Improvements in the Manufacture of Top Notches and Runners of Umbrella and Parasol Furniture.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Top Notches and Runners of
Umbrella and Parasol Furniture.
I, WILLIAM HOLLAND the younger of Grantham Road, Sparkbrook, near
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
1-
This invention has for its object, the making of the beading or swelled terminal at
the lower end of the barrel part, and also the notch of the said articles, solid or in one
piece with the said barrel part.
Heretofore, the said beading, has been made by turning or fastening outwards or
inwards, the metal of the lower end of the barrel part, into a roll or annulus, thus
forming what is termed, a beading.
In carrying out my invention, I will describe it in connection with a runner.
I take a blank or round piece of sheet metal, of the required thickness, and by
means of dies and pressure, I then concave it into a cup, which is successively passed
through drawing through dies, which elongate and contract its sides into a runner
barrel, with a closed top, or in other words, the gradual drawing down and elongation
as aforesaid, produces a runner shell, with the head retaining the original thickness of
metal of the blank, and with the barrel in immediate proximity to it, of a thicker
metal than the other part of the barrel.
The head or closed end of this shell, is then flattened and slightly expanded, and
subsequently pierced or cut out, thus leaving at the said cut out end, a thickness
of metal, which when operated upon, and pressed into form, produces a solid
bearing.
Or instead of making the said solid bearing or lower terminal to the barrel, by
shaping or fashioning it from accumulated metal at the said end, I make the said
runner from a tube, of uniform thickness, with the metal at the lower end, thickened
and accumulated, or fashioned into a bead by pressure applied in the direction of the
barrel, and technically known as upsetting.
In making a top notch, I take as before a round disc or blank, cut out from sheet
metal, and by a series of drawing through processes, I elongate the same into a shell,
with a closed top or head, whose metal is of the same, or nearly the same thickness
as the original blank; and when the said end is cut ont, the walls of the barrel at the
junction of the said cut out part, are of thick metal, and when operated upon by dies
and pressure, in the direction of its axis or length, the metal is upset, compressed or
fashioned into an annular flange or ring, directed outwardly at right angles to the
barrel part, and commonly called the notch, which when grooved, and gapped, is ready
for use.
As an alternative method of making the said notch, I take a thick blank, and draw
it as before through a series of dies, thus making a runner blank like that of a solid
headed cartridge case, whose end is of a considerable thickness of metal, I then by
vertical pressure, applied to the said head, force or spread the metal thereof, horizon-
tally into an annular flange, rim or notch, which is subsequently grooved and gapped,
as is common with runners made by the old process.
The application of my invention to top notches, differs in no essential respect to
that of a runner as described.
Dated the Nineteenth day of December 1888.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Top Notches and Runners of
Umbrella and Parasol Furniture.
I, WILLIAM HOLLAND the younger of Grantham Road, Sparkbrook, near
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, 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 has for its object, the making of the beading or swivelled terminal
at the lower end of the barrel part, and also the notch of the said articles, solid or in
one piece with the said barrel part.
Heretofore, the said beading has been made by turning or fashioning outwards or
inwards, the metal of the lower end of the barrel part, into a roll or annulus, thus
forming what is termed, a beading.
In carrying out my invention, I will describe it in connection with a runner.
I take a blank or round piece of sheet metal, of the required thickness, and by
means of dies and pressure, I then concave it into a cup, which is successively passed
through drawing through dies, which elongate and contract its sides into a runner
barrel, with a closed top, or in other words, the gradual drawing down and elongation
as aforesaid, produces a runner shell, with the head retaining the original thickness of
metal of the blank, and with the bariel in immediate proximity to it, of a thicker
metal than the other part of the barrel.
The head or closed end of this shell, is then flattened and slightly expanded,
and subsequently pierced or cut out, thus leaving at the said cut out end, a
thickness of metal, which when operated upon, and pressed into form, produces a solid
beading.
Or instead of making the said solid beading or lower terminal to the barrel, by
shaping or fashioning it from accumulated metal at the said end, I make the said
runner from a tube of uniform thickness, with the metal at the lower end thickened
and accumulated, or fashioned into a bead, by pressure applied in the direction of the
barrel, and technically known as upsetting.
