An Improvement or Improvements in Mounts or Carriers for Attaching Trade Mark and other Labels to the Ribs or Stretchers of Umbrellas and Parasols.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in Mounts or Carriers for
Attaching Trade Mark and other Labels to the Ribs or Stretchers
of Umbrellas and Parasols.
We WILLIAM ALLEN BINDLEY and WILLIAM JAMES GELL, both of Armstrong
Works, Chester Street, Aston Road Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturers and AMBROSE FREDERICK BOHAM, of Sutton Street, Aston near
Birmingham aforesaid, Machinist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:—
.
Our invention has for its object so to make the mounts or carriers for attaching
trade mark and other labels to the ribs or stretchers of umbrellas and parasols that
they can be more readily and securely attached to the said ribs or stretchers than
mounts or carriers of the ordinary kind.
In making a mount or carrier according to our invention we cut out from thin
sheet steel or other hard and elastic metal or alloy by a stamping process, a blank
having preferably a nearly oblong shape, the said blank having serrations made in
or teeth projecting from its longer sides. The said teeth or projections are,
preferably, so arranged that the teeth or projections on one side are opposite the
spaces between the teeth or projections on the opposite side and when bent in the
manner hereinafter described the said teeth break joint; but the teeth on one side
may be made opposite the teeth on the other side with the same or nearly the same
effect.
We form in the middle of the said blank a depression of the ordinary kind for
the reception of the trade mark or other label.
We bend the said teeth or projections back until those on one side come in contact
with, or nearly in contact with, those on the opposite side. There is thereby given
to the said mount a figure in cross section resembling that of the figure in cross
section of the rib or stretcher to which it is to be applied. The mounts when made
of steel may be hardened and tempered in the usual way.
In order to attach the mounts or carriers, made in the manner herein before
described, to the ribs or stretchers of umbrellas or parasols, we pass the rib or
stretcher to which the trade mark or other lable is to be applied, by a sliding
motion between the teeth or projections on one side of the mount and the teeth or
projections on the opposite side until the mount is in the desired position on the
said rib or stretcher. The said teeth or projections thereby clip the rib or
stretcher acting as spring arms and firmly secure the said mount to the rib or
stretcher of the umbrella or parasol.
Dated: the 26th day of September 1891.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in Mounts or Carriers for
Attaching Trade Mark and other Labels to the Ribs or Stretchers
of Umbrellas and Parasols.
We WILLIAM ALLEN BINDLEY and WILLIAM JAMES GELL both of Armstrong
Works, Chester Street, Aston Road, Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturers and AMBROSE FREDERICK ВонAм of Sutton Street Aston near
Birmingham aforesaid Machinist do hereby declare the nature of our invention and

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention has for its object so to make the mounts or carriers for attaching
trade mark and other labels to the ribs or stretchers of umbrellas and parasols that
they can be more readily and securely attached to the said ribs or stretchers than
mounts or carriers of the ordinary kind.
In making a mount or carrier according to our invention we cut out from thin
sheet steel or other hard and elastic metal or alloy by a stamping process a blank
having preferably a nearly oblong shape, the said blank having serrations made in
or teeth projecting from its longer sides. The said teeth or projections are so
arranged that the teeth or projections on one side are opposite the spaces between
the teeth or projections on the opposite side and when bent in the manner hereinafter
described the said teeth break joint, but the teeth on one side may be made opposite
the teeth on the other side with the same or nearly the same effect.
We form in the middle of the said blank a depression of the ordinary kind for the
reception of the trade mark or other label. We bend the said teeth or projections
back until those on one side come in contact with or nearly in contact with those on
the opposite side. There is thereby given to the said mount a figure in cross
section resembling that of the figure in cross section of the rib or stretcher to which
it is to be applied. The mounts when made of steel may be hardened and tempered
in the usual way.
In order to attach the mounts or carriers made in the manner hereinbefore
described, to the ribs or stretchers of umbrellas or parasols we pass the rib or
stretcher to which the trade mark or other label is to be applied by a sliding motion
between the teeth or projections on one side of the mount and the teeth or projections
on the opposite side until the mount is in the desired position on the said rib or
stretcher. The said teeth or projections thereby clip the rib or stretcher acting as
spring arms and firmly secure the said mount to the rib or stretcher of the umbrella
or parasol.
We will describe with reference to the accompanying drawing a mount or carrier
constructed according to our invention in which the elastic or spring clipping teeth,
projections or arms on one side of the mount are situated opposite those on the other
side of the mount.
Figure 1 represents in plan and edge view the blank of thin sheet steel or other
hard and elastic metal from which the improved mount or carrier is to be made.
The said blank is of an oblong form and has teeth or projections a, a along its longer
sides, the teeth on one side being opposite those on the other side. We take the blank
Figure 1 and by a stamping or pressing operation we raise in the middle of the
blank the ordinary depression for the reception of the trade mark or other label and
at the same time bend the serrations or teeth a, a nearly at right angles to the body
of the blank as represented in plan of upper and underside and cross section in
Figure 2, where the depression for receiving the trade mark or other label is
marked and the bent teeth or serrations are marked a², a². By a further bending
or closing operation the raised teeth a² Figure 2 are bent back or made partly to
cross the mount or carrier so that the teeth or projections on one side come in contact
with or nearly in contact with those on the opposite side as represented in plan of
underside and cross section in Figure 3. The mount thus made has in cross section
a figure somewhat resembling that of the figure in cross section of the rib or
stretcher to which it is to be applied; that is, the rib or stretcher gripping or
holding parts of the mount consist of a series of equi-distant spring or elastic pro-
jections or arms marked a³, a³ on opposite sides of the mount or carrier, the said
projections or arms a³, a³ meeting nearly at the middle of the back of the said
mount or carrier.
Figure 4 represents in plan of underside; Figure 5 in plan of upperside and
Figure 6 in cross section the mount made as described attached to a rib or
stretcher c. In attaching the mount to the rib or stretcher c, the latter is passed.

page_text: endwise by a sliding motion between the elastic teeth, projections or arms a³, a³ of
the mount until the said mount is in the desired position on the rib or stretcher c.
As the rib or stretcher is introduced between the spring teeth projections or arms a³, a³
the latter are slightly opened or separated and brought into a state of tension, and
the said teeth, projections or arms by their elasticity clip firmly the rib or stretcher
and thereby secure the said mount to the rib or stretcher as will be understood by
an examination of Figure 6. In Figures,5 and 6 the trade mark or other label
secured in the depression at the front of the mount or carrier is marked d.
Instead of making the elastic teeth, projections or arms opposite one another they
may break joint, that is, they may be so arranged that the teeth, projections or arms
on one side of the mount or carrier are situated opposite the spaces between the
teeth projections or arms on the opposite side as represented in plan in Figure 7.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as our invention of
"An improvement or improvements in mounts or carriers for attaching trade
mark and other labels to the ribs or stretchers of umbrellas and parasols."
Making on the back or underside of the mount or carrier a series of partly crossing
spring elastic teeth, projections or arms, arranged in either of the ways described
and represented, at the longer sides of the said mount or carrier, for clipping and
firmly securing the mount or carrier to the rib or stretcher of the umbrella or
parasol substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated the Ninth day of June 1809
WILLIAM ALLEN BINDLEY.
WILLIAM JAMES GELL.
AMBROSE FREDERICK BOHAM.