Sunshade

• US 5,135,281 A
• Filed: 06/28/1991
• Issued: 08/04/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Edward Pappalardo
• Original Assignee: Edward Pappalardo
• Inventors: Pappalardo, Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): Cranmer, Laurie K.
• Application Number:
  US07/723,051
• Time in Patent Office: 403 Days
• Field of Search: 297/184, 135/90, 135/96, 135/102, 135/103, 135/106
• US Class Current: 297/184.15
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/66 Means to protect against weather

Abstract

This invention relates to chair sunshades, especially to chair sunshades where the sunshade is intended to be collapsible and detachable from its frame, and is made of a disposable, replaceable, and imprintable type of material.

Claims

1. A sunshade comprising:

a plurality of flexible and resilient strips,

a sheet of flexible material,

means for anchoring a base end of each said strip to a support structure,

a plurality of arching cords extending between said support structure and a distal end of each said strip, means for removeable attachment of said arching cords between said support structure and said distal ends of said strips such as to cause said strips to assume an arched configuration in resilient resistance to said attachment means,

means for anchoring an edge of said sheet to said distal ends of said strips,

means for retaining said sheet draped in an arched configuration over said strips, said retaining means comprising;

a plurality of retention cords attached to the distal ends of at least two outermost strips and running atop of said sheet to the base end of said strips such that said sheet is sandwiched between each said retention cord and said strip associated therewith.

2. The invention of claim 1 wherein the support structure comprises the back of a chair.

3. The invention of claim 1 wherein the support structure comprises a plurality of spikes.

4. The invention of claim 1 wherein each said retention cord is continuous with the arching cord associated with each said strip to which each said retention cord is associated.

5. The invention of claim 4 wherein each said continuous cord further comprises:

a loop at a firs end,

means for receiving the loop at a second end,

stop means for allowing the first end to be passed through an opening in the distal end of a said strip and pulled through until said stop means comes in contact with said strip.

6. The invention of claim 1 wherein said sheet is of a material readily capable of receiving print.

7. A sunshade comprising:

a plurality of flexible and resilient strips,

means for removably anchoring a base end of each said strip to a support structure,

a plurality of cords,

means for attachment of said plurality of cords between said support structure and a distal end of each said strip such as to cause said strips to assume an arched configuration in resilient resistance to said means for attachment,

a sheet of material,

means for retaining said sheet of material draped in an arched configuration over said strips, said sheet of material comprising the sole means for rigidly keeping said strips in fixed positions relative to one another.

8. The invention of claim 7 wherein the support structure comprises the back of a chair.

9. The invention of claim 7 wherein the support structure comprises a plurality of spikes.

10. The invention of claim 7 wherein said sheet is of a material readily capable of receiving print.

11. The invention of claim 10 wherein said sheet is imprinted with a promotional message.

12. The invention of claim 7 wherein said sheet of material is from the group consisting of cardboard, paper, straw, plastic, metal and composites.

13. The invention of claim 7 wherein said sheet is corrugated.

14. A sunshade comprising:

a plurality of flexible and resilient strips,

means for removably anchoring a base end of each said strip to a support structure,

means for attachment between said support structure and a distal end of each said strip such as to cause said strips to assume an arched configuration in resilient resistance to said means for attachment,

said means for attachment comprising a continuous extended portion on at least two outermost of said strips, hingedly attached thereto, and having means for attachment to said support structure, means for retaining a sheet of material draped in an arched configuration over said strips, said material comprising means for rigidly keeping said strips a fixed distance apart.

15. The invention of claim 14 wherein the support structure comprises the back of a chair.

16. The invention of claim 14 wherein the support structure comprises a plurality of spikes.

17. The invention of claim 14 wherein said sheet is of a material readily capable of receiving print.