Patent ID: 6471289
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: A45B,A47C

Abstract:
An umbrella attachable to a chair for self-supported deployment thereof comprising:mounting means attachable to the frame of said chair for supporting said umbrella therefrom; a cover of fabric stretched over hinged ribs radiating from a central pole and which is moveable from a collapsed position around said pole to an extended position from said pole to provide a shade around said pole, a distal end of said pole being pivotally attached to said mounting means allowing said pole to pivot from a downwardly depending position, when said fabric cover is in said collapsed position, to a generally upwardly directed position where said fabric cover may be moved to said extended shade providing position; and latch means attached to said pole for releasably holding said pole in said upwardly directed position; said central pole being provided with a flexible joint which allows an upper part of said pole and said fabric cover to be moved to angular positions relative to a lower part of said pole, said flexible joint comprising a spirally wound coil member surrounding said central pole and bendable in a plurality of radially directed positions relative to said lower part of said pole.