IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC- TURE OF OPEN CAPS FOR STICKS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS."
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Rubery, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF OPEN CAPS FOR STICKS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Rubery at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition; on
the 5th November 1853.
I, JOHN RUBERY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF OPEN CAPS FOR STICKS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
to be as follows:-
The Invention consists of manufacturing open caps for sticks of
umbrellas and parasols of zinc in place of the. metal heretofore used,
for which purpose thin sheet zinc is first cut into discs of suitable sizes
by a fly press or otherwise, and these discs are then by stamping or
pressure raised into the form of caps, the central portions being cut out
to allow of the caps passing on to the sticks..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Rubery in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3d May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN RUBERY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Rubery, Her special licence
that I, the said John Rubery, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Rubery, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein ex-
pressed, 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
MANUFACTURE OF OPEN CAPS FOR STICKS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS,'
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Rubery,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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 John Rubery, 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):
The Invention consists of manufacturing open caps for sticks of
umbrellas and parasols of zinc in place of the metal heretofore used,
for which purpose thin sheet zinc is first cut into discs of suitable sizes
by a fly press or otherwise, and these dises are then by stamping or

page_text: pressure raised into the form of caps, the central portions being cut out
to allow of the caps passing on to the sticks.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows an edge view and plan of a disc of sheet zinc ;
Figure 2, shows an edge view and plan of the same dise after it has
been raised in a pair of dies; Figure 3, shows an edge view and plan
of the same disc of zinc after it has been raised by a second pair of
dies; and Figure 4, shows the same disc after it has been raised by a
third pair of dies, and after the interior portion has been cut out.
I would remark that the form of the dies may be varied according to
the form it is desired to give to the open caps for umbrellas and parasols.
I make no claim to the dies used, and I would state that in making
such open caps of zinc the metal does not require any annealing.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is, the manufacture of open caps for the sticks of umbrellas and parasols
of zinc.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Rubery, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
5
Witness,
HENRY NEWEY,
of Birmingham.
JOHN RUBERY. (L.S.)