IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING AND FORMING UMBRELLAR "IMPROV OR AND INGMBRELLAR AND
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard William Mudford Pync, of 22, Great
Winchester Strect, City of London, Engineer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING AND FORMING UMBRELLAR
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OR CONSTRUCTING AND FORMING UMBRELLAR
AND PADA "
Scaled the 4th June 1875, and dated the 10th December 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard William
Mudford Pyne at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 10th December 1874.
I, RICHARD WILLIAM MUDFORD PYNE, of 22, Great Winchester
Street, City of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING AND
FORMING UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," to be as follows, that is to say:-
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I form a tube of sufficient size to contain within it two other sliding
tubes, the outer tube being either cased in bamboo or Malacca, or
veneered to imitate any kind of walking stick. To the larger of the two
inner tubes are attached the wires which open and close the umbrella,
and to the smaller the ferule of the umbrella to which is attached by

page_text: hinges on a hoop or ring, the ribs or wires upon which the silk or other
material is sewn. I propose to construct the ring or hoop so that the
wires may lie side by side, thus covering the whole of the silk within
and preventing any rubbing or friction of the silk or other material
against the inside of the second tube, the whole of the silk being enclosed
by the iron ribs. When enclosed the whole resembles an ordinary
walking stick, but when required as an umbrella the handle or knob is
unscrewed or detached by a spring or other means, and the inside of the
handle being so made as to fit the lower end of the stick, it is then
reversed and becomes the handle of the umbrella. The projecting wires
containing inside them the silk are then drawn from the tube and the
ferule of the umbrella being arrested at the end of the tube by a
shoulder the wires are turned round on the hinges and drawn down-
ward by the tube to which the bracing wires are fastened leaving the
silk stretched on the outside as an ordinary umbrella.
I propose also to manufacture parasols or sunshades on the same
principle which may be used as a riding whip.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard William Mudford Pyne in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 10th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
WILLIAM MUDFORD PYNE, of 22, Great Winchester Strect, City of
London, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard William Mudford
Pyne, Her special license that I, the said Richard William Mudford
Pyne, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Richard William Mudford Pyne, 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

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD, OF CON-
STRUCTING AND FORMING UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard William Mudford Pyne, 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 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 Richard William Mudford Pyne,
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 :-
I.form a tube of sufficient size to contain within it two other sliding
tubes, the outer tube being either cased in bamboo or Mallaca, or
veneered to imitate any kind of walking stick. To the larger of the two
inner tubes are attached the wires which open and close the umbrella,
and to the smaller the ferule of the umbrella, to which is attached by
hinges on a hoop or ring the ribs or wires upon which the silk or other
material is sewn. I propose to construct the ring or hoop or hinges so that
the wires may lie side by side, thus covering the whole of the silk within
and preventing any rubbing or friction of the silk or other covering
against the inside of the tube which encloses the umbrella, the whole of
the silk being enclosed by the iron ribs. When enclosed the whole
resembles an ordinary walking stick, but when required as an umbrella
the handlo or knob is unscrewed or detached by a spring or other means,
and the inside of the handle being so made as to fit the lower end of the
stick, it is then reversed and becomes the handle of the umbrella. The
projecting wires or ribs containing inside them the silk, are then drawn
from the tube, and the ferule of the umbrella being arrested at the end
of the tube by a shoulder, the wires are turned over on the hinges
assisted by a spiral spring enclosed in the tubular end of the stick, and
worked either way by a telescopic action near the ferule, and drawn
downward by the tube to which the bracing wires are fastened, and by
another telescopic action between the joints and the tops of the ribs ;
wires or ribs to which the silk is attached become elongated so as to
expand the silk when the umbrella is opened, and admitting of an easy
the

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RICH³. W. M. PYNE. (L.S.)