IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN PARTS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS, AND IN MACHINERY BMDLOVED NOT CAN MANA
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Boyle, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Tool Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN PARTS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS, AND IN
MACHINERY BMDLOVED NOT CAN MANA
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Sealed the 26th October 1858, and dated the 23rd August 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Boyle at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
August 1858.
I, ARTHUR BOYLE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Tool Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN PARTS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS, AND IN MACHINERY
EMPLOYED IN THE SAID MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists, firstly, in the following method of making the
runners of umbrellas and parasols. Instead of making the said runners of a
rectangular sheet of metal bent up into a tubular form, and then soldered or
brazed, I make the said runners from a circular disc of sheet metal, which
disc I make into a runner by the use of a pair of dies or tools, such as are
used for drawing through sheets of metal into a tubular form. By the
process of drawing through the said disc is made into a tube, closed at one
end; the closed end being cut off, the runner is finished by attaching a notch
thereto. The moveable die or peg is attached to a slide, to which a recipro-

page_text: cating motion is given by a crank; the slide works in guides, one of which is
capable of adjustment by screws.
My Invention consists, secondly, of a machine for effecting the flattening
and making the knob at the ends of umbrella and parasol ribs. The said
machine is constructed as follows:-It consists essentially of three dies or tools,
two of the said dies or tools working in a line with one another and closing
upon and flattening the rib placed in the machine, the flattening being effected
near the end of the rib. While the rib is. held between the last-mentioned
dies, a third or heading die approaches in a line at right angles to that in
which the flattening dies work; the said heading die, by a series of blows,
heads or makes a knob on the end of the rib. The said knob may be made
of larger diameter than that of the rib. The motions of the dies are effected
by cams on the main shaft of the machine; but I do not think it necessary
here to describe the details of the mechanism by which the motion of the said
dies is effected. By changing the form of the working dies or tools, the top
end of the rib may be knocked up or strengthened, where the joint is formed.
The strengthened end may either be flattened in the machine by the pair of
dies already mentioned, or flattened in an ordinary press.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said. Arthur Boyle in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st February 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
BOYLE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Tool Maker,, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Arthur Boyle, Her special licence that I, the said. Arthur Boyle,
my, executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said,
Arthur Boyle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN PARTS OF UMBRELLAS AND PARABOLS, AND IN

page_text: MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN THE SAID MANUFACTURE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Arthur Boyle, my executors or administrators, by an'
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Boyle, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists, firstly, in the method herein-after described and
represented in the accompanying Drawings, of manufacturing the runners for
umbrellas and parasols, and also of the machinery herein-after described and
represented in Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the accompanying Drawings to be used
in the said manufacture. Instead of making the runners from a rectangular
plate of metal bent up into a tubular form, and then soldered or brazed, I.
make the said runners from circular discs of sheet metal, which discs I make
into runners by means of raising tools, which I prefer to work by the
machinery represented in plan in Figure 1, and vertical longitudinal section in
Figure 2 of the Drawings. The discs from which the runners are to be made
are marked a in Figure 2, and are fed by being pressed forward by means of
the bolt b, the said bolt 6 being made to press upon the discs a by means of
the weight c attached to the cord d; e is a slide, which, by being moved up
and down, as herein-after explained, carries the discs a one at a time to the
face of the die f. Near the lower end of the slide e is a shoulder, under which,
when the said shoulder is raised, one of the discs a engages, and which disc is
carried down on the descent of the said slide; g is a plunger or raising tool-
fixed to the bolt h, and to which a reciprocating motion is given from the cam
or excentrici by means of the connecting rod k. The sliding bolt h works in
guides h2, h3, one or both of which guides may be adjusted by screws h'. As
the tool g advances into the die f, it presses into and forces through the said die
the disc a', represented in Figure 2 in front of the said die. The disc a¹, after
having been forced through the dief by means of the bolt or tool g, has the
form represented in elevation and 'section of the full size in Figure 4. Ths.
slide e is worked in the following manner :-On the bolt h is an arm l, which,
as the tool g advances towards the die f, presses upon the short end of the.
lever m, and thereby lifting the long end of the said lever m, causes the slide e
to rise. As the tool g retires from the die f, the armi passes, from off the

