Patent ID: 7585020
Filing Date: 2009-09-08
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
1. A sunshade apparatus for shading a chair, the sunshade apparatus comprising: a flexible canopy element; a support structure for supporting the flexible canopy element above the chair, the support structure including a pair of vertical support legs each having a top end and a bottom end, and a pair of horizontally extending arms, each of the pair of horizontally extending arms being attached to the top end of one of the pair of vertical support legs, the pair of horizontally extending arms functioning to support the flexible canopy element; a folding element that joins the pair of horizontally extending arms and enables the sunshade apparatus to fold between a collapsed configuration, wherein the pair of horizontally extending arms are adjacent, and a spread configuration, wherein the pair of horizontally extending arms are laterally spaced from each other; a bottom pair of attachment elements attached to the bottom ends of the pair of vertical support legs; a top pair of attachment elements attached to the pair of vertical support legs above and vertically spaced from the bottom pair of attachment elements; wherein the top and bottom pairs of attachment elements are adapted for mounting the support structure to the chair such that the flexible canopy element is positioned above the chair, and wherein each of the top and bottom attachment elements includes: