IM. PROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS." PROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Just Laruc, of 13, Tottenham Street, Tottenham
Court R, London, Civil Engincer, for the Invention of "IM.
PROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS."
PROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS."
Sealed the 25th September 1874, and dated the 27th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Just Larue at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th March 1874.
I, JUST LARUE, of 13, Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court Road,
3 London, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," to be as
follows:-
These improvements relate to the so called notch rings of the head
caps and runners or sliders of umbrellas and parasols.
Instead of using the usual ring made- with a groove running
transversely to its longitudinal axis and cut with longitudinal notches to
receive the eyes formed in the ends of the stretcher rods of the umbrella
or parasol frame, and instead of employing a piece of wire which is

page_text: threaded through the said eyes in the said stretcher rods, the ends being
jointed by twisting, I proceed as follows:-I form a star or notched
cap or cup of any suitable material, preferably metal with points of an
appropriate length. I then thread the eyes of the stretcher rods or
of the ribs respectively on a split on a jump ring, this I place con-
centrically on the star of metal, and then bend back the points of the
said star over the ring and between the open spaces between the eyes.
I may form the star either by stamping it out of a sheet of metal
with intermediate spaces and points of the same number as the
stretchers and the ribs of the umbrella or parasol, and I may then
solder the star thus formed to a tube of a length appropriate for either
the head cap or the runner or slider of the umbrella or parasol; or I take
a tube one end of which I slit up to a suitable distance and then bend
back a portion of the slitted length to stamp therefrom the star which I
combine as above. Or I may also form by casting in one piece of any
suitable metal, such as brass, the said star and tube, and I then turn out
a groove or recess on the face of the star for the reception of the ring.
This groove is made of such a depth that the split ring can be bedded
therein and be held in its groove by hammering back the metal of the
said ring. The material to form the star may also be cast solid, and
the notches for the reception of the ribs be sawn out.
Another modification may consist in combining a pair of stars or
notched cups as described, whether of metal or other suitable material,
with the split ring between their inner faces, the said stars being held
together either by means of pins or rivets, or screws, or by their points
being made of sufficient length that they can be caused to clasp together
by being bent back and over each other.
It is obvious that other modifications may be made in the details, such
as employing fixed segments or pins instead of threading the eyes on a
ring; or instead of employing eyes the ends of the ribs can be hooked on
the ring fixed as described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Just Laruc in the Great Seal Patent Office.
on the 26th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JUST
LARUE, of 13, Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, Civil
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in tho
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Just Larue, Her special
licence that I, the said Just Larue, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Just Laruc, my exccutors,
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, tho
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Just Larue, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under. my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
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 Just Larue, do hereby declare
tlie nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement:-
These improvements relate to the so called notch rings of the head
caps and runners or sliders of umbrellas and parasols.
Instead of using the usual ring made with a groove running
transversely to its longitudinal axis and cut with longitudinal notches to
receive the eyes formed in the ends of the stretched rods of the umbrella

page_text: or parasol frame, and instead of employing a piece of wire which is
threaded through the said eyes in the said stretcher rods, the ends being.
jointed by twisting, I proceed as follows:-I form a star or notched
cap or cup of any suitable material, preferably metal, with points of an
appropriate length. I then thread the eyes of the stretcher rods or
of the ribs respectively on a split or on a jump ring. This I place con-
centrically on the star of metal and then bend back the points of the
said star over the ring and between the open spaces between the eyes. .
I may form the star cither by stamping it out of a sheet of metal
with intermediate spaces and points of the same number as the stretchers
and the ribs of the umbrella or parasol, and I may then solder the star
thus formed to a tube of a length appropriate for either the head cap or
the runner or slider of the umbrella or parasol; or I take a tube one
end of which I slit up to a suitable distance and then bend back a
portion of the slitted length to stamp therefrom the star, which I
combine as above. Or I may also form by casting in one piece of any
suitable metal, such as brass, the said star and tube, and I then turn
out a groove or recess in the face of the star for the reception of the
ring. This groove is made of such a depth that the split ring
bedded therein can be held in its groove by hammering back the metal
of the said ring. The material to form the star may also be cast solid,
and the notches for the reception of the ribs be sawn out.
Another modification may consist in combining a pair of stars or
notched 1 cups as described, whether of metal or other suitable material,.
with the split ring between their inner faces, the said stars being held
together either by means of screws or by their points being made of
sufficient length that they can be caused to dash together by being bent
back and over each other.
It is obvious that other modifications may be made in the details, such

page_text: D' is D improved by my system of subdivided like star points, the
intervals of the notches analogous to the Figure B, then the star point
made is hammered to keep back the wire in its groove.
In witness whereof, I, the said Just Larue, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of September, in the 5
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.