IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR THE TIPS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Lublinski, of 183 and 185, City Road, in
the County of Middlesex, Stick Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR THE TIPS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Lublinski at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th May 1868.
I, ROBERT LUBLINSKI, of 183 and 185, City Road, in the County
of Middlesex, Stick Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR THE TIPS OF
UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," to be as follows:-
These fasteners consist of a small metal tube having a spiral spring
fixed therein with a chain or cord attached, the said tube to be fixed
to the rib of the umbrella or parasol and form part thereof, or it can
be made together with the rib in one piece. When the umbrella is
closed the chain draws out, and passing round the tips fixes in a

page_text: small hook on the outside of the tube, thus holding the ribs straight
and close to the stick and preventing the possibility of their coming
into collision with any object and getting broken, and at the same
time allowing the silk to dry without damaging it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Lublinski in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
LUBLINSKI, of 183 and 185, City Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Stick Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Robert Lublinski, Her special licence
that I, the said Robert Lublinski, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Lublinski, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might, make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS
FOR THE TIPS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Lublinski, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
'their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after tho
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Lublinski, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-

page_text: This Invention of improvements in fasteners for the tips of umbrellas
and parasols consists of a metal tube having a spiral or elastic spring
fixed therein with a chain or cord attached, which said tube is to be
fixed to the rib of the umbrella or parasol and form part thereof, or
it can be made together with the rib in one piece. When the umbrella
is closed the chain draws out, and passing round the tips fixes in a
small hook or catch on the outside of the tube, thus holding the ribs
straight and close to the stick and preventing their coming into
collision with any object and getting broken, and at the same time
allowing the silk to dry without damaging it.
Haying thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I
declare that what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improvements in fasteners
for the tips of umbrellas and parasols, substantially as herein-before
described or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Lublinski, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.