Improvements in Umbrellas.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1896
Improvements in Umbrellas.
I, FELIX GOLDSCHMIDT of 112 Linienstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany
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:-
This invention relates to umbrellas, in which the frame-work with its covering
can be taken off from the stick, so that the latter may be used as a walking-stick.
For this purpose the upper ring is not fixed close to the stick, but is kept in place
by means of a spring-pin, passing into a hole in the stick, and the under ring is
fixed in the same manner. On the frame being taken off the said pins, can be taken
off the stick. For removing the pin there are three forms of construction. In the
first the pin can be pulled out from the hole in the stick by means of the fingers, in
the second a hoop, which is attached to the pin and passes round it, is pressed; and
in the third a lever for moving the pin is used.
In the annexed drawing
Fig. 1 shows the improvements in umbrellas,
Figs. 2 and 3 the under rib in the first mentioned form for releasing the pin, in
section and in plan,
Figs. 4 and 5 the second form of release in vertical and horizontal section,
Figs. 6 and 7 the third form of release, in vertical section and in plan.
The attaching nave-ring a of the usual umbrella-frame 6 carries a cylindrical
metal-socket C, in which the stick a¹ is guided. On one side of this socket is
soldered on a cylindrical shell d (Fig. 2), through which passes a horizontal
pine; the latter, penetrating the wall of the socket c, carries on one end a
button g and is pressed in the stick by the spring f. Both the rings of the
umbrella-frame are provided with the same construction and for the ring c¹
(Fig. 1) there is one hole h in the stick a', for the runner a there are two
hóles, of which one receives the pin d, when the umbrella is open, whilst the other
secures the frame in a closed position. This hole in the stick, which is marked h,
is cylindrical and a little larger than the diameter of the pin. In the construction
shown in Fig. 2 the pin e is taken out from the hole h by pulling the button g; if
this is done simultaneously on the upper and the under ring, the umbrella frame
can be taken from the stick, which then, having only three small holes, can be used
as a walking-stick. In the second construction in Figs. 4 and 5, Fig. 5 showing
a section in line X-X of Fig. 4,-the hoop i, surrounding the socket c is fixed on
the pin e by means of a screw i¹, so that, if the hoop is pressed in the direction of
the arrow, the pine is pulled out from the hole and therefore the socket c is
liberated from the stick a¹.
The third construction is shown in Figs. 6 and 7. In a bracket k, which is
zoldered upon the socket c under the shell d, is pivoted a double armed lever / n,
capable of movement through a slit m in the shell d with its arm / placed under
the pin collar e' of the pin e. If the arm n is pressed down, the pin e is taken out
from the hole h of the stick a¹ and allows the stick to be removed from tho
frame b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1
The construction for attaching the umbrella-frame to the stick, consisting

page_text: of a socket c furnished to each of the two nave-rings.a, surrounding the stick
and provided with a cylindrical shell d through which a pine projecting through
the socket passes, said pin being held by a spring f in an appropriate hole h in the
stick a¹.
2. The construction as in Claim 1, combined with the hoop i fixed on the pin e by
a screw and surrounding the socket c.
3. The construction as in Claim 1, combined with a lever ln pivoted on the
socket c and passing through a slit m into the shell d under the collar e¹ of the
pin e.
All substantially as described and illustrated, for the purposes set forth.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.