Improvements in Umbrellas for use in connection with Cabs and Carriages and Cycles and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 5th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrellas for use in connection with Cabs and
Carriages and Cycles and the like.
JOHN COCHRANE Junior 35 Lochend Road Leith Scotland Plumber do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is for protecting the drivers of cabs and carriages
and the like and the riders of cycles and the like from the showers and the suns
rays and consists of an umbrella furnished with stalk and socket and pinching
Screw. The stalk slips up and down in the socket in telescope fashion; the
necessary height being obtained by the aid of the pinching screw. An adjustable
arm is also supplied when the umbrella requires to be suspended a distance from
the vertical socket. This arm which folds up and down is made to slip down
over the socket when the umbrella is not in use. The apparatus is furnished with
grips for fixing to the vehicle and cycle.
Dated this 11th day of February 1893
JOHN COCHRANE, JUNIOR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrellas for use in connection with Cabs and
Carriages and Cycles and the like.
1, JOHN COCHRANE Junior, of 35 Lochend Road, Leith, in the County of
Midlothian, North Britain, Plumber, 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 umbrellas for use in connection with
cabs, carriages, cycles and the like, and has for its object to provide means whereby
the drivers of cabs, carriages and the like and the riders of cycles and the like,
are protected from the showers and sun's rays. My said invention consists in
providing the umbrella with a telescopic stalk, and socket, and if necessary an
adjustable arm, which are held in their respective positions by means of grips and
pinching screws.
In order that my said invention may be more readily understood and easily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
Figure 1 is an elevation of my arrangement for a cab, carriage or the like
when shut or not in use, and Figure 2 is a side view of same when open or
in use.
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views of my arrangement for a cycle or the like.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2 I provide the umbrella A with a stalk B, said
stalk B being provided with a ball and socket joint C, so as to enable the angle of
the umbrella A to be adjusted. The said stalk B is adjustably held in the cross
piece D, of the suspending arm E, by means of the pinching screw d, the other end
of said arm E being adjustably held in the cross-piece F, of the socket G, by means
of the pinching screw. The said socket G is adjustably retained in the grips H,
by means of the pinching screw h, the said grips H are attached to a fixing plate J
as shown which is attached to the cab or carriage by screw nails or otherwise.
The whole arrangement thus forming an umbrella which when in use takes the
shape as shown in Figure 2, and which when not required can be telescoped down
to the shape shown in Figure 1, owing to the arm E and socket G being formed of
hollow metal tubes.

page_text: In carrying out my invention when applied to a cycle or the like, I proceed as is
shown in Figures 3 and 4, that is to say I provide the umbrella A with a stalk B
having a ball and socket joint C; the said stalk B being adjustably held in the
socket G by means of the pinching screw g. In this case the socket G is adjustably
held in the fixing plate J by means of the eyelets j, and pinching screw; the said
fixing plate J being secured to the cycle frame by one or more grips H', shown
in Figure 4. When the umbrella A. is not in use it is collapsed and let down into
the position shown in Figure 3.
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 :-
1st. The arrangement and combination of the various parts constituting the
umbrella for use with carriages, cabs and the like, substantially as and for the
purposes herein before described and shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
2nd. The arrangement and combination of the various parts constituting the
umbrella for use with cycles and the like, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and shown in Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 4th day of April 1893
J. Y. JOHNSON,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agent.