AN IMPROVED FRAME FOR PARASOLS, UMBRELLAS, SUNSHADES, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Amédéo Fayol, of Bordeaux, Rue Verdier, No. 10,
Mechanician, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FRAME FOR PARASOLS,
UMBRELLAS, SUNSHADES, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE ARTICLES.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Amédée Fayol at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th March 1873.
I, AMÉDÉD FAYOL, of Bordeaux, Rue Verdier, No. 10, Mechanician,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
FRAME FOR PARASOLS, UMBRELLAS, SUNSHADES, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE ARTICLES,”
to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists principally in the employment of an additional
piece which is arranged between each rib and the corresponding stretcher
of the frame, with the object chiefly of curving the rib when the
umbrella or other article is being opened, and of thus making the wholo
framo take the desired form without producing any strain upon the
silk or other covering.

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The additional piece is a round rod of steel or other suitable material
flattened at its ends, one end being jointed to the rib near the outer
end thereof, and the other end to the stretcher near the connection of.
the same with the rib. These joints are made by small stays or rivets
when the ribs are of hollow steel, when the ribs aro of whalebone or 5
cane the ends of the additional pieces are forked.
By the construction of the frame as above described it takes the
proper form without straining the silk or other covering, as is the case
with the frames hitherto constructed. This form is due to the play of
the stretchers, which being pushed upwards on the opening of the
umbrella produce a displacement at their points of connection with the
additional pieces, and force these latter to bend or curve the ribs like a
bow stretched by its string. The ribs being thus arched when they
return to their straight position excrt through the medium of the
additional pieces a pull upon the stretchers sufficiently powerful to cause 1
the umbrella to close.
The additional pieces have the further advantages of preventing the
umbrella being blown inside out, of strengthening the ribs at the points
where the stretchers bear upon them, and of assisting in opening the
umbrella or other article.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Amédéo Tayol.in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AMÉDÉE
FAYOL, of Bordeaux, Rue Verdier, No. 16, Mechanician, send greeting.
:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Amédée Fayol, Her special licence that
I, the said Amédée Fayol, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Amédée Fayol, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agroo with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,

page_text: should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ircland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED FRAME FOR PARASOLS,
UMBRELLAS, SUNSHADES, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE ARTICLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Amédéo Fayol, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain tho naturo¨
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 YẸ, that I, the said Amédée Fayol, do hereby declaro
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 thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, that is to say :—
My Invention consists in the employment of an additional picco which
is arranged between cach rib and the corresponding stretcher of the
frame, with the object chiefly of curving the rib when the umbrella or
other article is being opened, and of thus making the whole frame, take
the desired form without producing any strain upon the silk or other
covering.
".
The Invention will be fully understood by the annexed Drawings and
the following description:-Figures 1 and 2 are detailed views, drawn full
size, showing in face view and side view respectively my Invention
applied to a frame with steel ribs; Figures 3 and 4 are similar viows
shewing it applied to a frame with ribs of whalebono; Figuro 5 repre-
sents (on a reduced scale) the whole frame when closed and fastened;
Figure 6 represents it fully opened, and Figure 7 closed up to the point¸
to which it is self-closing.
The additional picco e is a round rod of steel or other suitable material
flattened at its ends, one end being jointed to the rib a at g, and the
other end to the stretcher 6 at near the connection of the same with
the rib at . These joints are made by small stays or rivets, as scen in
Figures 1 and 2, when the ribs are of hollow steel; when the ribs are of
whalebone or cane the ends of the picces care forked, as seen in Figures 3
and 1.

page_text: By the construction of the frame as above described it takes the
proper form without straining the silk or other covering as is the case
with the frames hitherto constructed. This form is due to the play of
the stretchers 6, which being pushed upwards on the opening of the
umbrella produce a displacement at their points of connection with
the additional pieces c, and force these latter to bend or curve the ribs a
like a bow stretched by its string. The ribs being thus arched when
they return to their straight position they exert through the medium
of the additional pieces c a pull upon the stretchers 6 sufficiently
powerful to cause the umbrella to close to the extent seen in Figure 7.
The additional pieces c have the further advantages of preventing the
umbrella being blown inside out, of strengthening the ribs at the points
where the stretchers bear upon them, and of assisting in opening the
umbrella or other article.
The covering of the frame may be of silk or other suitable material,
but is by preference of caoutchouc. It may be in one piece and then of
flat form, or it may be of eight picces cut in such manner that being
united at their joints they make only one piece, but having the form of
the umbrella which would probably be more advantageous.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, con-
structing the frames of umbrellas and other like articles with the addi-
tional pieces (c), substantially as and for the purpose herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Amédée Fayol, have hercunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of August One thousand
AMÉDÉE FAYOL. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
'
Civil Engineer,
of Boulevard Magenta, No. 32,
at Paris.