IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF A CERTAIN PART OF UMBRELLA AND PARASOL FURNITURE
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JEREMIAH RUBERY, of Birmingham, Umbrella and Parasol Furniture Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Thirteenth day of January, in the fifth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Jeremiah Rubery, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said John Jeremiah Rubery, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Jeremiah Rubery, my exors, adññiors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all!
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF A CERTAIN PART OF UMBRELLA AND PARASOL FURNITURE;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John Jeremiah Rubery, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Jeremiah Rubery, do hereby declare that the nature of my said In-
vention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, referenco

page_text: out of the die, Figure 7, by the punch, Figure 7, and the combined parts will
assume the character of a "top notch or wheel," as is shewn at Figure 10.
The parts a and b being thus formed and combined, are next to be taken hold
of by means of the pliers, Figure 11, the chaps of which are made of the
thickness of the distance; the projecting edges a¹, b', should be apart, therefore
the chaps c, c, enter between the groove formed between the parts a', b', and
in this condition the parts are introduced into the die, Figure 12, and receive
pressure by the upper die or punch, Figure 13; and there is to be a punch
forced through the interior of the top notch or wheel thus formed, in order to
make all the tubular parts of the same size or diameter, by which means, and
by their being pressed into the die, Figure 12, the two tubular parts a, b, will
be securely held together, and thus form a complete top notch or wheel for an
umbrella or parasol, according to the size intended, the rough edges of the
lower part of the tubular part being removed by a file or other instrument.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark that, I make no claim to
the sinking or punching of metal when not employed for the purpose of making
that part of umbrella and parasol furniture called a top notch or wheel. And
I would have it understood that what I claim is, the manufacturing that
part of umbrella or parasol furniture called a top notch or wheel, by forming
the same out of sheet metal by suitable dies, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jeremiah Rubery, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
JOHN J. (L.S.) RUBERY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord 1842, the aforesaid John Jeremiah Rubery, came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord Oue thousand
eight hundred and forty-two.