AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE " PROVISIONAL SPFICATION
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Fox, of Stockbridge Works, Deepcar,
near Sheffield, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Fox at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th March 1853..
I, SAMUEL Fox, of Stockbridge Works, Deepcar, near Sheffield, in
the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE FRAMES OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS'
be as follows:
This Invention is applicable to the stretchers of the frames of um-
brellas and parasols, and consists of giving to the joint by which a
stretcher is connected to a rib additional strength by causing the
stretcher at its end to have three projections, one to enter between
the strap or middle bit (which embraces the rib), and the other two to
come outside of the ends of the strap. the wire or pin which makes
the connection passing through the whole.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Fox, in the Great Seal Patent Office, on
the 28th September 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I.
SAMUEL Fox, of Stockbridge Works, Deepear, near Sheffield, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March. in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight bundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Fox, Iler special licence that
1, the said Samuel Fox, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Samuel Fox, 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 "Au IMPROVEMENT IN THE FRAMES OF UM-
BRELLAS AND PAPASOLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Samuel Fox, 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 Samuel Fox, 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):
This Invention is applicable to the stretcher of the frames of
umbrellas and parasols, and consists of giving to the joint by which a
stretcher is connected to a rib additional strength by causing tho
stretcher at is end to have three projections, one to enter between the

page_text: strap or middle bit (which embraces the rib), and the other two to
come outside of the ends of the strap, the wire or pin which makes the
connection passing through the whole.
Umbrella and parasol stretchers have been made with single and
double forks, and the mode of attaching the single fork stretched to
the rib is by passing the end or fork within the bit or joint of the rib
and riviting in the usual way, and the mode of attaching the double
fork is by passing the bit or joint of the rib between the ends or two
forks of the stretcher, riviting in the usual way. I make a three-fork
stretcher, which is a single and double fork combined, and when
attached to the rib the middle fork is within (as in the single fork),
and the two outer forks on each side (as in the double fork) of the bit
or joint of the rib.
I now proceed to describe the mode in which I carry out my
Invention. I take sheet iron or other metal about No. 26, by the wire
guage, and cut out a piece the shape shown at Figure 1.
Figures 2,
and 3, shows the piece with the two sides turned up. Figures 4,
and 5, show a single fork stretcher made of flat steel wire wrought
into a trough-like form, as explained in my patent dated Sixth April
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. Figures 6, and 7, show
the single fork stretcher end placed within the piece (Figures 2, and 3),
and the two projecting parts or sides of the piece a, a, are then bended
back, and the edges forced down into the trough and thereby fastened.
I do not confine myself to this mode of fastening, as other modes may
be applied to fastening the two sideforks on stretchers made of various
descriptions of wire of which stretchers are and may be made. I now
pierce holes in the two side forks, and attach it to the rib by riviting
in the usual way, as shown at Figures 8, and 9. Double or two-forked
stretchers have been and are made of plain wire, the forks formed by
splitting the end of the wire, shaping, piercing the holes, &c., as is
well known. I make them by fastening on the forks as above de-
scribed, as shown at Figure 10.
Iaving thus described my Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I would have it understood what I claim is the construction

page_text: of a three-forked stretcher to umbrellas and parasols, or the combination
of a single and double fork stretcher in one, and the folding of the
parts a, a, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Fox, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
SAM FOX. (L.S.)
Witness, WILLIAM FOX.