Canopy frame with outdoor canopies for chair

Abstract

The Blakney “Canopy Frame with Outdoor Canopies for Chair” was invented to provide a portable and aesthetic solution for a number of problems that confront people when they sit outdoors. Many ways have been devised to attach shades to chairs or to add seats to blinds, often with very complex mechanisms. This invention minimizes mechanism and expands function. This “Canopy Frame for Chair” consists of three integral parts: canopies, frame, and chairbag. A set of interchangeable canopies includes a sunshade, a mosquito net, and a photography or changing blind The collapsible canopy frame, over which canopies can be draped, can be easily mounted and removed from a chair. The chair bag not only serves as the mounting system for attaching the canopy frame to a chair, but also has a pouch to store the canopies. The invention is lightweight, streamlined and completely portable even collapsing neatly with a folding chair. The Blakney “Canopy Frame with Outdoor Canopies for Chair” provides easy access to a number of canopy options, and it can be quite beautiful when the fabrics are color coordinated with the chair they are draped over. The invention is unique in its multipurpose function, aesthetic possibility and simplicity.

What I claim as my invention is:  
     
         1 . The combined use of a canopy frame; a set of canopies; and a chairbag or fabric sleeve that slips over a chair back with external sleeves to mount the frame and to store the canopies.  
     
     
         2 . A collapsible canopy frame with two mounting legs stabilized by a crossbar between them that is comprised of two similar rectangular U-shaped frame sections, connected bottom of U to top of U with a set of corner braces and a set of folding braces so that the two frame sections can be supported at right angles to each other and can be collapsed flatly on top of each other with or without a chair back in between them.  
     
     
         3 . A collapsible canopy frame as described in  claim 2  with a top section of frame formed into a completed rectangular.  
     
     
         4 . A mounting system for attaching a canopy frame to a chair comprised of a chairbag (fabric sleeve) that slips over the back of a chair with an external sleeve(pouch) for storage, on either side of which, on the outside edges, are two long vertical sleeves used to house the legs of a canopy frame.  
     
     
         5 . A fabric canopy for draping over a canopy frame attached to a chair that is comprised of a rectangular top panel, with back/front panels and two side panels that are all cut at greater than a right angle from the top so that when the panels are all connected like a box top, the base dimensions of the canopy are considerably larger than the top dimensions of the canopy, with the greatest extension being in the front to allow for the extension of the legs of a person sitting in a chair over which the canopy is draped. 
 a) A blind canopy made out of opaque fabric to the specifications referred to in  claim 4 , hemmed to length that falls on the ground when it is draped over a canopy frame attached to a chair and to which is added a viewing hole with a cover panel set in the line of sight of the person sitting in the chair, and a zipper along a front vertical seam.    b) A mosquito or bug net canopy made out of netting to the specifications referred to in  claim 4 , hemmed to fall on the ground when it is draped over a canopy frame attached to a chair and to which is added a zipper along a front vertical seam.    c) A mosquito or bug net canopy made out of netting to the specifications referred to in  claim 4 , hemmed to fall on the ground when it is draped over a canopy frame attached to a chair and to which is added a stiff fabric trim added to the hem of the canopy.    d) A sunshade canopy made out of opaque fabric to the specifications referred to in  claim 4 , hemmed above the line of sight of a person sitting in the chair that can be used in tandem with the mosquito net canopy referred to in claim  4 b and  4 c.    
     
     
         6 . A built in canopy frame and chairbag as described in  claim 2 ,  claim 3 ,  claim 4 , where the chairbag becomes the surface of the back of the chair and the legs of the canopy frame extend from the outer vertical supports of the chair back.