AN IMPROVE. MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING NAME PLATES OR LABELS TO UM- BRELLAS, PARASOLS, WALKING STICKS, AND WHIPS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Alfred Carpenter, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE.
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING NAME PLATES OR LABELS TO UM-
BRELLAS, PARASOLS, WALKING STICKS, AND WHIPS."
Sealed the 25th April 1862, and dated the 28th November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th November 1861.
I, SAMUEL ALFRED CARPENTER, of Birminghamn, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING NAME PLATES 03 LABELS TO UM-
BRELLAS, PARASOLS, WALKING STICKS, AND WHIPS," to be. as follows:-
My Invention consists in attaching name plates or labels to umbrellas,
parasols, walking sticks, and whips by means of a spring tubular clip, to which
the name plate or label is affixed, which said clip may be sprung on to the
stick of the umbrella, parasol. walking stick, or whip. I make the said clip
of a piece of thin sheet steel, or other elastic material, bent into a nearly
tubular form, the opposite parallel edges of the clip being turned back so as
to round them.
By separating the rounded edges of the clip to a sufficient distance, the
stick of the umbrella, parasol, walking stick, or whip may be introduced into
the clip, when by loosing the clip it closes and fastens itself on the stick.
The name plate or label carried by the clip may either be a piece of parch-
Price 8d.]

page_text: ment or asses skin, or other material, which can be written on with ink, the
said name plate or label being framed for protection in a small metal frame,
or metal, ivory, or other name plate or label may be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ALFRED CARPENTER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufac-
turer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, Her special licence that I, the said
Samuel Alfred Carpenter, my executors, administrators. and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, my executors, 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 inake, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Mau, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING NAME PLATES
OR LABELS TO UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, WALKING STICKS. AND WHIPS." upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their
or one of their hands and seals, 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 Samuel Alfred Carpenter, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in attaching name plates or labels to umbrellas;
parasols, walking sticks, and whips by means of a spring tubular clip, to which
the name plate or label is affixed, the said clip being secured to the umbrella,

page_text: parasol, walking stick, or wip, by springing it thereon as herein-after described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In carrying my Invention into effect I take pierced blanks or pieces of thin
sheet steel or other elastic material of a nearly rectangular form, and bend or
shape the said blanks or pieces of steel or other material into a nearly tubular
figure, the opposite parallel edges of the clip being turned back so as to round
them.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a plan of one of the
blanks or pieces of steel or other elastic material from which the clips are
made; and Figures, 2, 3, 4, and 5, represent a clip made from the blank,
Figure 1,by bending or shaping it into the figure represented in the Drawing;
Figure 2 representing a front elevation of the clip; Figure 3 a back eleva-
tion Figure 4 a side elevation; and Figure 5 a cross section of the same.
To the front of the said clip I attach or connect a small frame of the kind
represented in front elevation in Figure 6, and section in Figure 7, and
marked b, the said small frame carrying and protecting the name plate
or label a, the said name plate or label a being fixed in the frame by
turning over the edges 62 of the said frame upon the said name plate or
label. The frame b, Figures 6 and 7 is bent of nearly the same cur-
vature and figure as the clip to which it is to be applied. The mate-
rial forming the name plate or label a fixed in the frame b, may be a piece
of parchment or asses' skin, or leather or other material which can be
written on with ink; or metal, ivory, glass, or other name plate may be
used in the frame, the name in this case being engraved, painted, or other-
wise made upon it; or a photographic portrait may be inserted in the frame b,
In affixing or fastening the encased or framed name plate or label, Figures 6
and 7, to the clip Figures 2, 3, 4, and 5, the projecting ears or tongues c, cz
are passed through the slits or piercings d, d, in the clip, and the said ears or
tongues clenched against or turned down upon the interior of the said clip as
represented in the back elevation of the said clip with the encased name
plate or label attached thereto in Figure 8; Figure 9 represents a front ele-
vation of the clip attached to a portion of the stick or handle of an umbrella
or parasol; Figure 10 is a side elevation of the same; and Figure 11 is a
cross section of the same. In order to connect the elastic clip to the stick of
the umbrella or parasol, walking stick, or whip, the rounded edges e, e, of the
clip are separated to a sufficient distance, the stick or whip may then be intro-
duced into the clip, when by loosing the said clip it closes and fastens itself
on the stick or whip. By separating the edges e, e, of the clip it can be
removed from the umbrella, parasol, walking stick, or whip, but only by the

page_text: application of great force. When the umbrella, parasol, walking stick, or
whip has an angular figure in cross section, the clip is made of such a figure as
to fit the said stick or whip. Instead of attaching the metal frame b in which
the name plate or label is inserted to the clip by ears or tongues as described
and represented, the said frame may be soldered or otherwise attached
thereto, and the frame may be of a circular or angular figure instead of the
elliptical figure represented. The spring clip may be japanned, gilt, painted,
or otherwise finished, and any required ornamental shape may be given to
the said clip.
"The blanks from which the clips are made are cut out and pierced by dies
worked in a press, and the said blauks are raised or shaped into a tubular
form by raising dies worked in a press or machine, but as the said cutting out,
piercing, and raising dies and presses, or machines in which they work, which
Iemploy are the same in construction as those commonly employed for similar
purposes, I have not thought it necessary either to describe or to represent the
said dies and presses, or machines..
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under stood that I do not
limit myself to the précise details herein described and represented, as the
säme may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention; but
I claim as my Invention the improvement or improvements in attaching name
plates or labels to umbrellas, parasols, walking sticks, and whips herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, by
means of a spring tubular clip to which the name plate or label is affixed, the
said spring tubular clip being capable of being sprung upon, and thereby
fastened to the umbrella, parasol, walking stick, or whip, and incapable of
being removed therefrom except by the application of
great force.
In witness whereof, I, the said 'Samuel Alfred Carpenter, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
SAMUEL ALFRED CARPENTER. (L.S.)
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.