Safety umbrella with water collecting and drainage mechanism

Abstract: A safety umbrella comprising fluorescent fabric panels, of which, at least one panel is transparent, a skeleton, a shaft assembly, and a cover assembly. Interconnecting the skeleton to the shaft assembly is a runner, which allows a user to open and close the umbrella and elongated sleeves upon stretchers to prevent pinching or trapping the fingers of the users thereof. A telescopic cover assembly collects water when the umbrella is closed, and the telescopic cylindrical are in the extended position engaged contiguously to each other's cooperating upper and lower flanges resulting in a substantially water-tight disposition. A removable cap mounted to a sleeve member that includes a thorough passage allows for the ready drainage of the water collected by the canopy, reducing the probability of water damage or accidents to the user or others, resulting from slippage upon water. (end of abstract)

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to an umbrella, and more particularly, to a safety umbrella with a water collecting and drainage mechanism.

2. Description of the Related Art

Several designs for umbrellas have been designed in the past. None of them, however, include water collecting and drainage features that are simple and easy to operate.

There are no umbrellas, to the best of applicant\'s knowledge, that include a drainage mechanism that permit a user to selectively discharge the water collected from a wet canopy with a simple mechanism.

One related reference corresponds to U.S. Pat. No. 5,425,388 issued to Chen wherein a complicated valve mechanism is used. The present invention, on the other hand, provides a simple water collecting and drainage mechanism that can be readily implemented with a minimum number of components and cost.

Other patents describing the closest subject matter provide for a number of more or less complicated features that fail to solve the problem in an efficient and economical way. None of these patents suggest the novel features of the present invention.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is therefore one of the main objects of the present invention to provide an umbrella that includes a simple water collecting and drainage mechanism.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an umbrella that includes such a mechanism that can be readily actuated on the distal end of an umbrella shaft.

It is another object of this invention to provide an umbrella that may contain water from its canopy after becoming wet and while in the closed position.

It is yet another object of this invention to provide such an umbrella that is inexpensive to manufacture and maintain while retaining its effectiveness.

Further objects of the invention will be brought out in the following part of the specification, wherein detailed description is for the purpose of fully disclosing the invention without placing limitations thereon.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

With the above and other related objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and combination of parts as will be more fully understood from the following description, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 represents an elevation view of the instant invention with the cover assembly in the extended position with cap 76 removed and shown detached.

FIG. 2 represents an elevation view of the instant invention with the cover assembly in the retracted position.

FIG. 3 illustrates an elevation view of the umbrella in the open position.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the instant invention with the umbrella in the open position.

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