Golf cart umbrella mount bracket

Claim 1

For use with a vehicle having a rounded frame part to which an umbrella may be adjustably secured, a first and a second pair of clamping elements for attaching the handle of an umbrella to the vehicle, each of said clamping elements having a pair of lockable clamp jaws at one end with complementary dished portions and bolt means on both sides of said portions for grasping one of said umbrella and vehicle frame part and a block having two bores at right angles to each other at the other end of one of said separable clamp jaws of each clamping elements, locking screws threadedly received through said block and positioned to pass through said bores, a spacer rod having positioning arms extending off each end of said spacer rod in opposite directions at an angle directed away from the axis of said spacer rod, each positioning arm being receivable through the bore in the block of each of said first and second pair of clamping elements remote from said clamp jaws, said spacer rod positioning arms being cylindrical in cross-section to pass through the bore in the end of said clamping elements remote from said clamp jaws and one wall of said bore threadedly receiving a locking bolt to lock said positioning arms in place relative to their attaching clamps, said positioning arms passing through the bore in said blocks to be engaged by and locked with the locking screw passing through each said block to permit universal positioning of the umbrella relative to the point of attachment to said vehicle.