Flexible or portable closure – partition – or panel – With hood – canopy – shield storage chamber – or outrigged... – For roll type
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-29
2001-12-18
Lev, Bruce A. (Department: 3634)
Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel
With hood, canopy, shield storage chamber, or outrigged...
For roll type
C160S290100, C160S351000, C160SDIG001, C297S184100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06330898
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
(1) Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a rain canopy apparatus for a stroller, and more particularly to which its canopy can be scrolled and stored into an accommodation pipe clamping by both ends at both side bars of the stroller, for easy carrying and convenient operation.
(2) Description of the Prior Art
In a family with infant or kids, it is quite common to see people using a foldable stroller to carry his/her infant and kids while walking or shopping.
As the usage of the stroller increases, the reachable region of the stroller becomes wider in both indoors and outdoors. While moving the stroller outdoors, the weather condition is one of the problems needing delicate considerations. In a previous design, a movable head cover is used to shield from sunshine, and a transparent waterproof full cover upon the whole stroller is used to protect from the rain and wind. Though the full cover can prevent the kid in the stroller from the rain and the wind, yet the controllability of the stroller is substantially degraded for the controlling top horizontal bar of the stroller is almost blocked by the full cover. Even the top horizontal bar is still accessible by holding both the bar and the flexible cover simultaneously, slipping might happen to the holding due to the rain fallen on the smooth surface of the full cover. Such a design greatly jeopardizes the controllability and the usage of the stroller. In addition, the cover in the art is usually not integrated onto the stroller frames, which makes the additional carrying of the cover necessary. Particularly, the cover is usually stored in the stroller. However, such an job can be too tedious for some people to remember doing so. Even some people get used to put a folded cover inside a package of the stroller so that the carrying problem of the cover can be resolved, yet the folded cover as like a rain suit is hard to be folded well so that the folded profile and the respective volume might be far from an optimal profile and a minimum volume. As a result, saving space becomes a target unachievable regarding carrying a stroller cover. Further more, in case of a wet cover, it is obvious that storing the folded wet cover in the stroller is not good to the infant or kids in the stroller. In addition, if a stroller does not have a package, to carry a wet cover indoors all the time is not only a burden to people himself/herself, but also introduce unhappiness to other people.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a rain canopy apparatus for a stroller, by which aforesaid disadvantages of a convention stroller cover can be improved. In accordance with the present invention, a plurality of hole in a line for hooking a flexible canopy to a hook inside an accommodation pipe is located at a thicker end of the stroller canopy. The accommodation pipe is a hollow openable shell having an upper half pipe and a lower half pipe pivotal connected with the upper half pipe. Two end caps are provided to seal respective ends of the accommodation pipe. An outer end of the end cap extends to form a clamp. The end cap can move restrictively along an axial/longitudinal direction at the respective end of the accommodation pipe, so that the length of the rain canopy apparatus can be adjusted to meet various strollers. The rain canopy apparatus of the present invention is mounted between two sidebars of the stroller via two clamps formed at ends of the end caps. The sidebar is located right beneath a top horizontal bar of the stroller. By providing such an arrangement, the canopy can be rolled and stored inside the accommodation pipe fixed at the stroller. Thereby, the carrying and storing problem of a conventional stroller cover is thus resolved.
According to the present invention, the canopy is permanently stored at the stroller, so that the usage of the canopy is convenient. In addition, a spool is located at one end of the canopy for rolling the canopy compactly to be stored inside the accommodation pipe. Thus, the folding problem of a conventional stroller cover is then resolved. Further, residue rain on the canopy can be also stored temporarily in the sealed accommodation pipe for avoiding the possibility of moistening the stroller and/or the storage packet of the stroller. Thereby, all disadvantages of using a conventional stroller cover are improved by the present invention.
Further scope of the applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.
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Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Lev Bruce A.
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