RACKS OR APPLIANCES FOR HOLDING UMBRELLAS of IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles James Appleton and Samuel Hubbard Ogden
both of the City of Manchester in the County of Lancaster, for an invention
RACKS OR APPLIANCES FOR HOLDING UMBRELLAS
of IMPROVEMENTS IN
PIPES AND OTHER ARTICLES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles James Appleton
and Samuel Hubbard Ogden at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 26th April 1882.
CHARLES JAMES APPLETON and SAMUEL HUBBARD OGDEN both of the City of
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, "IMPROVEMENTS IN RACKS OR APPLIANCES
FOR HOLDING UMBRELLAS, PIPES AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
Our Invention relates to the racks employed to hold or contain umbrellas, sticks,
billiard cues, pipes and other articles and has for its object to render such
appliances more efficient and also to render them adaptable for a wider range of
employment. In the formation of such racks we use vulcanised caoutchouc holders
which are strengthened by means of frames of metal, wood or other material. In
one method of construction we secure a strip of caoutchouc between two wood or
metal plates, bars or parts which are cut or hollowed out at intervals to expose
the caoutchouc which at the exposed places is formed with an aperture of a size
suitable to hold the article for which the rack is adapted. A slit is formed from
the edge of the caoutchouc to the said aperture and is preferably bell-mouthed or
splayed so as to form a mouth. The appliance is adapted to be secured to a wall
or partition or to be secured within a cupboard or to be suspended or mounted in
any suitable manner and situation and may be ornamental in appearance. The
caoutchouc may be otherwise mounted as for example it may be secured between
the main body of the rack and a frame or series of frames. Racks so formed may
be adapted to hold wine-glasses on ship-board or in other places or to hold
penbolders or bottles and many other articles the intention being that each article
shall be gripped by the caoutchouc so that it is not necessary for the article to be
sustained by any other accessory appliance. In the cases of pipe racks our
Invention enables the pipes to be placed in the racks with the bowls downwards
so that the nicotine tends towards the bowls instead of towards the mouth pieces.
We may use a suitably elastic material other than caoutchouc in lieu of the said
vulcanised caoutchouc.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles James Appleton and Samuel Hubbard Ogden in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 20th October 1882.
CHARLES JAMES APPLETON and SAMUEL HUBBARD OGDEN both of the City of
Manchester in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN RACKS OR APPLIANCES
FOR HOLDING UMBRELLAS, PIPES AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
Our Invention relates to the racks employed to hold or contain umbrellas, sticks,
billard cues, pipes and other articles and has for its object to render such
appliances more efficient and also to render them adaptable for a wider range of
employment. In the formation of such racks we use vulcanised caoutchouc holders
which are strengthened by means of frames of metal, wood or other material. In
one method of construction we secure a strip of caoutchouc between two wood or
metal plates, bars or parts which are cut or hollowed out at intervals to expose the
caoutchouc which at the exposed places is formed with an-aperture of a size
suitable to hold the article for which the rack is adapted. A slit is formed from
the-edge-of-the caoutchouc to the said aperture and is preferably bell mouthed or
splayed so as to form a mouth. The appliance is adapted to be secured to a wall
or partition or to be secured within a cupboard or to be suspended or mounted in
any suitable manner and situation and may be ornamental in appearance.
In order that our Invention may be fully understood- we have attached hereunto
a sheet of drawings_illustrative of some of the methods whereby our Invention
may be carried into effect. In the said drawings Fig: 1 represents a front view
Fig: 2 a side view and Fig: 3 a plan of a rack suitable to hold-smoker's-pipes,
pen holders and other small_articles.- Fig: 4 being a sectional view of the said
rack. In-the-said Figs a is a metal bracket adapted to be hung upon or screwed
or otherwise attached to a wall or to be otherwise sustained as herein before
mentioned. A part a' of this bracket projects ut right angles and is formed with
slots or openings as seen in Fig: 3. To this part is screwed, bolted, riveted or
secured a correspondingly formed plate ba sheet of vulcanised caoutchouc being
interposed and being held by the grip of the two metal parts. The sheet c is
perforated, cut, pressed or moulded at the places and in the manner clearly
indicated at d, d in Fig 3 that is to say with a round or other shaped hole or
perforation made suitable to grip the article to be held and with a slit or mouth
through which the article is passed into the said hold or the caoutchouc is pressed
or moulded into the required form. When an article say for example a smoker's
pipe is to be inserted in the rack the stem of the pipe is pushed through the slit
or mouth into the hole when the caoutchouc will hold the pipe with an elastic
grip presuming that the appliance has been suitably proportioned for its intended
use. The pipe is by preference inserted with the bowl downwards as indicated in
Fig 7 and this we consider to be a great advantage possessed by our Invention
for the reason that when pipes are so held the nicotine tends to flow downwards
towards the bowl instead of towards the mouth-piece as is the caso when pipes are
held in ordinary racks. Fig: 5 illustrates a slight modification in the form of the
plate b. Fig: 8 illustrates the manner in which wine-glasses can be held by such
an appliance the stem only being in contact with the holder and only with an
elastic substance so that the glass is held entirely by the grip of the elastic
substance upon the stem. Such racks are very suitable for use on ship-board and
on railway trains and also for holding glasses which are put to drain after being
washed and generally for holding glasses when not in use. Fig: 6 illustratos a
modification in the construction and also represents a part of a rack adapted to
hold larger articles such for example as umbrellas In this example separate pieces
i

page_text: of caoutchouc c nearly of a circular form are held between two plates 6 of brass or
other metal or material or of electro-plated metal and a part f which may be of
wood or of metal or other suitable material. The caoutchouc is made of a
thickness suitable to the weight of the articles to be held and the entering slits or
mouths are also made of forms suitable to the varying requirements. In Fig: G
two forms of mouths are illustrated. The racks will be made to hold any suitable
number of articles and will in some cases be made ornamental in appearance. For
some purposes the racks will be made of a circular, curved or polygonal form
instead of being straight as represented and in some cases will be made to stand
upon a floor as for example in the cases of the umbrellas or cue racks or stands.
Racks may be constructed in accordance with our Invention to hold bottles,
decanters and other articles or bodies not mentioned herein. We do not confine
ourselves to the method of forming the caoutchouc to the bracket, frames or other
parts of the racks or stands and for some purposes we could form the racks or
holders entirely of caoutchouc. We may use a suitably olastic material other than
caoutchouc or we may use compounds or compositions containing caoutchouc for
the purposes of our Invention.
Having now fully set forth and indicated the nature of our said Invention and
the manner in which we propose to carry the same into practical effect we would
have it to be understood that we claim :-
First the racks or appliances for holding pipes, pen-holders, wine-glasses, umbrellas
and other articles or bodies constructed substantially as set forth and indicated
herein before and in and by the accompanying drawings.
Secondly racks or holders having vulcanised caoutchouc cut or formed with
gripping holes and with entering mouths or slits and secured between two parts of
metal or other suitable material formed with corresponding slots or openings
substantially as and for the purposes set forth and indicated.
And lastly racks or holders provided with caoutchouc or with a similarly elastic
material which is cut or formed with gripping holes or cavities into which articles
or the stems of articles are passed through entering mouths or slits and are held by
the grip of the elastic material substantially in the manner set forth herein before
and indicated in the cases of the pipe and wine glass in Figs 7 and 8 of the
accompanying drawings.
In witness whoreof we the said Samuel Hubbard Ogden for myself and
on behalf of the said Charles James Appleton have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twenty-fifth day of October in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two
SAMUEL HUBBARD OGDEN (L.S.)