IM- PROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS & PARASOLS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the 'County
of Middlesex, Engineer & Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS & PARASOLS."-A communication from abroad
by Pierre Allamagny, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, in the Empire
of France, Schoolmaster.
Sealed the 10th December 1861, and dated the 19th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
June 1861.
I, WILLIAM CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer & Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS & PARASOLS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in umbrellas and parasols, & con-
sists in so mounting the ribs and cover as to turn on the handle or stick in
order to facilitate the progress of persons carrying open umbrellas in crowded
thoroughfares.
To effect this, I mount the ribs & frame on a socket or sockets which turn

page_text: on another socket or sockets fixed on the stick. In this way the frame of the
umbrella or parasol can be turned on the handle or stick. The pivotting can
be effected in any other suitable manner to allow the rotation of the frame &
cover on the stick.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Clark, Her special licence that I, the said William Clark,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS AND
PARASOLS," a communication from abroad by Pierre Allamagny, of 29, Boulevart
St. Martin, Paris, in the Empire of France, Schoolmaster, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Clark, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Clark, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-

page_text: This Invention relates to arranging the whalebone and other frames of
umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, so as to turn freely on the handle or
stem.
This improvement is intended chiefly to facilitate the carrying of umbrellas,
and also to prevent injury to the umbrella from sudden gusts of wind turning it
inside out, as is the case when the frame is a fixture.
The principal feature of the Invention consists in the methods of mounting
the turning sockets to which the frames are attached on the handles or
stems.
.
In the annexed Drawings are represented various arrangements of turning
sockets for rotary umbrellas.
Fig. 1 shows sections of the parts detached, with one method of attachment
to the tube forming the stem of the umbrella; Fig. 2 shows sections of a
second arrangement of said tubes; Fig. 3, a further modification of the same;
Fig. 4 shows sections of detached parts of a rotary nut or socket applied to
the stick of the umbrella which serves as an axis therefor; Figs. 5, 6, & 7,
show plan, elevation, and section of another method of attachment, while Fig. 8
shows the frame and top of an umbrella opened, furnished with the rotating
socket according to this Invention. The same letters of reference indicate the
same parts where they recur in different positions.
a, metal tube or stem of the umbrella; b, hollow metal tube or socket.
turning on a, to which it is connected by a screw c; d, metal part, on the
periphery of which is a groove e, in which a pin f takes for securing said
piece d to tube a, without, however, preventing its turning; 9, pin, con-
necting part d with tube b; h, internal flanch or rim of tube a, securing a
metal washer i, also holding another tube having an external rim j, which rests
against washer i; the latter tube has an orifice k, corresponding to a similar
orifice in ring m; the latter has also a second orifice l, corresponding to
another opening made in tube b; n, rotary socket rotating on tube or
socket o, being held thereon by means of a ring p and pin q; r, collar cast
on socket o. The collar n, properly so called, turns between two collars r, s,
on socket o.
The latter arrangement is preferable as resulting in greater sim-
plicity of the apparatus.
Having described the nature of this Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what we claim as our Invention, to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the various
arrangements of rotating sockets herein-before described and represented in

page_text: the Drawings to be applied to umbrellas, parasols, and other similar articles,
as and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
JAMES DAISH,
53, Chancery Lane, W.C.
W. CLARK. (L.S.)