AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR FASTENING OR LOCKING UMBRELLAS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES A
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Harris Lake, of the firm of Haseltine Lake
& Co, Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings London for an Invention of
"AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR FASTENING OR LOCKING UMBRELLAS AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES A communication to him from abroad by Alphonse Iehl, of
Mazamet, France.
"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henry Harris Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd October 1882.
HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co Patent Agents
Southampton Buildings London "AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR FASTENING OR
LOCKING UMBRELLAS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES" communicated to me from abroad
by Alphonse Iehl of Mazamet France
This invention relates to an improved device for fastening or locking umbrellas,
parasols, and similar articles, and has for its object to hold the slide or runner in its
closed position upon the stick by means of a kind of safety lock consisting of rings
grooved or slotted vertically in such a manner that until these rings are brought
into the proper position they engage with pins which project from the said slide or
runner so that the latter cannot be moved upon the stick to open the umbrella or
the like.
The said invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which
Figure 1 is a sectional view shewing the rings and other parts.
Figure 2 is an elevation showing the rings in position when closed.
Figure 3 is an elevation showing the rings in position when open and the slide
moved a short distance upon the stick.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 show a front view a side view and a plan of the ferrule or
sleeve which is fixed upon the stick and which receives the movable rings.
Figures 7 and 8 show an elevation and plan of one of the said rings.
Figures 9 and 10 represent two views of the slide or runner provided with the
pins.
The lock is composed of two rings A A movable between the upper edge B and
the part C; these rings turn upon the ferrule or sleeve D which is fixed upon the

page_text: stick M by a nail or pin or by other suitable means. The ferrule D upon which
the rings A, A are adapted to turn has two springs a a each arranged in proper
relation to one of the said rings so as to form clicks or detents to engage with the
teeth b cut on the edge c of each of the said rings (Figures 1 and 8). This edge a
has at one point in its circumforence a vertical slot h of the same width as the
vertical slot d in tho ferrule. D.
The slide or runner E, at that part which fits into the ferrule D, has two pins gg
corresponding with the slot d of the ferrule and with the slots h h in the edges c
of the movable rings. When the slots h of the movable rings A coincide with the
groove or slot d in the ferrule the slide E can be moved, the pins g g being then
capable of passing out of the vertical slots (Figure 3). It will be observed that
those vertical slots coincide with one another when the figures engraved on the
periphery of the rings A A form any desired number, for example eighty five
(Figure 3).
When the slide is engaged in the ferrule, if the rings aro turned in such a
manner that the slota hh do not correspond with the slot d in the ferrule, the
pins gg cannot be released therefrom and the slide cannot be moved along the
stick.
The part C can, if desired, be fitted to the ferrule D in such a manner that it can
be screwed on to the said ferrule to render the rings A A immovable and can be
unscrewed to allow the same to be moved.
Having thus fully described the said invention as communicated to mẹ by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood.
that I claim.
First The improved device for fastening or locking umbrellas, parasols, and
similar articles, in which device the lock is constructed with movable rings having
teeth forming ratchets operating in combination with springs forming clicks or
detents fixed to a sleeve or ferrule attached to the stick near the handle, and the
movable slide or runner is provided with projecting pins corresponding with the
slots in the said rings and sleeve or ferrule in such a manner that according to
the position of the said rings the umbrella or the like can or can not be opened.
Second In the improved device above described, the rings constructed with
internal ratchet teetli substantially as represented in the accompanying drawing,
and the sleeve or ferrule fixed to the stick and having the retaining springs.
In witness whereof 1 the said Henry Harris Lake have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty third day of October in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.