Improvements in Umbrella and like Holders.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1900-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrella and like Holders.
I, WILLIAM SANDERS, of the Firm of Sanders, Son and Payne Limited, of
Leopold Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:.
My invention has for its object the production at small cost of convenient and
effective holders for retaining umbrellas, walking sticks, and the like in an
upright position in halls, on church pew fronts, or elsewhere.
construct one type of my improved umbrella holders or racks from one piece
or length of brass or other wire or strip of any suitable section, doubling and
bending the same into a series of semi-circular hook like loops. When the holder
is made of flat or half round strip the end portions of the strip, from which the
complete series of hook loops are formed, are preferably arranged along the outer
sides of the loop and with their extremities abutting, and they thus serve as a
tie for the loops and also as a bed-plate to abut against the wood or other attach-
ment block or plate to which the holder or rack is secured by screws or otherwise.
When forming the holder or rack from wire of a circular or other section I
preferably dispose the end portions a short distance apart from the closed sides
of the loops and employ clips for connecting them together upon the attachment
block or plate.
In order to give a more ornate appearance to the rack or holder I sometimes
make it from cast metal to any required ornamental pattern.
In all cases my improved holders or racks are fixed in the required position with
the hook loops disposed horizontally, and when used in combination with a pan
or trough placed at the floor level to receive the stick ends, the bracket is fixed
at a height suitable for the reception of the upper ends of the sticks. The upper
end of the stick has simply to be passed into the loop and around to the inner
side of the hook formed at the mouth of the same, to be retained in its upright
or nearly upright position. No scratching or scraping of the stick or handle
will occur in placing it in position in a hook loop or withdrawing it therefrom,
the aperture between the hook and the opposite side of the loop being amply large
to permit of free admission and withdrawal. Accidental detachment is effectually
prevented by the combination with the loop of the aforesaid hook portion.
Dated this 18th day of November 1899

page_text: the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object the production at small cost of convenient and
effective holders for retaining umbrellas, walking sticks, and the like in an
upright position in halls, on church pew fronts, or elsewhere.
On the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings, Figure is a front eleva-
tion and Figure 2 a plan representing an umbrella and walking stick holder as
constructed in accordance with my invention.
I construct one type of my improved: umbrella holders or racks from one piece
or length of brass or other wire or strip of any suitable section doubling and bend
ing the same into a series of semi-circular hook like loops, as A (see drawings).
When the holder is made of flat or half round strip the end portions of the strip,
from which the complete series of hook loops are formed, can be arranged along
the outer sides of the loop, and. with their extremities abutting, and they thus
serve as a tie for the loops and also as a bed, plate to abut against the wood. or
other attachment block or plate to which the holder or rack is secured by screws
or otherwise. Or I sometimes employ an independent tie and bed plate as B to
which the hook strip is attached by rivets or otherwise.
In order to give a more ornate appearance to the rack or holder I sometimes
make it from cast metal to any required ornamental pattern.
In all cases my improved bracket type holders or racks are fixed in the required
position with the hook loops disposed horizontally, and when used in combination
with a pan or trough placed at the floor level to receive the stick ends the bracket
is fixed at a height suitable for the reception of the upper ends of the sticks. The
upper end of the stick has simply to be passed into the loop and around to the
inner side of the hock formed at the mouth of the same, to be retained in its
upright or nearly upright position. No scratching or scraping of the stick or
handle will occur in placing it in position in a hook loop or withdrawing it there-
from the aperture between the hook and the opposite side of the loop being amply
large to permit of free admission and withdrawal. Accidental detachment is
effectually prevented by the combination with the loop of the aforesaid hook
portion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. Holders for umbrellas, walking sticks and the like, having hook loops sub-
stantially as described.
2. In holders for umbrellas, walking sticks and the like, having hook loops as
claimed in the preceding claim, the construction of a series of the said hook
loops from one piece or length of metal, substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of August 1900..
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, & 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents.