Identification Attachment for Umbrellas and Parasols.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct.,
1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Identification Attachment for Umbrellas and Parasols.
I, HUGH DE COURSEY HAMILTON, of 10 Valley Street, South Orange, in the
County of Essex, and State of New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician,
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 this invention is to provide means for the identification of umbrellas
or parasols and comprises a card-exposing holder of convenient size open at one end
to admit of name and address cards being readily put in and taken out of the holder
while the latter is in place on the umbrella and provided with wings parallel to the
body thereof, to which the means for attaching the holder to the rib or stretcher of
the umbrella are secured. Preferably the holders or said wings are provided with
one or more lugs or projections adapted to fit into the U-rib or brace to prevent
the holder from turning thereon, which lugs may be integral with the holders or be
secured thereto in any suitable way.
A blank A, see Figure 1, of thin sheet metal of a general rectangular form has
wings a at opposite ends thereof, a cut out portion b, a lip c opposite one end of
the cut out portion and two card-holding flaps d at the other end of the cut out b.
This blank A is then bent or folded upon the lines e, f, g, h, and i to form the box
shaped holder B shown in the other figures of the drawings. The locking lugs i of
V-shape are punched out of the wings a and bent downward on the back of the
box or holder, and soft wires are passed through the holes made by punching out
the lugs i, so as to be fastened on the said wings and the article is ready for
attachment and use. The name or address card is inserted in the box like holder,
with or without a protecting casing of transparent material, as celluloid, mica, glass
or the like, and the card-holding flaps d are turned down to hold the same in place;
if desired these flaps may be long enough to fold over on the back of the box. In
affixing the holder with a so-called Paragon umbrella frame, the same is placed
thereon with the lugs i in the groove of a rib or stretcher C and the wires k are
then wrapped about the same and effectually hold it thereon.
This invention is not limited to the precise form thereof shown in the drawings
and above described, which construction however furnishes a neat, compact and
convenient attachment, which is hidden inside the umbrella or parasol when closed,
and which is not conspicuous to anyone except the person carrying the same when
the umbrella is open.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invén-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. A box like card-exposing holder having means adapted to fit into a rib or
stretcher of the Paragon umbrella frame and wires for fastening it thereon,
substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2nd. A box like card-exposing holder having wings parallel thereto and clamping
devices on said wings for attaching the holder to a rib or stretcher of an umbrella
or parasol, substantially as described.
3rd. A card-exposing holder of box form open at one end, flaps thereon at said
end adapted to be bent over to hold a card in place, means on said holder for

page_text: engagement within the groove of an umbrella rib or stretcher to prevent the holder
from turning thereon, and means on said holder for engaging the outside of said rib
or brace to attach the holder thereto, substantially as described.
Dated this 5th day of September 1894.
FELL & WILDING,
Agents for the Applicant.