IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CARRYING UMBRELLAS."
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Elizabeth Martha Brown, of Bury St. Edmunds, in
the County of Suffolk, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR CARRYING UMBRELLAS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Elizabeth Martha Brown
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the
3rd July 1867.
I, ELIZABETH MARTHA BROWN; of Bury St. Edmund's, in the County of
Suffolk, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR CARRYING UMBRELLAS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for carrying
umbrellas. This' apparatus, which is adapted more especially for the use of
ladies, consists of an ornamental plate with a chain attached to it; the plate
is secured by a band or otherwise to the waist of the wearer, and the chain
has a ring at its lower end through which the lower extremity of the umbrella
stick is inserted. To secure the upper end of the umbrella it is encircled by.
another short chain, also fixed to the plate and having a cross bar at its end,
which is to make it fast, passed through another ring near the upper end of
the first chain.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Elizabeth Martha Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ELIZABETH
MARTHA BROWN, of Bury St. Edmund's, in the County of Suffolk, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Elizabeth Martha Brown, Her special license that I, the said Elizabeth
Martha Brown, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Elizabeth Martha Brown, 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 might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CARRYING UMBRELLAS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Elizabeth Martha Brown, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Elizabeth Martha Brown, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for carrying
umbrellas. This apparatus, which is adapted more especially for the use of
ladies, consists of an ornamental plate with a chain attached to it; the plate
is secured by a band or otherwise to the waist of the wearer, and the chain
has a ring at its lower end through which the lower extremity of the umbrella
stick is inserted. To secure the upper end of the umbrella it is encircled by
another short chain, also fixed to the plate and having a cross bar at its end,
which is to make it fast, passed through another ring near the upper end of
the first chain.

page_text: And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
a is a narrow band passing around the waist of the wearer and fastened by
a spring hook and ring, or in other convenient and simple manner; b is a
metal plate through two slits or openings in which the band a is threaded;
c and d are two chains, one long the other short; they are both attached to
the plate b. c¹ is a ring at the end of the chain c; it receives through it the
lower extremity of the umbrella stick. c is another ring inserted into the
chain c near the point of its attachment with the plate b. The short chain d
carries a bar d¹ at its end, and the upper end of the umbrella is held by
passing the chain d around it and inserting the bar d' through the ring c².
In witness whereof, I, the said Elizabeth Martha Brown, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
E. M.. BROWN. (L.S.)