Patent ID: 6789557
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
An attachment member for attaching the leg of a sunshade to the side of a chair, comprising:a. an openable clamshell bracket member having an outer parallel arcuate member including a first elongated arcuate wall and a parallel second elongated arcuate wall, and an inner arcuate member having a first elongated arcuate wall and a parallel second elongated arcuate wall, the first elongated arcuate walls being adjacent each other and forming one half of the clamshell bracket and the second elongated arcuate walls being adjacent each other and forming the second half of the clamshell bracket, the two halves rotatably attached to each other, the clamshell bracket further having means to tighten the two halves against each other and to enable the halves to be opened; b. a first body member extending away from the second outer and second inner arcuate walls, the first body member having a transverse wall which is perpendicular to the second inner arcuate wall, the transverse wall having a multiplicity of teeth on one surface; c. a second body member having a transverse wall parallel to the transverse wall of the first body member, the transverse wall of the second body member having a multiplicity of mating teeth so that the teeth on the two transverse walls form a ratchet mechanism, and means to adjust and tighten the teeth against each other; and d. the second body member terminating in a hollow cylindrical leg receiving member including a cylindrical wall and an adjustment means extending into the hollow portion of the cylindrical leg receiving member to fasten an inserted leg at any desired portion of the cylindrical leg receiving member; e. whereby the attachment member is attached to the side of a chair by clamping either the parallel walls of the outer parallel arcuate member or the parallel walls of the inner parallel arcuate member around the side of a chair and fastening them against the side of the chair by adjusting the clamshell tightening means, the leg of a sunshade is affixed within the cylindrical leg receiving member and tightened to any desired height above the chair by the adjustment means, and the angle of the sunshade relative to the chair is adjusted by rotating the second body member relative to the first body member by the ratchet mechanism and tightening the two together at the desire orientation by the adjustment and tightening means.