Patent ID: 8356612

Claim:
An umbrella comprising: a shaft with a top member connected to a top end of the shaft and a runner movably mounted to the shaft, multiple stretchers pivotably connected between the top member and the runner, the shaft including an inner tube and an outer tube in which the inner tube is retractably received, the runner movably mounted to the outer tube, the outer tube having a stopper extending outward from an outside of an upper end of the outer tube and the stopper having a tapered lower outer periphery, an outer diameter of the stopper is smaller than an inner diameter of the runner, the runner having a control button, the control button having a protrusion to be rested on the stopper when the runner is being movable over the stopper and supported by the stopper when the umbrella is opened, and the control button being compressed to disengage from the stopper when the runner being movable downward along the outer tube to close the umbrella.