The Hillman Group, Inc.

Gary J Schorr

Michael James Schmidt

Jordan D Shoenhair

Byron Keith Grice

Wayne R Mayville

An umbrella holding device designed for secure placement in a hole on a patio, porch, or pool deck. The device comprises a grip nut, a base, and a ferrule. The grip nut features a grip exterior and interior, with the interior partially threaded. The base has a grip portion and a patio extension, with the patio extension designed to fit into the patio hole and the grip portion configured to engage with the grip nut thread. The base interior is substantially funnel-shaped. The ferrule, which can be inserted into the grip hollow, has a top and at least one tang. When the threaded exterior portion engages the grip nut thread, the ferrule is pushed into the base interior, and the funnel-shaped base interior exerts inward pressure on the ferrule.

Umbrella holding device

A hollow wall anchor includes a wall penetrating component having an externally threaded portion and a wall penetrating end portion, and a body component having a wall face engaging portion and an internally threaded portion that receives the externally threaded portion of the wall penetrating component. Rotation of the components together in a first direction for wall penetration moves both the wall penetrating component and the body component into the wall until the wall face engaging portion of the body component engages the wall to limit further rotation of the body component while the wall penetrating component continues to rotate such that interacting threads of the two components pull the wall penetrating component further into the body component. As the wall penetrating component is pulled further into the body component one or more retention arms are expanded outwardly behind a rear surface of the wall.

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Mesa, AZ, United States of America

Gary J Schorr