AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN PARTS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I WILLIAM HOLLAND of the firm of Cox Brothers and Holland of Greet in the
County of Worcester Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
CERTAIN PARTS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS" to be as follows:-
My Invention has reference to the tip ends of the ribs of umbrella and parasol
frames and consists in fixing the tip and the eye or loop to a separate tip plate or
connector and fixing the combined tip eye and connector to the end of the rib by
a closing process.
My Invention is particularly useful where the tip end of the rib requires to be
made of a different inctal or of a different colour from that of the body of the rib
for example the tip end of the rib in some cases requires to be gilt or silvered or
otherwise made ornamental. In such cases the combined tip eye and carrying
plate made according to my Invention is gilt silvered or ornamented before it is
secured to tho rib.
In making the separate tip eye and connecting plate or carrier to be attached to
a paragon rib I cut out at a press a sheet metal blank having a form somewhat
similar to that of the letter T. By incans of press tools I close the longer part of
the blank upon the tip and eye so as to secure them thereto and at the same time
give a trough form to the cross piece of the blank. The trough shaped part male
from the cross piece of the blank constitutes the connecting plate by which the
combined rib eye and carrier is secured to the end of the paragon rib by a closing
process. That is the end of the paragon rib being placed in the trough or
connecting part of the plate the edges of the said trough or part are turned over
the edges of the open trough of the paragon rib and closed on the inside of the
last named trough. The tip and eye of the rib are thus connected to the end of
the rib.
By the use of my Invention the inconveniences attending the gilding silvering
or ornamenting of the tip ends of paragon ribs made in the ordinary way ure
obviated as the separate tip parts can be readily gilt or ornamented before they
are connected to the ribs with which they are to be used.
My Invention is applicable to solid and other ribs as well as to paragon ribs.
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page_text: I WILLIAM HOLLAND of the firm of Cox Brothers and Holland of Greet in the
County of Worcester, Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of my Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN
PARTS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS" and in what manner the same is to bo
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
My Invention has reference to the tip ends of the ribs of umbrella and parasol
frames and consists in fixing the tip and the eye or loop to a separate tip plate or
connector and fixing the combined tip, eye and connector to the end of the rib by
a closing process.
My Invention is particularly useful where the tip end of the rib requires to be
made of a different metal or of a different colour from that of the body of the rib;
for example, the tip end of the rib in some cases requires to be gilt or silvered or
otherwise made ornamental. In such cases the combined tip eye and carrying
plate made according to my Invention is gilt, silvered or ornamented before it is
secured to the rib.
In making the separate tip, eye and connecting plate or carrier to be attached to
a paragon rib, I cut out at a press a sheet metal blank having a form somewhat
similar to that of the letter T. By means of press tools I close the longer part of
the blank upon the tip and eye so as to secure them thereto and at the same time
give a trough form to the cross piece of tho blank. The trough shaped part mado
from the cross piece of the blank constitutes the connecting plate by which the
combined tip, eye and carrier is secured to the end of the paragon rib by a closing
process. That is the end of the paragon rib being placed in the trough or
connecting part of the plate the edges of the said trough or part are turned over
the edges of the open trough of the paragon rib and closed on the inside of the
last named trough. The tip and cyo of the rib are thus connected to the end of
the rib.
In order to economize the manufacture of the separate tip ends I prefer to use
a double blank, that is, a blank of a shape suitable for the production of two
separate tip plates and I fix a tip and eye or loop to each end of the double blank
as represented in the accompanying Drawing.
Figure 1 represents the sheet metal double blank which I employ, the said blank
consisting of the middle wide part a and the narrow end parts b, b, the part a
having a length sufficient, when divided, to form two connecting plates. Tho
shape of the said blank is that of two T shaped blanks joined together head to
head.
The blank Figure 1 is first shaped into the trough form represented in Figure 2
and afterwards portions of the edges of the narrow parts b, b are closed upon one
another to form guides to the loops or eyes as represented at cc Figure 3. An
eye or loop d (shown separately in Figure 6) is next placed in each of the trough
shaped narrow ends b of the blank and tho said narrow onds are closed upon the
eyes or loops as represented in Figure 4 so as to fix them in their places. A tip e
(shown separately in Figure 7) is next closed upon each end of the tubular parts b, b
(Figure 4) of the partly made tip end as represented in Figure 5, the closing and
fixing operation also giving the spherical figure to the tip c. By the operations
described a double tip end is produced. By next dividing transversly the double
tip end Figure 5 at the dotted line f, two tip ends are produced as represented in

page_text: elevation in Figure 8 and section in Figure 9, each tip end consisting of a combined
tip e eyed and connecting plate a². The combined tip, eye and connecting plato
Figure 8 having been gilt or silvered or otherwise made ornamental as desired, is
now ready to be secured to the end of the paragon (or other) rib by a closing
process. This is effected by placing the end of the rib in, the trough connecting
part or plate a and closing or turning the edges of the said plate a² over the edges
of the open trough of the paragon rib and closing the edges of the said plato
inside the said rib as represented in sido elevation and back elevation in Figure 10
and cross section in Figure 11. The tip plate is thereby connected to the end of
the rib. In Figures 10 and 11 the paragon rib is marked g and the closed
connecting plate of the tip cud is marked a².
When the combined tips, loops and connecting plates are made one at a time
instead of two at a time as reprosented in the Drawing, a blank having a T shape
is used that is the blank has the shape of one half of the blank Figure 1 the said
blank being divided transversely at the middle of its brond part a.
By the use of my Invention the inconveniences attending the gilding, silvering
or ornamenting of the tip ends of paragon ribs made in the ordinary way are
obviated as the separate tip parts can be readily gilt or ornamented before they
are connected to the ribs with which they are to be used.
My Invention is applicable to solid and other ribs as well as to paragon riba.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
The improvement or improvements in manufacturing the tip ends of the ribs of
umbrellas and parasols hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing; that is to say fixing the tip and the eye or loop to a separate tip plate
and securing the combined tip, oye and connecting plate to the end of the rib by
a closing process substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Sixteenth day of August 1884.