OR IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN STOVING OR DRYING JAPANNED RIBS STRETCHERS AND FURNITURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1885

page_text: Parasols.
We WILLIAM ALLEN BINDLEY and WILLIAM JAMES GELL of Nos 51 and
52 Newball Hill Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers and
AMBROSE FREDERICK BOнAM of N° 53 Newhall Hill Birmingham aforesaid
Machinist do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for NEW OR
IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN STOVING OR DRYING JAPANNED RIBS
STRETCHERS AND FURNITURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS to be as follows:-
In the ordinary process of japanning the ribs and stretchers and furniture of
umbrellas and parasols the japan coated articles are laid upon pans and the filled
pans are supported upon shelves in a drying stove and heated to the required
degree.
Our invention consists of apparatus constructed as hereinafter described to be
used for supporting the japanned ribs and stretchers and furniture during the
stoving or drying operation and for transporting them to and removing them from
the drying stove.
By the use of the apparatus constituting our invention the ordinary pans are
dispensed with and a larger quantity of articles can be dried in the same space and
more uniformly heated than by the ordinary process further economy in the heating
of the stove and a saving of labour result.
The apparatus constituting our invention consists of a carriage or trolley pro-
vided with pairs of wheels for working upon a tramway situated parallel to the
front of the drying stove and also with other pairs of wheels for working upon a
tramway within the stove at right angles to the first named tramway. The pairs
of wheels for working upon the tramway outside the stove are situated at the
shorter sides of the carriage or trolley while the pairs of wheels for working upon
the tramway within the stove are situated parallel to the longer sides or ends of
the carriage. By means of the last named pairs of wheels the carriage can be
passed from the main tramway onto that in the drying stove without the use of a
turntable Where there is sufficient room curved tramways may be employed.
In this case only one set of wheels on the trolly is required. The base of the
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page_text: carriage or trolly consists of a skeleton or open frame to which uprights are affixed
the said uprights being arranged at the sides and ends of the base and also along
the middle.
To these uprights horizontal bars preferably square or angular are riveted the
said bars being arranged parallel to one another and at a short distance apart.
The bars when angular are so fixed that the supporting part of each consists of
one of the sharp edges or angles of the bar a minimum surface is thereby brought
into contact with the article supported on the bar. A framing of parallel bars
divided longitudinally by similar parallel bars is thus produced. The horizontal
bars of the framing and the dividing horizontal bars constitute a tier of supports
or supports one above another upon which the japan coated ribs and stretchers are
laid the bars constituting each set of supports being arranged at the same level
that is the lowest set of bars of the framing and the dividing bars are situated
at the same level the next set of bars above is on the same level and so on
throughout the series.
Runners and other articles of umbrella and parasol furniture may be suspended
from the bars by wire hooks.
The japan coated ribs and stretchers or furniture being placed across or supported
by the supporting bars of the carriage or trolly the said carriage or trolly is
transported by the tramway or tramways described to the heating stove which it
fills or nearly fills. When sufficiently dried the japan coated ribs and stretchers
are removed from the stove in a similar way.

page_text: We WILLIAM ALLEN BINDLEY and WILLIAM JAMES GELL both of No# 51 and
52 Newhall Hill Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers and
AMBROSE FREDERICK BOHAM of N° 53 Newhall Hill, Birmingham, aforesaid
Machinist, 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 :-
In the ordinary process of japanning the ribs and stretchers and furniture of
umbrellas and parasols, the japan coated articles are laid upon pans or trays and
the filled pans or trays are supported upon shelves in a drying stove and heated to
the required degree.
Our invention consists of apparatus constructed as herein after described to be
used for supporting the japanned ribs and stretchers and furniture during the
stoving or drying operation and for transporting them to and removing them from
the drying stove.
By the use of the apparatus constituting our invention the ordinary pans are
dispensed with and a larger quantity of articles can be dried in the same space
and more uniformly heated than by the ordinary process; further economy in the
heating of the stove and a saving of labour results. The apparatus constituting
our invention consists of a carriage or trolley provided with pairs of wheels for
working upon a tramway situated parallel to the front of the drying stove and
also with other pairs of wheels for working upon a tramway within the stove at
right angles to the first named tramway. The pairs of wheels for working upon
the tramway outside the stove are situated at the shorter sides of the carriage or
trolley while the pairs of wheels for working upon the tramway within the stove
are situated parallel to the longer sides or ends of the carriage. By means of the
last named pairs of wheels the carriage can be passed from the main tramway
onto that in the drying stove without the use of a turntable. Where there is
sufficient room, curved tramways may be employed. In this case only one set of
wheels on the trolley is required.
The base of the carriage or trolley consists of a skeleton or open frame to which
uprights are affixed, the said uprights being arranged at the sides and ends of the
said base and also along the middle. To these uprights horizontal bars preferably
square or angular are riveted, the said bars being arranged parallel to one another
and at a short distance apart.
The bars when angular are so fixed that the supporting part of each consists of
one of the sharp edges or angles of the bar a minimum surface is thereby brought
into contact with the article supported on the bar.
A framing of parallel bars divided longitudinally by similar parallel bars is thus
produced. The horizontal bars of the framing and the dividing horizontal bars
constitute a tier of supports or supports one above another, upon which the japan

