Patent ID: 6948507
Filing Date: 2005-09-27
Classification: A45B,F16M

Abstract:
1. A deck support member in combination with a table umbrella, wherein a tubular support pole of said table umbrella extends downwardly through an aperture in a table in contact with a deck, said deck support member in combination with said table umbrella comprising: a table umbrella having a tubular support pole extendable through an aperture in a table, a lower end of said tubular pole in contact with a deck; a deck support member having a cylindrical body member defined by a cylindrical side wall having an outer diameter slightly less than the inner diameter of a tubular support pole for a table umbrella, said cylindrical body member having an open lower end having a peripheral flange thereabout, a closed upper end having an aperture there through for receipt of a securing means, and an aperture in said cylindrical side wall; a biasing means disposed within said cylindrical body member, the said biasing means of a U-shaped configuration having opposing depending legs and a cross leg, said cross leg having an aperture there through alignable with said aperture in said closed end of said cylindrical body member for receipt of the securing means, one of said opposing depending legs having secured on an outer surface, an extensible finger, said extensible finger having a cylindrical body extending outwardly from said leg of said biasing means and terminating with a radius end, said extensible finger positioned through said aperture in said side wall of said cylindrical body, said extensible finger slidably depressingly engagable with an aperture formed in said lower end of said tubular support pole for said table umbrella.