A secure runner applied on an umbrella is popular for many years, which provides users to operate the umbrella more conveniently and safely since they are unnecessary to touch an elastic stop extended from a shaft of the umbrella. For example in U.S. Pat. No. 5,494,604, it discloses a safety runner, which make use of a slidable sleeve that has an internal flange at the upper portion thereof and rides on a runner element embracing the shaft. By means of a slide motion of the sleeve relative to the runner element, a resilient bow lever housed in the shaft being depressed by the internal flange to release the detention of the runner to close the umbrella in secure. Another conventional structure is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,615,698, which discloses a different runner with a sleeve to close the umbrella safely.
The above-mentioned traditional designs although provide users to close the umbrella safely, but they include the runner and the sleeve, both of which are not separable after assembly. If there is any fault in the runner, the runner or the sleeve is difficult to be repaired that always causes the umbrella broken and useless forever.
The present invention is to overcome the drawback of prior art and to provide an invented umbrella, which includes an assembled secure runner including a base and a connector being separable that facilitates the utilization of the umbrella when the repair is needed. Now, accompanying with the following drawings, the character of the present invention will be described here and after.
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As the runner of the present invention is applied around a shaft (3) of the umbrella, the elastic slice (23) is engaged with the engaging edge (14) while the hooking end (24) is received in the opening (13) with a space at top portion and also a space exists between the ring (21) and the joint bottom (12), as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5.
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Under above operation, it is found that the user can close the umbrella very easily and safely by just pulling the ring (21) of the base (2) downward without touching the elastic stop (4) directly. If a fault is happened, the runner can be separated easily by pulling two hooking ends (24) outward and as the elastic slices (23) get away from the engaging edges (14) of the connector (1) that the base (2) is apart from the connector (1). Hence, the fault can be resolved without trouble. This improves the utilization of the present invention obviously.
Accordingly, it can be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are only exemplary of the present invention. Any modification with the same or similar merit is still claimed in this application. Such as shown in