Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1887.
We WILLIAM ALLEN BINDLEY and WILLIAM JAMES GELL both of Nos. 51
and 52 Newhall Hill Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object to render umbrellas and parasols when closed
more compact than umbrellas and parasols of the ordinary construction and our said
invention consists in constructing and arranging in the manner hereinafter described
the ribs stretchers and runners of umbrellas and parasols.
Our improvements are applicable to unbrellas and parasols in which the stretcher
is of a trough shape the part of the rib between the stretcher joint and its tip or free
end on the closing of the umbrella or parasol passing into and filling or partly
filling the trough like stretcher.
In umbrellas and parasols of the kind described as ordinarily made the runner in
the closed umbrella or parasol is situated within the closed ribs and gives great
additional diameter to the closed umbrella or parasol at the part occupied by the
runner. In order to obviate the increased diameter at the part referred to of the
closed umbrella or parasol we make the stretcher of such a length that when
the umbrella or parasol is closed or that portion of the rib between the stretcher joint
and the tip or free end including the said tip passes into and occupies the trough of
the rib. The extreme end of the stretcher which extends beyond the tip is flattened
to form the runner joint which is of the ordinary kind. The runner in the closed
umbrella or parasol is external to the closed ribs and stretchers and occupies a
position on the stick between the tips of the ribs and the handle. The runner in
the closed umbrella or parasol is consequently exposed to view and may have a more
ornamental appearance given to it than that of ordinary runners which are concealed
in closed umbrellas or parasols of the ordinary construction.
Dated this Nineteenth day of November 1886.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Umbrellas and Parasols.
We WILLIAM ALLEN BINDLEY and WILLIAM JAMES GELL both of Nos. 51
and 52 Newball Hill, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers do
hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Our invention has for its object to render umbrellas and parasols when closed
more compact than umbrellas and parasols of the ordinary construction and our
said invention consists in constructing and arranging in the manner hereinafter
described the ribs, stretchers and runners of umbrellas and parasols.
Our improvements are applicable to umbrellas and parasols in which the stretcher
is of a trough shape the part of the rib between the stretcher joint and its tip or free
end on the closing of the umbrella or parasol passing into and filling or partly filling
the trough like stretcher.
In umbrellas and parasols of the kind described as ordinarily made the runner in
the closed umbrella or parasol is situated within the closed ribs and gives great
additional diameter to the closed umbrella or parasol at the part occupied by the
runner. In order to obviate the increased diameter at the part referred to of
the closed umbrella or parasol we make the stretcher of such a length that when the
umbrella or parasol is closed all that portion of the rib between the stretcher joint
and the tip or free end, including the said tip, passes into and occupies the trough of
the stretcher. The extreme end of the stretcher which extends beyond the tip is
flattened to form the runner joint which is of the ordinary kind. The runner in the
closed umbrella or parasol is external to the closed ribs and stretchers and occupies a
position on the stick between the tips of the ribs and the handle. The runner in the
closed umbrella or parasol is consequently exposed to view and may have a more
ornamental appearance given to it than that of ordinary runners which are concealed
in closed umbrellas or parasols of the ordinary construction.
We will now describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner in
which our invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in elevation the frame and stick of a closed umbrella constructed
according to our invention, the trough stretchers being lengthened and the runner being
situated between the tip ends of the ribs and the handle of the umbrella, the tip ends
occupying the troughs of the stretchers; Figure 2 represents in side elevation;
Figure 3 in longitudinal section and Figure 4 in plan one of the lengthened stretchers
of the frame and the rib lying therein: Figure 5 represents the separated rib and
stretcher.
a, a are the trough stretchers of the umbrella frame and b, b are the trough ribs.
The stretchers a are jointed to the ribs b at c in the usual manner. The extreme ends
of the stretchers a extend beyond the tip ends of the ribs b so that when the umbrella
is closed those parts of the ribs between the stretcher joints c and the tips or free

page_text: ends as well as the tips pass into and occupy the troughs of the stretchers as best seen
in Figures 2, 3 and 4. The ends of the lengthened stretchers a beyond the parts
into which the tip ends of the ribs take, when the umbrella is closed, are flattened to
form the runner joints a' which are jointed to the runner d Figure 1 on the stick in the
ordinary way. It will seen that when the umbrella is closed the runner dis external
to the closed ribs and stretchers and the said runner is consequently exposed to view.
In order to conceal the exposed runner d it may be furnished with a combined or
sliding tip cup e; or it may be made of an ornamental character or concealed in any
convenient way.
By constructing and arranging the parts in the manner described and illustrated
the closed umbrella or parasol is parallel from bottom to top in consequence of the
absence of the projecting runner within the closed ribs. Great compactness in the
closed umbrella or parasol thereby results.
Although we have represented an umbrella in which both the stretchers and ribs
are trough shaped yet our improvements may also be applied to umbrellas and
parasols in which solid ribs are used in place of trough ribs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as our
invention;-
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Making the trough stretchers of umbrellas and parasols of such a length that when
the umbrella or parasol is closed those portions of the ribs between the stretcher
joints and the tips or free ends, including the tips, pass into and occupy the troughs
of the stretchers, the runner joints of the lengthened stretchers being jointed to the
runner which in the closed umbrella or parasol is external to the closed ribs and
stretchers and occupies a position on the stick between the tips of the ribs and the
handle for the purpose and substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this Twants first day of Jul 1887
WILLIAM ALLEN BINDLEY.
WILLIAM JAMES GELL.