US284495A - Umbrella or parasol - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

J. B. eee

Patented Sept. '4, 1883.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,495, dated September 4, 1883.

Application filed May 11` 1383. (No modelJ To all whom t may concern:

. Be it knownthatl, JOHN BUcKLEY SEEL, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, resid ing at Clinton Villas, Church Road, Urmston, j

in the county of Lancaster, England, manager to umbrella-manufacturers, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Umbrellas and Parasols, (for which I have ob tained a patent in Great Britain, No, 4,914,

` -iobearing date October 16,18820 of which the 2o ,are usually and best made of steel, are prop' erly tempered, and are not new, except so far as the position and use of the longitudinal slit is concerned, that slit having usually been placed either on the inner or one oi' the side The form and material of the rib and position of the slit, however, I do not claim as part of my invention. y i

In the drawings accompanying this specilication, A is' the tubulairib, `having a longitudinal slit, B, on its outer side. At the end ofthe rib which lisattached to the stick of the umbrella orfparasol I widen out the slit into a boat-.shaped cavity, C. (Shown in Figure l,

.l l 3 5 and partly'in Fig. 2.) This boat-shaped cavity may be formed at either end of the rib 5 but I prefer to have it at the end which is to be at' tached to the stick. y

Fig. 3 shows the inode in which the tip is formed, the part D being flattened and perforated to receive the stitches which fasten the ends of the gores of `the covering.` As I require the longitudinal" slit to be open the whole length of the rib, (except where the rib is flattened forattaching to the notch, and at the tip,) Iuse a new form of get7 `or middle bit, E, which is` shown in Figs. 4 and 5. I

`Patented in England October 16,1852, No. 4,914.

prefer to make it of brass, and to` tip the stretcher also with Ibrass, so as to avoid, as much as possible, any rusting at this point. This get or middle bit is formed with a groove [in its upper edge, as shown in transverse section in Fig. 6, for the reception of the rib,

hold the rib, and yet not close the slit in the rib. I do not, however, claim thaformof the as part of my invention.

the covering and stitch or otherwise attach them together, so, asto make a cord or ridge on theV inner side of the seam, or I stitch a cord or wire into or otherwise attach it to the ridge, or wire into the boat-shaped cavity C in the end of the tubular-rib and draw `it such part of such'rib at each end oi' the rib as is required for the formation of the tip, and of the attachment to the notch at the apex of the umbrella or parasoh) or, instead of in-y serting the cord, ridge, or wire into the rib at one end and drawing it through,` the rib may be sprung open, so as to allow the cord, ridge, or wire to be inserted through the slit in the rib, which will then, by its own elasticity, close up again; but the rib can be made of stouter material when the cord, ridge, i or wire is to be drawn through than if it is to be sprung in, and for that and other reasons the mode 'of drawingit through the rib is the best. I make the cord, ridge, or wire so thick as not the rib, (unless sprung open for the/purposeg and to iit tightly inside the tube. The seam the rib.

Fig. 7 shows a transversesection of the rib, in which F is a oord or wire sewed into the seam, and G G the umbrella-covering. `The ridge formed by rollingover the edges of the gores and stitching them together' is not shown in this iigure, but would occupy the same space as the cord or wire. I do not I either roll over the edges of the gores of edges of each seam. I then insert that cord,

through the whole length of each rib, (except to `pass through the slit in the upper side of i between the ,gores is thus securelyheld in upon which it is pressed together, soas to l get or middle bit, or its mode of attachment,

claim as part of Ymy invention the mode of. In witness whereof I have hereto set` my forming or attaching to the seams of the gores hand this 25th day of April, 1883. the said ridge, cord, or Wire. v

What I claim as .my invention is JOHN BUGKLEY SEEL. 5 In an umbrella or parasol, the gore-oovering provided with a ridge, eord, or Wire along Witnesses: its seam, in combination with a rib formed WM. H. S. WATTS, with a tubular cavity, into which the ridge, Solicitor, 87 Mosley Street, Manchester. cord, or Wire is fitted, substantially as and for THOS. L. CARR, Io the purpose Set`fo`rth. 87 Mosley Street, Manchester, his Artleled Clerk.

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