IMPROVEMENTS IN TIP FASTENERS FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, And Sun- SHADES.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Lublinski, of No. 183, City Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Stick Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TIP FASTENERS FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, And Sun-
SHADES.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Lublinski at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th October 1875.
I, ROBERT LUBLINSKI, of No. 183, City Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Stick Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TIP FASTENERS FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS,
AND SUNSHADES," to be as follows:
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This Invention consists of an improved fastener for the tips of
umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, so as to secure them compactly
round the stick when closed.
The modes hitherto adopted have been the metal cap moving up and
down, and the india-rubber ring, but none have carried out the object
sought after.

page_text: Now my Invention consists in placing a ferrule round the stick of the
umbrella, parasol, or sunshade, on the outside of which is fixed a grooved
collar, the channel being sufficiently large as to take in or enclose the
tip of the umbrella, parasol, or sunshade. On the periphery of the
ferrule I cut a three-thread screw on which the grooved collar works,
and when the umbrella or other article is not in use, and when it is
desired to secure the tips the collar is turned a portion of a revolution,
which catches hold of the tips, and they are securely held in the grooved
channel before mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Lublinski in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 13th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
LUBLINSKI, of No. 183, 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 Fifteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Lublinski, Her special
licence, that I, the said Robert Lublinski, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Lublinski,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agrec
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 TIP FASTENERS FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, AND SUNSHADES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Lublinski,
my executors or administrators, 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 the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say :-
Now my Invention consists of placing a ferrule of metal on the stick,
and on the surface of the said ferrule there is a series of threads, of
which any number may be put in requisition, more or less, as occasion
or size requires. These screw threads work in like manner to the
archimedian screw from which the cap takes its name, and represents
the spiral action; the cap itself for enclosing the tips is placed in the
middle of the ferrule, and is soldered to the centre set of screw threads.
Fig. 1 of the Drawings represents the Invention as applied to an
umbrella, the tips being shewn secured by the archimedian cap.
Fig. 2 represents the same, but with the archimedian cap with-
drawn so as to leave the tips free.
Fig. 3 represents the ferrule detached from the umbrella handle.
A is the body of the said ferrule; B, B, are rings of sheet metal
passed over and fixed by soldering or otherwise to the ferrule A. They
are formed at their adjacent edges into series of any convenient number
of screw threads or inclined planes. C, C, Figs. 4 and 5 represent a
hollow moveable cap D for confining the umbrella tips; it is provided
with screw threads or inclined planes E, E, corresponding to those C, C,
on the ferrule A. The said moveable cap D is placed with its screw
threads or inclined planes E, E, between those of the ferrule, as shewn
at Figs. 6, 7, and 8. It will now be understood that the ferrule A being
fixed to the umbrella stick the moveable cap D will be free to rotate
round the ferrule A to the extent allowed by the screw threads or
inclined planes; such rotation of the moveable cap in one direction will
cause it to slide downwards on the ferrule so as to enclose and secure
the tips, as in Fig. 1; rotation' in the opposite direction will cause
it to slide upwards on the ferrule so as to release the tips, as in
Fig. 2.

page_text: employ the pitch or inclination shewn in the Drawings, and to adapt the
moveable cap so that it shall not move too freely on the ferrule A. By
these means the moveable cap will remain in position whether screwed
down, as in Fig. 1, or screwed up, as in Fig. 2.
If preferred, the screw threads or inclined planes C, C, may be
attached directly to the handle without the intervention of the ferrule A,
and in that case the moveable cap D with its screw threads or inclined
planes E, E, will rotate on the handle itself between the said screw
threads C, C.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to or may be performed, I would have it
understood that what I claim as my Invention is, the tip fastener
constructed with screw threads or inclined planes attached to the
moveable cap, such screw threads or inclined planes taking into and
acting in conjunction with fixed screw threads or inclined planes, sub-
stantially as herein-before described and illustrated in the Drawings and
for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Lublinski, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-six.
ROBERT LUBLINSKI. (L.S.)