IMPROVE- MENTS IN UMBRELLA AND PARASOL TIP FASTENERS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Lublinski, of 183 & 185, City Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Stick Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN UMBRELLA AND PARASOL TIP FASTENERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Lublinski at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
March 1865.
I, ROBERT LUBLINSKI, of 183 & 185, City Road, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Stick Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLA AND PARASOL TIP FASTENERS," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is by a novel arrangement to allow the silk or
alpaca or other material of which the umbrella may be made to dry without
the necessity of being left open. This Invention consists of two pieces of tin
or other metal, about an inch square, or thereabouts, or other suitable size
and shape; these pieces are placed parallel to each other, being kept apart
by rivets placed at each corner, the said pieces of metal being inserted in a
slot made in the stick of the umbrella or parasol; round these rivets a metal
band or roller is placed; to one of the rivets is firmly fastened a piece of

page_text: elastic or other suitable material, which elastic passes from one roller to
another in a serpentine manner, the object being to wind as much elastic
as will be found necessary to stretch round the tips of the umbrella. In some
cases I use a small coiled tube, into which the elastic or other material may
be inserted. The box or coil tube or other form I may use is inserted in the
stick of the umbrella, the top being ornamented as may be desired, and by a
simple modification can be made on the outside as well as the inside of the
stick. Thus it will be seen that an umbrella being very wet, all that is
required is to pull the end of the elastic or other material, which will pass
round the tips of the umbrella, and catch in a click, leaving the silk or other
material free to dry.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Lublinski in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
LUBLINSKI, of 183 & 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 Twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth 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 UMBRELLA AND PARASOL TIP FASTENERS," 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 per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this Invention is by a novel arrangement to allow the silk or
alpaca or other material of which the umbrella may be made to dry without
the necessity of being left open. This Invention consists of one piece of metal
tube, about two inches long, or thereabouts, or other suitable size and shape;
the piece of tube is fastened to one end of a metal shield or plate, where the
elastic passes through; and to the other end is firmly fastened a piece of
elastic or other suitable material, which elastic passes up and down the tube,
the object being to let in as much elastic as will be found necessary to stretch
round the tips of the umbrella. In some cases I use a small coiled tube,
into which the elastic or other material may be inserted. The box or coiled
tube or other substance I may use is inserted in the stick of the umbrella, or
may be fixed outside the stick, the top being ornamented as may be desired.
Thus it will be seen that an umbrella being very wet, all that is required is
to pull the end of the elastic or other material, which will pass round the tips
of the umbrella and catch in a click, leaving the silk or other material free to
dry.
Having thus described the nature and object of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect, I would observe in
conclusion that I do not confine myself to the precise details as to shape or
form of tube or other receptacle for the elastic, but what I claim and desire to
be secured by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improve-
ments in umbrella and parasol tip fasteners by which a piece of elastic is
drawn from a receptacle, either fixed in the stick of the umbrella or parasol, or
placed on the outside thereof and carried round the tips of such umbrella or
parasol, and fastened in a catch as herein-before described, or any modification
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Lublinski, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five
ROBERT LUBLINSKI. (L.B.)