IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS and Parasols.” Manufacture OF UMBRELLAs and ParasolS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Henry Weber, of Charenton, near Paris, and
Jean Roy, of No. 148, Rue de la Procession, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Gentlemen, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS and Parasols.”
Manufacture OF UMBRELLAs and ParasolS.”
Scaled the 29th July 1873, and dated the 3rd February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPÉCIFICATION left by the said Jean Henry Weber and
Jean Roy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 3rd February 1873.
We, JEAN HENRY WEBER, of Charenton, near Paris, and JEAN ROY,
of No. 148, Rue de la Procession, Paris, in the Republic of France,
Gentlemen, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," to be as
follows, that is to say :-
The object of our Invention is an improved construction of folding
umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, and other like weather protectors
whereby they may be folded up and so occupy but little space.

page_text: To carry out our Invention we employ hollow ribs the section of which
is in the form of a horse-shoo larger at the back than at the opening.
Each of these ribs is in two or three parts united by hinge joints. To
keep them rigid we use a rod half of which is placed in one part, and
half in the other part of the rib. This rod is moved by the ordinary
connecting rod or stretcher fastened to the runner of the handle in the
ordinary way. This construction of umbrella frame allows of folding or
not the ribs as well as the material covering them. The stick or handle
is made in several pieces entering one into the other, telescope-wise, and
are held together by means of clicks or springs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jean Henry Weber and Jean Roy in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 2nd August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, Jean
HENRY WEBER, of Charenton, near Paris, and JEAN Roy, of No. 148, :
Rue de la Procession, Paris, in the Republic of France, Gentlemen, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of February, 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 us, the said Jean Henry Weber and Jean Roy, Her
special licence that we, the said Jean Henry Weber and Jean Roy,
our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Jean Henry Weber, our 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS
AND PARASOLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Jean Henry Weber and Jean Roy, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the

page_text: said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Offico within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of th said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Jean Henry Weber, do hereby
declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manuer tho
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing
hereto annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to
say:
The object of our Invention is an improved construction of folding
umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, and other like weather protectors,
whereby they may be folded and unfolded more securely and rapidly.
To make our Invention better understood we will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying Drawing in the several
Figures of which similar letters represent similar parts.
To carry out our Invention we employ tubes to form the ribs of
umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, and other like weather protectors, thic
section of such tubes being nearly in the form of a horse-shoe, larger in
the interior than at the opening, as seen in enlarged section at Figure 6.
Each of these ribs is formed of two or several parts connected together
by hinge joints, as seen in Figure 1, to allow of the ribs being folded or
unfolded. To render them rigid we use a rod A, Figures 1, 4, and 5,
one half of which rod enters one part of the rib and the other half enters
the second part of the rib on the other side of the rod, as seen in Figure
1, in which O represents the rib, and A, the rod, the section of which
as seen at Figure 5, corresponds with that of the interior of the rib,
Figure 6. The sections of both the rod and the rib may be of any other
suitable form. This rod is moved by the ordinary connecting rods or
stretchers. The end of the stretchers E is fixed or jointed to a head
piece m, Figure 4 of the rod A, so as to move it in the direction of the
arrow, Figure 1, when it is desired to open the umbrella, and in the
opposite direction when the umbrella is to be shut and folded up; in the
latter case the hinge D becomes free and the rib can be folded. It will
be seen that this hinge is constructed of two hollow parts B adapted to
each end of the rib (and shewn in perspective at Figure 3), and of a
connecting piece D, shewn detached at Figure 2. The downward

page_text: motion of the rod is stopped by the ring P, or by any other suitable
means. Each rib being thus arranged the whole is mounted in the
ordinary manner on any suitable stick which can be folded in two or
more parts.
We can construct a hollow stick which may be lengthened like a
telescope, as shewn in Figure 9. Figures 10 and 11 represent two
methods for keeping the various parts of this stick in position. For this
purpose the two tubes are perforated with holes h, Figure 9, which corrc-
pond when the tubes are in position. A spring d provided with a pro-
jection then holds them together by engaging into both holes at once.
Instead of employing a telescopic or folding stick we can mount the
umbrella on an ordinary walking stick as at Figure 7. In this case the
stick is provided at the end with a screw L, on which the ordinary
metallic ferrulo H may be screwed. When it is desired to make use of
the umbrella (folded and in a small compass) we pass round the screw L,
the ordinary notch M, to which the ribs C, are adapted, and over which
the ferrule H is then screwed. To the notch M are adapted two, three,
or more rods X, Y, turned up at their ends as seen at X, b, a. The ends
of the stretchers E are fixed round an ordinary runner N, sliding round
the stick. Underneath this runner is a cam plate P (seen in plan at
Figure 8), formed with a socket V terminated by a flange Z. When the
socket V and the runner M carrying the whole mechanism have been
engaged in the cam to open the umbrella it is merely necessary to raiso
the socket V, when the runner N will pass into the space marked a, and
the umbrella thus opened or stretched cannot close up. To close it the
socket V, carrying the cam plate P, must be turned and the projections
6 of the rods X, Y, which rested in the hollows or notches, Figure 8,
of the plate P will be moved away from one another by the rotation of
the cams, and will be disengaged from the runner N, and allow the
umbrella to be lowered.
To withdraw it from the stick it is merely necessary to unscrew the
ferrule H, and remove the frame from the stick, and then fold it by
bending the hinges of the ribs. It may then be put in the pocket and
by rescrewing the ferrule H on the screw L, an ordinary walking stick
is again obtained.
Having thus described our Invention and the best means we are

page_text: understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details hercin
laid down; but what we claim is,-
Firstly. The construction and employment of hollow hinged ribs in
which moves a rod preventing or not the hinge or hinges from opening
as berein-before described.
Secondly. The peculiar construction of hinge for the ribs as herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly. The mode of construction or arrangement whereby we are
cuabled to adapt our improved umbrella frame to an ordinary walking
stick, as herein-beforo described and shewn in Figure 7 of the accom-
panying Drawing.
Fourthly. The application to umbrellas of the ordinary construction
of our improved hollow ribs with or without interior rods, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jean Henry Weber and Jean Roy,
have hereto set our hands and scals, this Thirty-first day of July,
One thousand cight hundred and seventy-three.
T HENDY WEDD