An Improved Umbrella, Sunshade, or Walking Stick Suspender.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1891-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Umbrella, Sunshade, or Walking Stick Suspender.
HENRY ALBERT Davis, 13, Poultry, London, Umbrella Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
An improved method for hanging or suspending umbrellas, sunshades, and
walking sticks in shop windows, warehouses & other places-it provides a very
firm & secure hold of the article to which it is attached & without marking or
damaging the same. It consists of a rubber cap having a metal hook or ring
attached. The cap made about the length of an umbrella ferrule and of similar
shape but small enough to fit tight so as to securely hold & suspend the umbrella
sunshade or walking stick by the point or ferrule end.
HENRY ALBERT DAVIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Umbrella, Sunshade, or Walking Stick Suspender.
I, HENRY ALBERT DAVIS of 11 Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 the usual methods of placing umbrellas in stands while wet, the top
notch and the joint wire as also the eyes of the ribs where they are affixed to the
top notch become more or less injured by the accumulation of wet and dampness
due to the confinement at that part of the cover by the overlapping folds or
bagginess which also destroys the cover at that part. Now the object of my
invention is to remedy this great defect and to not only preserve the top notch, the
joint wire and the cover but to enable the cover to dry more rapidly than by the
ordinary method and this I accomplish by suspending the umbrella by its ferrule
end so that the wet may drain down the cover to the rib tips which are at a
distance apart so that the rain water can drip therefrom and the cover become dry.
The invention also enables umbrellas which are dry and rolled up to be suspended
from the ferrule ends and in a similar manner walking sticks can be suspended.
Tennis and other bats can be suspended by their handles and in the case of shop-
keepers or sellers of umbrellas and walking sticks the articles can be displayed in a
suspended form with less liability of being damaged than by the present system of
standing them upright, from which position they often fall and get chipped, scarred
and in many instances become unsaleable.
My invention will be clearly understood by an examination of the annexed
drawings.
Figure is an elevation, Figure 2 a section thereof.
A is a socket or thimble shaped appliance of rubber compound moulded to receive
the ferrule end of an umbrella or the ferrule end of a walking stick.
Ba hook, or it may be an eye having a shoulder C for bearing against the end
of A and also a stem D for passing through a hole in the otherwise closed end of A
said stem being screw threaded for the reception of a nut E within the socket A to
fix the hook or the eye B firmly to the socket A so that said socket can be
hooked on to or be passed on to a nail or the like affixed to a wall or panelling, or
over a bar or rod as desired, or an umbrella can be hung in an open state from the
branch of a tree as a shelter from the sun's heat.
The elasticity of the socket A with the strengthening rim F enables the mouth
real

page_text: to be drawn over the ferrule end of an umbrella as at Figure 3 the grip being
sufficient to carry the weight of an umbrella or it may be a walking stick, a tennis
or other bat as at Figure 4 or other portable article having a like use.
Any number of these hooked or eyed sockets can be hung on one nail or hook as
exemplified by Figure 5 such as when a number of umbrellas or walking sticks
have to be displayed, or a number of elastic sockets A, A, can be attached to the
edge of a shaped piece of wood (such as at Figure 6 a single hook or eye B
serving to support by suspension all umbrellas and stick ends placed in the socket.
Figure 7 shows how a number of umbrellas or walking sticks can be arranged
suspended each from a single socket hooked on to a bar H of a stand 1.
The umbrellas may be suspended in an open state or a half open state or in a
closed and rolled up state as shown in Figure 7.
The arrangement of suspending umbrellas and walking sticks from the bar of a
stand in say the hall of a dwelling house as at Figure 7 is neat compared to the
present system of throwing them carelessly into a stand such as is represented at
Figure 8 where the drainings of one umbrella interferes with the drying of the
others to say nothing of the unsightliness of the stand in a hall and the great
damage done to umbrella covers from the rough manner of placing them in a
stand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. The construction and employment of an elastic socket for the reception of
the ferrule end of an umbrella, a walking stick or other article so that it can be
suspended thereby and therefrom said elastic socket having a hook or an eye affixed
to it as and for the purposes described and substantially as shown by Figures 1, 2
and 3 of the annexed drawings.
2. The employment of several of such elastic sockets in combination to one hook
or eye affixed in connection therewith as described substantially with reference to
Figure 6 of the annexed drawings.
Dated this 8th day of July 1891.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said H. A. Davis.