IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS PARASOLS & SUNSHADES
Year: 1886

page_text: JOHN DUNN KIRKHAM Hairdresser & Umbrella Manufacturer, 19 Madeley St.
Tunstall in the County of Stafford do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS PARASOLS & SUNSHADES to be as follows:-
Runners as No. 1. to fasten stretchers upon, with tube one quarter of an inch
screwed inside the other part at the top end to which the stretchers are fastened.
The inside tube, having eight or more arms or hooks, according to the number of
ribs required.
Each hook or arm having a flange, (a) at the end; one sixteenth of an inch, which
fits in a grove (when screwed down) sunk in the collar, at the top of the outside
runner,
By the flange and grove, additional strength is aquired without additional weight.
Hole (b) is for plug to prevent it coming unscrewed.
Notch No. 2. in drawings, with round nut (a), (with mill-tooled edge) in which
there is a grove to fit on flange (b).
It will have a thread or worm all the way to the collar, on top, (c), which is
souldered on after the round nut (a), is put on.
The dots on top of collar (c), indicate holes to which the cover is stitched.
Hole (d), is for plug to prevent it coming unscrewed.
The ribs No. 3, will have eyes same as drawings.
The advantages I claim are, that the weakest part of an ordinary umbrella, will
be the strongest in mine; (viz), the end of the ribs.
Having eyes which are simply hooked on, and which obviate the use of thin wire
now used which often rusts and breakes, thereby causing the ribs to push through
the cover of the umbrella.
When out of repair, (which would rarely occur) they can be repaired with very
little trouble.
It is so simple that ribs can be replaced in a few minutes even by the owner; by
just unscrewing notch, and runner, and stitching cover to again.
Ribs made of steele. Runners and notches made of steele, malleable iron, or
brass.
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L
i 1000

page_text: JOHN DUNN KIRKHAM, Hairdresser and Umbrella Manufacturer, 19 Madeley St.
Tunstall, Staffre. do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS AND SUNSHADES, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention has for its object improvements in the construction of the
"notches" and "runners" of umbrellas, parasols and sunshades, in a simple and
more durable manner, by which means I obtain a firmer and stronger connection
between the notches and ribs, and also between the runners and stretchers than is
obtained by the present method or methods.
Hitherto the ribs and stretchers have be attached to the notches and runners
respectively, by a thin metallic wire, but which, owing to the strain imposed
upon it, often breaks damaging the umbrella and causing considerable trouble to
repair it.
Accompanying drawings show a notch and runner constructed according to my
invention.
The same letters refer to the same parts in each figure.
Figs. 1 and 2 show elevation and section of a notch with rib in position, the said
notch being made in two parts a and b, the top part a being attached to the stick
or handle by the usual method; and is provided with the required number of arms
shown at c, which fit into eyelets formed in one end of each rib, one of which is
shown at e, and are prevented from slipping off the said arms by the part b which
screws into the before named top part a.
When one or all of the ribs require replacing, the part b is first unscrewed, when
the said ribs may be taken out and replaced as required, after which. it is screwed
up again, securely keeping them in their places: the said ribs are bent at the end
so as to be parallel to the stick or handle when the umbrella is closed, and also
to prevent the umbrella being turned inside out, by bearing against the top of
the arms.
Figs. 3 and 4 represent elevation and section of a "runner" and also the mode
of attaching the stretchers.
The construction is similar to the notch, figs. 1 and 2 being made in two parts f
and g, the latter screwing into the former to prevent the stretchers, one of which is
shown at h from slipping off the arms i, the number of said arms being regulated
by the number of arms in the before named notch.
Having now particularly described and acertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
:
A "notch" and "runner" constructed and operated as herein described and illus-
trated by accompanying drawings.
Dated this 18th day of October 1886.