page_text: coated ribs and stretchers are laid, the bars constituting each set of supports being
arranged at the same level, that is, the lowest set of bars of the framing and the
dividing bars are situated at the same level; the next set of bars above is on the
same level and so on throughout the series.
Runners and other articles of umbrella and parasol furniture may be suspended
from the bars by wire hooks.
The japan coated ribs and stretchers or furniture being placed across or supported
by the supporting bars of the carriage or trolley the said carriage or trolley is
transported by the tramway or tramways described to the heating stove which it
fills or nearly fills. When sufficiently dried the japan coated ribs and stretchers
are removed from the stove in a similar way.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents in perspective apparatus
constructed according to our invention for stoving or drying japanned ribs and
stretchers and umbrella and parasol furniture]; Figure 2 represents in side eleva
tion and Figure 3 in plan the said apparatus; Figure 4 represents in section a
portion of the same drawn to a larger scale.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawings.
a is the base of the carriage or trolley provided at each side with a pair of
wheels b, b for working upon the tramway c, c.
The said base of the carriage
or trolley consists of a skeleton or open frame (see the plan Figure 3) to which
parallel rows of uprights are affixed by taking into sockets in the said base.
We prefer to arrange the uprights in the manner represented in the Drawings so
as to provide gaps or spaces between adjacent sets of uprights. That is to say the
row of uprights d, d at one end of the base a makes a set with the adjacent
row d², d' and the two rows d³ and d' at the middle of the base form a second set
and the two rows do and do a third set, spaces or gaps being left between adjacent
sets of uprights as represented. The several uprights are bound together by the
cross pieces e and f. To each row of uprights horizontal parallel bars h, h crossing
the base a in its shorter direction are riveted or otherwise fixed the said hars h, h
being arranged parallel to one another and at a short distance apart. We prefer
to make the parallel bars h h of an angular figure in cross section as seen in
Figure 4 the upper edge or angle of the bars constituting the supporting edge;
a small surface is thereby brought into contact with the articles supported upon
the said bars. The horizontal bars h, h between the uprights of each row con-
stitute a tier or set of supports one above another, the said supporting bars of
each set of uprights being arranged at the same level as represented in the
Drawing.
Upon the supporting bars h, h the japan coated ribs or stretchers i are laid as
represented in Figures 2 and 4 and when the apparatus is filled the carriage or
trolley a is transferred on the tramway c, c to the heating stove as herein before
described. The manner in which the ribs or stretchers are arranged and supported
on the tiers of parallel bars h, h between a set of uprights is best seen in Figure 2,
the spaces between adjacent sets of uprights permitting ribs and stretchers of
different lengths being supported on the tiers without any structural change in the
apparatus.
When the articles of umbrella and parasol furniture cannot be laid upon the
supporting bars h, h they are suspended from the said bars by wire hooks or
otherwise suspended.
Although we prefer to arrange the uprights carrying the supporting tiers of bars
in the manner represented in the Drawings and which arrangement we have found
to answer well in practice yet we wish it to be understood that the uprights and
the supporting tiers of bars may be arranged in a variety of ways without
departing from the nature of our invention.
The apparatus represented is fitted to be used with curved tramways but when
the apparatus is used with a tramway in the drying stove at right angles to the
principal or outside tramway, the base or carriage of the apparatus is furnished

page_text: with pairs of wheels for working upon the tramway outside the stove and with
other pairs of wheels at right angles to the former for working upon the tramway
inside the stove as herein before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that
we claim as our invention of "New or improved apparatus to be used in stoving
or drying japanned ribs stretchers and furniture of umbrellas and parasols" :-
Apparatus for the purpose described consisting essentially of a carriage or
trolley working upon a tramway or tramways the said carriage or trolley being
provided with sets of uprights and the latter with tiers of supporting bars upon
which the japan coated articles are laid or from which they are suspended
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.