Abstract: An umbrella with a carrying strap retractable interiorly of the umbrella's handle to a storage position when use of the strap is not desired, and extendable exteriorly of the handle into a use position when it is desired to carry the umbrella with aid of the strap.

Abstract: An umbrella having a flexible cover that is usable in either a rib supported cover open position or a rib collapsed cover folded position. An advertising flag is attached to the umbrella cover, the advertising flag extending upwardly beyond the exterior surface of the cover when the umbrella is in the open position so as to display the advertising message thereon. Preferably the advertising flag is sized and positioned so that the flag is at least partially concealed between the folds of the umbrella cover when the cover is folded about the centerpost in the storage position.

Abstract: A novel soft luggage type hang-up garment bag that includes two major interior compartments having a width and length substantially equal to the width and length of the bag, and two minor interior compartments each having a width about one-half the width of the bag and a length no greater than about one-half the length of the bag, when the bag is in hang-up configuration. The bag is provided with a single width peripheral gusset wall that interconnects the bag's two major sidewalls so that all the major and minor compartments are interiorly of those sidewalls. The bag also is provided with a novel hang-up hook that is retractable into the bag's interior when the bag is being carried, and that is extendable from an end section of the bag's peripheral gusset wall to hang-up the bag.

Abstract: A grip for the handle of a hand-held implement that, in as-produced form, is comprised of a thin walled tubular member open at one end and a boot integral with the tubular member that closes its other end. The grip's average internal girth along its longitudinal axis, as produced, is substantially less than the average external girth of the implement's handle portion to be covered by the grip along that handle portion's longitudinal axis. The grip, which may have a novel exterior gripping surface, is produced by dipping a male mandrel into an elastomeric latex and, thereafter, curing the latex skin formed on the mandrel prior to stripping of the grip from the mandrel. The grip is installed on an implement's handle by creating a pressure differential between the interior and exterior of the grip, thereby causing the grip to stretch radially outward from its longitudinal axis.