IMPROVEMENTS IN "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF UMBRELLAS, ADAPTED TO PURPOSES OF SELF-DEFENCE, SOME OF WHICH IMPROVE-
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Smith, of Aberdeen Street, Sheffield,
Optician, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
UMBRELLAS, ADAPTED TO PURPOSES OF SELF-DEFENCE, SOME OF WHICH IMPROVE-
Sealed the 28th March 1862, and dated the 30th September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th
September 1861.
I, THOMAS SMITH, of Aberdeen Street, Sheffield, Optician, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STRUCTION OF UMBRELLAS, ADAPTED TO PURPOSES OF SELF-DEFENCE. SOME OF WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of lightness, durability, elasticity, combined with
great strength.
I manufacture this umbrella of a steel rod or tube, round, oval, or square,
with two grooves cut into it to receive a spring to fasten the umbrella either
up or down with steel dagger at the end with a guard cover, which screws
over it, which can be removed at pleasure, steel rubs, elastic steel joints, steel
stretchers, with shoulder heads enclosed in a brass or metal box in place of
the ordinary umbrella slide.
The box consists of two parts, which screw together, and contains eight
boles or chambers for the stretcher shoulder heads to rest in, with leather
[Price 8d.]

page_text: bearings, and corresponding grooves outside, and a steel circular spring to
fasten the umbrella either up or down.
The component parts of the umbrella will be so made that any person may
repair them if they have an old one by them, as all the numbers correspond.
The above slide box and stretchers can also be used for tents, gig covers,
marquees, stack covers, or awnings of any description.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Smith, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
SMITH, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Optician, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Thomas Smith, Her special licence that I, the said
Thomas Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Smith, 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
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF UMBRELLAS, ADAPTED TO PURPOSES OF
SELF-DEFENCE. DOME OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Smith, my executors or administrators, 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 he 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 Thomas Smith, do hereby declare
_the_nature_of_my_said Invention.-and-in-what-manner-the-same-is-to-be-per--
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
A hollow steel rod or tube, round, oval, or square, with two grooves cut into

page_text: it to receive a spring to fasten the umbrella either up or down, with steel
dagger at the end with a guard cover which screws over it, which can be
removed at pleasure, steel ribs, elastic steel joints, steel stretchers, with
shoulder heads enclosed in a brass or metal box in place of the ordinary
umbrella slide.
The box consists of two parts, which screw together, and contains eight.
holes or chambers for the stretcher heads to rest in, and corresponding grooves
outside, and a steel circular spring to fasten the umbrella cither up or
down.
The above slide box and stretchers can also be used for tents, gig covers,
marquees, stack covers, or awnings of any description.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by
the said Thomas Smith in the
presence of
SAM. W TURNER, Solicitor,
Sheffield
THOMAS SMITH. (L.S.)