NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OR PRINCIPLE OF MANUFACTURING THE FURNITURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS AND OF UNITING THE SAME TOGETHER
Year: 1821

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
JOBDAY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Patent Snuffer Maker,.
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His.
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of November,.
in the second year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Hobday, my exors, admors, and assigns, His special licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel Hobday, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His
said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW AND
IMPROVED METHOD OR PRINCIPLE OF MANUFACTURING THE FURNITURE OF UMBRELLAS
AND PARASOLS AND OF UNITING THE SAME TOGETHER," in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Samuel Hobday, under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in
Ilis Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said.
Samuel Hobday, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, that the plan thereof drawn on the margin of these Presents is:

page_text: composed of the following parts and particulars, and will explain and illustrate
the principle of my said Invention (that is to say) :
One of the methods used by me in my said new Invention or principle,
consists of a circular ring with a groove made inside, and eight notches cut
thereon, a stretcher with a small horizontal beam at one end thereof. Another
method consists of another circular ring with eight sockets cut therein, and a
notch made in cach socket, a stretcher with a round ball attached at one end
thereof to fall or fit into the socket. And a third method consists of another
circular ring with eight eyes or holes pierced or cast therein, a stretcher with
a hook attached to one end thereof to hang on or fasten to the ring, and I do
not confine myself to any one of the said three methods of exercising my said
Invention, but occasionally use them all.
I use and exercise my method first stated, and which I call my groove and
beam principle, and represented in Figure 1 in the following manner :-I take
ring A, and place the beam B, in the groove cut in the ring A; I then take
the rib C, and place it in the socket part of the beam B; the stretcher D is
then fastened to rib C, at the point or place marked number 6 in the rib; I.
then place the beam end of the stretcher D in the groove cut in the circular
ring placed on the hollow tube or runner marked E, and I sometimes place
the short tube tight or close in the curge, hollow tube, or runner E, to keep
the beam end of the stretcher D in its proper place, but it will act without it;
I then pass the stick Q through the large hollow tube or runner E, and also.
through the ring A; I then fasten the ring A to the stick Q, by two. or more
pins, screws, or rivets, and by moving the large hollow tube or runner E
upwards or downwards on the stick Q, it will raise or fall the rib C. In my.
method secondly above stated, and which I call my socket and ball principle,
and represented in Figure 2, I take the circular ring marked G, with eight
sockets cut in it, and the circular ring H with eight sockets, and a notch cut
in each socket, and place the round ball I in the socket of ring H; I then
fasten ring H to ring G, with: two or more pins, screws, or rivets; I then place
the rib. C. in the socket part of ball I, and then fasten the stretcher J, to
rib C.in the point or place marked number 6; the ball end of the stretcher
J is then placed in the socket of ring K, fastened on the large hollow tube or
runner; the circular ring L with eight sockets cut in it, and a notch in each
socket, in which I place the ball end of stretcher J, is then placed and fastened
to the tube or runner K, with two or more pins, screws, or rivets; the stick Q
is then passed through the large hollow tube or runner K, and also through
the ring G; the ring G. is then fastened to the stick Q, with two or more pins,
screws, or rivets, and by moving the large hollow. tube or runner upwards and

page_text: downwards on the stick Q, it will raise or fall the ribs C. In my method
thirdly above stated, and which I call my hook and eye principle, and repre-
sented in Figure 3, I take the circular ring M, with eight eyes or holes
pierced or cut in the outward rim, and place the hook N in the ring M, on the
several eyes or holes so pierced; the rib C is then placed in the socket part of
hook N, and fastened with a pin or rivet; I then place the stretcher O in the
rib C, on the point or place marked number 6; the hook end of the
stretcher is then placed in the eye or hole of the ring attached to the
hollow tube or runner marked P; the hooks are then closed and confined to
the ring attached to tube P, the stick Q is then passed through the tube or
runner P, and also through ring M; the ring M is then fastened to stick Q,
with two or more pins, screws, or rivets, and by moving the large hollow tube
or runner upwards and downwards, it will raise or fall the stretcher. Figure 4
represents the several parts of my said Invention united together, and which I
cover with silk, linen, or cotton, and although I have described my principle
to act, or be used with eight ribs or stretchers, yet I occasionally use more or
less, and I sometimes use whalebone for the ribs, and I declare that my said
new principle or Invention may be made of silver, copper, steel, brass, iron, or
any other metal or composition of metals.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Hobday, have hereunto- set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord 1821, the aforesaid Samuel Hobday, came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.