Improvements in Sockets or Holders for Sunshades or Awnings of the Umbrella Type for Use with Garden Tables or other Outdoor Furniture.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th Feb., 1889
Improvements in Sockets or Holders for Sunshades or Awnings of
the Umbrella Type for Use with Garden Tables or other Outdoor
Furniture.
Lady MARY EMILY MARLING, of Stanley Park, Strol, Gloucestershire, &
JOHN ALBERT MATTHEWS Manufacturer, Southgate Street & Parliament Street
Gloucester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our Invention has for its object to construct Garden Tables with Movable Shade
Holders that are light & compact & free from any liability to upset when in use.
The Frame is designed for Strength & Lightness made out of straight pieces of
wood fixed together with Screws, & without Mortise, Tenon, or Halving thus enabling
it to stand outdoor weather, making it exceptionally rigid, by struts from the Legs to
the Framing.
The Top of the Table being made on the Lattice Principle cannot warp, swell or
shrink to affect its use in any way and a round Mortise in the centre of the top holds
the shade firmly & yet allows of an easy movement.
The Shade Holder is an Acute Angled Rod with a socket in the top of it, revolving
through the top to the bottom of Table & has an adjusting Screw in it to secure
the Sunshade also a similar Screw & nut secured to the under side of the table top
to fix it firmly when required & may be applied to chairs & other articles of
Furniture.
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page_text: Improvements in Sockets or Holders for Sunshades or Awnings of
the Umbrella Type for Use with Garden Tables or other Outdoor
Furniture.
Lady MARY EMILY MARLING of Stanley Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire and JOHN
ALBERT MATTHEWS, manufacturer of Specialities, of 114 and 115 Southgate Street and
Parliament Stroet, Gloucester 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 :-
A socket, holder or ferrule, marked A in the accompanying drawing, at the shorter
end of a rod bent or inclined so as to form an obtuse angle.
The longer end of this rod B. is dropped through one hole C. of a suitable size
bored in the table top and also extends through a similar hole D. bored vertically
underneath the former hole in what may be termed a lower deck or shelf of the
table.
The handle of the sunshade or awning is inserted in this socket where by means of a
thumbscrew E, it can be made firm.
The rod can be freely revolved in the holes or bearings C. D. so as to adjust the
sunshade in any desired direction and by means of a suitable clamp underneath the
table top it can be clamped firmly in any such direction.
This form of revolving or adjustable holdor can be applied to other articles of
outdoor furniture in a similar manner by making the necessary holes or bearings
therein.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. The angular revolving or adjustable holder and rod in combination with the
necessary holes or bearings, and with the sunshade or awning substantially as herein-
before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
LTCO tuis Lotu
OI CLOver 1000.
Witnessed by me,
PEROIVAL S. MARLING,
Capt. 18th Hussars, V.C., J.P.
Signed by Mr. J. A. Matthews, in my
presence, October 16th, 1888,
RAYNER W. BATTLEY, M.D. Lond.,
J.P. for the City of Gloucester.
M. E. MARLING.
J. A. MATTHEWS.