AN IMPROVED MODE OF SECURING THE TIPS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS.' OF SECURING THE TIPS OF UMBRELLAS AND
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Elkan, of Finsbury Square, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE
OF SECURING THE TIPS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS.'
OF SECURING THE TIPS OF UMBRELLAS AND Parasols.'
Sealed the 7th September 1875, and dated the 10th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Elkan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th March 1875.
I, DAVID ELKAN, of Finsbury Square, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVED MODE OF SECURING THE TIPS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," to be as
follows:-
1
This relates to improvements in securing the tips of the ribs of
umbrellas and parasols, the object being to provide a fastening for said
tips, and at the same time to do away with the protruding flange which
heretofore has been employed to encircle them, and the Invention con-
sists in the application of a metal sleeve or band capable of sliding over

page_text: and upon an inner sleeve or band fixed on the stick. The inner sleeve
or band has a slot or slots therein for the reception of a pin or pins
fixed to the outer sleeve, the said slot and pin serving to guide the outer
sleeve when being adjusted. The tips of the ribs of the umbrella or
parasol are retained between the outer sleeve or band and the stick.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Elkan in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
ELKAN, of Finsbury Square, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, tho said David Elkan, Her special licence
that I, the said David Elkan, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said David Elkan, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the terin therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF SECURING THE TIPS OF
UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said David Elkan, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Elkan, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet

page_text: of Drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is
to say
This relates to improvements in securing the tips of the ribs of
umbrellas and parasols, the object being to provide a fastening for said
tips, and at the same time to do away with the protruding flange which
heretofore has been employed to encirclo them, and the Invention con-
sists in the application of a metal sleeve or band capable of sliding over
and upon an inner sleeve or band fixed on the stick. The inner sleeve
or band has a slot or slots therein for the reception of a pin or pins
fixed to the outer sleeve, the said slot and pin serving to guido the outer
sleeve when being adjusted.
In the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1 is a side view of the handle
and part of the stick of an umbrella with the inner sleeve fixed thereon;
Fig. 2, a like view shewing attached the metal sleeve or band which
slides over or upon the inner sleeve and together forming the complete
fastening, the parts being in position to encircle the rib tips; Fig. 3, a
detached sectional view of the complete fastening shewing the parts in
position to release the rib tips.
A is the inner sleeve which is fastened to the stick; B, slot or slots
therein; C, band or sleeve capable of sliding over and upon the sleeve A;
D, pin or pins fixed to outer sleevo O and working in slot or slots B
serving to guide the outer sleeve O when being adjusted. The tips of the
ribs of the umbrella or parasol are retained between the outer sleeve or
band O and tho stick.
Having now described the naturo and particulars of my said Inven-
tion, I claim the improved mode of securing the tips of the ribs of
umbrellas and parasols, substantially as herein described and illustrated
by the Drawings.
.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Elkan, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.