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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1989
Filed:
May. 12, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshio Okuda, Hirakata, JP;
Assignee:
`totes`, incorporated, Loveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A45B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
135 / ; 135 / ;
Abstract
An umbrella in which at least a portion of the cover's peripheral edge is shirred. This shirred edge portion is stretched to a greater length when the umbrella is open and contracted to a lesser length when the umbrella is collapsed, thereby providing a taut appearance to the cover when the umbrella is open in the dome-shaped configuration. This invention is particularly useful when the cover is fabricated from a single piece of material, i.e., when the cover is not comprised of separate gores stitched together.