A PARASOL AND AN UMBRELLA ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
PRICE, of the Strand, in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, in the County
of Middlesex, Umbrella Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in
the fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Charles
Price, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Charles Price, my exors, adññiors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years, therein
mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A PARASOL AND AN UMBRELLA
ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Charles Price, shall not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties, and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Price, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described

page_text: and ascertained in and by the Drawings in the margin hereof, and reference
thereto, and the following description thereof, that is to say :-
With respect to principle,. Licause the ribs and silk, and other parts of the
mechanism of parasols and umbrellas (by means of levers in conjunction with
a wire spring passing through each rib,- connected with a. notched keeper
sliding on the stick under the bell plate), to be drawn up on extending the
parasol or umbrella, and there to remain stationary, as shewn in the said
Drawings, which parasol and umbrella, in the improved shape, I call the
Imperial Solumbrâ.
Now I do hereby declare the above-mentioned principle comprehends the
real object of my Invention. And in order for the better comprehension and
understanding how the same may be reduced to practical use, I do hereby
further declare, that although Ivary the mode of construction as circumstances
may require to produce the said effects, and preserve the main purpose
intended, 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
two Drawings and eleven Sections represented in. the margin of these
Presents, the alphabetical letters referring to the respective parts of the
Drawings and Sections.
:
Drawing A represents the parasol and umbrella in a quiescent state.
Drawing B represents the parasol or umbrella with the umbrageous parts
expanded and fit for. use.
Section C represents the ribs prepared for use..
Section D represents the small levers as past through the rib.
Section E represents the wire spring when connected to the lever.
Section F represents the notched keeper.
Section G represents the bell plate.
Section H represents the tip on the end of the ribs.
Section I represents the streachers.
Section K represents the top tips for ribs.
Section L represents the runner.
Section M represents the worm spring.
. Section N represents the top keeper.
I do hereby further declare, that the ribs of the parasol and umbrella may
be made of whalebone, or any kind of metal, such as iron, steel, copper, brass,
tin, zinc, gold, silver, or any other metals or compositions of metals; or any kind
of wood, bone, ivory, tortoiseshell, horn, leather, paper, parchment, or any other
substance or composition of substances whatever, and that the parasol and

page_text: umbrella may be made of silk, gingham, stuff, cotton, linen, oiled silk or lawn,
or any other composition; and that the ribs and streachers, or any other part
of the necessary machinery, may be made of any of the before-mentioned
substances, provided any of the aforesaid substances or composition of
substances may be found sufficiently strong and proper for the purpose or
purposes of manufacturing these parasols and umbrellas.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Price, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Inrolled the Third day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.