Improvements in or connected with the Manufacture of Solid Umbrella and Parasol Ribs and Stretchers.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Manufacture of Solid
Umbrella and Parasol Ribs and Stretchers.
We, WILLIAM CORDER, of Allison Street Works, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, a Director of Corder & Turley, Limited, Umbrella Rib and Stretcher
Manufacturers, and FREDERICK JOHN TURLEY Junior, of 229, Bristol Road,
Edgbaston, in the County of Warwick, Manager to the said Company, 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:--
In affixing or displaying trade marks, mottoes or other devices on solid ribs or
stretchers of umbrella or parasol frames it has hitherto been the custom to affix
them onto a tablet of iron or other metal, such tablet being attached to the stretcher
or rib. This method is costly and is also cumbersome as a lump or enlargement is
caused in the umbrella when rolled up where the tablet is placed.
According to our invention we indent into the rib or stretcher a trough-shaped
receptacle of a suitable size and depth to receive the trade mark, motto or device
whereby economy is effected and the usual bulky label or tablet is dispensed with.
Our trade mark, motto or device is printed or otherwise formed on a strip or tablet
of thin sheet metal which is advantageously formed with a projection or tongue at
each end adapted to pass through holes in the trough-shaped receptacle, the ends of
the tongues being then turned over or rivetted on the underside of the rib or
stretcher; or the holes in the receptacle may be dispensed with and the tablet,
which may be formed of paper or other suitable material, with the trade mark,
motto or the like fixed in the receptacle by suitable cement.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of an umbrella or parasol rib or stretcher formed
with our trough-shaped receptacle having a trade mark fixed therein according to
our invention:
Figure 2 is a side view partly in section of the same :
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3, Figure 2:
Figures 4 and 5 are respectively similar views to Figures 1 and 2 but shewing
the trough-shaped receptacle before the insertion of the trade mark tablet:
Figure 6 is a section on the line 6-6, Figure 5:
Figure
7 is a view of the trade mark tablet detached:
Figure 8 is a similar view to Figure 4 shewing our trough-shaped receptacle
without holes.
The several figures in the drawing are drawn to a scale of about twice full size.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures.
a represents a portion of a solid umbrella or parasol rib or stretcher of ordinary
construction; b the trough-shaped receptacle which we indent into the rib or
stretcher a. care the holes which we form through the bottom of the said
receptacle b. d represents a tablet formed of suitable thin sheet metal on which is
printed or otherwise marked the trade mark, motto, device or the like, and e, e are
the projections of tongues on the ends of such tablet. The shape of the said
tablet is such as to fit into the receptacle b, the projections e, e
being turned
down and passed through the holes c and then turned over or rivetted to the
underside of the rib or stretcher as clearly shewn in Figure 3, by which means
the tablet will be firmly secured in the receptacle.
Instead of the tablet being formed with tongues as hereinbefore described it
may be formed of a shape to fit the receptacle, in which case the holes c, c are

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Figure 8 shews a rib or stretcher with such a trough into which
the tablet having the trade mark or the like is placed and fixed therein by suitable
cement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. Providing solid umbrella or parasol ribs or stretchers with a trough-shaped
receptacle (with or without holes therein) adapted to receive a tablet having a
trade mark, motto or other device substantially as, and for the purpose, hereinbefore
described.
2. A solid umbrella or parasol rib or stretcher provided with a trough-shaped
receptacle such as band having holes c, c adapted to receive the ends e of the tablet
on which is printed or otherwise marked or formed the trade mark, motto or the
like, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figure 1 of the
accompanying drawing.
3. A solid umbrella or parasol rib or stretcher provided with a trade mark,
motto or other device applied thereto, substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 12th day of September 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.