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

• Current Assignee: Moses Miller Jr
• Original Assignee: Moses Miller Jr
• Inventors: Miller, Moses Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, Y MY QUACH
• Application Number:
  US08/710,479
• Time in Patent Office: 482 Days
• Field of Search: 362/102, 362/191, 362/208, 135/16, 135/910
• US Class Current: 362/102
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 3/04 electrical
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 135/91 Illuminated cane or umbrella

Abstract

An umbrella in which a flashlight has a body adapted to have one end attached to the shaft of the umbrella to be used as a handle for the umbrella. The light bulb and reflector are mounted in the opposite end of the flashlight body, which is angled to make it easier to direct the beam. The flashlight body is sealed against the entrance of moisture. Each end cap has an O-ring seal and the switch is a deflectable rubber or plastic button. The batteries and switch are mounted to a removable cartridge or carrier piece which mates with the inside of the flashlight body so as to be able to be inserted in only one way insuring correct assembly. The end cap at the end of the flashlight body attached to the umbrella shaft has a tapered bore press fitted to the shaft.

Claims

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.

2. The umbrella according to claim 1 further including a series of radial ribs extending between an outside of said tubular portion and an inside surface of said frusto-conical wall.