IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JEREMIAH RUBERY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Umbrella
and Parasol Furniture Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Second day of December, in the eighth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said.
John Jeremiah Rubery, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Jeremiah Rubery, my exors, adinors, or
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Jeremiah Rubery, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John Jeremiah Rubery, shall
cause à particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled. in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, réference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Jeremiah Rubéry, do hereby declare that the nature of my said

page_text: Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, refe-
rence being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon (that is to say):
My Invention consists,―
First, of a mode of retaining the runners of umbrellas and parasols up by
means of a spring. And,
Secondly, my Invention relates to a mode of making the top notches, and
also the runners of umbrellas and parasols.
And in order that the Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a section of so much of a parasol or of an umbrella as will
enable me to describe the first part of my Invention. Figure 2 shows the
portion of furniture which is added to a parasol or umbrella to accomplish
this improvement. The runner a is lengthened upwards beyond the notched
wheel b, as is shown; and there is a projecting ring or flanch c formed on
the upper end of the runner; d is a spring formed on or affixed to the bent
plate d, which embraces the stick e, and the same is fastened by a rivet being
passed through the stick and through the plate or split tube d'; when the
runner is forced up the spring d retains it up; and yet the spring allows
the runner to be drawn down by the application of a moderate degree of
force. By the application of this arrangement of apparatus the stick is not
weakened by having a split formed therein to receive the ordinary spring
formerly used for supporting the runner.
I will now describe the second part of my Invention, which has for its
object improvements in my former Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Thirteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and
consists in a mode of forming the top notches or wheels, and also runners of
umbrellas and parasols. In my former Specification I described the making
of the top notches or notched wheels from sheet metal, by cutting the requisite
notches in suitable discs of metal by dies and punches, and the requisite
length of tube was produced by raising the metal to the extent desired. And
I have since found that the manufacture may be improved by affixing notched
dises of metal cut by dies and punches on tubes, in place of producing
the requisite length of tubes from the same plates or discs of metal as the
notched wheels are made of.
Figure 3 shows a notched disc of metal just as it comes from the first

page_text: punch and die; Figure 4 shows the same disc after it has had the centre.
portion removed; and there are two such notched discs used for making a
notched wheel, whether for a top notch or for a runner; and they are affixed
by soldering to the length of tube proper for a runner or for a top notch, as
shown at Figure 5.
I would here remark, that the means of carrying out this part of my
Invention may be varied, the object being to save cost of labor by reducing
the extent of the raising processes by combining tubes with notched discs of
metal produced by means of punches and dies, as described in my former
Specification.
Figure 6 shows a runner or top notch made in a somewhat different manner
to that at Figure 5, inasmuch as there is one flat notched disc f, and one
notched disc g, so raised by dies as to produce a length of tube equal to what..
is required for keeping the two discs f, g, separate; and these two discs
f and g are fixed to the tube h, of a proper length for a runner or a top notch,
by solder.
Figure 7 shows the various stages through which the disc g passes in dies,
as described in my former Specification, to render it into the proper figure.
Figure 8 shows another slight variation in the means of carrying out this
part of my Invention, in which the notched wheel is first produced out of
two discs of metal by dies and punches, and then fixed by solder to the
proper length of tube h. In this case the disc g is raised rather more than
that last described, as is shown by the various views in Figure 9, which
indicate the various stages through which the disc g passes, by punches and
dies, as described in my former Specification; and the disc and portion of
the tube being produced, as shown at g*, the lower edge of the tube is to be
reduced in a lathe, as is shewn at Figure 10; and then a flat notched disc f
is placed on the end, and the end of the tube is turned outwards, as shown
at Figure 11, when a notched wheel produced by the combination of the
dises and g is to be fixed on the tube h.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best means of
performing the same with which I am acquainted, I would wish it to be
understood that I do not confine myself to the details shown and described,
so long as the peculiar character of either part of my Invention be retained.
But what I claim is,-
First, the mode of constructing apparatus for holding the runners of parasols
and umbrellas, as described in respect of Figures 1 and 2. And,
Secondly, I claim the mode of making top notches and runners of parasols

page_text: and umbrellas by forming the wheels each of two notched dises produced by
punches and dies, and the affixing the same to a tube, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jeremiah Rubery, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of. June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five.