page_text: lever m, and the slide e descends by means of the weight n, and another of the
blanks a is fed to the die f. Thus, on each rotation of the shaft o, a blank is
fed to the die f, and raised by being forced through the said dief by means of
the tool g. Motion is communicated to the shaft o from the main shaft p by
means of the toothed gearing q.
In order still further to raise the cup-shaped pieces, Figure 4, and to cause
them to pass through the forms represented in section in Figures 5, 6, 7,
and 8 respectively, the said cup-shaped pieces, Figure 4, are again operated
upon by means of a pair of raising tools or dies similar to the tools or dies f, g,
and worked in precisely the same way. The said tools or dies, however,
require to diminish in diameter and increase in length as the pieces approach
the form represented in Figure 8.
Tho feeding apparatus by which the cup-like pieces, Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7,
are fed to the raising tools or dies is different from that represented in
Figure 2. The feeding apparatus which replaces that represented in Figure 2
is represented in elevation in Figure 3; r is a trough or channel down which
the cup-shaped pieces, Figure 4, descend, the said pieces being placed in the
trough r in the manner represented in the Drawing. The lowest piece s is
supported in front of the die upon the rib t, and between the two supports u, u.
The tool corresponding to the tool in Figure 2 advancing, carries the
pieces into and through the raising die, when the whole row of pieces in the
channel r descend, the one represented in Figure 3 resting upon the piece s,
taking the place of the said pieces when the said piece s is removed. The
raising tools f, g, may be worked in an ordinary press, or otherwise. By the
method described, a circular disc of sheet metal is raised or made into a tube
closed at one end, as represented in Figure 8. The closed end of the said
tube being cut off, the runner is finished by attaching thereto, in any con-
venient manner, a notch of the ordinary kind.
My Invention consists, secondly, of a machine for effecting the flattening,
and also for making the knob at the ends of umbrella and parasol ribs. This
part of my Invention is represented in Figures 9, 10, and 11 of the
accompanying Drawings. Figure 9 representing a side elevation; Figure 10
an end elevation, and Figure 11, a plan of a machine constructed according to
this part of my Invention. The said machine consists of two dies or tools v, u,
working in a line with one another, and a heading tool a, the said heading
tool a working in a line at right angles to that in which the dies or tools v, w,
work; the end of the rib y to be flattened and headed is introduced between
the dies v, w, in the position represented, and the said dies close upon and
flatten the rib, the said flattening being effected near the end of the said rib.

page_text: The dies v, w, work in guides or cases v¹, w¹. The extreme ends only of the
dies v, w, are seen in Figure 11, those portions of the dies concealed. in the
cases v', w¹, being indicated by dotted lines. The dies v, w, are worked by
levers,, turning upon centres at 1, 2., The said levers,, are operated:
upon by the cam 3 on the main shaft 4. Rollers 5, 6, on the ends of the
levers,, respectively bearing against the sides of the cam 3. The rounded
short ends of the levers,, engage in slots in the dies v, w, as indicated in
dotted lines in Figure 11. After the dies v, w, have closed upon and flattened
the rib y, and while the said rib is held firmly between the said dies, the
heading tool & approaches, and by a series of blows heads or makes a knob on
the end of the rib y. By the action of the heading die or tool x the knob
may be made of larger diameter than that of the rib. The heading tool x is
fixed to a sliding bolt 7 working in guides 8, 8; a roller 9 on the bolt 7 bears
against the cam 3, and receives motion from the said cam. The return
motions of the levers,, and the bolt 7 are effected by springs marked 10 in
Figure 11. The cam 3 is represented separately on a larger scale in Figures
12, 13, 14, and 15 of the accompanying Drawings. Figure 12 representing
a side elevation and Figure 13 a back elevation; Figures 14 and 15 also
represent elevations of the said cam in different positions. A series of ribs or
teeth marked 11 on the said cam 3 give to the bolt 7 the series of blows
which make its action somewhat resemble that of a hammer. By changing
the form of the working dies or tools, the top end of the rib may be knocked
up or strengthened where the joint or hinge working in the top notch is
formed. The strengthened end may either be flattened by the pair of dies v, w,
already described, or flattened in an ordinary press. The machines represented
in the accompanying Drawings may either be worked by hand or by steam
power.
Invention, and the manner of
understood that I do not limit
Having now described the nature of my
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention ; but I
claim as my Invention,-
Firstly, making runners for umbrellas and parasols from a sheet or disc of
metal raised into a tube-like form by means of a pair of raising tools worked
in an ordinary raising press, or in any other convenient manner, as illustrated
by Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly, the machinery herein-before described and represented in Figures
1, 2, and 3 of the accompanying Drawings, for raising the runners of
umbrellas and parasols from discs of sheet metal.

page_text: Thirdly, the machine herein-before described and represented in Figures 9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 of the accompanying Drawings, for flattening the
ribs of umbrellas and parasols near their ends, and for making the knobs at
the ends of umbrella and parasol ribs.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Boyle, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.
ARTHUR BOYLE. (L.B.)