IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Hall, of 50, Sloane Street, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
APPLICABLE TO UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS."
Sealed the 9th July 1875, and dated the 14th May 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Hall
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 14th May 1875.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD HALL, of 50, Sloane Street, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," to be as
follows:-
These improvements consist in inserting a piece of thin horn, talo,
toughened glass, or plain plate glass lights in two or more portions of
the cover of the umbrella between the ribs, situated preferably equally
near a rib of the umbrella.. The said light of whatever transparent
substance employed should be of the shape of a drop of water upon a
window pane, reversing the position on the umbrella to suit the

page_text: folding up of the umbrella, such light to be of the width of the diameter
at sight measure in the middle of the length of the covering of the
umbrella. The substance of whatever kind used is pasted, glued, or
cemented and secured to a leather binding, and this binding is then to
be sewn or secured on to the silk, alpaca, cotton, or whatever material 5
may be used for the covering of the umbrella.
When the sewing is completed the part of the material, as silk, alpaca,
cotton, or other material on which this light has been sewn, is cut out
from beneath it, and the Invention and improvement is completed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Hall in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 12th November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD HALL, of 50, Sloane Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of May, 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, the said William Edward Hall, Her special
licence that I, the said William Edward Hall, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Hall,
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 term 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 "Improve-
MENTS APPLICABLE TO UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Edward Hall, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument 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

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Hall, 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 :-
These improvements consist in inserting lights composed for instance
of a piece of. thin. horn or tale in two or more portions of the cover of
the umbrella between the ribs, situated preferably equally near a rib
of the umbrella. The said lights of whatever transparent substance
employed should be cut out to the shape of a drop of water on a window
pane, and of such a size as to be a little less at sight measure than the
diameter of the folded umbrella. The same is bound round with a
binding leather properly folded and pasted to the horn or talc. When
this paste is dry a sewing is carried through the binding, and through
the horn or tale to secure the edging of the binding to the light thus
made; then the light is sewn upon the silk or alpaca or cotton, or
material used. to cover the umbrella or parasol, and when this sewing is
done that piece or part of the said covering beneath the light is cut out,
and the Invention is completed.
Having now, described and ascertained the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and intimated generally in what manner the same is to be
performed or carried out in practice, I will now with the aid of the
accompanying Drawings proceed to particularly describo and ascertain
in what manner the same is to be performed or carried out in practice,
that is to say :-

page_text: umbrella. The substance composing the lights is either glued, pasted,
or cemented and secured to a leather binding, and this binding is then
sewn or secured to the silk, alpaca, cotton, or other material composing
the cover of the umbrella, and when this is completed the silk, alpaca,
cotton, or other material is cut out from beneath the lights, leaving same {
exposed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of my Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed
or put in practice, I declare that I claim the herein described Invention
of "Improvements applicable to Umbrellas and Parasols," substantially :
as the same is herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Hall, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.