Patent ID: 6871616

Claim:
A combined pet leash and umbrella comprising: a shaft having a handle at one end and a leash coupled to said shaft adjacent an opposite end thereof; a canopy carried by said shaft and secured thereto by a sleeve slidable along the shaft between a canopy opened position and a canopy closed position; said canopy in the opened position having a generally convex surface facing the handle; a plurality of ribs pivotally coupled at one end to said sleeve and at opposite ends to said canopy adjacent margins thereof to support said canopy in the open position; a plurality of struts pivotally connected at one end to said shaft and pivotally connected at opposite ends to said ribs; the struts supporting said ribs in said canopy opened position; and a detent co-operable between said shaft and said hub for releasably maintaining said canopy in the opened position, wherein said canopy in the opened position has portions adjacent said sleeve lying generally in a horizontal plane, said shaft intersecting said plane at an angle different than 90°.