An Improved Portable Gun, Stick, or Umbrella Rack.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Gun, Stick, or Umbrella Rack.
I EDWARD FRANKLAND GOSSET of the Junior United Service Club, Charles
Street St. James' in the County of Middlesex, Captain in Her Majesty's
15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved portable gun, stick, or umbrella rack,
and is especially adapted for use by travellers, soldiers, sportsmen, and others and
my said improved rack is capable of being easily attached to or detached from a
wall, tent pole or other support and may be packed and carried about in a very
small compass.
My said improved rack is made in the following manner.
Attached to a strip or band of leather or other flexible material of suitable
length are thongs or cords at convenient distances apart, the free ends of each
being formed into a running loop or hoose in such a manner that the said loop
or noose may readily and freely be tightened upon an article placed within it.
When in use the gun, stick or umbrella is passed through said loop or noose,
and the weight of the gun or other article suspended causes the noose to tighten
on it, and, being retained in position the article is prevented from slipping through
the loop.
The strip or band of leather or other material to which the loops or nooses are
attached, may be fastened, preferably by hooks or nails, either on a wall or other
flat surface or around a pillar tent-pole, or other convenient object through
apertures made for that purpose in the said strip or band or by means of suitable
straps and buckles, and when not required for use can easily be detached from the
support and rolled up for transport into a small compass.
For use on board ship I may employ a second rack, parallel to and below
the one already described to prevent the free ends of the sticks or other objects
supported by the upper rack from swaying by the motion of the vessel.
Dated this 10th day of February 1891
HORN & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Gun, Stick, or Umbrella Rack.
I EDWARD FRANKLAND GOSSET of the Junior United Service Club Charles
Street St. James' in the County of Middlesex Captain in Her Majesty's
15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment 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 portable gun stick or umbrella rack and is
especially adapted for use by travellers soldiers sportsmen and others and my said
improved rack is capable of being easily attached to or detached from a wall,
tent pole, or other support and may be packed and carried about in a very small
compass.
My said improved rack is made in the following manner :-
Attached to a strip or band of leather or other flexible material of suitable
length are thongs or cords at convenient distances apart the free ends of each being
formed into a running loop or noose in which the article is suspended.

page_text: In order that my invention may be more readily understood reference is made to
the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1. shews my improved rack detached from its support and
Fig. 2. shews the same in use.
A. is a strip or band of leather or other flexible material of suitable length to
which are attached at convenient distances apart by stitches buttons rivets or other
convenient means a number of cords or thongs B the free ends of each of the said
cords or thongs being formed into a running loop or noose b in such a manner
that the said loop or noose b may readily and freely be tightened upon an article
placed within it.
When in use as illustrated in Fig. 2. the gun, stick or other article C is passed
through the said loop or noose b and the weight of the article suspended causes the
noose to tighten thereon and the noose being tightened the article will be retained
in position and prevented from slipping through the loop.
The strip or band A. of leather or other material to which the loops or nooses b
are attached may be fastened preferably by hooks or nails (either on a wall or
other flat surface around a pillar or tent-pole as illustrated in Fig. 2. or to any
other convenient object) through apertures c made for that purpose in the said
strip or band or by means of suitable straps and buckles and when not required for
use it can be easily detached from the support and rolled up for transport into a
small compass.
For use on board ship I may employ a second rack parallel to and below the
one already described to prevent the free ends of the sticks or other articles
suspended from the upper rack swaying with the motion of the vessel.
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. A portable rack for guns sticks or other articles consisting essentially of a
band or strip of flexible material having attached thereto a number of cords or
thongs the free ends of which are each formed into a running loop or noose the
whole constructed and arranged substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of April 1891.
HORN & SON,
Applicant's Agents.