Improvements in Stands for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov.; 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Aug.. 1892-Accepted, 1st Oct, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and the like.
1. HUBERT HAES of 28 Bassett Road; North Kensington, London, W,
Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invertion has for its object to construct a stand so that an umbrella, stick
or the like may be inserted therein without risk of damage from supporting rings,
and without risk of inserting it into and thereby damaging an umbrella already in
the stand, and also to prevent the umbrellas, sticks and the like from slipping out
of position, and also from standing in a pool of water.
The improved stand has a floor which may be in one or more parts, each or. all
of which slope down to one or more trays or troughs for receiving the water which
drips from the umbrellas. On the floor are arranged ridges suitably perforated or
otherwise formed so as to allow the water to flow past them and prevent the
umbrellas or other articles slipping on the inclined floor.
Above the floor are provided one or more fluted or corrugated plates or frames,
cach corrugation or recess of which is preferably tapered and is adapted to receive
an umbrella or the like, and each of these plates is inclined so that an umbrella
would recline in one of the recesses without fear of accidental displacement.
An umbrella or the like is inserted into the stand by being moved sidewise and placed
in one of the recesses, thus removing the risk of damage by inserting it from the top.
Any water dripping from the umbrella trickles down the inclined floor and is
received in the trough which can be removed for emptying without disturbing the
umbrellas, sticks or the like.
Tand this ich dor of November 1891
HUBERT HAES.
. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and the like.
I, HUBERT HAES, of 28, Bassett Road, North Kensington, London, W.,
Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to construct a stand so that an umbrella, stick
or the like may be inserted therein without risk of damage from supporting rings,
and without risk of inserting it into and thereby damaging an umbrella already in
the stand, and also to prevent the umbrellas, sticks and the like from slipping out
of position, and also from standing in a pool of water.
The improved stand has a floor which may be in one or more parts, each or all
of which slope down to one or more trays or troughs for receiving the water which
drips from the umbrellas. On the floor are arranged ridges suitably perforated or
otherwise formed so as to allow the water to flow past them and prevent the
umbrellas or other articles slipping on the inclined floor.
Above the floor are provided one or more fluted or corrugated plates or frames,
each corrugation or recess of which is preferably tapered and is adapted to receive
an umbrella or the like, and each of these plates is inclined so that an umbrella
would recline in one of the recesses without fear of accidental displacement!
In the accompanying drawings Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively a side and a front

page_text: elevation of a stand constructed according to this invention, Fig. 2 being partly
broken away the better to show the construction, and Fig. 3 is a plan thereof.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A, A are back and front frames, the four standards or vertical members of
which may be secured together at their lower ends by a base-board B supported on
feet B, and which may be secured together at their upper parts by a central rod A²
to which may conveniently be attached a handle A³.
C is the floor which is preferably made in two parts, both sloping towards
the centre of the stand where the gap C¹ is provided between them, and which
is supported by the framing A, A in any convenient manner and on either side
of the gap by legs C² resting on the base-board B. Each part of the floor
is preferably hollowed out at its centre as shown in Fig. 1.
C³, C are ridges or frames secured to the floor C so as to prevent the umbrellas
or the like from sliding down the said floor, while at the same time permitting
water to flow beneath them. The frames C are made of height sufficient to pre-
vent an umbrella or the like, when being passed sidewise into the stand, from
reaching the gap C, and C' is a plate secured to the front side of the frame A¹
to prevent the umbrellas from slipping through the front of the stand.
D are the recessed or fluted plates, the upper ends of which are secured close to
the frame A, and the lower ends at a suitable distance therefrom, as shown clearly
in Fig. 1, by rods D' branching from a rod D2, Fig. 2, secured to or forming part
of the frame A. The recesses d of plates D taper towards their lower ends and
each is adapted to receive one or more umbrellas or the like.
E is the trough or tray placed below the gap C' so as to receive the water which
runs off the floor C, and which may be removed for emptying when necessary.
An umbrella or the like is inserted sidewise between the recessed plate D and
the frame A', and placed in one of the recesses d in which it will recline, and from
which it will be prevented from slipping by one of the frames C³ or C and plate C³.
It will be seen that by thus inserting the umbrella sidewise the risk of damaging
an umbrella by inserting another in it is removed.
The before described stand may be modified without departing from the essential
features of the invention, for example it may be provided with one, two or more
rows of recessed plates D, each having one or more recesses d, and the floor may
be formed in one, three or more pieces instead of two as shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1.. In a stand such as described the employment of an inclined recessed plate
having one or more recesses such as d substantially as described.
2. In a stand such as described the combination with an inclined plate having
one or more recesses such as d of an inclined floor such as C and upwardly pro-
jecting ridges, frames or projections such as C³, C* substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In a stand such as described the combination with an inclined floor such as C
of a tank, trough or equivalent which may be removed from the stand with dis-
turbing the umbrellas or like articles supported on the floor substantially as
described.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete stand,
for umbrellas, walking sticks or the like substantially as herein described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2:1 1...
J
1002
HUBERT HAES.