Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 2nd May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 3rd June, 1887.
I JOHN WEEKS of 19 Gospel Oak Grove Haverstock Hill in the County of Middlesex
Umbrella Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention I construct the runner or runner notch so as to combine -
therewith the spring or spring catch heretofore fitted on or in the stick, thus producing
a neater and more suitable arrangement and a much shorter runner.
For this purpose
I form the runner with a sliding peg or part which enters a corresponding recoss in
the stick when the umbrella is in the closed or in the open condition; and is held in
by means of a spring which is enclosed in the runner and may be of elliptical form.
By depressing a small knob the spring is compressed and the peg taken out of its
recess and the runner can then be freely slided along the stick for opening or closing
the umbrella. I may, where the form of the umbrella frame permits it, combine the
runner with the selfacting or other tip cap the latter working on the runner between
the aforesaid enclosed band spring and the notch and taking over the tips on the ribs
which are recessed in the notch so as to reduce the size of the cap.
Tinted this 8th.dow of November 1986

page_text: Improvements in Umbrellas, Sunshades, and the like.
I, JOHN WEEKS, of 19, Gospel Oak Grove, Haverstock Hill, in the County of
Middlesex, Umbrella Maker 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 :—
According to this invention I construct the runner or runner notch so as to combine
therewith the spring or spring catch heretofore fitted on or in the stick, thus producing
a neater and more suitable arrangement, and a much shorter runner.
For this purpose
I form the runner with a sliding peg or part which enters a corresponding recess in
the stick when the umbrella is in the closed or in the open condition, and is held in by
means of a spring and ring which are enclosed in the runner and may be of elliptical
form. By depressing a small knob the spring is compressed and the peg taken out of
its recess and the runner can then be freely slided along the stick for opening or
closing the umbrella.. I may, where the form of the umbrella frame permits it,
combine the runner with the self acting or other tip cap, the latter working on the
runner between the aforesaid enclosed hand spring and the notch and taking over the
tips on the ribs which are recessed in the notch so as to reduce the size of the cap.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side view of a runner or runner notch
constructed according to this invention showing also the stick to which it is applied
and a rib and stretcher in the folded position, the said rib and stretcher being
constructed according to the invention described by me in my patent specification
No. 5565 of 1887. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through the runner, and
Figure 3 a vertical cross section on line a, a, Figure 1, that is to say, through the
catch part of same. Figure 4 is an end view of the notch part of the runner.
Figure 5 is a side view of a runner with my improved notch part. Figure 6 is a side
view of a runner with a modified form of my catch. Figure 7 is a cross section
through the catch part, and Figure 8 a similar view but with the catch knob
depressed.
Referring to Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, the runner is provided with a sliding peg or
part A which enters a corresponding recess in the stick B, as seen in Figure 3, when
the umbrella is in the closed condition as shown (or in the open condition). The
peg A is held in by means of a spring C bearing against an elliptical ring C" in which
the peg A is fixed and which is enclosed in the enlarged part D of the runner; the
spring C is at one end fixed to the interior of the said part D. By depressing the
knob C, which in this instance forms part of the ring C³, against the spring (the
peg A. is taken out of its recess in the stick B and the runner can then be freely slided
along the stick for opening (or closing) the umbrella. I have, in this instance, shown
the runner with a spring tip cap F of ordinary form and working on the runner
between the aforesaid enclosed hand spring and elliptical ring and the notch D¹ and
taking over the tips on the U shaped ribs Ġ which are recessed in the notch, as shown

page_text: at d Figures 1 and 4, so as to reduce the size of the cap, as also shown in Figure 5
applied to a runner without the enlarged part D or of ordinary form.
Figures 67 and 8 show a modified form of my runner. In this case the spring C
is helical and enclosed in the knob part of the elliptical ring 0. In Figure 7 the
knob C is in the normal position and in Figuro 8 in the depressed position for
release.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination of the peg A, ring C³, and spring C, all enclosed in an enlarged
part D of the runner and actuated by a protruding knob C so that on depressing the
knob against the spring the peg is withdrawn from a recess in the stick, substantially
as described and shown.
2. Providing the notch part of the runner with recesses d for the sides of the ribs to
enter so as to bring them closer to the stick substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 400 day of Dray 1000
.
JOHN WEEKS.
By Jensen & Son,
7.7, Chancery Lane, London, W.O.,
Patent Agents.