NEW-INVENTED DRAWING TUBE SPRING LOCK PILLARS FOR UMBRELLAS, WHICH MAY BE VENDED WITH OR WITHOUT UMBRELLAS AFFIXED TO THEM
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
GATWARD, of the City of Bristol, Clock and Watch Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Ninth day of November, in the twenty-seventh year of His reign,
did grant unto me, the said Joseph Gatward, my executors, administrators,
aud. assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Joseph Gatward, my executors, admors, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Gatward, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others; from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend and dispose of, my "NEW-INVENTED DRAWING TUBE SPRING LOCK
PILLARS FOR UMBRELLAS, WHICH MAY BE VENDED WITH OR WITHOUT UMBRELLAS
AFFIXED TO THEM," within that part of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to be used, vended,
and disposed of, in such manner as to me, the said Joseph Gatward, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet;
and also that I, the said Joseph Gatward, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,

page_text: privileges, and advantages therein and thereby granted or intended so to be
unto me, the said Joseph Gatward, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date
thereof next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the. Statute in such case made and provided; in which said
recited Letters Patent is contained a provisoe that if I, the said Joseph Gat-
ward, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was 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 one calendar month next and
immediately after the date thereof, that then the said recited Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything therein contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said in part
recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Gatward, in pursuance of and
in compliance with the said provisoe in the said recited Letters Patent
contained, do, by this present Instrument, declare that the nature of my
said New-invented Drawing Tube Spring Lock Pillar for Umbrellas, which
may be Vended with or without Umbrellas affixed to them, is described and
ascertained in the Plans and Drawings hereunto annexed, and which are fully
explained by letters and figures herein-after mentioned (that is to say) :-
A represents the upper part of a common umbrella open, and which keeps
the sun or rain off, and is to be fixed on the new-constructed pillar herein-
after mentioned.
Figure 1 (a, a, a, a,) represents the pillar, which goes through the tube
(b, b, b, b,) and fixed to the umbrella at part letter (a). c is the runner, to
which the wires are fixed, as in a common umbrella, which extends the
umbrella part A open, and which is screwed to the tube with two screws.
Figure 2 (a, a, a, a,) is the pillar explained by letter (a) in Figure 1.
E is the hole in which the spring lock fastens to keep the said umbrella
open.
Figure 3 is the tube through which the pillar, Figure 2 (a, a, a, a,) runs.
(a, a,) is the grove in which the spring lock acts.
Figure 4 is that part of the pillar which has the notch to receive the spring
lock (a) when the umbrella is extended, in order to keep it open, and which,
by pressing the tail (d), forces the spring which is under it thereby to raise
the hook part or catch (e) out of the said notch, so that you may, by shoving

page_text: the said umbrella pillar through the said tube, cause the umbrella part to
fall and shut. (b) is the centre hole to receive the said pin.
Figure 5 is the under side of the spring lock, and also represents the
grove (a), in which the spring thereof acts.
Figure 6 is the said spring lock compleat, viz., (a) is the hook part or catch;
(b), the centre hole; (e), the spring; (d) is the tail thereof.
Figure 7 is part of the pillar, shewing the hook part (a) or catch of the
lock when out of the notch (c) of the pillar, and which, being pulled down-
wards, causes the said spring lock to fall into the notch (a), which keeps open.
the umbrella, and remedies the inconvenience of forcing up the hand to raise
the same, which is necessary to common umbrellas.
The materials belonging to and conducing to the making of the said
drawing tube spring lock pillars of umbrellas consist either of wood, bone,
ivory, horn, whalebone, natural metal or metals, compound or mixture of
metal or metals, paper, linnen, paste of paper, linnen, woollen, or leather, or
mixture of any such substances, cane, grass, rush, hay, straw, catgut, silk,
tortoiseshell, or any other kind of shell, earth, stone, bladder, or leather.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Gatward, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of November, in the twenty-
seventh year of the reign of King George the Third, and in the year of
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six