IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF UMBRELLA AND PARASOL FURNITURE
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Rubery, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF UMBRELLA AND PARASOL FURNITURE."-A communi-,
cation.
Sealed the 30th November 1853, and dated the 6th October 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Rubery at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th October 1853.
I, JOHN RUBERY, of Birmingham, in, the County of Warwick, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLA AND PARASOL FURNITURE" to be as follows:
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
those parts of the furniture of umbrellas and parasols which are called'
the notches of the runners and top notches. Heretofore it has for the
most part been usual to cast a ring of brass when making a notch for
a runner, which is soldered on to the barrel, and a similar ring of brass
with a short barrel is cast for the top notch; the rings are then cut
with a groove all round, and the notches for the ends of the stretchers
and top tips are made therein. Now the object of my Invention is to

page_text: improve and cheapen this manufacture by the application of zinc in the
making of such notches. For this purpose I prefer to employ sheet zinc
of the thickness necessary, from which I punch or cut discs, from which
I punch the centres, thus making rings of zine suitable for the purposes,
and then I pursue the manufacture of the notches in a like manner to
that above mentioned when using brass for the like purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Rubery in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN RUBERY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give.and grant unto me, the said John Rubery, Her special licence
that I, the said John Rubery, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Rubery, 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 make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF UMBRELLA AND PARASOL FURNITURE," communicated to me
from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Rubery, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 John Rubery, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the sanic is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture
of those parts of the furniture of umbrellas and parasols which are
called the notches of the runners and top notches. Heretofore it has
for the most part been usual to cast a ring of brass when making a
notch for a runner, which is soldered on to the barrel, and a similar
ring of brass with a short barrel is cast for the top notch; the rings are
then cut with a groove all round, and the notches for the ends of the
stretchers and top tips are made therein. Now the object of my
Invention is to improve and cheapen this manufacture by the applica-'
tion of zinc in the making of such notches. For this purpose I prefer
to employ sheet zine of the thickness necessary, from which I punch.
or cut discs, from which I punch the centres, thus making rings
of zinc suitable for the purposes, and then I pursue the manufacture of
the notches in a like manner to that above mentioned when using brass
for the like purposes.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A, is a washer or ring of zinc; such washer or ring may either be cast
or it may be cut out of sheet zinc by fly press or suitable machinery;
I prefer the latter mode of forming the ring or washer. In this washer
a groove is cut, as shewn at B, or this groove may be cut after the
washer or ring has been fixed, by soldering it to a barrel C, also of
zinc, or it may be of other metal. The notches are cut and the runner
is finished in the ordinary manner. In making top notches similar
rings or washers of zinc are employed, grooves are produced at the
edges, and notches made across the grooves, as described in respect to
runners, and a suitable. tube or barrel of zinc or of other metal is
soldered in each of such rings, either before or after cutting the groove.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim

page_text: is, the manufacture of the runners and the top notches of umbrellas and
parasols of zinc.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Rubery, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
HENRY NEWEY,
of Birmingham.
JOHN, RUBERY. (L.S.)