Safety umbrella

• US 4,020,858 A
• Filed: 03/22/1976
• Issued: 05/03/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Inez F. Wilson
• Original Assignee: Inez F. Wilson
• Inventors: Wilson, Inez F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schroeder, Werner H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Berman, Conrad L.
• Application Number:
  US05/669,144
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 135/DIG. 10, 135/47, 135/66, 135/20 R, 240/6.42
• US Class Current: 135/15.1
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 25/00 Details of umbrellas sticks for umbrellas A45B1/00 - A45B9/00; illuminating devices for umbrellas A45B3/02; sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 3/04 electrical
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 135/91 Illuminated cane or umbrella

Abstract

An umbrella including a foldable canopy supported from one end of a shaft which at its other end has a handle, the umbrella being novel by including an electric lamp upon its tip so that, among other uses, the present of a person crossing a street during rainy and obscure weather can be readily visible to motorists; the umbrella including an electric switch and dry cell batteries for the lamp carried inside the handle.

Claims

1. A safety umbrella, comprising in combination, a tubular shaft supporting a foldable framework at its one end, a canopy mounted upon said framework, a hollow handle upon an opposite end of said shaft for being held in a hand, the first said end of said shaft having an integral tip thereof protruding through a center opening of said canopy, an electric lamp mounted around a base end of said tip;

said lamp including a Z-shaped bracket secured to a side of said shaft tip, a lamp socket mounted on said bracket, an electric lamp bulb in said socket, said lamp bulb being in a series electrical circuit that includes dry cell batteries and a manually operated switch inside said handle;

said circuit including wire conductors inserted inside said tubular shaft, and opening in said shaft located near said bracket having said wire conductors extend outwardly therethrough and being connected to said socket, said shaft tip being diametrically smaller than a remainder of said shaft, a tapering shoulder thus formed adjacent said base end of said tip, a dish-shaped circular reflector, having a central opening, being fitted on said tip and positioned adjacent said shoulder, said reflector having a reflective surface on a concave side thereof facing said lamp bulb, said reflector including a circular peripheral flange extending frusto-conically tapered toward an edge of said flange thus forming a circular channel into which an outwardly flanged edge of a transparent dome is received an open-ended circular wire snap ring received in said channel over said dome flange, said snap ring retaining said dome in said channel, a U-shaped bend along said snap ring extending outwardly of said channel for easy grasp for removal of said snap ring from said channel, said dome having a central opening for fitting a terminal end of said shaft tip therethrough, an opposite end of said wire conductors being connected to said batteries and said switch, said hollow handle having an opening on its terminal end, a removable end cap frictionally fitted on said handle end closing said opening, a row of buttons around an outer side of said handle and another row of buttons around an outer side of said end cap, each said buttons of said handle aligning with of a button of said end cap, a rubber band snapped around each pair of said aligned buttons, said switch being mounted upon an inner side of said end cap, a switch button of said switch extending outwardly through said end cap, and a compression coil spring around said switch bearing at one end against said end cap and bearing at the other end against an end wall of one said batteries said spring urging an opposite end of an opposite endmost battery with a battery terminal plate thus completing said circuit through said spring.