Improvements in and relating to Umbrellas.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1395
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Umbrellas.
We Joux HENRY LORD of Saint Luke Street Rochdale in the County of
Lancaster Bread Baker and JAMES BOSWELL HUNT of Jubilee Cottages Shaw
near Rochdale aforesaid Bread Baker do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to the metal framework of umbrellas.
The object of our invention being to provide a means for attaching or securing
the ribs of the framework to the stick, but attached thereto in such a manner so as
to obviate the employment of a wire as a means of attachment as is now used, but
to attach the ribs so that each rib shall be separately connected, each having an
independent fastening with relation to each other, so that in the event of one or
more ribs becoming disengaged from their connections such disengagement shall be
confined to such one or more ribs respectively, not to the whole number as is now
the case, and which mode of attachment according to this our invention is durable,
not being as fragile as is the case with the present use of wire fastenings.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood we have reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which like letters of reference indicate like parts
throughout the figures shewn.
Fig. 1 is an elevation shewing our invention applied to the stick of an umbrella.
Figs. 2 and 3 are elevations shewing our invention drawn to an enlarged scale.
Fig. 3 being a sectional view of the sliding ferrule.
According to our construction our invention consists of a device for firmly securing
the ribs to the stick at the lower part; also a means of fastening the shorter ribs to
the ordinary tubular or sliding ferrule near the handle or upper part of the stick.
We form or stamp out of around and at one end of the ferrule a, a cup shaped or
concave part a around which cup at convenient distances apart we provide slits or
openings a², which are arranged and adapted to receive the extremities of ribs e,
which ribs are provided with swelled parts spherical or other shaped extremities c¹,
so arranged as to be larger than the slits or openings a² which are of such a width
to admit only of the ribs c to move suitably therein, that is, in the event of opening
and closing the umbrella.
When the cup a¹ is fixed in its proper position on the stick the edge a³ see
Fig. 1 of the cup is placed in contact with the underside of the circular plate d,
which is securely rivetted to the stick at e, the cup is maintained in position against
the plate see Fig. 2 by means of a rivet at f
The space enclosed between the plate and the cup is adapted to allow of the
extremities--i.e. spherical or other shaped ends-of the ribs to move freely in their
proper directions as before indicated.
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The shorter ribs g of the framework are secured to the longer ribs cat in the
usual manner as is well known, the opposite extremities are formed or terminate
with swelled spherical or other shaped parts g' as is the case with ribs which pass
into openings or slits formed or cut in and around the edge of the sliding
ferrule i see Fig. 3 which slit edge is turned over and around the exterior of the
ferrule, the slit extremity of the ferrule being suitably cone or bell shaped so as to
allow of and ensure the lower part of the slits being closed when the edge i² is
turned over and thus to prevent the disengagement therefrom of the extremities o¹
of the ribs see Fig. 1, but so as to allow of the said extremities to move about freely
and suitably therein, i.e. when opening and closing the umbrella.

page_text: If desired the ordinary sliding ferrule and rib attachment may be employed with
our arrangement as shewn in Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is.
1. In combination the slitted cup a', the plate d, the rib c, having a swelled
spherical or other shaped extremity c', substantially as and for the purposes herein
fully set forth and described in the drawings hereunto.
2. In combination the ferrule i, having slits and the rib y having a swelled
spherical or other shaped extremity gl substantially as and for the purposes herein
fully set forth and described in the drawings hereunto.
3. In combination the parts as set forth in the foregoing Claim 1 with the ordinary
sliding ferrule and ribs as now used or with the parts as set forth in the foregoing
Claim 2 for the purposes herein set forth.
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4. The ribs and 9 having swelled spherical or other shaped extremities as and
for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 29th day of June 1895.
J. H. BUTTERWORTH, Rochdale,
For the Applicants.