Improvements in Sticks for Umbrellas and Sunshades.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1900-Accepted, 26th May, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sticks for Umbrellas and Sunshades.
JAMES HARWOOD KINZETT, 2, Cornwall Road, Stroud Green, London, Umbrella
Traveller, and FREDERICK ROBERT STANLEY EELES, of 16, Hanover Square, Brad-
ford, Yorkshire, Umbrella Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
A stick for use in umbrellas and sunshades that shall be of the usual circular
shape from the top to a point slightly above the position where the stretcher
joint of the rib first touches the stick, and from that point down to the handle
four or eight sided with flat or concave surfaces. The object aimed at by this
invention is to enable the construction of a smaller rolling umbrella or sunshade
than has hitherto been possible on a wooden stick. By this invention the
stretchers of the frame lie on or within the surfaces described above and in this
position complete the broken circle of that portion of the stick in such a manner
that when closed the frame here has a diameter of the same size as that of the
upper portion of the frame, that is to say of that portion which lies in single
thickness on the circular part of the stick.
Dated this 24th day of July 1899
FREDERICK ROBERT STANLEY EELES.
JAMES HARWOOD KINZETT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sticks for Umbrellas and Sunshades.
JAMES HARWOOD KINZETT, of 2, Cornwall Road, Stroud Green, London,
Traveller in Umbrellas, and FREDERICK ROBERT STANLEY EELES, of 16, Hanover
Square, Bradford, Yorkshire, Umbrella Manufacturer, 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 the invention is to do away with that bulkiness in umbrellas and
sunshades which exists from the centre to the handle and which is caused by the
stretchers lying with the ribs along this portion. To effect this object we
propose to make the stick of a square or of an octagonal form, having either
flat or concave surfaces, along the whole of that part of the stick which is in
contact with the stretchers when the frame is closed. Above that part of the
stick which is in contact with the stretcher joints of the ribs, the stick will
retain its usual round form. Thus when the frame is closed the stretchers and
so much of the ribs as are in contact with them will be pressed, by the action
of rolling up the umbrella or sunshade, upon the surfaces of the square or
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page_text: octagonal portion herein described, with the result that the diameter of the
closed frame will be no greater at any point along that part where the frame
lies in double thickness than along that part where there is but a single thick-
ness of frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is;-
1. To have invented a stick by the use of which the bulkiness of umbrellas
and sunshades is considerably reduced. The feature of novelty in connection
with the said stick being that whereas that part of the stick upon which the
frame lies in single thickness retains its usual round form, that part of the stick
upon which the frame lies in double thickness is given a square or an octagonal
form having flat or concave surfaces.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1900
JAMES HARWOOD KINZETT.
FREDERICK ROBERT STANLEY EELES