An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of the Runners of Umbrellas and Parasols.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 9th June, 1891-Accepted, 11th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of the
Runners of Umbrellas and Parasols.
I WILLIAM HOLLAND of the firm of Cox Brothers and Holland of Percy
Road Greet in the County of Worcester Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the manufacture of such runners of umbrellas and
parasols as are ornamented by japanning, bronzing or otherwise.
In the ordinary method of manufacturing the said ornamented runners they are
made from plain or unornamented sheet metal and the ornamenting by japanning,
bronzing or otherwise constitutes the final operation.
In making ornamented runners for umbrellas and parasols according to my
invention I take sheet brass or such other metal as the said runners are or may
conveniently be made of, one side of which has been ornamented by japanning,
bronzing, crystallizing, printing or otherwise; or I take sheet metal one or both
sides of which has been plated or coated with silver, nickel or gold by electro
deposition or otherwise. I operate upon pieces of the ornamented sheet metal by
means of two rollers running on centres and a mandril fixed in a lathe or rotating
spindle. By the pressure of the rollers the piece of sheet metal is formed into the
barrel or tubular part of a runner which is finished by the addition of a notch in
the ordinary way.
By the use of rollers turning upon centres as described the
ornamented surface is operated upon in shaping the barrel of the runner with such
truth or nicety as not to affect injuriously the said ornamented surface and the said
barrel of the runner is formed without injury to the varnished, japanned or
otherwise ornamented surface. Where the surface of the sheet metal is ornamented
by a pattern or design the blanks are so cut from the sheet that the joined edges of
the barrel of the runner shall symmetrically continue or complete the pattern or
design.
Deted the 22nd dov of Santamber 1890
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of the
Runners of Umbrellas and Parasols.
I WILLIAM HOLLAND of the firm of Cox Brothers and Holland of Percy
Road, Greet in the County of Worcester, Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to the manufacture of such runners of umbrellas and
parasols as are ornamented by japanning, bronzing or otherwise.
In the ordinary method of manufacturing the said ornamented runners they are
made from plain or unornamented sheet metal and the ornamenting by japanning
bronzing or otherwise constitutes the final operation.
In making ornamented runners for umbrellas and parasols according to my
invention I take sheet brass or such other metal as the said runners are or may
conveniently be made of, one side of which has been ornamented by japanning,
bronzing, crystallizing, printing or otherwise; or I take sheet metal one or both sides
of which has been plated or coated with silver, nickel or gold by electro deposition
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page_text: or otherwise. I operate upon pieces of the ornamented sheet metal by means of
two rollers running on centres and a mandril fixed in a lathe or rotating spindle. By
the pressure of the rollers the piece of sheet metal is formed into the barrel or
tubular part of a runner which is finished by the addition of a notch in the
ordinary way. By the use of rollers turning upon centres as described the orna-
mented surface is operated upon in shaping the barrel of the ruuner with such
truth or nicety as not to affect injuriously the said ornamented surface and the said
barrel of the runner is formed without injury to the varnished japanned or
otherwise ornamented surface. Where the surface of the sheet metal is ornamented
by a pattern or design the blanks are so cut from the sheet that the joined edges
of the barrel of the runner shall symmetrically continue or complete the pattern or
design.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a decorated or ornamented
-blank from which the runner barrel is to be made;
Figure 2 represents the decorated or ornamented blank bent or shaped into an
open jointed tube or runner barrel by the bending or shaping appliances herein-
after described;
Figure 3 represents the partly made runner barrel after its lower edge has been
finished by the closing upon it of the ring like cap a ;
Figure 4 and Figure 5 represents the runner completed by the addition of the
notch ring b to its upper end and the formation of the slot in its side for the
fastening catch to work in. By the fixing of the cap a and notch ring 6 the open
joint of the runner barrel is closed.
As the finishing of the decorated or ornamented runner barrel by the addition of
the cap a and notch ring b and the piercing of the catch slot constitutes no part of
my invention I do not consider it necessary further to describe the same.
I will now describe the apparatus which I prefer to use for shaping or bending
the decorated blank Figure 1 into the partly made runner or runner barrel Figure 2
without scratching or injuring the decorated surface of the said blank and barrel.
Figure 6 represents the apparatus in end elevation after the blank has been bent
upon or around the mandril to form it into the runner barrel ;
Figure 7 represents the apparatus in plan; and
Figures 8 and 9 represent end elevations of the same, Figure 8 representing the
lever carrying the pressure or bending rollers in its lowered position and Figure 9
the same in the act of lifting the blank and rollers towards the mandril.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figures 6. 7. 8. and 9.
c is the rotating spindle carried by the lathe headstock d and rapidly rotated by
a band working on the driving pulley e. Fixed in the said rotating spindle c is the
cylindrical mandrilf upon which the blank is bent for forming the runner barrel,
the said mandril being checquered or roughened on its exterior; g g is a hand
lever turning on the centre g³ carried by the headstock d.. On the inner short arm g
of the said hand lever, the pair of parallel rollers h, i is secured by which the
blank to be operated upon is pressed against or around the rotating mandril ƒ and
bent into a tube. The said rollers h, i turn on the fixed centres h³ carried by the
frame 1. On the lever g, g² is a rest m for supporting the blank n to be operated
upon, the opposite edges of the blank being placed in the guides on the rest and
against the adjustable spring stop p.
It will be seen by an examination of the drawing that the outer roller / of the
pair of rollers is situated at a slightly higher level than the other roller i so that
the two rollers are made to simultaneously press the blank against the rotating
mandril notwithstanding the curvilinear path in which the hand lever moves.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
The short arm g of the hand lever g, g² being in its lowered position Figure 8 the
decorated blank n with its decorated face downwards is placed upon the rest m and
against the stop p so that the said blank n crosses the roller i and bears upon the
other roller ; and the handle end of the hand lever being depressed the
rollers hi and blank are raised towards the rotating mandril ƒ (see Figure 9) and

page_text: the blank is pressed by the said rollers against and bent upon or around the mandril
and made into a runner barrel as represented in Figure 6, where the runner barrel
upon the mandril is marked n². As the blank is pressed by the rollers against the
rotating mandrilf the rotation of the latter is transmitted to the rollers which
thereby shape the runner barrel upon the mandril with such truth or nicety as not
to affect injuriously the decorated surface of the blank and the runner barrel is
fashioned without injury to its varnished, japanned or other ornamented surface.
After the runner barrel has been shaped on the mandril the handle end of the lever
is raised when the pressing rollers are depressed from the rotating mandril and
runner barrel and the latter is withdrawn from the mandril by an end motion and
the operations described are repeated on another blank.
Although I have represented the apparatus which I prefer to use for bending or
shaping the decorated blank into a runner barrel without injury to its decorated
surface, yet other analogous apparatus for effecting the same object without injuring
the surface of the decorated blank may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention
The process or combination of processes herein before described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings for manufacturing decorated runners of umbrellas and
parasols; that is to say, making decorated or ornamented runners by first
decorating or ornamenting the surface of the blank by japanning, bronzing
crystallizing printing or otherwise and afterwards shaping or bending the decorated
or ornamented blank into a runner barrel by pressing rollers turning upon centres
and worked substantially as described and represented, whereby the decorated or
ornamented blank is shaped into the runner barrel without injury to its decorated or
ornamented surface.
Dated the Eighth day of June 1891
WILLIAM HOLLAND.