In making a top notch, I take as before a round disc or blank, cut out from
sheet metal, and by a series of drawing through processes, I elongate the same
into a shell with a closed top or head, whose metal is of the same, or nearly the same
thickness as the original blank; and when the said end is cut out, the walls of the
barrel at the junction of the said cut-out part, are of thick metal, and when operated
upon by dies and pressure in the direction of its axis, or length, the metal is upset,
compressed or fashioned into an annular flange or ring, directed outwardly at right
angles to the barrel part, and commonly called the notch, which when grooved and
gapped, is ready for use.
As an alternative method of making the said runner notch, I take a thick blank,
and draw it as before through a series of dies, thus making a runner blank like
that of a solid headed cartridge case, whose end is of a considerable thickness of
metal;
I then by vertical pressure applied to the said head, force or spread the
metal thereof horizontally into an annular flange, rim or notch, which is subsequently
grooved and gapped as is common with runners made by the old process.
The application of my invention to top notches, differs in no essential respect to
that of a runner as described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in front elevation, a runner
notch, having a solid beading at its lower end, made according to my invention.
In carrying out the making of the aforesaid runner notch, I cut out, and cup a
blank from sheet metal, and then pass the same through a succession of drawing-
through dies, which elongates the same into a closed ended barrel, with a thickened
base, as represented in figure 2. The thick base or head end of the said barrel, is then
flattened and partially removed by a cutting-out process, leaving a thickened annular
terminal at the said-base end, as represented in figure 3. This thickened part is
marked a', whilst the runner notch barrel is marked a.

page_text: The thickened part a', left from the cutting out or piercing of the closed end, is
then turned or displaced outwardly, with the inside of the said thickened part,
lineable with the inside walls of the barrel, and the outside part extending beyond
the barrel's outer circumference, thus forming a solid beading a³, as represented in
figures 4 and 5.
The barrel, with the thickened annulus at its lower boundary edge, is now converted
into a runner notch, by affixing to or upon the other and plain end, an independent
notch ring, as represented at figure 1.
I will now describe the making of a notch solid with the barrel, as represented at
figures 6 and 7.
a
I take as before, a cut-out and cupped disc, figure 8, and pass the same through
series of drawing through dies, and thereby produce a closed ended barrel, with a
thickened base, and walls at the junction of the base, as represented in figure 12;
thus, the cupped blank figure 8, is elongated into figure 9, which is drawn into
figure 10, and this last named figure, into figure 11, and so on into figure 12 as
aforesaid.
The thickened based shell figure 12, has its bottom next pierced, and the thickened
part or parts b of the walls b, thereof, turned obliquely outwards or expanded, as in
figure 13, then by a subsequent flattening process, the said expanded and thickened
end, is turned at right angles to its barrel, as shown at figure 14, thus forming the
annular collar or ring, at the summit of the barrel, which when notched, and
annularly grooved, constitutes the notch as in figures 6 and 7.
The grooving of the notch, is performed by subdividing the same about and around
its middle, by a suitable tool, and then opening out the same into a groove.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:
First-Imparting a solid bead, or thickened rotundity, to the lower boundary
edging of an umbrella, or parasol top notch or runner, by compressing or upsetting
the metal of the said boundary edge, as set forth.
Secondly-Making or forming top notches and runners, with solid beadings,
from drawn and thickened based shells, or elongated cups, by the process, or
combination of processes, substantially as described and set forth in figures 1 to 5.
Thirdly:-Making or forming the notch ring, solid with the barrel of an umbrella
or parasol top notch or runner, by turning outwardly, and at right angles to the
barrel part, the thickened base walls of a drawn shell or elongated cup, substantially
as set forth.
Fourthly
Making the notch ring, of a top notch or runner, solid with the
barrel part, by the process, or combination of processes, as herein described and set
forth in figures 8 to 14.
Dated this 17th day of September 1889.
WILLIAM HOLLAND.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.