An Improved Holder or Retainer for Umbrellas, Sun-shades, Walking-sticks, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1842
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder or Retainer for Umbrellas, Sun-shades,
Walking-sticks, and the like.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM PRESTON, of 56, Thornton Road, Bradford, in the
County of York, Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to holders or retaining devices for suspending and carrying
articles such as umbrellas, sun-shades and walking-sticks. The object is to provide
a device or apparatus of this class which shall be at once light, inexpensive and
durable and shall not be liable to scratch the article to which it is applied.
The invention consists in a ring of india-rubber or other similar soft elastic
material, to which a thin strip of metal or wire, preferably brass, plated or not, is
attached by bending one end of same around so as to firmly grip and retain the
ring and remain in a line with or at any angle to its circumference. If desirable, I
may construct the device with two or more rings attached in a similar manner.
The other end of the thin strip or wire is curved over to form a hook for adjusting
the device, in a depending condition, on a rail, rod, wire, cord, nail or other suitable
and convenient commodity. Or, instead of forming the other end of the thin strip
or wire into a hook, it may be fashioned into an eye, so as to hang from a nail, or
be fastened to a wall, or elsewhere, by a nail or screw. The hook form of device
may be utilized for suspending an umbrella, sun-shade or walking-stick from the
person.
In applying the device to a walking-stick or umbrella, for instance, the ring is
simply passed over either end of the stick, which, by reason of the elasticity of the
ring, it tightly embraces.
When the device is employed to show goods in a shop window, or elsewhere, it
may be desirable to attach a ticket or card to same, and I provide means for this
by extending the thin strip or wire, about midway of its length, at right angles,
thereby creating two lugs or projections which I bend round, so as to loosely
encircle the article to which it is applied, and then turn up the two ends of said
lugs so as to form ledges whereon the ticket or card can rest. Or a small piece of
metal may be attached to the front side of the elastic ring and bent into shape
suitable to form a ledge or shelf for the same purpose.
Dated this 18th day of July 1891.
CROSSLEY & Co.,
72, New Market Street, Bradford, Yorks., Agents
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder or Retainer for Umbrellas, Sun-shades,
Walking-sticks, and the like.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM PRESTON, of 56, Thornton Road, Bradford, in the
County of York, Salesman, 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 :—
This invention relates to holders or retaining devices for suspending and carrying
articles such as umbrellas, sun-shades, and walking-sticks. The object is to provide
a device or apparatus of this class which shall be at once light, inexpensive and
durable and shall not be liable to scratch the article to which it is applied.
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page_text: Referring to the drawings:-
Figs. 1, and 2 show, in front elevation and side sectional elevation respectively,.
one form of holder or retainer constructed according to my invention.
The invention consists in a ring of india-rubber or other similar soft elastic
material A, to which a thin strip of metal B, or wire, preferably brass, plated or
not, is attached by bending one end of same around so as to firmly grip and retain
the ring and remain in a line with or at any angle to its circumference. If desirable
I may construct the device with two or more rings attached in a similar manner.
The other end of the thin strip or wire is curved over to form a hook 6' for adjusting
the device, in a depending condition, on a rail, rod, wire, cord, nail or other suitable
and convenient commodity. Or, instead of forming the other end of the thin strip
or wire into a hook, it may be fashioned into an eye, so as to hang from a nail, or
be fastened to a wall, or elsewhere, by a nail or screw. The hook form of device
may be utilized for suspending an umbrella sun-shade or walking-stick from the
person.
Figs 3 and 5 also show in side sectional elevation, and Figs. 6 and 7 in side
sectional elevation and in front elevation respectively, three other forms of the
holder or retainer having only one ring.
The constructions represented by Figs. 10 to 17 inclusive are provided with two
rings, Fig. 10 being a front elevation, Figs. 11, 13 and 14 side sectional elevations,
and Figs. 12 and 15 detail views representing three forms of the holders or retainers
having one ring attached above another; while Figs. 16 and 17 show, in front
clevation partly in section, two styles of the apparatus having the two rings disposed
horizontally.
By constructing the apparatus similar to either of the forms shown in Figs. 16
and 17 I may multiply the rings to an unlimited extent.
I have shown, in Figs. 14, 15 and 17, the holders or retainers provided with
eyes, for attachment to a wall or otherwise by nails or screws, while those
shown in the other above mentioned figures are represented as having hooks, but it
is to be understood that any form of this invention may be furnished with either
hooks or eyes.
Figs. 4, 8 and
are details, and
Fig. 18 shows the apparatus in use.
