Improvements in Holders for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1888
Complete Left, 11th June, 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th July, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and
the like.
I, GEORGE PORTER of No. 23 Cullum Street in the City of London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of umbrella holders which are usually fixed to
counter fronts or in other places where ordinary umbrella stands cannot conveniently
be used the object of the invention being to provide an improved holder into
which umbrellas can be easily and quickly placed and easily and quickly removed
therefrom.
In carrying out my invention I employ a number of arms pivotted or moveably
connected to a plate adapted to be fixed to the counter or in any other suitable position;
the back ends of the said arms are connected to or provided with suitable springs in
such a manner that when the arms are displaced by an umbrella being passed between
them they are moved laterally and when released from pressure the springs will
bring the armis back to their normal position.
By this arrangement if an umbrella be pressed as above named against any two of
the arms they will be moved apart laterally and upon the pressure being removed
the arms will be brought back to their normal position by their springs and will hold
the umbrella between them; to remove the umbrella it must be pressed outwards so
as to open the arms. It will be understood that the arms are so
the umbrella when placed therein.
Dotad the 17th day of Anzil 1889
shaped as to retain
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and
the like.
I, GEORGE PORTER, of No. 23, Cullum Street, in the City of London, Engineer,
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 relates to improvements on that class of holders for umbrellas,
walking sticks, and the like, described in my former Specification No. 17,465, dated
the 19th December 1887, the object of the present improvements being to provide
the arms with springs arranged in such a manner that the said arms will be double-
acting, that is to say, they will return to their normal or closed position in whichever
direction they may be moved, and each arm in this manner constitutes a portion of
two adjacent holders of a series, instead of two arms being required to constitute
each holder of a series as hitherto.
According to my present improvements I pivot or moveably connect the arms to
a plate or case adapted to be fixed to the counter or in any other suitable position;
the springs are connected or applied to the back ends of the said arms in such a
manner as to return them to their closed position when moved towards the right or
left hand so that when any two of the arms are displaced by an umbrella or a
walking stick being passed between them they will move laterally and when
released from pressure they will reassume their normal position.
:
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a horizontal section partly in plan
illustrating a series of holders for umbrellas, walking sticks, and the like, constructed
with double-acting arms according to my present improvements.
Figure 2 is a front elevation, and
Figure 3 a cross section of the same.
In these holders pieces of india-rubber a' are employed to form the springs for
bringing back the arms a, a to their normal position.
The front ends of the arms (except the end ones) are made with projections a³, a³
on each side, as shown, so that each arm forms a portion of two adjacent holders,
and either side of each arm will thus serve, with the adjacent arm, to hold an
umbrella or the like. The arms are pivotted to separate pivots on the plate c
adapted to be fixed to a counter front A or other convenient place, and the pieces of
india-rubber a¹, a' are placed between rearward extensions a², a² of the arms in such
a manner that they will act to bring the arms back to their normal position in
whichever way the arms may be laterally displaced; or, as will be obvious, a single
strip of rubber may be used to act on all the arms.
The dotted lines in figure 1 indicate the positions of the double-acting arms a, a
when displaced in either direction by the introduction or removal of an umbrella or
the like.

page_text: Figure 4 shows how the double-acting arms a may, if desired, be pivotted at the
back of the fixing plate or case A.
Figure 5 is a horizontal section illustrating a series of my improved holders in
which spiral springs a', a' are employed instead of india-rubber springs for operating
the arms in either direction. This arrangement will be easily understood without
further description.
Figure 6 is a horizontal section illustrating three other examples of springs a¹, a¹, a¹
for enabling the arms to act in both directions, the springs being adapted to the
back ends of the arms a, a which are formed T-shaped at a², a².
With those springs
the arms work loosely on their pivots and in openings in the front of the plate and
the T-shaped ends of the two left-hand arms bear upon the inner side of the front
of the plate, as shown, under the pressure of the springs. The T-shaped end of the
right-hand arm does not rest against the front of the plate, the springs in this case
being in tension. The rear ends of the springs of the two left-hand arms have their
bearing against the inner side of the back of the plate c which is made hollow for
this purpose, and the ends of the springs of the right-hand arm are secured to the
back of the plate c.
Figure 7 is a similar view to figure 6 showing an arrangement of flat springs a³, a¹
provided with buttons at, at which project through holes in the front of the plate and
bear against the T-shaped ends a², a² of the pivotted arms a, a so as to return them
to their closed position in whichever way they may have been moved by tho
introduction of an umbrella or the like.
Figure 8 is a view on a smaller scale showing a completo umbrella-stand provided
with my spring holders having double acting arms.
Figure 9 is a horizontal section showing how an india-rubber spring can be used
with a single holder. The piece of india-rubber a is placed in a recess formed by
the rearward extensions a², a² on the arms a, a which are pivotted at 6 to the plate c;
or the rubber can be placed at the back between the arms and the counter A.
For the sake of convenience I have described and illustrated my invention as applied
to holders for umbrellas and walking sticks, but it will be obvious that my spring
holders are equally applicable for holding billiard cues, cricket and other bats, guns,
speaking tubes, and other articles.
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 :-
The manufacture and use of spring holders for umbrellas, walking sticks, and
the like having double-acting arms constructed, arranged and operating substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.