An Improved Spring Clip for Suspending Umbrellas, Walking- sticks, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1899
An Improved Spring Clip for Suspending Umbrellas, Walking-
sticks, and the like.
We, EDWARD SAMSON VAN ROOYEN and JULIUS SIMEON LEWY, trading as Van
Rooyen, Lewy & Co., at 93, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C., Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Our invention relates to a spring-clip device so constructed and arranged as to
be casily carried in the vest or ticket pocket of the user when not in actual wear,
and adapted to be quickly and easily placed in connection with one of the button
holes of the cont, jacket, or vest of the user as a means for suspending and holding
an umbrella or walking-stick, the object being to prevent the loss of such umbrella
or stick as frequently obtains when this is laid aside while the hands are engaged
for writing and other purposes, our said invention being particularly useful to
commercial travellers and trade canvassers in wet weather.
In order that the general construction of our said invention and the manner
of its use may be fully and clearly understood we have hereunto appended a sheet
of drawings, of which,
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are side elevation, front elevation and back elevation respec-
tively of a spring clip according to our invention, the shape and configuration of
which as shown is given merely as an example of one of the many shapes in which
the same cau and may be made.
Fig. 4 is a plan or top view of our said invention when idle or not in use,
Fig. 6 boing a like view of same when grasping and holding a stick or umbrella.
Fig. 6, is a view illustrating the employment our invention, in which we have
chosen to show its application to the lapel button hole of a gentlemans frock coat.
Our invention consists of a pair of metallic, bone, ivory, celluloid, vulcanite or
other plates A and B, of any desired size shape or configuration adapting them
to be pivotally connected to each other at points C and D, the pivot of which
connection may conveniently be a bolt E.
The said plates are normally retained in the positions shewn in Fig. 4 by the
tension of a suitable spring, which may conveniently be a spiral spring such
as F, surrounding and retained in position by the rod or bolt E, the tension of
which said spring would operate against the separating or dividing of the outer
or front edgos a and b of the plates A B, and thus cause the said plates to grasp
and hold anything placed between them.
The said plates A and B are of concave-convex formation, and may be lined
with rubber, felt, leather or other resilient facings cd, so as not to injure the
stick or umbrella that may be placed between then. One or the other of the
said plates is arranged to form or have connected thereto a hook G adapted to
easily enter the button hole of a garment and remain therein without rotation.
In practice, the said clip may be carried in the vest pocket of the wearer, and
when needed may be placed with its hook G in connection with one of the button

page_text: holes of a coat, jacket, vest, or other garment as in Fig. 6, and when the umbrella
or walking stick is to be suspended the front edges of the plates AB may be
separated, a tongue or projection such as e or any suitable equivalent therefor
(Figs. 3, 4, 5) being provided upon the back of A or B so that by bringing the
back edges of A and B together by pressing the said tongue inwardly the outer
edges ab would be divided, when the umbrolla or stick may be inserted as in
Fig. 5, which would be therein held and retained when the pressure upon e is
released, and be suspended substantially as at Fig. 6 so long as necessary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manuer the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :--
(1) The improved spring clip substantially as described and shewn.
(2) The improved spring clip for suspending to the button hole of a garment
an umbrella or walking while not in use substantially as herein described and
shown.
(3) In an improved spring clip for suspending umbrellas and walking sticks to
the button holes of garments, the combination of a pair of concave-convex
metallic or other plates A and B, having resilient linings cd, and pivotally con-
nected at points CD, one of which said plates has connected thereto or arranged
to form a hook G, the said plates being arranged for closure by the tension of a
spring such as F, substantially and and for the purposes herein described and
Bhewn.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1. Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.