The most suitable kind of elastic ring for the purposes of my invention is the
flat or band shape shown in the drawings (except in Fig. 14) as the inner circum-
ference of such a ring contains a larger contact surface to embrace the article it may
surround than the ordinary round section ring. Nevertheless the round section ring,
as shown in Fig. 14, may be useful in certain cases where the holder or retainer is
employed for light articles. Vulcanized red india-rubber is a very convenient
substance for the composition of these rings. The metallic portions of the various
constructions of apparatus shown in the drawings are manufactured of stamped out
thin sheet metal, or of thin strips or bands of metal, preferably brass, but wire may
be used for the same purpose although not so suitable as it is not so rigid. The
simplest mode of attaching the ring A to the metallic portion is that above
described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2, and as also shown at 6 in Figs. 5, 10, 11,
13 and 14, but as this method is liable to cause slight scratches, if the ring is
applied to the umbrella or other article clumsily, I prefer to pass the part through
the substance of the ring A and then bend it around the outer periphery of same,
as indicated at Figs. 3, 6 and 7. For this purpose I mould the ring A with a hole
therethrough and for extra strength correspondingly increase the bulk of the ring
about the hole. Fig. 4 is a plan of such a ring, a section through same being
shown in Fig. 3; and Fig. 8, is a plan of the ring shown in Figs. 6 and 7. The
metallic part of the device is passed through the hole a in the ring A and in this
case bent back around the ring, as indicated at Figs. 3 and 6.
In applying the device to a walking-stick or umbrella, for instance, the ring A
is simply passed over either end of the stick, which, by reason of the elasticity of
the ring, it tightly embraces. In shop windows in streets where the traffic is great

page_text: and there is consequently much vibration, unless the articles to which the holders
or retainers are applied are firmly held by the ring A, they are liable to gradually
shake themselves free of the said ring and drop down; now, in order to prevent all
possibility of such an occurrence, the rings A may be serrated or grooved, as
indicated in the plan Fig. 9, thus giving extra hold fast.
In Figs. 10 to 15 inclusive the device is provided with two rings, one above the
other. The second ring A³ may be attached by any of the devices shown at b.
In Figs. 10 and 11 the metallic portion has two lugs stamped in same, as indicated
in Fig. 12 (which represents a stamped out blank) which are bent round so as to
hold the second ring A' in position, the metal about the lugs being somewhat
wider than the rest of the part B to give additional strength. In Fig. 13 the
strip B is like that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, excepting that it is a little longer and
bent as shown to hold the second ring A'. In Fig. 14 the mode of attaching the
second ring is similar to that shown in Figs. 10, 11 and 12, but only one lug 6 is
here employed, Fig. 15 being the stamped out blank of the strip B. In Figs. 16
and 17 the holder or retainer carries two horizontal rings, A' in Fig. 16, and A³ in
Fig. 17, on arms or distended portions of the part B; such rings, which may be of
any of the forms shown in the other figures, being attached thereto by bending
each of the two projections 63, 64, in Fig. 16, around the rings A', and by bending
each of the projections 6, in Fig. 17, up and around the rings A³.
When the device is employed to show goods in a shop window, or elsewhere, it
may be desirable to attach a ticket or card to same, and I provide means for this
by extending the thin strip or wire B, about midway of its length, at right angles,
thereby creating two lugs or projections which I bend round, so as to loosely
encircle the article to which it is applied, as represented in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, and
then turn up the two ends of said lugs so as to form ledges whereon the ticket or
card can rest. One such ledge is shown at C in the side elevation Fig. 5, but the
construction of the projections as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, with the slits C¹, C³, cut
therein to form the ledges for the ticket or card, I find more preferable. The
dotted line C³ in Fig. 6 represents the position of the card or ticket. Or a small
piece of metal may be attached to the front side of the elastic ring and bent into
shape suitable to form a ledge or shelf for the same purpose, as indicated at C' in
Figs. 10, 11 and 14; or the position of the device for holding the ticket or card
may be reversed and act as a clip so as to hold the ticket in a depending position,
as indicated at C³ in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 13 and 17. In order to prevent all possibility of
the ticket holding device C₁ C³, scratching the article to which my improved
holder or retainer is applied I may provide the front portion of the ring A with a
small hole a' (see Figs. 4 and 9) and pass the device C₁₂ or C' therethrough and
around same so as to make it fast thereon, as indicated in Fig. 3.
Figs. 18 shows an umbrella suspended on a rail D by means of one of my
improved holders or retainers, to which a price ticket E is affixed, and, as will be
seen, the holder or retainer is invisible in front being represented by dotted
lines at F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The improved construction of holder or retainer for umbrellas, sun-shades,
walking-sticks and the like, substantially as described and shown on the drawings.
2. In holders or retainers for the purposes set forth in the first claim the
combination of the metallic portion B, either of stamped out metal, or of metal
strips or bands, or of metal wire, and of any of the forms shown on the drawings,
with one or more elastic rings, also of any of the forms shown on the drawings, and
either with or without a ticket or card holding device attached to the said elastic
rings.
3. In bolders or retainers for umbrellas, sun-shades, walking-sticks and the like

page_text: the improved construction of elastic rings described and shown with reference to
Figs. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 on the drawings.
4. The devices for holding a ticket or card (attached to the elastic rings)
substantially as described and shown on the drawings, when used in combination
with my improved holder or retainer for umbrellas, sun-shades, walking-sticks and ♬
the like.
1000
CROSSLEY & Co.,
72, New Market Street, Bradford, Yorks., Agents.