Improved Means for Identifying the Ownership and Preventing the Loss of Umbrellas, Parasols, Walking Sticks, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Identifying the Ownership and Preventing the
Loss of Umbrellas, Parasols, Walking Sticks, and the like.
I, JOHN SIDNEY MARTIN of 23, High Street, South Norwood, Surrey, General
Draper, 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 :—
Hitherto a very large proportion of umbrellas, parasols, walking sticks and the
like, accidentally left in vehicles, offices, dwellings, places of public resort, and so
forth, become "lost" to the owner, owing to said articles not being provided with
some notification of ownership so as to give an honestly disposed "finder," the
opportunity of returning the article to the owner, or of notifying him of his loss,
whilst on the other hand, in cases where means of identification have been
employed, these have usually assumed the form of engraved tablets or labels
attached to the stick, or handle, of say an umbrella, but, the expense of this means
of identification is necessarily such, as in practice, to limit its application to,-
comparatively, the more valuable class of articles of the description above
referred to.
Now, the object of my invention is to provide a simple, efficacious, identifying
device to be utilised for the purposes herein before stated, and possessing as &
marked feature, that of its being produced and sold so cheaply as will allow of its
general use.
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And, in order that my invention may the better be understood, I will proceed to
describe same aided by the accompanying sheet of drawings.
In accordance with my improvements, I take a
"blank a of suitable length,
width and thickness, of any suitable metal or "springy" material, and stamp or
otherwise form on one face of the blank a depression b, the object of which is
hereunder stated.
In the drawing Figure 1 shews a "blank" of rectangular configuration, and
Figure 2 one with circular ends. "Blanks" of various forms may however be
used.
The object of the depression b, is to allow of same being utilised as a sunk
surface to which may be gummed, cemented or otherwise attached, a paper or other
slip having written or printed thereon, the name, address &c. of owner. The flat
"blanks" aforesaid are afterwards caused to assume the form of a section of a
cylinder, as shewn Figure 4, with a gap therein c to allow of the label clip
appliance being expanded and then " sprung "round and caused to grip any
desired part of the stick of, say an umbrella. Or, said appliance may be "sprung
round (in the case of an umbrella) the vertically sliding socket piece d-as shewn
Figure 3-which carries the usual crown or cap piece e to which the umbrella
stretchers are attached. Now, it will be self evident, that the address label being
in the countersink or depression d, the written or printed announcement on the
label will not be liable to get defaced by friction with the stick, or the like.
If desired, the outer surface of the label clip device might bear upon it some
indication or notification of the purpose which it is intended to serve.

page_text: 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;
The improved label clip identification appliance for umbrellas, parasols, walking
sticks, and the like, substantially as, and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 30th day of October 1894.
V. LAZARUS,
1, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for Applicant.