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Umbrella frame

  • US 10,098,425 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2017
  • Issued: 10/16/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An umbrella frame comprisinga post having a top and bottom, said post consist of a plurality of adjacent and parallel post rods spaced from each other by a plurality of post spacers, said plurality of post spacers distributed along the length of said post, and said plurality of said post rods and said post spacers fixedly bound together and defining an empty space between said rods;

  • a plurality of arms each having an inside end and an outside end, each arm rotatably connected at the inside end to said post proximately the top of said post;

    a lift ring mounted circumferentially to said post and moveable up and down the post; and

    a plurality of connectors equal in number to the number of arms, said connectors having two ends, one end of each connector rotatably connected to a respective arm at a fixed intermediate location along each of said respective arm and the other end of each of said connectors rotatably connected to the lift ring at a location corresponding to the orientation of each respective arm.

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