Patent ID: 7287538

Claim:
An illuminating umbrella grip comprising: a light-transmitting deformable grip member for securing a central shaft of an umbrella on said grip member, said deformable grip member adapted for a comfortable tight holding thereof; and a lamp device secured in said grip member, whereby upon lighting up of said lamp device, the light as emitted from said lamp device will be radially transmitted outwardly through said light-transmitting deformable grip member for illumination, said grip member including: a transparent hollow cylinder disposed about a longitudinal axis of the grip member and the central shaft; a light-transmitting flexible cover jacketed on the hollow cylinder; and a deformable light-transmitting layer sandwiched in between the hollow cylinder and the flexible cover; said hollow cylinder including: a lower socket for mounting the lamp device in the lower socket, and an upper socket for securing a base portion of the central shaft in the upper socket of the hollow cylinder; and said lamp device including a lamp casing protruding upwardly and engaged in the lower socket in the hollow cylinder, having a screw rotatably secured through a middle partition horizontally formed in a middle section of the hollow cylinder to be engaged with a bottom plug formed in a bottom of the central shaft within the base portion of the shaft to couple the lamp casing and the bottom plug to stably secure the central shaft and the lamp device with the grip member; and said lamp device further including: a LED electrically connected to a power source of batteries, said lamp casing having the LED mounted therein and secured in a central bottom portion of the grip member, and a switch operatively switching on or off the power source and movably mounted in a bottom cap of the lamp casing.