An Umbrella Receiver for Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 4th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Umbrella Receiver for Vehicles.
ELIZA ELLEN STENHOUSE The Grange Crofts Bank Urmston in, the County
of Lancashire Widow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An umbrella receiver for vehicles to be made of metal,-earthenware, compressed-
paper or any suitable material; -the receiver may be made of any shape to suit
the design of the vehicle.-In railway carriages I prefer to use a trough-shaped
receiver, placed at a convenient distance below the parcel rack. A short tube
may be inserted to convey the water to a convenient place, or the receiver may
be provided with a resovoir.
Dated this 10th day of December 1895.
I ELIZA ELLEN STENHOUSE The Grange Crofts Bank Urmston in the County
of Lancaster Widow do hereby declare 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 an umbrella receiver which is applicable to any
kind of vehicles and obviates the great nuisance of holding wet umbrellas during
a journey specially in crowded railway carriages, omnibuses or such conveyances.
I make these receptacles or receivers in a trough shape or any such suitable
shape to suit the design of the vehicle it is intended for. In say for instance a
railway carriage I prefer to use a trough shape receiver, which is placed at a
convenient distance below the present parcel rack. At the bottom of this trougb
and at each end I have a pipe which would either project outside the carriage in a
straight line with the receiver or be carried down to the floor of the carriage and
so allow the water to escape through this way.
In order that my invention may be better understood I have appended hereunto
a sheet of drawings upon which
Figure 1 is a view of my receptacle A fixed to a railway carriage,
Figure 2 is a view of a modification,
Figure 3 is a front view of the receiver A and part section of a carriage showing
the draining pipe leading to the outside.
Figure 4 is a cross section on line 1. 2.
Figure 5 is a longitudinal section of same.
The receiver A would be made of any suitable material such as metal, earthen-
ware, compressed paper, cardboard waterproofed or pegamoided and of any shape to
suit any desired requirements.
I may make the trough with an indentation or corrugation to raise the bottom
to form a slope or rising b in the centre to slope down towards each end as seen in

page_text: the section Figure 5. The pipe e drains the water either through the side of the
carriage d or can be simply extended down to the bottom of the carriage and so
drain through the floor on to the rails or road.
In some cases I may fix a rest or rests e Figure 2 inside the receiver A so that
the umbrellas can be lodged upon them and so prevent any chance of damage
being done to them and at the same time they could be easily taken up when
required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
-claim is.
An umbrella receptacle or receiver applicable to all kinds of vehicles substantially
-as and for the purpose herein set forth & shewn.
Dated this 31st day of July 1896.
ELIZA ELLEN STENHOUSE.