Beach blanket staking device

Claim 1

In an advertising staking device of the character shown and described for ground mounting to securely position side edge portions of a beach blanket and the like in an upright wall-like enclosing position along and with respect to a central body portion thereof that is resting on the ground, an elongated drive stem having a tapered lower drive end, a vertically upright drive head and advertising plaque-receiving frame, said frame being centrally secured on an upper end portion of said stem and having a pair of U-shaped parts adapted to adjustably telescope with respect to each other to define a window portion of variable size, said parts in their telescopic relation having upper and lower spaced-apart cross members and vertical members connected to said cross members, means carried by said frame for receiving and retaining an advertising plaque within said window portion, blanket clipping means having a pair of pivotally connected jaws and spring means for urging said jaws towards a closed relation with respect to each other, one of said jaws being substantially centrally secured to the upper cross member of said upper frame part to mount said jaws to extend in a plane substantially parallel to said frame and in a vertical downwardly opening blanket edge-receiving position, and said clipping means being adapted to receive and retain an adjacent side edge portion of the blanket in an upright wall-like enclosing position along the device.