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Umbrella with flashlight handle

  • US 5,707,135 A
  • Filed: 09/18/1996
  • Issued: 01/13/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An umbrella having a collapsible top at an upper end of a shaft, said shaft also having a bottom end;

  • a flashlight handle attached to the said bottom end of the shaft;

    said flashlight handle having a graspable main body angled at a lower end,said main body having an upper end cap formed with a socket receiving said umbrella shaft bottom end, said socket comprising a tubular portion integrally secured to a rim of said end cap with an intervening frusto-conical wall;

    a light bulb and a reflector mounted in said angled lower end of said main body;

    a battery compartment in said main body adapted to receive a set of batteries;

    a power supply circuit interconnecting said batteries and light bulb;

    a switch operable to control powering of said light bulb by said batteries received in said battery compartment;

    whereby said light bulb when energized projects light from said angled lower end of said flashlight handle.

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