Improved Clip for Umbrella Ribs.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th May, 1892-Accepted, 11th June 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by WILHELM JEDECK, of Scharrnstrasse 5, Berlin, C.,
in the German Empire.]
Improved Clip for Umbrella Ribs.
I CARL BOLLE of 57 Barton Arcade, Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Consulting Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The ordinary sliding caps for holding the tips or ends of umbrella ribs or wires
together have the disadvantage that frequently when the cap is pushed down some
of the tips are not caught by the cap so that the latter, has to be pushed up and
down several times till all the tips are brought under it. The object of my inven-
tion is to remedy this inconvenience, and my invention consists in an improved
construction or arrangement of clip by means of which the tips are surrounded and
brought together by the closing of the clip.
The improved clip consists of two semi-circular bands or half-hoops cach formed
with extensions at each end at a right-angle to the plane of the half hoop, which
extensions are provided with pivots at their ends entering into a metal bead or
equivalent part fixed in any convenient manner to the umbrella stick above the tips
of the umbrella ribs or wires. The pivots are so placed that when the said
rectangular extensions are turned downwards, the two half-hoops meet and form a
complete hoop, each half being provided with a knob at the end of a projecting bit
one of which knobs passes behind the other when the hoop is closed and locks it in
this position, or other suitable fastenings may be provided. While being brought
together the half hoops describe circular paths or arcs round the pivots of a greater
radius than that of the hoops and gather the tips of the ribs together.
Dated the 8th day of August 1891.
CARL BOLLE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Clip for Umbrella Ribs.
I, CARL BOLLE of 57 Barton Arcade, Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Consulting Engineer 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 ordinary sliding caps for holding the tips or ends of umbrella ribs or wires
together have the disadvantage that frequently when the cap is pushed down some
of the tips are not caught by the cap so that the latter has to be pushed up and
down several times till all the tips are brought under it. The object of my inven-
tion is to remedy this inconvenience, and my invention consists in an improved
construction or arrangement of clip by means of which the tips are surrounded and
brought together by the closing of the clip.
On the sheet of drawings appended hereunto
Figs. 1 and 2 show the improved clip closed and opened respectively,
Fig. 3 an umbrella fitted with the improved clip,
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page_text: clip can be applied to already finished or used umbrellas as well as to new ones, the
clip being either held in its place by the handle screwed into the stick as shewn by
Figs. 4 to 7, or by being slipped over the stick and fixed to it in the desired
position as shewn by Figs. 8 and 9.
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The clip is composed of two semicircular bands or half-hoops c and c¹ formed
with extensions and at each end at right angles to the plane of the half-
hoops, which extensions are bent at the top towards the handle as shown by Figs. 5
and 8 and formed with pivots entering holes in a beading a fixed to the stick f
above the tips e of the ribs. Other extensions with beads d d or their equivalents
are formed on or attached to the half-hoops e c¹ and arranged to slip one over the
other and lock the half-hoops to each other when they are brought together. When
the half-hoops are unlocked and turned as shewn by Fig. 2, which will be done by
holding the umbrella upwards, the umbrella ribs are free to spread and the umbrella
can be opened. When it is closed and the half-hoops are turned downwards in the
direction indicated by arrows on Fig. 2, which will be effected by turning the
umbrella downwards, they pass over and surround the tips e of the wires or ribs.
On being further pushed together, the ends d d slip over one another and the half-
hoops c c are locked together so as to form an entire hoop (Figs. 5 and 6). As in
their downward movement the half-hoops first move outwards it is evident that
they will gather in the spread tips e and by their further movement bring them
together towards the stick and hold them thus when the half-hoops are locked
together, as shown by Fig. 1.
In the arrangement shewn by Figs. 1 to 7, the beading a' is formed on a plate a
fixed between the stick and handle by the screw of the handle which passes
through a hole in the plate a, Figs. and 7. The modification shewn on Figs. 8
and 9 differs from this merely by having the beading a formed on a bush & which
is pushed on to the umbrella stick and fixed thereto in any convenient manner.
The clip hereinbefore described can be applied to existing umbrellas without the
stick or handle having to be altered and can therefore form an independent article
of commerce as well as be sold with or attached to umbrellas.
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,
The construction or arrangement of a clip for gathering and holding together the
tips of umbrella ribs or wires substantially as described and indicated hereinbefore
and on and by the drawings appended hereunto.
C. BOLLÉ.