Improvements in Rack Holders for Umbrellas and Sticks.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th Apr., 1895-Accepted. 8th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rack Holders for Umbrellas and Sticks.
JOSEPH FUNT 90, Crofton Road Camberwell S. E. do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Between two cast iron plates, which are screwed together and provided with
inlets, there are wheels with four spokes, against one of which presses a lever in
If an
connection with a spring. The spokes can be turned forward and backward.
umbrella or a stick is pushed against the spoke into one of the inlets, the wheel is
turned and the next spoke keeps the umbrella or stick in position.
London June 25th 1894
Improvements in Rack Holders for Umbrellas and Sticks.
1, JOSEPH FUNT, late of 90, Crofton Road, Camberwell, London, and now of
22, Clovelly Mansions, Grays Inn Road, London, W.C., 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 to an improved rack for holding umbrellas, walking
sticks, billiard cues, driving whips, golf clubs, and the like, and the invention
consists essentially in the combination, with each notch of the rack, of a sort of
turnstile or four-armed wheel mounted to rotate under the control of a spring-
actuated jumper lever. One arm of the wheel is normally presented across the
notch of the rack, the wheel being held to just the extent requisite to retain
the shaft, stick, or handle, of the article placed in the notch, but turning freely
enough to allow the arm to yield easily when inserting the handle of the umbrella
stick or other article in, or removing it from, the notch of the rack, the wheel
then making a quarter turn and the place of the arm across the groove being taken
by the next one.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein
Figure is a plan view of so much of a rack as is necessary to illustrate the
invention, only one notch being shewn. Figure 2 is a transverse section of same,
on line 2-2 Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an underside view of the rack, the bottom plate being removed to
shew the mechanism; and
Figure 4 shews the bottom plate separately.
The improved rack is formed by a top plate or casing adapted to be screwed
or otherwise fixed to a wall or other upright support and having as many projecting
arms A as may be required, separated by notches or spaces B to receive the
handles of the umbrellas walking sticks, billiard cues or other articles, this top
plate being preferably formed with side flanges as at a to form a casing to receive
the mechanism which is retained therein by the bottom plate C screwed to the top
plate or casing. In each arm A (except the one end one) of the rack is mounted a

page_text: turnstile or star wheel D in such position that one of its arms will project therefrom
across the notch B, as shewn, the enclosing flange a of the arm being removed
at this side sufliciently to allow of the rotation of the wheel. The wheel is held
in its normal position by the jumper lever E which is pressed against two of the
arms of the wheel D by a weak spring coiled about the pivote and engaging
with a stud on the lever. The pivots a' and of the wheel and lever are
preferably studs, cast in one with the top plate or casing, the moving parts
being merely held thereon by the bottom plate B. The jumper lever E is rounded
at the end so as to engage yieldingly with the arms of the wheel to allow the latter
to be turned with but slight force.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The herein described improved rack or holder, consisting in the combination,
with each notch of the rack, of a turnstile or star wheel mounted to rotate on the
adjacent arm of the rack under the control of a spring actuated jumper lever,
whereby the wheel is normally and yieldingly held so that one arm thereof projects
across the notch, substantially as, and for the purpose, specified.
Dated this 20th day of April 1895,
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.