Improvements in Tip Caps for Umbrellas, Parasols, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tip Caps for Umbrellas, Parasols, and the like.
I, ANDREW GRAY, of No. 11, Pancras Lane, in the City of London, Commission
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to caps fitted on to the sticks of umbrellas, parasols
sunshades and the like.
The object of my invention is to provide an improved cap for covering the tips
of the ribs of umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, or other like articles to which it may
be fitted.
In carrying my said invention into practice I make that part of the cap which is
fixed on to the stick of the umbrella, or other like article, with one or more slight
projections on its outer surface, reaching from the bottom to nearly the top
thereof; and the socket, or moveable part of the cap, I make with one or more
grooves, corresponding to the position and size of the projection or projections on
the fixed part of the cap. So that the grooved socket will only move up or down
when the groove or grooves are brought opposite to the projection or projections
on the fixed part of the cap. But as the projection or projections do not extend
quite to the top of the fixed part of the cap, when the umbrella is closed and the
grooved socket of the cap has been brought up and over the rib tips, by simply
moving the socket a little way round it is instantly secured in its place, and the rib
tips are effectually protected and held in position."
By another variation of the same principle I make the fixed part of the cap
slightly raised or thicker for one half of its circumference, reaching from the
bottom to nearly the top thereof; and the socket I then make grooved for one half
of its circumference, to correspond to the said extra thickness of one half of the
fixed part of the cap. So that the grooved socket will only move up or down when
the grooved half thereof is brought exactly opposite the raised, or thicker, half of
the fixed part of the can. Thus, again, when the umbrella is closed and the socket
of the cap has been brought up and over the rib tips, by simply moving the socket
a little way round it is impossible for it to slip back, and the rib tips are protected
and held secure within the cap.
By the use of my improved cap the inconvenience and danger which arise from
the rib tips of the umbrella, parasol, or other like article, becoming uncovered and
loosened, through the slipping back of the socket of the cap intended to protect
and hold them in position, are entirely obviated.
Dated this 5th day of March 1891.
ANDREW GRAY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tip Caps for Umbrellas, Parasols, and the like.
I, ANDREW GRAY, of 11, Pancras Lane, in the City of London, Commission
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
This invention relates to caps fitted on to the sticks of umbrellas, parasols
sunshades and the like.
The object of my said invention is to provide an improved cap for covering the
tips of the ribs of umbrellas, parasols, sunshades or other like articles to which it
may be fitted.
In carrying my said invention into practice I make that part of the cap,
hereinafter called the ring, which is fixed on to the stick of the umbrella or

page_text: other like article with one or more slight projections on its outer surface, reaching
from the top to nearly the bottom thereof; (in my Provisional Specification
erroneously stated as from the bottom to nearly the top) and the socket or
moveable part of the cap, hereinafter called the slider, I make with one or more
grooves corresponding to the position and size of the projection or projections
on the fixed ring of the cap. So that the grooved slider will only move up or down
when the groove or grooves are brought opposite to the projection or projections
on the ring of the cap. But as the projection or projections do not extend quite to
the bottom of the ring, when the umbrella is closed and the grooved slider has been
brought down (in my Provisional Specification erroneously stated as up) and over
the rib tips by simply moving the slider a little way round it is instantly secured in
its place. I also place one or more small stops or studs upon the upper part of the
slider over against the groove or grooves which on the slider being moved round to
the right serves to secure the most effectual locking of the cap when closed over
the rib tips, and on the slider being moved round in the reverse direction or to the
left serves to indicate when the cap is in the position to be opened or unlocked
when it is desired to release the rib tips and to open the umbrella.
By another variation of the same principle I make the ring of the cap slightly
raised or thicker for one half of its circumference from the top to nearly the bottom
thereof, (in my Provisional Specification erroneously stated as from the bottom to
nearly the top) and the slider I then make grooved for one half of its circum-
ference to correspond to the said extra thickness of one half of the ring. So that
the grooved slider will only move up or down when the grooved or recessed part
thereof is brought exactly opposite the raised or thicker half of the fixed ring.
For better illustration of my invention the parts specially claimed are described
and shewn in the drawings appended, in which
Figure 1. represents my first arrangement of parts, and Figure 2. the second
form of same, the letters being similarly applied.
In Fig. 1A A is a sectional view of the rings fixed on the sticks of umbrellas;
a a being the projections on same.
BB is a sectional view of the moveable part or slider, and bare grooves cut
in same.
is a stop or stud upon the upper part of the slider B, so that when b¹ is
in contact with a the groove or grooves in B are exactly under the projection or
projections on A and the slider may now be raised so as to free the umbrella tips.
C is a front view of the umbrella stick shewing both A and B parts in place.
In Fig. 2 A shews the sectional view of the rings having one half of the
circumference enlarged at a¹.
B¹ is the sectional view of the moveable part or slider, a' is the portion removed
over one half of the circumference, and is a stop or stud upon the upper part
of B, so that when is in contact with a' the recessed portion of B' will pass
freely over the enlarged part of A¹ and so free the umbrella tips.
I wish to state that I do not claim or make what is known as or called a bayonet
joint.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The employment upon a ring secured to the stick of umbrellas, or such like
articles, of a projection or projections extending from the top of such ring to nearly
the bottom thereof substantially as described.
2. The employment in connection with such fixed ring of a moveable slider
.grooved or recessed substantially as described.
3. The employment upon such moveable slider of one or more stops or studs
substantially as described.
Dated this 5th dore of Dassmilion 1001
ANDREW GRAY.