An Improved Appliance for Holding or Suspending Closed Umbrellas, Sunshades, or the like from the Person of the wearer.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Holding or Suspending Closed Umbrellas,
Sunshades, or the like from the Person of the wearer.
I CATHERINE ANNESLEY MALCOLMSON of Norrysbury, East Barnet, in the county
of Herts, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is designed to obviate the inconvenience of carrying a closed
umbrella in the hand, and provides a means for holding or supporting it from the
person of the wearer.
The invention consists of a socket or band for holding the umbrella sunshade or the
like, tapering towards the bottom or otherwise arranged to prevent the umbrella &c.
falling therethrough. The said socket is suspended from a waist belt or band by a
strap or chain to which is attached a ring, band, or clip to keep the umbrella in place
& the strap is affixed to or moveable over the waist belt. Or the socket or band
may be provided with a clip or other fastening by means of which it may be attached
directly to the dress or the pocket of the wearer. The socket will be found of great
assistance when rolling up the umbrella &c. as it can be rolled up when being placed
in the socket.
Dated thin 01ad dow of Dah 1000
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Holding or Suspending Closed Umbrellas,
Sunshades, or the like from the Person of the Wearer.
I, CATHERINE ANNESLEY MALCOLMSON, of Norrysbury, East Barnet, in the County
of Herts, Gentlewoman, 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 :—
This invention is designed to obviate the inconvenience of carrying a closed
umbrella or the like in the hand, and provides a means for holding or supporting it
from the person of the wearer.
The invention consists of a socket for holding the umbrella, sunshade or the like,
tapering towards the bottom or otherwise arranged to prevent the umbrella etc. falling
therethrough. The said socket is suspended from a waist belt or band by a strap, or
chain, or is in the form of a chatelaine with hook complete, or capable of being
attached to any belt, band or existing chatelaine, by a book or swivel; and to the
strap or chain is attached a short chain or a ring, band, or clip to keep the umbrella
in place, or the chain or strap is affixed to or moveable over the waist belt. Or the
socket may be provided with a clip or other fastening by means of which it may be
attached directly to the dress or to the pocket of the wearer. The socket will be found
of great assistance when rolling up the umbrella etc. as it can be rolled up when being
placed in the socket.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which similar letters indicate corresponding parts throughout.
Figure 1 is an elevation of my invention ready for attachment to a waist belt;
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the socket A (Figure 1); Figures 3 and 4 are
respectively top and bottom plans of Figure 2; and Figure 5 is a side elevation of the

page_text: hook attachment B (Figure 1); Figure 6 shews a modified form of my invention in
which the suspending chain is dispensed with.
The socket A is made preferably of a conical shape tapering downwards so as to
conform to the shape of the umbrella, sunshade or the like when rolled up. A longi-
tudinal gusset or strip () made of india-rubber or other elastic material is sewn or
otherwise attached so as to form a longitudinal section or part of the complete
socket A. To the socket is affixed a loop D into which is passed a D shaped swivel E
to which the chain or other suspending device F is attached. To the other end of the
chain or other suspending device F I attach another safety hook similar to the one
hooking into swivel E and a plain hook B which can be easily passed over the top of
an ordinary waist belt or may he placed in a button bole or a pocket or other place as
desired. The modification shewn in Figure 6 is intended to be attached to the pocket
by passing the hook over the edge of the pocket hole: A short chain or the like G is
attached to the chain F, and is intended to be passed round the handle or upper part
of the umbrella or the like and secured by means of the hook H which may be passed
into one of the links of the chain F to keep the umbrella close against the body of the
wearer.
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.) The construction of a socket A preferably conical with a gusset or section of
india-rubber or other elastic material C substantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore set forth and illustrated in Figures 1 to 4, and 6 of the accompanying
drawings.
(2.) The combination of a socket A as set forth in the preceding claim, with an
attachment B and with or without a chain or other suspending device F, arranged
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Uated this 27th day of Santambam 1000
Dated this 27th d
September
1000
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.