Improvements in Supports for Umbrellas or like Coverings or Attachments for Carriages or other Vehicles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1889-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supports for Umbrellas or like Coverings or
Attachments for Carriages or other Vehicles.
I CHARLES HENRY BUTLIN of Camborne in the County of Cornwall Surgeon do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates more particularly to the kind of Umbrella and attachments
described in the Specification of the Patent No. 12679 of 22nd September 1884
granted to me and my present Invention has for its principal objects to increase the
area which the umbrella protects and to render it capable of accommodating itself to
some extent to varying directions of the wind so as to automatically take up the
position best calculated to protect the user.
I make the holder which forms the means of attaching the Umbrella to the arch
which supports it in two parts one part capable of sliding laterally on the arch and
the other or second part capable of having movement of rotation to a certain extent
upon the first named part. The second part is provided with an arm carrying the
socket in which the stick of the Umbrella is received.
In or on the said parts are engaging devices detents or stops to limit the rotary
motion of the one part upon the other. This allows for example the wind to move the
Umbrella automatically for suppose the arch is adjusted so that the Umbrella is vertical
or towards that position if a gust of wind comes from the opposite direction to that
for which the Umbrella is adjusted the one part of the holder turns upon the other
part and the Umbrella assumes say a horizontal position.
This effect may be assisted by making the back part of the Umbrella larger than
the front part. The two parts may each be provided with set screws for fixing each
of them in position when so desired.
I may use an arch of very thin material or wire and make the holder of one piece
depending upon the capability of torsion of the arch for the effect hereinbefore named.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1889.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supports for Umbrellas or like Coverings or
Attachments for Carriages or other Vehicles.
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I: CHARLES HENRY BUTLIN of Camborne in the County of Cornwall Surgeon 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:-
My Invention relates more particularly to the kind of umbrella and attachments
described in the Specification of the Patent No. 12679 of 22nd September 1884
granted to me and my present Invention has for its principal objects to increase the
area which the umbrella protects and to render it capable of accommodating itself to
some extent to varying directions of the wind so as to automatically take up the
position best calculated to protect the user and to prevent the umbrella being blown
inside out.
I make the holder which forms the means of attaching the umbrella to the arch which
supports it in two parts one part capable of sliding laterally on the arch and the other
or second part capable of having movement of rotation to a certain extent upon the first
ID

page_text: named part. The second part is provided with an arm carrying the socket in which
the stick of the umbrella is received.
In or on the said parts are engaging devices, detents or stops to limit the rotary
motion of the one part upon the other. This allows for example the wind to move the
umbrella automatically for suppose the arch is adjusted so that the umbrella is vertical
or towards that position if a gust of wind comes from the opposite direction to that
for which the umbrella is adjusted the one part of the holder turns upon the other
part and the umbrella assumes say a horizontal position or such other position required
to protect the occupants of the vehicle from wind and rain and to prevent the umbrella
being blown inside out. This effect may be assisted by making the back part of the
umbrella larger than the front part.
The two parts of the support may each be provided with set screws for fixing each
of them in position when so desired.
I may use an arch of very thin material or wire and make the holder of one piece
depending upon the capability of torsion of the arch for the effect hereinbefore named.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood I shall now proceed more
particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several figures
on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating corresponding
parts in all the figures.
Figures 1 and 2 represent respectively in front elevation and plan a holder for
carriage umbrellas constructed according to my Invention. Figure 3 is a section of
the holder the section being taken along the line 1-2 in Figure 2 and Figure 4 is a
section taken along the line 3-4 Figure 2. Figure 5 shews (drawn to a smaller
scale) the improved holder carrying an umbrella and fitted in position upon the arch
or support for attaching it to the vehicle with which it is to be used and Figures 6
and 6ª are diagrams showing the umbrella in two of the positions which it is capable
of occupying.
The arch or support A is (for the purpose of strength and lightness) preferably
made of metal of a crescent form in transverse section as shewn in Figure 3 but
it may be of any other suitable shape and may be connected to the vehicle with
which it is to be used in the manner described in the Specification hereinbefore
referred to or in any other suitable manner so as to enable it to adjust itself, or
to be adjusted, to any angle required. The holder for the umbrella consists of two
parts B and C the part B being fitted to turn on the part C to a limited extent
governed by a screw a screwed through the body of the part B and entering a
slot or opening b in the part C the length of slot or opening determining the
extent to which the part B can be turned on the part C. The part B is provided
with an arm B having a socket B³ at its outer end into which the handle of the
umbrella is inserted and it is securely held therein by a thumb screw D. By a
very slight adjustment of the part B on the part the angular position of the
umbrella held in the socket B³ may be considerably varied and it may be fixed
in its adjusted position by the thumb screw E which is screwed through the
part B and bears on, or engages with, the part C, or as shewn in the drawings
the screw E is caused to act upon a loose piece F fitting in a slot or opening f
in the part C and forced by the screw E against the arch or support A so that
by means of the screw E the part B is not only fixed in position on the part C
but the holder comprising the parts B and C is securely held in position on the
arch or support A. The part of the holder may be prevented by the screw G
from moving on the arch A when the screw E is released for the purpose of adjusting
the position of the part B on the part C. If desired the part B may be left free to
move by the force of the wind on the part C, to the extent of the slot b, and thereby
be automatically adjusted in position to protect the occupant of the vehicle from wind
in whichever direction it may blow. The holder may be adjusted and fixed in any
desired position on the arch or support A and consequently the umbrella carried
thereby may be arranged at any required angle to protect from wind and rain the
occupants of the vehicle to which the invention is applied.

page_text: 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 :-
1. A holder or support for umbrellas or like coverings or attachments for carriages
capable of accommodating itself to varying directions of the wind so as to protect the
occupants of the vehicle substantially as herein before described.
2. A holder for carriage umbrellas and the like made in two parts one part being
capable of turning on the other part and automatically adjustable in position by the
wind so as to protect the occupants of the vehicles substantially as hereinbefore
described.
3. A holder for carriage umbrellas and the like made in two parts capable of
turning the one part on the other part and provided with means for adjusting and
fixing in position one part on the other substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
4. A holder for carriage umbrellas and the like made in two parts capable of
adjustment the one part on the other and adjustably fitted on an arch or like support
attached to a vehicle so as to render the umbrella carried in the holder capable of
being adjusted at any required angle to protect the occupants of the vehicle sub-
stantially as hereinbefore describe.l with reference to the accompanying drawings.
5. The general construction and arrangement of parts constituting an adjustable
holder or support for carriage umbrellas and the like substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of November 1889.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.