AN IMPROVE- MENT IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Heath, of 25, St. George's Place, Hyde Park
Corner, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS."
Sealed the 29th April 1862, and dated the 14th November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Heath at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
November 1861.
I, ROBERT HEATH, of 25, St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in umbrellas and parasols.
For this purpose, in order to connect the ribs and stretchers of umbrellas and
parasols together, an eye is attached to each of the ribs by brazing, soldering,
or otherwise. This eye is made of bent wire or other suitable material, which
being bent or shaped into the proper form is passed through the hole or holes
at the end of a stretcher, and then fixed as above explained to a rib of an
umbrella or parasol, or the material of which the eye is formed may be first
passed through the hole or holes at the end of the stretcher before shaping it
into an eye.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Heath in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th May 1862.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
HEATH, of 25, St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Iler most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Robert Heath, Her special licence that I, the said Robert
Heath, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Robert Heath, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Robert Heath, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of. the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert 'Heath, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in umbrellas and parasols.
For this purpose, in order to connect the ribs and stretchers of umbrellas and
parasols together, an eye is attached to each of the ribs by brazing, soldering,
or otherwise; this eye is made of bent wire or other suitable material, which
being bent or shaped into the proper form is passed through the hole or holes
at the end of a stretcher, and then fixed as above explained to a rib of an
umbrella or parasol, or the material of which the eye is formed may be first
passed through the hole or holes at the end of the stretcher before shaping it
into an eye.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of the Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
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Figure 1 shows a portion of a solid metal rib of an umbrella or parasol,
and part of a metal stretcher connected therewith, according to my Invention;
Figure 2 shows part of a tubular metal rib of an umbrella or parasol, and
part of a metal stretcher attached thereto, according to my Invention; and
Figure 3 shows part of a rib of an umbrella of a trough-like section, with
part of a stretcher attached thereto, according to my Invention. In each of
these Figures a represents part of a rib of an umbrella or parasol; 6 shows
part of a stretcher; and c is an eye formed by bending a piece of wire or
thin strip of metal into the forms shown. The wire or metal of which this
eye c is formed is passed through the end of a stretcher, as shown. The eye
c is fixed by soldering, brazing, or otherwise to the rib. By these means a
very simple and inexpensive and at the same time very effective mode of
connecting the stretchers with ribs of umbrellas and parasols is obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Heath, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
ROBERT HEATH. (L.S.)