A LADIES' UMBRELLA AND DRESS SUSPENDER
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Colin M*Dougall and Charles Henry Eden, of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "A
LADIES' UMBRELLA AND DRESS SUSPENDER."
Scaled the 6th July 1860, and dated the 12th January 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Colin McDougall' and:
Charles Henry Eden at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 12th January 1869..
We, COLIN M'DOUGALL, and CHARLES HENRY EDEN, of Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A LADIES' UMBRELLA AND DRESS SUSPENDER," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists principally in the combination of a ladies'
umbrella and dress suspender in one articlo, and we propose to carry out
the said Invention in the following manner :-We take a piece of elastic
cord rather longer than would be required for a dress suspender merely,.
and provide any ordinary suitable fastening to connect the ends together-
when placed round the waist; we next provide a plate of metal (or other

page_text: suitable material) and form therein eight holes in a line near to each
other, and of such diameter that the elastic cord can pass through, but
not too easily; we then pass the elastic cord backwards and forwards.
through these holes alternately, leaving a loop of the same between the
two centre holes. This loop forms the umbrella suspender and may be
lengthened or shortened by drawing the elastic cord through the holes.
A button or tassel is attached to the loop for facility of drawing out or
expanding the loop when the umbrella is to be removed therefrom.
It will be evident that the umbrella suspender may be used for
carrying other articles when not required for the umbrella.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Colin McDougall and Charles Henry Edon in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th July 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, COLIN
MCDOUGALL and CHARLES, HENRY EDEN, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, send greeting,
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, -by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did,- for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Colin M'Dougall and Charles Henry
Eden, Her special license that we, the said Colin McDougall and Charles
Henry Eden, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Colin McDougall and Charles Henry Eden, our 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 "A LADIES' UMBRELLA AND
DRESS SUSPENDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that wc, the said
Colin M'Dougall and Charles Henry Eden, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands
and scals, 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 Scal Patent Office within six

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent:
NOW KNOW YE, that wo, the said Colin McDougall and Charles
Henry Eden, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying
Drawings (that is to say):
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Our Invention consists principally in the combination of a ladies'
umbrella and dress susponder in one article, and wo propose to carry
out the said Invention in the following manner :-We take a picco
of clastic cord or other similar and suitable material rathor longer
than would be required for a dress suspender merely and provido any
ordinary suitable fastening to connect the ends together when placed
round the waist; we next provide a plate of metal (or other suitablo
material) and form therein four, six, or more holes in a line near to
cach other, and of such diameter that. the elastic cord can pass through
but not too easily; wo then pass the elastic cord backwards and for-
wards through these holes alternately, leaving a loop of the samo
between the two centre holes. This loop forms the umbrella suspender
and may be lengthened or shortened by drawing the clastic cord through
the holes. A button or tassel is attached to the loop for facility of
drawing out or expanding the loop when the umbrella is to bo
removed therefrom.
It will be evident that the umbrella suspender may be used for
carrying other articles when not required for the umbrella.
Such being the nature and object of our said Invention, we will now
proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the same may
be performed and carried into practical effect, and in order that the same
may be clearly understood we have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings
illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures and letters
of reference corresponding with those in the following explanation
thercof.
In the annexed Drawing Fig. 1 represents a view of our improved
ladies' umbrella and dress suspender. a, a, being a picco of elastic
cord of rather greater length than would be required for a dress
suspender merely, and provided at the ends with any ordinary kind
of fastening b, b, for securing it round the waist; c, c, is a small plate

page_text: of metal or other suitable material formed with six. (or other convenient
number of) holes, as seen in the face view of the plate Fig. 2. It
will be seen on referring to Fig. 1 that the elastic cord is threaded
or laced backwards and forwards through these holes alternately,
leaving a loop a of the same between the two centre holes, a button!
or tassel & being attached to the said loop for the purpose of drawing
out or expanding the same when required. It will be evident that the
size of the loop can be altered at pleasure by drawing the cord through
the holes, but that if the size of the holes is proportioned to the thick-
ness of the cord there is no danger of its slipping, and that if perchance
it should slip it would have a tendency to increase the hold upon the
umbrella or parcel instead of slackening it. If it should be preferred to
make the combined umbrella and dress suspender of a piece of flat
clastic the form of the holes in the plate c, c, would have to be altered
accordingly. Instead of the plate c, c, a tube or slide e, e, may be
substituted as shown at Fig. 8, or any other equivalent contrivance may
be employed for forming the loop and preventing its slipping.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention,
together with the method of carrying the same into practical effect, we
wish it to be understood that wo claim as our Invention, the combination
of a ladies' umbrella and dress suspender in one article, substantially in
the manner herein-before described and illustrated in the annexed
Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Colin M'Dougall and Charles
Henry Eden, have hercunto set our hands and seals, this Seventh
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.
Witness,
GEORGE DAVIES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
COLIN MODOUGALL. (L.S.)
C. H. EDEN.
(L.S.)