IMPROVEMENTS IN PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT, to William Fox, residing at Amiens, France, Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS."
-A communication to him by Mr. Gabriel Emile Charageat, residing
in Paris, 19, Boulevard des Italiens.
Sealed the 28th January 1862, and dated the 31st August 1861.
PROVISIONAL. SPECIFICATION. left by the said William Fox at the..
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st,
August 1861
I, WILLIAM. Fox, residing at Amiens; France, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PARASOLS AND
UMBRELLAS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in parasols and umbrellas.
For these purposes in constructing the runners of parasols and umbrellas
springs are applied to the runners in such positions that the stretchers when
a parasol or umbrella is closed may each rest against a spring having a
tendency to force the end of the stretcher near where it is attached to the'
ruuner away from the stick of the parasol or umbrella, so that in opening a'
parasol or umbrella the upper ends of the stretchers, when free, are caused to
incline away from the stick by the springs before mentioned.
In place of using the springs above mentioned a similar object may be
accomplished by applying a projecting ring below the top notch. In this pro-
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page_text: jecting ring there are as many notches as there are ribs to tho parasol or
umbrolla, but tho parts of the ribs which enter such notches do not come so
near to the stick as the other parts of the ribs which are above and below the
notched ring. By these micans when the parasol- or umbrella is closed the
ribs are slightly bent over the projecting ring, and they will when their outer
ends are released by their own elasticity open outwards away from the stick,
and thus facilitate the stretchers in their action on the ribs when the runner is
Sonood nithe stick
:SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed.
by the said William Fox in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
Fox, residing at Amiens, France, Manufacturer, send greeting.<
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of August, 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 William Fox, Her special licence that I, the said William Fox,
my executors, administrators; and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Fox, 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 night' make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS," a communication to me by Mr. Gabriel Emile
Charageat, residing in Paris, 19, Boulevard des Italiens, upon the condition,
(amongst others) that I, the said William Fox, my executors or adminis
trators, by an instrument 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Fox, 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,:-

page_text: This Invention has for its object improvements in parasols and umbrellas:
For these purposes in constructing the runners of parasols and umbrellas"
springs are applied to the runners in such position's that the stretchers when n
parasol or umbrella is closed may each 'rest against a spring having a
tendency to force the end of the stretcher near where it is attached to the
runner away from the stick of the parasol or umbrella, so that in opening a
parasol or umbrella the upper ends of the stretchers, when free, are caused to
incline away from the stick by the springs before mentioned.
In place of using the springs above mentioned a similar object may be
accomplished by applying a projecting ring below the top notch. In this pro-
jecting ring there are as many notches as there aro ribs to the parasol or
umbrella, but the parts of the ribs which enter such notches do not come so
near to the stick as the other parts of the ribs which are above and below tho
notched ring. By these means when a parasol or umbrella is closed the ribs
are slightly bent over the projecting ring, and they will, when their outer ends,
are released, by their own elasticity open. outwards 'away from the stick, and
thus, facilitate the stretchers in their action on the ribs when the runner is
forced up the stick.
And in order that the Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a section of an umbrella, the runner a of which has springs
applied to it according to the Invention; Figure 2 shews the runner a sepa-
rately, and also shews separately the springs which are applied to it. The
springs bare placed in the notches c, c, which receive the ends of the
stretchers d, and they are introduced into the notches before the ends of the
stretchers are fixed in their places and are held there, when the ends of
the stretchers have been introduced into the notches by the wire which holds
the stretchers in their places. When the umbrella is closed the lower ends of
the stretchers will compress the springs, and the upper ends of the stretchers
will thus have a tendency to spring out from the stick, and by this means the
upper ends of the stretchers will be retained in a proper position for acting on
the ribs when it is desired to open the umbrella. Figure 3 shews a section of
an umbrella in which the same object is attained by applying a projecting
ring below the top notch, and Figure 4 shews separately the top notch with
the ring combined with it. In these Figures, a is the ring attached to the
lower end of the tube of the top notch, the tube being made slightly longer
than usual. The ring a has notches formed in it to receive the ribs d when

page_text: the umbrella is closed. The notches in this ring are not, however, made so
deep as to permit the ribs when the umbrella is closed to lie in a perfectly
straight position, but they are mado to, such a depth only as will causo-tho
ribs when their lower ends are brought together around the stick to be slightly
bent over the ring, and thus their lower ends will have a tendency to spring
outwards from the stick when their lower ends are released, and the stretchers
will thus be brought into a proper position for acting on the ribs when tho
runner is forced up the stick.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Fox, have hereunto set my
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hand and seal, this Twelfth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM FOX. (L.B.).
Witness,
W BRADDOCK..