Patent ID: 7478643
Filing Date: 2009-01-20
Classification: A45B,A63B,A63C

Abstract:
1. An umbrella comprising a hub or ferrule, a canopy, a rib, and a cover which prevents the umbrella from wetting its surroundings said cover comprising: (a) a single elongated, flexible and invertible tubular sleeve formed of a pliable waterproof material having two ends; (b) one end of said sleeve having an orifice that is closed and is permanently attached at the hub or ferule of said umbrella; (c) the opposite end of said sleeve having an orifice that is circumambiently bound to a sturdy ring that maintains the patency of said sleeve's orifice and is used to manipulate and guide said sleeve's orifice, wherein said sleeve is led, up, down, on and off the circumference of a collapsed umbrella thereby directing the inversion process of said umbrella cover; (d) said sleeve is sized to house the entire canopy of said collapsed umbrella and said ring is sized to fit circumambiently to the orifice of said sleeve; (e) wherein said cover lays inside out atop said canopy when dormant; and (f) wherein said cover has a looped material band attached as a tangent at said ring-bound end of said cover; in said cover's dormant state, said cover is immobilized when said loop is placed around the tip of said rib.