Golf cart umbrella holder

• US 5,310,155 A
• Filed: 07/21/1992
• Issued: 05/10/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wu, Ching-Tsang
• Original Assignee: Wu, Ching-Tsang
• Inventors: Wu, Ching-Tsang
• Primary Examiner(s): RADA, RINALDI I
• Application Number:
  US07/915,661
• Time in Patent Office: 658 Days
• Field of Search: 248/514, 248/515, 248/541, 248/229, 248/225.31, 248/231.6, 248/516, 224/274, 224/186
• US Class Current: 248/514
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 11/00 Umbrellas characterised by their shape or attachment
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/022 repositionable

Abstract

A golf cart umbrella holder comprising a mounting device fastened to the frame of a golf cart by a screw, a clamping device fastened to the mounting device by a screw to hold a socket for holding an umbrella. The clamping device has teeth on a contact wall to the mounting device around a circle respectively meshed with teeth on the mounting device. By changing the meshing order between the teeth on the mounting device and the teeth on the clamping device, the angular position of the umbrella relative to the golf cart is adjusted.

Claims

1. A golf cart umbrella holder comprising:

a mounting device secured to a frame of a golf cart, said mounting device including two plates secured around said frame by screw means, said two plates having symmetrical shapes and an inner wall with a channel receiving said frame, said channel having a channel structure for tightly securing said mounting device to said frame where said frame has any one of a plurality of different cross sections including a circle, an oval, a square and a hexagon, said channel structure including two chamfered peripheral top edges, a flat bottom with square corners and a single V-shaped groove centrally arranged in said bottom and extending a length of said channel, one of said plates having an outer wall with a plurality of first teeth arranged in a circle;

a socket having a tapered bore for holding an umbrella; and

a clamping device fastened to said mounting device by screw means for holding said socket, said clamping device having an opening which receives said socket and a surface with a plurality of second teeth mating with said first teeth.