Improvements in Umbrellas, Parasols, and like Articles.
Year: 1884

page_text: Improvements in Umbrellas, Parasols, and like Articles.
I WILLIAM CLARENCE EDWARDS of 10 Bonamy Street, Bermondsey, Surrey,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN UMBRELLAS PARASOLS AND..LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This invention relates to attaching ribs and stretchers to clips, lugs, or pins
formed on or connected to top notches and runner notches of umbrellas, parasols,
portable tents and other like articles which open and close in a similar manuer, the
object being to dispense with the usual construction of top notch and runner notch
and to enable the frame to be more readily put together and in the case of a
broken rib or a broken stretcher a new one can be easily fitted in position in the
place of the broken one.
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According to one feature in my invention I make the top notch of a plain tube
and slot or perforate it at intervals either in regular or irregular order around its
circumference, into these slots or perforations I arrange straps which are so shaped
as to be partially within said slots and partially on the outside each strap being.
preferably formed with a clip at the end to engage under the edge of the tube to
secure it in place. A portion of each strap is slotted and at or near the slot the
strap is bent or looped to serve in conjunction with a pin or other contrivance, on
the end of the rib or attached to the rib as a means of connecting one to the other.
The same arrangement but in the reverse order can be adopted for the runner
notch to which the stretchers are attached.
The straps and also the notches are capable of many modifications and also is'the'
method of attaching them; for instance, the strap may be formed with tongues,
studs or lugs, on to which the ends of the ribs or of the stretchers can be looped
said tongues studs or lugs being then covered or their ends closed by a sliding collar
or cap which may be screw threaded or otherwise formed to be held in place, and
to prevent the ribs or the stretchers becoming detached.
The straps can be so arranged that they can be moved to allow of the ribs or of
the stretcher being withdrawn or disconnected.

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I WILLIAM CLARENCE EDWARDS of 10 Bonamy Street, Bermondsey, Surrey,
Engineer, do hereby declare, the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This invention relates to attaching ribs and stretchers to clips, lugs or pins
formed on or connected to top notches and runner notches of umbrellas, parasols,
portable tents and other like articles which open and close in a similar manner, the
object being to dispense with the usual construction of top notch and runner notch
and to enable the frame to be more readily put together and in the case of a broken
rib or a broken stretcher a new one can be easily fitted in position in the place of
the broken one.
According to one feature in my invention which is shown in the annexed
drawings I make the top notch A of a plain tube and slot or perforate it at
intervals as seen at B Figure 1 either in regular or irregular order around its
circumference, into these slots or perforations I arrange straps C Figure 2 which
are so shaped as to be partially within said slots and partially on the outside each
strap being preferably formed with a clip D at the end to engage under the edge
of the tube to secure it in place. A portion of each strap C is slotted (see Figure 3
and in the detached view Figure 6) and at or near the slot E the strap is bent or
looped as at F to serve in conjunction with a pin G or other contrivance on the
end of the rib H or attached to the rib as a means of connecting one to the other.
The same arrangement but in the reverse order can be adopted for the runner
notch to which the stretchers are attached.
. The straps and also the notches are capable of many modifications as shown in
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7, and also is the method of attaching them; for instance the
strap may be formed as shown at Figure 4 with tongues I, studs, or lugs on to
which the ends of the ribs or. of the stretchers can be looped, said tongues, studs or
Iugs being then covered or their ends closed by a sliding' collar or cap J which may
be screw threaded or otherwise formed to be held in place and to prevent the ribs
or the stretchers becoming detached.
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In Figures 5 and 7 arrangements having lugs K K are shown.
* The straps can be so arranged that they can be moved to allow of the ribs or of
the stretchers being withdrawn or disconnected.
. . Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I. claim is
The construction of top notches and runners of umbrellas, parasols, portable tents
and other like articles with the appliances and the method of attaching stretchers or
ribs thereto as above described and substantially as shown in the annexed drawings.
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