Beerbrella for When You Can’t Drink Fast Enough
The present invention provides a small umbrella (”Beerbrella”) which may be removably attached to a beverage container in order to shade the beverage container from the direct rays of the sun. The apparatus comprises a small umbrella approximately five to seven inches in diameter, although other appropriate sizes may be used within the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Beerbrella Patent #6637447
Credit: USPTO
This is our government dollars hard at work: patent #6637447 issued on Oct. 28, 2003. Gee, I wonder why I haven’t seen this for sale yet.
January 20th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I’m glad you liked Beerbrella. Your comment about “our government dollars at work” is really off-target. The Patent Office actually generates a profit for the U.S. Government (as does the Post Office) from the user fees. So “your government dollars” are not at work here, but mine are. I wrote this Patent as an exercise, and there were five similar Patents cited as “Prior Art” - but since none were named “Beerbrella” the rest faded to obscurity. So far, the Patent has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Time, MSN, and I even had an inquiry from the Conan O’Brien Show. I’ve written hundreds of Patents for various clients, which have been sold for millions of dollars. But I’m afraid I’ll go down in history as one of the inventors of the “Beerbrella”. Oh well….. Cheers.