IMPROVEMENTS IN PARASOLS
Year: 1855

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexandre Forot at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
December 1855.
I, ALEXANDRE FOROT, of Paris, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PARASOLS" to be as follows:--
This Invention consists in arranging a parasol to fold into the form of a fan,
in place of folding in the ordinary manner. For this purpose a plate of metal
or other material is attached to the end of the stick of the parasol, and on the
two sides of this plate two other plates are connected by hinges. To these
latter plates the ribs are attached by joints, which only allow them to move in
the plane of the plate. One half of the number of ribs employed in the con-
struction of a parasol is attached to one plate, and the other half to the other
plate. The two sides of the parasol fold together, and the stick is jointed in
the ordinary manner so as to double up and fold in between the two sides of
the parasol.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexandre Forot in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
FOROT, "of Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alexander Forot, Her special licence that I, the said Alexander Forot,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alex-
ander Forot, 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
PARASOLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander
Forot, 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 Pa-
tent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Forot, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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 thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in arranging a parasol to fold into the form of a fan,
in place of folding in the ordinary manner. For this purpose a plate of metal
or other material is attached to the end of the stick of the parasol, and on the
two sides of this plate two other plates are connected by binges. To these
latter plates the ribs are attached by joints, which only allow them to move in
the plane of the plate. One half of the number of ribs employed in the con-
struction of a parasol is attached to one plate, and the other half to the other
plate. The two sides of the parasol fold together, and the stick is jointed in
the ordinary manner so as to double up and fold in between the two sides
of the parasol.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and

page_text: readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is an under side view of the parasol when open; Figure 2 is a
section of the same folded to the form of a fan; Figure 3 is a side view of
part of the frame; and Figure 4 shows (on a smaller scale) a side view of the
parasol when folded to the form of a fan. a is a small metal plate, to the two
sides of which are hinged the flaps b, b, each consisting of two plates of
metal; c, c, are the ribs of the parasol, one end of each of which enters
between the two plates of the flaps 6, 6, and is there secured by a pin joint;
d, d, are springs which act as stretchers; these springs are jointed at one end to
the ring e, and at the other end to the flaps b; f, f, are jointed links which
connect together all the ribs c, which are attached to the same flap b; g is the
handle of the parasol, to the upper end of which the plate a is fixed. The
handle g is jointed so as to fold in out of sight when the parasol is folded into
the form of a fan.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Forot, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
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Witness,
J. BASSET.
ALDRE FOROT. (L.S.)