Picking a Patio Umbrella

| Monday, March 7, 2011
By Hamster Umbro


People run for shade, when the sun shines, to escape the scorching rays, especially in tropical courtiers, irrespective of summer or winter seasons. In the absence of any such shade, people started to device primitive cladding that developed into umbrellas.

In the imperial regime of India, the kings and royal families opted for an ornamental variant of ceremonial umbrellas indicating their status while escaping the scorching sun rays. As civilization developed handy umbrellas to carry any - where and everywhere and more solid and heavier class of umbrellas to fix at a place either as portable or as fixed patio umbrellas. Some innovative people engineered these patio umbrellas to give shelter against sun and rain at the same time enjoy the natural surroundings in the open place like beach, gardens, elevated hill slopes or even sand dunes in the desert.

With the development of designing science, light easy to carry umbrellas made along with heavy fixing type of portable umbrellas that turned into Patio Umbrellas. Better shapes were given to these patio umbrellas by innovative designers to use as a portable shelter in open places like gardens, meadows, beaches or even deserts to enjoy the breeze and the scenic view of the natural surroundings, while getting protection from sun and rain.

Umbrella portion is attached over this strong base to give stability for the umbrella from tilting or toppling in case of mild breeze or wind.

Focus was given to the temporary stability of these portable patio umbrellas by providing a heavy base along with a sharp stem that can get into the soil to keep the base in place. Patio umbrella is fixed over this strong base, which held it to the ground stable from toppling even against mild winds.

Later on, in the development of patio umbrellas, some additional features started to take place. One such improvement is with adjustable canopy to ford the moving sun or slanted showers of drizzling. When someone rests for a longer time, the sun would have moved out and the rays would be entering from slanted angle.

Some additional features started taking place in the development of these Patio Umbrellas. By tilting the canopy of the umbrella along with the moving direction of the sun or the drizzling angle of the shower is one of such improvements.

While someone rests under the umbrella, the sun rays will creep through in a slanted angle, as it is moving towards the west. At this point fixed canopy of the umbrella will not be able to give the cover, as the shade would have already moved out. A knuckle with a tilting mechanism at the top stem of the umbrella enables the canopy tilted against the sun to resume the shade. This joint should be sturdy enough to support the canopy of the umbrella as well as the additional load that will be imposed because of the mild wind or the water of the drizzle.

An additional swivel mechanism will give a complementary ease of movement against the current of the wind, the rain or the sun rays with the changing direction, without dislodging the resting person.

Realizing the comfort these Patio Umbrellas offered, people started making this part of their picnic accessory. Many colorful designs and patterns started coming up with variety of qualities.

Enterprising commercial people started to exploit the popularity of these umbrellas as a tool to promote their product through publicity though these. This device of convenience, moved to an area of publicity gaining commercial importance as product promoter.

Patio umbrellas became additional attraction in areas of gatherings, where people spend short time like beaches or meetings etc., to buy ice creams or snacks under these umbrellas. These Patio Umbrellas has become the icon of fun and festivity.

The canvass of these Patio Umbrellas that bear the name of the product, slogan or the symbol got into the minds of people creating impressive identity thus gaining commercial importance as a product promoter in the area of publicity.




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