Personal cooling apparatus

• US 9,010,346 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2013
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Frances Stankiewicz
• Original Assignee: Frances Stankiewicz
• Inventors: Stankiewicz, Frances
• Primary Examiner(s): YIP, WINNIE S
• Application Number:
  US13/966,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20140048110A1
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 135/91, 135/93, 135/98, 135/16, 135/25.4, 239/289, 239/375, 239/379, 62310-314, 454/370
• US Class Current: 135/16
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 2200/1036 with means for promoting air movement, e.g. ventilation holes, fans, ventilators, special shape for ventilation, suction means
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 23/00 Other umbrellas
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 3/00 Sticks combined with other objects

Abstract

A portable sun screen and cooling apparatus for shading a user from direct sunlight while circulating cooled air. The portable sun screen and cooling apparatus provides a domed canopy with an air conditioning element that circulates cooled air throughout the domed canopy. The domed canopy comprises a hollow framework for redirecting the cooled air toward a user'"'"'s upper body. An indicating element demonstrates a user'"'"'s position should they become lost or separated from their companions.

Claims

1. A portable sun screen and cooling apparatus comprising:

an umbrella element comprising;

a domed canopy comprising an apex, an interior, an exterior, and a lipped periphery, wherein a first portion of the domed canopy is opaque and a second portion is transparent; and

a hollow frame attached to the interior of the domed canopy, wherein the hollow frame comprises a plurality of articulating tubes and a plurality of outlet holes; and

a hollow pole comprising an adjustable length extending downward out of the hollow frame from the apex, wherein the lipped periphery is scalloped and extends inward approximately between ½ and

2½

inches substantially perpendicular to the hollow pole; and

an air conditioning element in fluid communication with the umbrella element for moving cooled air through the interior of the domed canopy, wherein the lipped periphery redirects the cooled air flowing downward along the domed canopy inward towards the hollow pole; and

a user'"'"'s position indicating element located on the umbrella element.

2. The portable sun screen and cooling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s position indicating element is an audible indicator.

3. The portable sun screen and cooling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s position indicating element is a visible indicator.

4. The portable sun screen and cooling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s position indicating element comprises an audible indicator and a locating beacon.

5. The portable sun screen and cooling apparatus of claim 4, wherein the hollow pole further comprises a control switch for activating the indicating element and for activating a flow of cooled air from the air conditioning element through the portable sun screen and cooling apparatus.

6. The portable sun screen and cooling apparatus of claim 5, wherein the opaque portion of the domed canopy comprises a fabric that blocks ultraviolet light.

7. The portable sun screen and cooling apparatus of claim 6, wherein the transparent portion of the domed canopy comprises between approximately twenty-five and fifty percent of the domed canopy.