US1031974A - Umbrella. - Google Patents

Description

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APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 17, 1909. RENEWED MAY 28, 1912.

1,031,974. Patented July 9, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1912.

Application filed June 17, 1909, Serial No. 502,804. Renewed May 28, 1912. Serial No. 700,352.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Airos W. THOMAS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rochester, county of Monroe, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Umbrellas, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to a safety umbrella adapted for use in rainy and windy weather.

The primary object of the invention is to provide simple and efficient means whereby an umbrella may be made to permit the air which is adapted to collect under the umbrella during windy weather to automatically escape therefrom and at the same time provide means whereby the rain will be prevented from passing within the umbrella, thus not only protecting the person using the article but also overcoming the objections incident to the use of umbrellas as ordinarily constructed and which often turn inside-out in windy and stormy weather.

A further object of the invention is to provide simple and efficient means which may be readily applied to the usual form of umbrella and which may be made to close with andform a part of the same.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of one form of umbrella embodying my invention, showing the same while in use. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly broken away of the umbrella. Fig. 3 shows the umbrella closed. Fig. .1 is a view partly in section and partly in elevation of the device; and Fig. 5 shows an umbrella which may be used on vehicles.

The umbrella or device may have a rod 10 to which is held the body 11, and this body may be of cloth or fabric and held to the ribs so as to be opened and closed as is usual in umbrellas or parasols, and such parts may be of any preferred construction.

A plurality of holes or openings 12 may be located near the central portion of the body 11 near the rod 10 and these openings may be suitably reinforced, and attached to the rod 10 over the openings 12 is a device 13. This device may be provided with a thimble portion 14 adapted to fit over the upper end of the rod and may be of the same fabric as the body 11 and somewhat smaller butof sufficient diameter to have its outer edge extend beyond the openings 12 to entirely cover and protect the same. The device 13 may have its body portion 15 provided with a plurality of thin steel or other ribs 16, Fig. 4, which are adapted to hold the device 13 so that the outer edge will hug the body 11 of the umbrella and said ribs 16 tend nor mally to force the device to a closed position.

As will be seen, if the wind is blowing the air will escape from under the body 11 through the openings or exit 12 into the chamber under the device 13, and if the force of the wind is suflicient it will raise the outer edge of the device 13 enough to permit the air to escape, thus said device forms a safety means to prevent the umbrella from being injured and will also serve as means to prevent the water from passing into the openings 12 and will cause the same to be deflected and pass over the body 11.

In Fig. 4, a guard 17 is provided which may be in the form of a ring and which may be secured at one edge to the body 11 in order that the outer edge of the guard may be free, so that the rain in windy weather cannot be blown under the device 18 into the openings 12.

Fig. 5 shows a device which is particularly fit for trucks and other vehicles. The body 11 is held to the rod 10 in the usual way and has openings 12 as in the other construction and over the openings is a tubular protecting device 18. This device 18 may be of any suitable construction and is adapted to permit the air which might collect under the body 11 to pass through the openings 12 and out of the device 18.

It will be understood that the protecting means may be located within the umbrella body instead of on the outside thereof; and that the word umbrella is intended to include parasols and similar devices.

From the foregoing it will be seen that simple and efiicient means are provided whereby an umbrella or similar article is effectually prevented from being turned inside out as is often caused in articles of this class as ordinarily constructed; that simple means is provided for permitting the automatic escape of the air from under the umbrella body and at the same time prevent the rain from passing within the body and that said means may be applied to the umbrella or similar article as ordinarily constructed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An umbrella comprising a body portion having a plurality of openings therein, a rod passing through said body portion, a flexible covering connected to said rod and loosely resting on and in contact with said body portion when the umbrella is opened, and normally closing said openings substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination with an umbrella having a rod and a body provided with a plurality of openings, of a device having a body portion attached at its central point to said rod, said device tending normally to close said openings and the outer edge of said device contacting with the body of the umbrella beyond the openings but disconnected therefrom.

3. A device of the character described, comprising a body having air exits near the central part thereof a device covering said exits and permitting the air to escape from within the body and a flexible ring secured to said body at a point beyond said exits for preventing the rain from entering the body from the top.

4. The combination with an umbrella having a rod and a body provided with a plurality of openings near the central portion thereof, of a device having a body portion provided with a thimble adapted to be attached to the rod so as to form a chamber above the openings and provided with ribs tending normally to close said device and to cause its outer edge to hug the body of the umbrella beyond the openings, and an annular guard held at one edge to the body of the umbrella around the openings.

5. The combination with an umbrella having a rod and a body provided with a plurality of openings of a device having a body portion attached to the rod and provided with ribs tending normally to close said device and to cause its outer edge to hug the body of the umbrella beyond the openings, and an annular guard held at one edge to the body of the umbrella around the openings.

This specification signed and witnessed this 15th day of June A. D. 1909.

AMOS W. THOMAS.

WVitnesses CLINTON N. QUINBY, LAVINA J. HAAG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, VlTashington, D. C.

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