A New or Improved Combined Tip-cup and Runner for Umbrellas and Parasols.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Tip-cup and Runner for Umbrellas
and Parasols.
We THOMAS Cox and WILLIAM Cox and WILLIAM HOLLAND trading as Cox
Brothers and Holland of Percy Road Greet in the County of Worcester Manu-
facturers and WILLIAM HOLLAND the younger of No. 55 Grantham Road Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows :-
:-
The said invention consists of a combined tip cup and runner for umbrellas and
parasols the parts of which are constructed and combined and operate in the manner
hereinafter described. By the use of the said invention an open umbrella or parasol
is closed by simply pulling down the runner that is without applying the pressure of
the thumb to and depressing thereby the top spring of the umbrella or parasol by
which the umbrella or parasol is maintained in its open position.
The runner we employ resembles generally an ordinary runner and the tube of the
tip cup slides upon the runner in the ordinary way. But the tube of the tip cup is
prolonged beyond the concave side of the said tip cup and the said prolonged part of
the tube of the tip cup is of larger diameter than the other part and does not fit or
slide on the runner excepting at its extreme end a conical contraction being made at
the end of the tube.
The action of the parts is as follows. When the umbrella or parasol is opened by
pushing up the runner in the ordinary way the top spring snaps through the slot of
the runner in the usual way and occupies the space between the runner and the part
of the tip cup tube of large diameter. When it is wished to close the umbrella or
parasol the tube of the tip cup is drawn down. The conical end of the enlarged part
of the said tube is thereby brought onto the projecting top spring which is pressed
inwards thereby and the runner liberated. That is by simply grasping the tip cup
tube with the thumb and fore finger and gently drawing it downwards the runner is
released from the top spring and the umbrella or parasol closes.
Datal thin outh M1000
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Tip-cup and Runner for Umbrellas
and Parasols.
We THOMAS Cox and WILLIAM Cox and WILLIAM HOLLAND trading as Cox
Brothers and Holland of Percy Road Greet in the County of Worcester Manu-
facturers and WILLIAM HOLLAND the younger of No. 55 Grantham Road Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of the
said invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
The said invention consists of a combined tip cup and runner for umbrellas and
parasols the parts of which are constructed and combined and operate in the manner
hereinafter described. By the use of the said invention an open umbrella or parasol
is closed by simply pulling down the runner that is without applying the pressure of
the thumb to and depressing thereby the top spring of the umbrella or parasol by
which the umbrella or parasol is maintained in its open position.
The runner we employ resembles generally an ordinary runner and the tube of the
tip cup slides upon the runner in the ordinary way. But the tube of the tip cup

page_text: is prolonged beyond the concave side of the said tip cup and the said prolonged part
of the tube of the tip cup is of larger diameter than the other part and does not fit
or slide on the runner excepting at its extreme end, a conical contraction being
made at the end of the tube.
The action of the parts is as follows. When the umbrella or parasol is opened by
pushing up the runner in the ordinary way the top spring snaps through the slot of
the runner in the usual way and occupies the space between the runner and the part
of the tip cup tube of large diameter. When it is wished to close the umbrella or
parasol the tube of the tip cup is drawn down. The conical end of the enlarged
part of the said tube is thereby brought onto the projecting top spring which is
pressed inwards thereby and the runner liberated. That is by simply grasping the
tip cup tube with the thumb and fore finger and gently drawing it downwards the
runner is released from the top spring and the umbrella or parasol closes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in elevation a combined tip cup
and runner constructed according to this invention and Figure 2 represents the
runner of the same detached: Figures 3 and 4 represent the combined tip cup and
runner in vertical section applied to a portion of an umbrella or parasol. In
Figure 3 the combined tip cup and runner is represented raised on the stick and the
umbrella or parasol opened and fastened in its open position by the top spring on the
stick engaging with the slot in the runner and in Figure 4 the tip cup represented
in the act of being depressed on the runner for automatically unfastening the
umbrella or parasol prior to closing it.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawing.
a is the runner to the top notch b of which the stretchers cc are jointed in the
ordinary way. The said runner a is provided with a slot d for the top spring e on
the stick of the umbrella or parasol to snap into when the umbrella or parasol
is fully opened. Near the bottom of the runner a is a shoulder g: h is the tip cup
in which when the umbrella or parasol is closed the tips of the ribs may be engaged
in the ordinary way: is the lower tube of the tip cup and the upper prolonged
tube of the tip cup the said upper tube k being prolonged considerably beyond the
concave side of the tip cup has represented. The said prolonged tubular part k
of the tip cup is of larger diameter than the runner tube a and lower tip cup tube i and
consequently does not fit or slide on the runner tube excepting at its extreme upper
end; is a conical contraction at the end of the upper enlarged tubular part k of
the tip cup. On the tip cup is an internal annular shoulder m against which the top
of the coiled spring n bears the bottom of the said spring n bearing against the
shoulder g on the runner a.
By means of the coiled spring n the tip cup is maintained on the runner a in the
position represented, that is, when the tip cup is at liberty to move it is raised on
the runner and the conical end of the upper tube k of the tip cup pressed against
the notch 6 of the runner.
When the umbrella or parasol is opened by pushing up the runner a in the
ordinary way the top spring e on the stick snaps through the slot d in the runner and
occupies the space between the runner a and the enlarged upper tip cup tube k as
represented in Figure 3. In order to close the umbrella or parasol the lower tube i
of the tip cup is grasped and the tip cup drawn down on the runner a.
By the
drawing down of the tip cup the spring n is compressed and the conical end of
the upper tube k of the tip cup is thereby brought over the projecting top spring e
and the said top spring pressed inwards by the said conical end as represented in
Figure 4. By the further drawing down of the tip cup the top springe is fully
pressed inwards and the runner a liberated and the umbrella or parasol closes. On
losing the tip cup it is again raised on the runner into the position represented in
Figure 3 by the compressed coiled spring n.
Thus, the open umbrella or parasol is released or unfastened automatically by the
drawing down of the tip cup and the consequent pressing inwards of the top spring
as described and illustrated.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that
we claim as the said invention ;-
The new or improved combined tip cup and runner for umbrellas and parasols
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing: that is to say
combining with the runner a tip cup the tube of which is prolonged upwards
considerably beyond the concave side of the tip cup and making the said prolonged
upper part of the tip cup tube of larger diameter than the lower part of the tip cup
tube the end of the prolonged and enlarged upper part of the tip cup tube having
a conical contraction for the purpose and substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 13th day of February 1890.
THOMAS COX.
WILLIAM COX.
WILLIAM HOLLAND.
WILLIAM
HOLLAND, JR.