Improvements in or in connection with Umbrellas.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Umbrellas.
ANDREAS HEINRICH BÜHRING, of Rotherbaumchaussée Hamburg, in the-
Empire of Germany, 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 :-
The object of the present invention is an umbrella so arranged that it may be
used as a walking stick. This is effected by means of a sliding telescopic cylindrical
sleeve which is made in several parts and which when closed together forms the
end of the umbrella, whilst when drawn out to its full length it encloses the tightly
rolled umbrella and gives thereto the appearance of a massive walking stick.
On the accompanying drawing an umbrella stick so constructed is shown, Fig.
representing a vertical longitudinal section through the extended sleeve, made in
several parts, and its fastening to the upper and lower ends of the umbrella, whilst
Fig. 2 shows the umbrella rolled up with the sleeve closed one part over the other,.
the sleeve as well as the corresponding end of the umbrella being shown in
section.
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The sleeve is composed of separate cylindrical parts h h h h which slide out of
and into each other like a telescope. The connection of the several parts is effected
by the edges in contact n n being turned respectively outwards and inwards in
which case the sleeve is of course made of thin sheet metal. The collars
marked serve for the same object, the turned edges n³ of the separate parts
resting thereon when closed together as shown in Fig. 2. If it is not intended to.
separate the sleeve from the umbrella, this arrangement being that shown in the
present construction, the umbrella ferrule is provided with a projecting collar
which rests the sleeve when closed together whilst a spring flet into the stick and
fastened thereto by a ring i bears against the opposite end of the outer sleeve part,.
as is shown by Fig. 2. The said collar and the spring are not used if the sleeve
is not to remain in continuous connection with the umbrella. The fastening thereof
at the upper end of the umbrella is effected by means of a socket 9 provided with
an inner thread screwing over the upper sleeve part which has a corresponding
thread outside. All the loose parts are thus firmly extended giving rigidity to the
sleeve and keeping it in position. It is a matter of choice whether the handle is.
made smaller than the socket, as shown, or has the same diameter as the socket.
It is preferable to make the parts of the sleeve from suitably etched or otherwise
figured Siemens steel plate, which is ther lacquered.
By means of the above mentioned invention an umbrella can be given quite the
appearance of a walking stick and be used as such without the material of the
umbrella being in any way damaged.
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 :-
In umbrellas the arrangement of an outer cover of rigid material in which.
several hollow cylinders h h h h are so attached by means of rims n n' that they
can be telescopically pushed together and drawn out over the rolled up umbrella,.
the fastening of the separate parts in the former case to the lower end of the
umbrella stick being effected on the one hand by rims 6 6 6 and on the other

page_text: hand by a spring flet into the stick, whilst in the latter case the fastening of the
upper hollow cylinder to the umbrella handle is effected by means of a socket g
with screw thread inside.
Dated this 13th day of June 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.