Improvements in Umbrellas.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrellas.
I, EMIL WEIDLICH of 14 Benwell Road Holloway in the County of London.
Umbrella Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention refers to umbrellas with fluted hollow stick.
The main objects of the invention are to reduce the bulk of the umbrella at the
ferrule end of same and to admit of the ribs lying closer or deeper in the flutings at
that end than heretofore.
In one arrangement I make the notch with internal corrugations to fit the flutings
of the stick and solder or otherwise fix it on to same at the end of it. This notch is
made very little larger in outside diameter than the stick itself and is formed with a
shallow groove all round for the wire to lie in and has notches for the ends of the ribs
to fit in. The ferrule end of the stick is connected to the fluted part of the stick by a
screw which is threaded into both.
In another form I reduce the end of the fluted stick in diameter by turning it down
in a lathe or otherwise and fix the notch upon the reduced part. This would enable
me to use a notch of still smaller size.
Or I may omit the notch altogether and form a shallow groove all round in the
fluted stick near the very end of it for the wire to lie in, and I provide a cap fitting
over the end of the stick and having notches in its lower edge one for each fluting to
secure the rib ends from moving sideways. This cap may be secured in any suitable
way such as by a washer fitting the screw that unites the two parts of the stick and
screwed upon the top of the cap.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1889
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W., Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrellas.
I, EMIL WEIDLICH of 14 Benwell Road, Holloway in the County of London, Umbrella
Manufacturer 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 refers to umbrellas with fluted stick. The main objects of this
invention are to reduce the bulk of the umbrella at the ferrule end of same and to
admit of the ribs lying closer and deeper in the flutings at that end than heretofore.
In one arrangement shewn in longitudinal section in Fig. 1, and in transverse
section in Fig. 2, the notch M is made with internal corrugations to fit the flutings of
the hollow stick A and I solder it into the latter or hold it upon its end by means of
the screw L and ferrule K. This notch is made very little larger in outside diameter
than the stick itself and is formed with a shallow groove all round for the wire W to
lie in, and as notches corresponding to its internal flutings for the ribs to fit in. The
ribs may be of any suitable form and may for instance he of the flanged U shape shewn
at G in Figs. 6 and 7 of my Patent Specification No. 18587 of 1888, their flanges
being removed at this joint end and the sides flattened together. The thick line S
shows the place for the cover to be put on, and T is the usual cap over it. U is a nut
or washer for the cover to rest on.
In another form shewn in the longitudinal and transverse sections Figs. 3 and 4, the
end of the fluted stick A is reduced in diameter by turning it down in a lathe or

page_text: otherwise, and I fix the notch M upon the reduced part. This enables me to use a
notch of still smaller size. In this figure, I have, as an example shewn the fluted
part A of the stick fitted into a small thin tube 02 inside, driven in or soldered in or
both, and into this tube the screw L is screwed, but this latter will then have to be
slightly smaller in diameter and consequently weaker.
Figs. 5 and 6 shew in longitudinal and transverse section an arrangement where
the notch M is omitted altogether a shallow groove being formed all round in the
fluted stick A near the very end, for the wire W to lie in, and I provide a cap or
washer V which fits over the end of the fluted stick and has notches in its lower edge,
one for each fluting, to secure the rib ends from moving sideways. This
cap V may
be secured in any suitable way such as by a nut or washer U on the screw L which
unites the fluted stick part A and the ferrule K, the said nut being screwed down
upon the cap W with the cover of the umbrella intervening between the two, or
between the ferrule K and the cap V.
Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section of part of the fluted stick shewing an improved form
of spring catch for the runner and whereby I reduce the bulk of the umbrella at this place.
The spring catch is of the same general form as the one described in the Specification
of my patent No. 18587 of 1888, but in the present improved form this spring
catch F is made shallower so as not to project so far beyond the surface of the fluted
stick, and this because it has a small end projection Fx, which is made to bear hard
against the underside of the edge of the slot in the fluted stick. I am thus enabled to
give the catch greater power and yet make it shallower.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In combination with a hollow fluted umbrella stick with ferrule K and uniting
screw L, the notch M, Figs. 1 and 2 fitting the flutings and secured thereto substantially
as set forth.
2. In combination with a hollow fluted umbrella stick, with ferrule K and uniting
screw L the notch M Figures 3 and 4 secured on the reduced cylindrically turned end
of the stick substantially as set forth.
3. In combination with a hollow fluted umbrella stick with ferrule K and uniting
screw L, the groove for the wire W to hold the rib ends and the notched cap V for
holding the ribs in place substantially as set forth.
4. In combination with the spring catch F, for a hollow fluted umbrella stick the
projection Fx substantially as set forth.
Dated this 93rd doy of Santambar 1800