Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Nov., 1888
I WILLIAM MELLIS of 21 Redcross Street in the City of London Umbrella Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows
-
The object of my Invention is to provide a much more secure and efficient attach-
ment of the ribs of an umbrella or sunshade to the cover or to the lining or to
both. According to my Invention I form a sheath in the cover or lining or in both
at each seam or place where a rib is situated and into each of these sheaths so formed
a rib is passed or enclosed therein so that it is encased in and covered by the said
sheath.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.,
Agents.

page_text: An Improvement in Sunshades and Umbrellas.
I WILLIAM MELLIS of 21. Redcross Street in the City of London Umbrella Manu-
facturer 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 :-
The object of my Invention is to provide an attachment of the ribs of an umbrella
or sunshade to the cover or to the lining or to both which is much more secure and
efficient than is that hitherto employed.
According to my Invention 1 form in or fix to the cover or lining or both at each
seam or place where a rib is situated, a sheath and into each of such sheaths so formed
a rib is passed or enclosed therein so that it is encased in and covered by the said
sheave.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is an external view of a sun-shade or
umbrella made according to my Invention a portion of the covering being removed
for the purpose of more clearly illustrating my Invention.
Figure 2 is a detail drawn to a larger scale. A is the outer covering and B is the
lining of the sunshade or umbrella. At the seams of the covering A or of the
lining BI provide sheaths C into which the ribs D are inserted and by which they
are enclosed. These sheaths may be made separate from and be afterwards attached
to the cover or to the lining or to both or they may be formed in the cover itself or
in the lining itself and the said sheaths may (where linings covering the stretchers
are used) extend along the stretchers E as shewn in Figure 2, to the place where the
said stretchers are jointed to the runner of the sunshade or umbrella or they may
terminate where the stretchers are connected to the ribs D or a part only of the
stretchers may be enclosed in such sheaths. The sheaths may extend the entire length
of the ribs if desired or they may terminate where the stretchers are counected to
the said ribs or any desired part only of such ribs may be enclosed in the sheaths.
These sheaths not only form a secure and efficient attachment of the ribs to the cover
or of the stretchers to the lining or both but also give a neat appearance to the
umbrella or sunshade.
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 :-
Providing umbrellas and sunshades with sheaths in which the ribs or the ribs and
stretchers or part of either or both are enclosed substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Tatal this 2nd doy of Ostabon 1000