Improvements in Umbrella and other like Coverings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrella and other like Coverings.
THOMAS ROSETHORN 72 Waterloo Road, Cheetham Manchester, Commission
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention has relation to improvements in umbrellas (and
other like coverings) and is intended to provide the means of enabling the user to
see through the cover of an open umbrella (or other covering to which it may be
applicable) when walking or driving in the street or open air in stormy or windy
weather, by means of which provision collision with other people or object in front
will be entirely prevented.
For this purpose my invention consists in perforating a series of holes of such
size as may be suitable in such portion or portions of the umbrella cover (or other
covering to which it may be applicable) as may be found requisite, such holes being
either unprotected or protected by or with metal, rubber, leather or glass eyelets or
rings, or of any other material of a suitable character, or by stitching round the
same, or the holes may be previously woven or knitted in the material used as or
affixed to the umbrella cover or,
I take a separate piece (or pieces) of suitable material, such as cloth, silk,
waterproof cloth, rubber-cloth, leather, brass, zinc, woven wire, glass, bone or metal
of any other kind as may be found adapted to or for the purpose, and form discs
thereof in which I punch, stamp or cut, a series of holes of suitable size, such holes
being either unprotected or protected by eyeletting the same where found necessary
or desirable, such perforated dises I affix to the cover of the umbrella by cementing,
stitching or otherwise fastening the same, having previously cut out of the umbrella
cover, an aperture or apertures of sufficient dimensions to admit the perforated
material and fasten the same thereto or,
I first cement, stitch or eyelet, or otherwise fasten the material selected for the
disc to the cover of the umbrella, and then proceed to punch cut or perforate holes
of the requisite size in the combined material, such holes being either unprotected
or protected by being stitched round, or where desirable by means of eyelets or
rings of metal or other suitable material.
Dated this Eighteenth day of June 1892.
THOMAS ROSETHURN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrella and other like Coverings.
I THOMAS ROSETHORN of 72 Waterloo Road, Cheetham, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster Commission Agent, 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 improvements in umbrella and other like coverings, and
has for its object to provide means which will enable the users of umbrellas, sun-
shades, and like articles, to see objects in front of then, or whither they are going,
when the umbrellas or like articles are held or placed in front of their faces, as is
frequently necessary when facing wind and rain or sun for example.
To this end, according to my invention, I provide umbrella and other like
coverings with a group of perforations of suitable size and shape situated at a
convenient part thereof; I find a convenient position for the group of perforations
to be in the middle of one of the gores, say about seven inches from the bottom
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page_text: edge thereof. The said group of perforations enables the user to see ahead through
the covering when necessary.
I will now proceed more particularly to describe my invention and the manner of
performing the same, having reference where necessary to the accompanying
drawings, in which similar letters refer to corresponding parts in all the figures.
Fig. 1 illustrates the general appearance of an open umbrella having my invention
applied to the covering thereof.
Fig. 2 shews on a larger scale (about half full size) in plan and transverse section,
a portion of an umbrella or like covering having my invention applied thereto.
Fig. 3 shews in plan and transverse section, on a similar scale to Fig. 2, a modified
method of applying my invention to umbrella and like coverings.
a represents the umbrella cover and is the group of perforations, punched, cut,
or otherwise conveniently formed therein. In the drawings I have shewn only one
group of perforations as provided in the covering a, but it is obvious that more
than one group may be employed if desired. The edges of the perforations may
if necessary be protected from wear in any suitable manner, as by eyelets or rings
of metal, leather, or other suitable material, or by stitching around them.
In practice, I prefer to strengthen that portion of the covering a to which my
invention is applied by making the same of extra thickness (see the transverse
section Fig. 2) and I may either make the whole of that gore in which the group
of perforations is to be formed of a double thickness of material, or I may strengthen
that particular part of the gore where the perforations are intended to be made by
a separate piece of material, cemented, stitched, or otherwise suitably secured to
the covering, preferably to the inside thereof for the sake of appearance.
According to another arrangement I may form the group of perforations in a
separate piece of suitable material 1 (Fig. 3) preferably somewhat stouter than
the umbrella covering a and may provide the umbrella covering with an aperture a¹
of somewhat larger size than such group of perforations, and then by cementing,
stitching, or other suitable means, may secure the said piece of material b' over
the said aperture a¹ in the covering.
Although in the drawings I have represented both the group of perforations and
the perforations themselves as of circular form, I may obviously make them of
rectangular, triangular, or other suitable shape, if desired.
In practice the perforations would generally be punched or cut out of the material,
but if desired they might be produced therein by weaving during the manufacture
of the material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An umbrella or like covering having a group of perforations formed therein,
said perforations being protected or not around their edges by eyelets, rings, stitching,
or other suitable means, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.
2. An umbrella or like covering having a group of perforations formed therein,
and constructed with an extra thickness of material at the perforoted part
substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
3. An umbrella or like covering constructed with an aperture over which is
secured a piece of suitable material having a group of perforations formed therein
substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
Dated this 14th day of Fahr 1902
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON, Fels. Chartd. Inst. P.A.,
19, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.