US187615A

US187615A - Improvement in umbrella-runners

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Publication number: US187615A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1877-02-20
Anticipated expiration: 1894-02-20

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ATRN'r rinca-c ADAM eooD,"oF sAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, AssreNoRoF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN J .`SMITH.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLA-RUNNERS.

Specification' forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,6l5.. Vdated February 20, 1877; application filed December 11, 1876 i 4the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to an improved runner for umbrella-handles; and it consists of a novel arrangement for connecting the ends of the wire braces, which spread and strain the ribs of the umbrella, when the umbrella is open, with the Lipper end of the runner, so that they can be easily attached to or de- Beferring to the accompanying drawing, let A represent an umbrella-handle, and B the runner or tube, to the vupper end of which the brace or straining wires e e are attached.

To make this ruimer I take a tube of the desired length and diameter, and secure a ange,f, around it at a short distance from its upper end. I then construct a ring, g, with a groove, fi, on its under side,'and as many notches or slots, O, as there are bracing-wires to be attached to the runner.

The ring g is made ot' the proper size to t o'ver the upper end of the tube B, and rest upon the flangef. I then upset or turn the upper edge of the tube outward, so as to conhne the ring` in place, but allow it to rotate, when moved by hand. The slots or notches O extend only partially across the ring, but sufficiently far to pass across the groove z' on its under side.

At a single point in the circumference of the flangefI make a notch or slot, S, for the purpose hereinafter described.

The lower end of each wire-brace e [Hatten, and through this flattened portion I place a short piece of wire, t, which will extend out on each side to serve as trunnions for the end ofthe wire to move upon.

On each side of the notch S in the angef, and in the upper edge of the flange, I make a depression, X, which will, when the ring g is in place, form .a T-shaped passage directly from the outside of the ring-groove t', between the'ring and dange. p This depression or horizontal slot is just large enough to permit the trunnions or pins t to pass through it into the grooves and when one of the notches O in the ring is brought directly above and in line with the notch or slot S in the ilange, the flattened portion ofthe wire-brace will be received in the notch in the ring. After this, by turning the ring g, the end of the wire will be carried away from the notch in the ange, and thus confined in its position.

By turning the ring g so as to bring eachv of the notches in the rim over the Tshaped notch in the iiange, ali ofthe brace-wires can be thus attached to the runner, and by setting the ring so that the notches in the tlange will be between two of the notches in the ring, the wires will be locked in place. By the same operation reversed, the wires ma be removed when desired.

Instead of making the ring movable and the ilange stationary, I can make the ring stationary 'and the flange movable, and this I shall generally do, because it would be a cheaper and more convenient plan, Both devices, however, accomplish the same purpose,

and operate on the same principle.

This runner. will be both convenient and ornamental, and by its use the owner of an umbrella can easily relax the parts by releasing the brace-wires, so that any part ofthe umbrella can be readily repaired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim. and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The tube or runner B, provided with the stationary iange f, with its T-shaped notch S, and having the rotating ring g, provided with a groove, t', on its under side, and as many notches O in its rim as there are Wires to be attached, in combination with the brace wires e, having the ends ilattened, and provided with pins t, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

. ADAM GOOD. [L. s.] Witnesses:

FRANK A. BRooKs,

WALTER C. BEATIE.