A NEW APPLICATION OF THE FAN IN COMBINATION WITH UMBRELLA HANDLES, WALKING STICKS, WHIP HANDLES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edgar Edmonds at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th May 1878. (A communication from
abroad by Auguste Leloup, residing at 15, Rue des Halles, Paris, France.)
EDGAR EDMONDS, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of 166,
Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents. "A NEW APPLICATION OF THE
FAN IN COMBINATION WITH UMBRELLA HANDLES, WALKING STICKS, WHIP HANDLES,
AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES." (A. communication from abroad by Auguste Leloup,
of 15, Rue des Halles, Paris, France.)
The object of this Invention is to prevent the heat reflected upwardly from roads
and pavements fatiguing the eyes and respiratory organs. An idea of the intensity
of this reflected heat may be formed when having been in a spot unsheltered from
the sun, one suddenly arrives under a thick shade, a coolness is felt almost imme-
diately. This sudden coolness is caused by the total disappearance of the heat
reflected upwardly from the ground. This inconvenience is avoided by the present
Invention, the advantages of which are,-
First. That of the ordinary umbrella or parasol in affording a shelter from the
heat of the sun from above.
Secondly. Forming a screen against the heat reflected upwardly from the ground.
Thirdly. To serve also as a fan by simply pressing the thumb on a dent or tongue
arranged for that purpose.
Fourthly. Serving as a support for reading or other purposes whilst walking,
although still acting as a screen, and only occupies one hand, leaving the other
hand free.
The Invention consists of an ordinary umbrella and a fan united to and jointed
to the interior of the handle by means of bell-crank lever mechanism, and forming
but one article, although in some cases they may at a given moment be easily
separated and afterwards united.
The handle of the umbrella has a groove or recess to receive the fan when
folded, and has also a movable grooved socket turning on the handle for the purpose
of concealing, by turning round its groove, the fan when folded up, and to cause it
to open out when required.

page_text: The fan proper is formed of a frame with three branches. Two of these branches
are jointed so that they fold over on to the middle branch, thus presenting a very
small surface, when by a circular movement on its joint or articulation the whole of
the fan is lodged in the groove of the handle, the socket is turned round so that its
groove or opening does not come directly over the recess in the handle, thereby
concealing the fan, also the detent which puts it in action. It has then the
appearance of an ordinary umbrella, and can be used as such if required.
The two combined articles may be separated or united at the option of the
user.
When the fan or screen is to be opened the rocket is turned round the handle
till its opening or groove is directly over the groove or recess in the handle, when
the folded fan emerges from the recess, turning on the joint or articulation, at the
same time opens out sharply by reason of the springs interposed between the two
articulated branches and the fixed middle branch of the fan. The detent by this
movement comes out and remains at an angle to the handle for operating the
fanning movement.
The pressure of the finger on the detent causes the fan to describe an arc, and a
little spiral spring in a cylinder returns it to its seat, that is to say, in a position
perpendicular to the handle.