US2753880A

US2753880A - Umbrella drip attachment

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Publication number: US2753880A
Application number: US417786A
Authority: US
Inventors: Garcia Zeid
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1954-03-22
Filing date: 1954-03-22
Publication date: 1956-07-10
Anticipated expiration: 1973-07-10

Description

July 10, 1956 z. GARCIA UMBRELLA DRIP ATTACHMENT Filed March 22, 1954 IN1/EN TOR.

Z giga/ Wj United States Patent O UMBRELLA DRIP ATTACHMENT Zeid Garcia, New York, N. Y.

Application March 22, 1954, Serial No. 417,786

2 Claims. (Cl. 13S-48) This invention relates to umbrellas, and the main object is the provision of an improved and practical drip catch attachment for a folded wet umbrella. It is a common nuisance, in coming into a house or apartment with a folded soaking umbrella, to have it drip over the floor or carpet while it is being carried into the bathroom or to an umbrella stand. The attachment of this invention serves to catch the drip from the umbrella and thus prevent i-t from falling to the floor.

Another object of the invention is the provision of such an attachment in a fashion so that it may be used on both mens and womens umbrellas, as well as on umbrellas having either relatively stout wooden stems and those having relatively thinner metal stems. The drip catch of this invention is readily installable by the consumer on either form of stem.

The present attachment is moreover unobjectionable in appearance and is simple in construction and easy for anybody to attach.

The drip attachment is made of any suitable material, but preferably of a somewhat flexible plastic composition, and i-t may be provided in any suitable color or colors.

The above as well as additional and more specic objects will be clarified in the following description, wherein characters of reference refer to like-numbered parts in the accompanying drawing. It is to be noted that the drawing is intended solely for the purpose of illustration and that it is therefore neither desired nor intended to limit the invention necessarily to any or all of the exact details of construction shown except insofar as they may be deemed essential to the invention.

Referring briefly to the drawing.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a folded umbrella provided with the attachment presented by this invention, for thin stems.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment per se.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of the umbrella and attachment of Fig. 1, with the latter shown as a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the attachment applied to a relatively stout wooden umbrella stem.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral indicates a common mens type of umbrella having a metal rod, stick or stem 11, which is usually relatively small in diameter. An umbrella, usually a womans, having a relatively stouter stem 13 commonly made of wood, is shown at 12.

The attachment embodied in the present invention comprises an essentially conical or funnel-shaped container or body 14 enclosing the space or compartment 15 within the conical wall 16. An axial opening 17 is provided through the bottom of the body 14, or, more specifically a floor 18 having the opening 17 therethrough, is provided at the narrow or lower end of the body. This iioor is relatively thick, and the hole 17 has a diameter approximately that 2,753,880 Patented July 10, 1956 ICC of the thick stem 13. As the body 14 is made of a somewhat elastic plastic material, and as the hole 17 is preferably very slightly smaller than the diameter of the stem 13, it is apparent that the stem 13 may be forced through the hole into the position shown in Fig. 5 by working the body up frictionally. Owing to the relatively thick iloor 18, a relatively large surface area of contact between the stem and the wall around the hole 17 is attained, thus assuring a firm securement of the body 14 in place.

The same body 14 is applied to a thin metallic umbrella stem, as shown in Fig. 3, with the additional small attachment in the form of a plug 19 made of the same elastic plastic material. The plug comprises a sleeve 20 having a head or ange Z1. An axial opening or passage 22 through the sleeve and flange of the plug is approximately of the same diameter as the stem 11, and the external diameter of the sleeve is approximately that of the hole 17. The ilange or head 21 of the plug has a conical circumferential edge 23 lying in the continuation of the conical surface of the body 14.

Since the body 14 has the ila-t lower end shown and represented by the thickened oor or bottom 18, it is better termed frusto-conical rather than conical, although by lowering the level of the bottom surface of the oor 18 to nearly the apex of the cone of which the body 14 may be considered a frustum, the body would be more nearly conical.

The attachment 14 is applied Ito the stem 11 of Figs. l and 3 (wherein the hole 17 is larger than the diameter of the stem) by iitting the plug 19 against the lower end of the body with the sleeve 20 registering in the hole 17, and passing the stem through the hole 22 in the sleeve. Thus, the same receptacle 14 is provided on the thin metallic stem as on the thick wooden stem, with the mere addition of the small ller plug.

In use, the drip from the soaking folded umbrella, when the latter is held or otherwise positioned approximately vertically, passes into the compartment 15, the floor of which, owing to the tight elastic iit of the plastic material of the iloor 18 or of the floor 18 and the plug sleeve 20, is watertight. The body 14 is preferably made small and relatively narrow even at the top, since the compartment 15 is intended to hold only a small amount of water, for example, the maximum amount which might drip from the umbrella in walking through a room or apartment.

Obviously, modifications in form or structure may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.

I claim:

l. In combination with the stem of an umbrella, a drip catch attachment comprising a frusto-conical hollow body open at the wider top end thereof and having a wall closing the narrower bottom end thereof, said body and wall being formed of a somewhat elastic material, said wall having an axial opening therethrough and having a thickness substantially greater than the thickness of the frusto-conical wall forming said body, the opposed surfaces of said bottom end wall being parallel and at right angles to the axis of said opening, said wall opening having a diameter substantially greater than the diameter of said stem, and a plug comprising a sleeve having an external diameter substantially equal to the diameter of said wall opening and a cylindrical head on the lower end thereof forming a shoulder at right angles to the axis of the sleeve, said plug having an axial passage through said sleeve and head of a diameter substantially equal to the dimeter of said stem, said sleeve registering frictionally in said wall opening with said shoulder positioned adjacent the bottom surface of said bottom end wall, said stem passing through said plug opening and registering frictionally therein.

2. The combination set forth in claim 1, said head having atdiameter substantially equal to the diameter of the bottom surfacefof said bottom -end .Wall of the body. 5 1 110215 1,63396l 2,301,380

References Cited in the ile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Beach July 2, 1889 Witaker Feb. 27, 1894 Madonna Sept. 8, 1914 Sweeting June 28, 1927 De Lamaterk Nov. 10, 1942