A Holder for Umbrellas, Sunshades, Book-rests, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Holder for Umbrellas, Sunshades, Book-rests, and the like.
I, ROBERT IRVINE, Junior, of Harbour Dock Road, West Hartlepool, in the County
of Durham, Engineer, 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 :-
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This invention relates to a device or holder for supporting umbrellas, sunshades,
book-rests, music-stands and the like, the said holder being so constructed that it can
be clamped to any projecting surface such as the seat or gunwale of a boat, the back
of a chair, a mantelshelf, or any projecting part of a carriage or coach.
According to the invention I construct the holder of a bar provided with clamps by
which the umbrella or other article can be secured to it and pivoted by a ball and
socket joint to a support hinged to a clamp for securing the wholein position. With
this arrangement of ball and socket joint and hinged support it will be obvious that
the umbrella or other article can be held at any desired inclination.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe it by reference to the
accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my holder:
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same with the stick of an umbrella or sunshade
clamped thereto :
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 Figure 2:
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 are views of details:
Figure 8 is a side elevation of a book-rest which I advantageously employ in
conjunction with my holder:.
Figure 9 is a similar view seen from the opposite side, and
Figure 10 is a rear view of the book-rest.
a is the bar of my holder and b and c are the clamps of ordinary construction with
which it is provided for the attachment of the sunshade, umbrella, book-rest or other
article. The clamp bis rigidly fixed to the upper end of the bar a but the
clamp c is so fitted to the said bar that it can move longitudinally thereon but is
prevented from turning. By this means the said lower clamp c can be adjusted in
position on the bar a so as to enable the holder to support articles of different
lengths.
In the drawing this movement of the clamp c is ensured by making the bar a
hexagonal in cross section but it will be obvious that any other suitable means can
be employed, such, for instance, as a pin upon the clamp c working in a longitudinal
slot in the said bar a or a longitudinal feather upon the bar a which engages in a slot
in the clamp c.
d is the support to which the bar a is pivoted by the ball and socket joint e. f is a
set screw by means of which the ball may be secured in any position in the socket of
the joint e. g is the clamp to which the support d is hinged at h, the hinge h being
provided with a set screw i by means of which the support d and clamp g can be fixed
in any desired position relatively to one another. By means of the clamp g the holder

page_text: can be secured to any suitable support, for instance to the seat or gunwale of a boat
or to the back of a chair in the manner indicated in dotted lines in Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2 shewing the hexagonal section of
the bar a and the clamp c in plan and Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 are views of a detail, that
is to say, of a curved plate having projecting guides k, k by means of which the said
plate j can be secured to the upper jaw g¹ of the clamp g as shewn in Figures 6 and 7
so as to adapt the said clamp for attachment to a cylindrical or curved surface such as
a pole.
With this construction it will be obvious that my holder can be secured to a
support in any position in which it is likely to occur in practice by suitably arranging
the relative positions of the parts u, d and g of the said holder.
In Figures 8, 9 and 10 I have illustrated a book-rest which I advantageously employ
in conjunction with my holder, the said rest comprising a support of ordinary
construction for the book the said support being hinged to a rod m, designed to be
clamped to the holder as above described, by means of a swivel joint consisting of a
circular plate n to the centre of which the said rod m is hinged and which can be
fixed in any position relatively to the rod by means of a set screw o passing through
the latter and engaging in a series of recesses p, p formed on one side of the said
plate n.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is
1. A holder for umbrellas, sunshades, book-rests and the like consisting of a bar
provided with clamps and pivoted by a ball and socket joint to a support hinged to
a clamp, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. The use in combination with a holder of the kind described in Claim 1 of the
book-rest comprising a support hinged by means of a swivel joint to a rod,
substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 8, 9 and 10 of the accompanying
drawings.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts forming the improved holder herein-
before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the accompanying
drawings.
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