella tip structure is mountable to an umbrella in such a way that tip blades can be automatically expanded and/or collapsed so that in use, with a movable barrel positioned against a horizontal surface, the tip blades may be opened automatically to make the umbrella tip structure a stable and firm support stand that stably and firmly supports the umbrella in a vertical, upright condition on a horizontal surface, achieving vertical placement of the umbrella. The operation and use of the umbrella tip structure is simple and easy.
Claims10
An umbrella tip structure that is adapted to allow for vertical placement of an umbrella, the umbrella tip structure comprising a fixed pillar, a movable barrel, a spring, and at least two tip blades, wherein the movable barrel is mounted to a lower end of the fixed pillar in a manner of being movable up and down;
- the spring has two ends respectively supported on the fixed pillar and the movable barrel such that the spring biases and urges the movable barrel to move downward for position returning;
- the at least two tip blades are arranged and distributed in an outer circumference of the fixed pillar and each of the tip blades has an upper end that is pivotally connected to a side surface of an upper end of the fixed pillar;
- each of the tip blades is provided with a link bar and each of the link bars has an upper end pivotally connected to the respective tip blade and each of the link bars has a lower end that is pivotally connected to a side surface of an upper end of the movable barrel;
- wherein in a closed condition, the at least two tip blades cover and enclose the fixed pillar and the movable barrel with a lower end of the movable barrel projecting beyond and outside lower ends of the tip blades;
- and in an open condition, the movable barrel moves upward to an extreme position where the tip blades expand outwards with respect to each other.
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