Improvements in or connected with Fans.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 27th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Fans.
I, CORNELIUS COWARD of Didsbury in the County of Lancaster, Buyer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a strong fan which can be cheaply and
easily produced suitable for the use of natives in India and other hot countries.
The supports or ribs of the fan are composed of strips of steel, whalebone, cane
or like flexible material pivoted together at one end. The cover or body of the fan
is composed of two pieces of cloth-preferably black glazed calico or linen-
stitched together at top and bottom and stitched with rows of stitching across
to form slots into which the supports or ribs are inserted. The cover is thus formed
separate from and independently of the ribs and these attached thereto by being
inserted in the slots thus formed between the two layers of material which constitute
the cover.
The two layers being stitched together at the top and bottom
and stitched transversely where the slots are formed for the ribs a very strong and
durable cover is produced and one which will not be affected by wet or damp as is
the case with fans where the ribs are attached to the cover by means of a paste, gum
or glue or where the cover is formed of paper.
Instead of the cover being made of two layers or thicknesses throughout the
cover may be composed of one piece extending the size of the fan with a strip
or narrow piece stitched on at the required intervals to form the slots to receive
the ribs.
Holes may be made in one, two, three or more of the ribs through which the
cover may be stitched to secure it to the ribs.
Dated this 2nd day of February 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Fans.
I, CORNELIUS COWARD, of Didsbury, in the County of Lancaster, Buyer, 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: —
The object of this invention is to provide a strong fan which can be cheaply and
easily produced suitable for the use of natives in India and other hot countries
and also adapted to be used in combination with an umbrella as described in the
Specification of my Patent No. 1788 of 1892.
It consists essentially of a fan constructed with a number of ribs or supports of
thin strips of steel whalebone cane or other like flexible material pivoted together
at one end and a cover composed of two thicknesses or two pieces of cloth laid
together and stitched so as to form slots to receive the ribs one piece or thickness
of cloth being at one side and the other piece on the other side of the ribs which
are thus enclosed between the two pieces.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1. Front elevation of fan.

page_text: The supports or ribs A of the fan are thin strips of steel whalebone cane or like
flexible material pivoted together at one end on the pin a in the usual way.
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The cover or body B of the fan is composed of two pieces or thicknesses
cloth laid together preferably black glazed calico or linen. The two sides or
parts are stitched together by rows of stitching C running across to form
slots e into which the supports or ribs A are inserted and also preferably stitched
along the outer edges at C' to more securely attach the two parts b' together.
The cover B is thus formed separate from and independently of the ribs A and
these attached thereto by being inserted into the slots c thus formed between the
two layers of material which constitute the cover. The two layers being
stitched together transversely where the slots are formed for the ribs and also
preferably stitched together top and bottom a very strong and durable cover
is produced and one which will not be affected by wet or damp as is the case with
fans such as hitherto ordinarily constructed where the ribs are attached to the
cover by means of a paste, gum or glue or where the cover is formed of paper.
Instead of the cover being made of two layers or thicknesses throughout the
cover may be composed of one piece extending the size of the fan with a strip
or narrow piece stitched on at the required intervals to form the slots to receive
the ribs.
Holes a' are made in one, two, three or more of the ribs through which the cover
may be stitched to secure it to the ribs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A fan having ribs of thin flexible steel whalebone or cane pivoted together in
combination with a cover composed of two pieces or layers of material stitched
together so as to form slots. into which the ribs are inserted and by which they are
attached to the cover substantially as described.
Dated this 26th day of October 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.