An Improvement connected with the Sticks or Handles of Umbrellas and Parasols.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1893-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with the Sticks or Handles of Umbrellas
and Parasols.
I WALTER HOOKWAY of the Firm Hookway Sons and Co. of 10 Monkwell
Street, City of London, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has for object the construction of umbrellas and parasols of more
than usual compactness and closeness of fit of the ribs, stretchers and cover to the
stick or handle.
By my invention I am enabled to use a top notch of small diameter in order to
bring the rib joints closer to the stick than at present and obtain a neat tapered
form to the article when the cover is rolled up.
My invention consists in reducing the thickness of the stick from the part
occupied by the top notch-where a shoulder is formed for the top notch to bear
against-down to the ferrule or tip end. The intervening portion may be left plain
or a tapered sleeve can be fitted over to conform to the tapered shape of the whole
article.
Dated this 23rd dan of Santambor 1900
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. Hookway.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with the Sticks or Handles of Umbrellas
and Parasols.
I, WALTER HOOKWAY, of the Firm Hookway Sons and Co. of 10 Monkwell
Street, City of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for object, the construction of umbrellas and parasols of more
than usual compactness and closeness of fit of the ribs, stretchers, and cover to the
stick or handle.
By my invention, I am enabled to use a top notch of small diameter in order to
bring the rib joints closer to the stick than at present, and to obtain a neat tapered
form to the article when the cover is rolled up.
My invention is represented in the annexed drawing Figure 1; Figures 2 and 3
being part sectional views of umbrella or parasol sticks with top notches of different
kinds fitted thereon, Figure 3 also showing a sleeve which may be part of the tip or
the top notch.
The invention consists in reducing the thickness of the stick A from the part B
occupied by the top notch where a shoulder C is formed for the top notch to bear
against down to the ferrule or tip end D. The intervening portion may be left
plain, or a tapered sleeve E can be fitted over to conform to the tapered shape of
the whole article, and said sleeve may be part of the tip F, or of the top
notch G.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Making umbrella and parasol sticks with a shoulder, and tapered therefrom to
the tip end, as represented, and for the purpose, or purposes set forth.
The 22nd day of June 1902
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Walter Hookway.