Patent ID: 6729341
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: A45B

Abstract:
A control apparatus for an automatic-opened umbrella including a runner around a shaft having its lower end to penetrate a handle and to connect with a seat, and the characteristic is that the runner being provided with a respective flat portion having a lower arched edge and a passage on both sides of the runner, a button having an inner ring body provided in the handle horizontally; the ring body being penetrated by the shaft and being provided with engaging end having upper curved face at both inner sides, and a bottom of both sides of the ring body being formed a respective groove; the seat being provided with two upward rods for positioning in the two grooves of the ring body that keeps the button received in the handle and never falling out; a small spring being placed in a channel of the handle to provide an elastic force on an inner end of the ring body that keeps the button aligned with the handle; when the umbrella is closed, the two arched edges of the runner being thus engaged with the two engaging ends on the ring body that obtains a firm engagement.