improvements in Umbrellas and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
improvements in Umbrellas and the like.
FREDERIC RUPERT PEAKE WEBB, Advertiser Office, Mossel Bay, Sub-Editor
Mossel Bay Advertiser, Cape Colony, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention to be as follows;
1st. That a strong pin is placed in the stick of any umbrella & the like, top and
bottom, where the usual wire spring catches used to be. 2nd. That the tube in
the centre instead of the usual size is doubled in length, and the usual ring for
holding ribs or wires is fixed in the centre of the tube slightly widened at the
sockets to allow a slight play. 3rd. A slot is made at each end of the tube (by
a slot I mean a small slit running downwards from the top about 3 of an inch,
and curving slightly upwards to the right, also the lower end of tube, a slit
running upwards about 3 of inch & curving slightly downwards to the right
with the rims nicely rounded in the usual way to allow the pin to slide and enter
the slots almost mechanically, when turned to the right or left on opening or
closing umbrellas & the like). 4th. The pins should be placed in a direct line
with the slots at each end.
Dated this 25th day of November 1899
Improvements in Umbrellas and the like.
FREDERIC RUPERT PEAKE WEBB, Advertiser Office, Mossel Bay, Sub-Editor
Mossel Bay Advertiser, Cape Colony, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly de-
scribed and ascertained in and by the following statement:
-
My invention chiefly applies to the tube or sliding ferrule that is moved up and
down the stick of an umbrella and the like, to the ring around which the rods
are attached that stretch to the curved (when open) ribs of the frame for the cover,
My invention has the ring placed about midway between the upper and lower rim
of this sliding ferrule with the sockets for the radiating rods slightly widened so
as to admit of a slight play to right or left. At the upper and lower end of this
sliding ferrule there is a curved or rectangular slot of about 3/8 of an inch, to
admit of a pin fixed in the upper and lower parts of the stick, for keeping the
umbrella and the like in the former case open, in the later case closed. To enter
the slot, the upper pin is so placed that the pressure of the slot on the pin keeps
the umbrella and the like open, and of the other slot on the lower pin keeps it
shut and these pins must be opposite or in a direct line to the slots.

page_text: The sliding ferrule, is about double the length of that used in the construction
of the ordinary method of umbrellas and the like. My invention as per attached
diagram is in the tube or sliding ferrule of an umbrella and the like. A. slot is
let into the sliding ferrule or tube at B and D) about 3 of an inch. Around the
middle of the sliding ferrule, is the brass ring C being slightly widened in the
sockets as shown in Figure 6 C B to admit of the rods radiating from the ring to
the ribs to have a slight play to right or left. A and E show the round knobs
or tops of the pins placed in the stick of an umbrella and the like instead of the
springs at present serving that purpose. On the sliding ferrule or tube being
pushed up the stick in opening, pin A would enter slot B and in closing pin E
would enter slot 1). These pins must be placed in the stick of an umbrella and
the like on the top and lower ends to the utmost limit that the sliding ferrule
will reach when opened or shut (where the wire springs or catches now in use
are) and in a direct line with the slots as shown by dotted line A to B.
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:-
1. That two strong pins simply take the place of the present wire springs for
holding the umbrella and the like open or shut.
2. That a slight twirling movement of the sliding ferrule disengages it from
the fixed pins either in opening or closing.
3. That the ring with the sockets slightly widened, is placed around the middle
of the sliding ferrule, instead of at the top.
4. The improved sliding ferrule as described by me, together with the two pins
instead of the wire springs or catches at present in use, form the novelty I claim
for my invention.
11.
ليمن