IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hatfield Gossip, of Haggerstone, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
DARAROL"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hatfield Gossip
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th January 1870.
I, GEORGE HATFIELD GOSSIP, of Haggerstone, in the County of Middle-
sex, Gentlemen, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS," to be aş
follows:-
This Invention consists in certain arrangements in the manufacture
of umbrellas and parasols by means of which such articles are rendered
incapable of being turned inside out by the violence of the wind and to
which incident umbrellas and parasols as ordinarily constructed are
liable. This result is obtained by sewing or otherwise attaching to the
inside or outside of the umbrella or parasol a band of strong tape, riband,

page_text: cord, thread, or other suitable material, the same being placed across
each gore from rib to rib in a straight line and thus forming a poly-
gonal figure. The band may be placed under or over, or be passed
round the ribs, to which it is securely fastened. Any number of bands
may be used, the same being placed concentrically at any desired
distance from each other. A degree of rigidity and firmness is thus
imparted to the umbrella or parasol which ensure the advantage before-
mentioned being obtained. The same object may be attained by means
of a strong band of tape, cord, riband, thread, or other suitable material
interwoven in the material of which the covering of the umbrella or
parasol is made, the same being arranged in straight lines as before
mentioned. In cases in which the covering of the umbrella or parasol
is taken down to the extreme end of the ribs and carried from one to
the other in a straight line without being arched or curved, the band
must be placed at the extreme edge of the covering to which it may
form a binding, or the extreme edge of the covering itself may be
turned and stitched so as to have the same effect as a band attached to
or interwoven therewith.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Hatfield Gossip in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th July 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
'HATFIELD GOSSIP, of Haggerstone, in the County of Middlesex, Gentle-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Hatfield Gossip, Her special
licence that I, the said George Hatfield Gossip, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Hatfield
Gossip, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great

page_text: Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Hatfield
Gossip, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Hatfield Gossip, 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, that is to say:
-
My said Invention consists in certain arrangements in the manufacture
of umbrellas and parasols by means of which such articles are strengthened
and rendered incapable of being turned inside out by the violence of the
wind, and to which incident umbrellas and parasols as ordinarily con-
structed are liable. This result is obtained by sewing or otherwise
attaching to the inside or outside of the material of which the covering of
the umbrella or parasol is formed a band of strong tape, riband, cord,
thread; or other suitable material, the same being placed across each gore
from rib to rib in a straight line, and thus forming a polygonal figure.
The band may be placed under or over the ribs or may be passed round
the same, and to which it should be securely fastened. Any number of
bands may be so used, the same being placed concentrically at any
desired distance from each other. A degree of rigidity and firmness is
thus imparted to the umbrella or parasol which ensures the advantage
before mentioned being obtained. The same object may be attained by
means of a strong band or bands of tape, cord, riband, thread, or other
material interwoven in the fabric of which the covering of the umbrella
or parasol is made, the same being arranged in straight lines as before
mentioned.
In cases in which the covering of the umbrella or parasol is taken
down to the extreme end of the ribs, and carried from one to the
other in a straight line without being arched or curved, the band or the
lower band of the series must be placed at the extreme edge of the
covering to which it may form a binding, or the extreme edge of the

page_text: covering itself
may be turned and stitched so as to have the same effect
as a band attached to or interwoven therewith.
.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe in
conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim
as constituting the Invention secured to me by the said herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent are, the arrangements in the manufacture of
umbrellas and parasols, as and for the purposes hercin-before described
and set forth, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hatfield Gossip, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.