Improvements in Umbrellas.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrellas.
I, JÖRGEN HERMAN VOGT JACOBSEN of 9, Schaarthor, Hamburg, in the
Empire of Germany, Merchant, 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 :-
The present invention relates to an umbrella of which the handle and the lower
end are constructed so as to be capable of being disconnected by unscrewing.
This improvement has for its object to enable umbrellas to be packed con-
veniently in small travelling boxes or portmanteaus or in other receptacles without
the necessity otherwise of having to carry the umbrella in the hand whilst
travelling with the consequent risk of breaking or losing the same or the liability
of the points of the ribs of the umbrella to catch in every thing which is very
frequently the case in crowded places such as railway stations carriages and other
places.
The improved umbrella is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in Fig. 1 in
partial section; and Fig. 2 in elevation-showing the handle and lower end
disconnected.
The umbrella is constructed generally like an ordinary umbrella but is provided
with a stick made in three parts a b c.
The middle portion b carries the framing of the umbrella and the covering and is
formed with two screw-threaded holes. The handle a is formed at its lower end
with a screw d and the lower end c is formed with a screw d'. These parts of the
ambrella are connected to the middle portion b by screwing the screws d' d' into the
aforesaid respective holes provided for same in the said middle portion b.
If now the umbrella is to be packed away the handle and the lower portion of
the umbrella are disconnected by unscrewing so that the umbrella thus disconnected
is capable of being put away in a bag, portmanteau or receptacle of comparatively
small size.
The said portions must be screwed into the middle portion b again to render the
umbrella ready for use.
The umbrella may also be so constructed that the screw thread is cut directly
in the central portion b or this middle portion may be provided with sleeves or
sockets formed with a similar or corresponding female screw thread or instead may
have the male screw thereon at one or both ends the detachable ends being
arranged to correspond.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inver-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In an umbrella the combination with the stick thereof of a detachable handle
adapted to be disconnected by unscrewing from said stick and a detachable lower
end aleo adapted to be similarly disconnected from said stick for the purpose of
enabling the length of the umbrella to be reduced substantially in the manner and
for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto
annexed.

page_text: 2. The improved umbrella constructed combined and arranged to act sub-
stantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Doted this 3rd day of November 1894.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.