AN IMPROVED MODE OF MAKING UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1808

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMASON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of October, in
the forty-eighth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said
Edward Thomason, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence that I, the said Edward Thomason, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF MAKING
UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS;" in which Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Edward Thomason, under my haud and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of
tho said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and agreeable to the true
intent and meaning of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained,
1, the said Edward Thomason, do hereby declare that the following is a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and methods and

page_text: improvements in the mechanism of umbrellas and parasols, both in respect
to principle, and the way and means in which the same may be performed,
that is to say :-
With respect to principle, I cause the umbrageous part, the stretchers and
other parts of the mechanism, to be hid or concealed in the walking stick,
cane, stail, case, or tube (of what I call the rhabdoskidophoros or walking
cane umbrella), by the action or movement of pulling towards you part of
the said walking stick, cane, stail, case, or tube, or pushing from you part of
the said walking stick, cane, stail, case, or tube, or each or any of them, as
circumstances may require; and I cause the umbrageous parts, the stretchers
and other machinery, to be ejected, slided, or forced out of the said walking
stick, cane, stail, case, or tube, whereby they may be expanded at pleasure into
a convenient posture or position, preserving the walking stick, cane, stail, case,
or tube as the attached handle part of the umbrella or parasol. Now I do
declare the above-mentioned principle comprehends the real object of my
Invention; and in order for the better comprehension and understanding how
the aforesaid may be reduced to practical use, I do hereby further declare.
that, although I vary the mode of construction of construction by a variation
of circumstances to produce the said effects and maintain the main purpose
intended, that is to say, of concealing the appearance of an umbrella or
parasol from the eye when the same is not wanted for use as an umbrella
or parasol, but as a walking stick, yet I principally adhere to the method
herein described as being fully answerable to what is required, and best
calculated to be understood from the Drawings and descriptions thereof; and
the same is described in the three Drawings and five sections represented
in the margin of these Presents, and the alphabetical letters in the five sections
refer to their respectivo parts in the Drawings.
Drawing No. 1 represents the umbrella or parasol in a quiescent state, or
after it has been used and shut up, the umbrageous parts being concealed
in the cane, stick, tube, or case, and ready and convenient to use as a walking
cane. Drawing No. 2 represents the umbrella or parasol ejected or drawn
out of the stick, cane, case, or tube, but the umbrageous parts not expanded,
Drawing No. 3 represents the umbrella or parasol drawn out of the stick,
cane, case, or tube, with the umbrageous parts expanded and ready to be used
as an umbrella or parasol at its or their greatest length, but may be shortened
at pleasure by sliding the rod y up or down the case.
Section No. 1 is the stick, cane, or case, and mado hollow as a tube
sufficiently wide in its boro to take in or contain the umbrageous part,
stretchers, machinery, and inward rod or rods of the umbrella or parasol, at

page_text: one end of which a convenient handle is attached, as at A. Section No. 2
is an inner tube or rod, having at one end, as at B, a wor tube or washer,
with or without springs, sufficiently large to slide conveniently into Section
No. 1. Section No. 3 is the umbrageous part and stretchers, and attached
to the Section No. 2. Section No. 4 is a short tube, and slides upon the
umbrageous part or Section No. 3, thereby confining it and the stretchers
in a collapsed state, as close as convenient round the inner tube or Section
No. 2, in order to facilitate the sliding of Section No. 3 and No. 2 into
Section No. 1. Section No. 5 is the ferrule or upper end when used as an
umbrella or parasol, and has an arm D, E, which arm at D is attached
to C in Section No. 2, the arm D, E, being long enough to allow Section
No. 4 to slide upon it when the umbrageous part of No. 3 is required to be
expanded.
And I do hereby further declare that that these umbrellas or parasols
may be made of any kind or kinds of metal, such as iron, steel, copper, or
brass, or any other metal or composition of metals, or any kind or kinds of
wood, bone, ivory, paper, or any other substance or composition of substances
whatever, and that any part or parts of these umbrellas or parasols may be
made of silk, cotton, stuff, linnen, or any composition of the like, provided
any of the substances or composition of the substances aforesaid may be
found sufficiently strong and proper for the purpose or purposes of manu-
facturing these umbrellas or parasols.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomason, have hereunto set my
haud and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eight.
EDWARD THOMASON. (L.8.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirty-first day of October,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edward Thomason came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Third day of November, in the year above written.