US504579A - Umbrella-chatelaine - Google Patents

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J. 0 HAYDEN. UMBRELLA GHATBLAINE.

No, 504,579. Patented Sept. 5,-1893'.

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UMBRELLA GHVATELAINE. No. 504,579. Patented Sept. 5, 1893.

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.IENNIE C. HAYDEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

UMBRELLA-CHATELMNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 504,579, dated September 5, 1893.

Application filed March 2, 1893.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JENNIE C. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in UmbrellaChatelaines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in what I term umbrella ohat'elaines; that is to say, ornamental devices adapted to be hooked or otherwise detachably secured to a belt or band at a ladys waist and provided with suitably suspended means for clasping and supporting an umbrella, the clasping element of the device being preferably at such distance below the waist as to hang against the hip of the wearer, so that the umbrella may hang freely in a vertical line.

The invention is fully described and explained in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device embodying my invention, the chatelaine proper being hooked upon a belt and an umbrella being clasped by the supporting ring suspended from the chatelaine. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device as it appears when not in actual use in the support of an umbrella, the clasping ring being hooked to the chatelaine. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the chatelaine proper. Fig. i is a side elevation of the clasping ring. Fig. 5 is a top plan of the ring, a portion of one of its ends being shown in horizontal section. Fig. 6 is a transverse vertical section of the chatelaine. Fig. 7 is a front elevation of a modified form of my device. Fig. Sis a transverse vertical section of the chatelaine of said device. Fig. 9 is a front elevation of the upper portion of the device shown in Fig. 8, the front plate of such upper portion being removed; and Fig. 10 is a perspective view of another modified form of the clasping ring which secures the umbrella.

In Figs. 1 to 6, A is an ornamental plate of any suitable and attractive design provided at its upper end with a rearwardly projecting hook, H, adapted to engage the upper edge of a belt or band and to be supported thereby. On the rear face of the plate, A, are formed eyes, or loops, 66,110 which are fastened the upper ends of short chains, or cords, C,C, whose Serial No, 464,830. (No model.)

lower ends engage eyes, 6, 6, upon an expansible clasping ring, R, adapted to encircle and securely hold a folded umbrella as shown in Fig. 1. One of the overlapping ends of the ring is provided with a button, B, and the other end is formed with a series of holes, D, D, adapted to receive the button and thus provide for the adjustment of the size of the ring. The free outer end of the ring, R, is secured by means of a sliding clamp, c, and when this clamp is in the position shown in the drawings, the two ends of the ring are securely united. In use, the ring or band, R, is wrapped about the thickest portion of a folded umbrella and so buttoned, or otherwise fastened, as to clasp the umbrella closely and thus support its weight, and all the parts are so proportioned that when the chatelaine is in place at the waist of its wearer, the umbrella hangs freely at the hip. When the device is not in use in the actual support of an umbrella, the supporting ring, B, may either hang at the full length of the chains, C, C, or it may be supported at the lower end of the chatelaine proper by means of an eye, 6', formed on the ring and the hook, H, formed on the lower end of the chatelaine. The hook, H, like the hook, I-I, may be formed in any desired manner, butl have found it cheap and convenient to form the two hooks from a sin-- gle piece of sheet metal, formed as shown in the drawings, and securely fastened to the plate, A.

Figs. 7, 8, and 0 illustrate a device in which leather or other flexible material is substituted for metal, the chains, C, C, being replaced by straps, S, S, and the metal ring, R, by a leather strap, R, provided with a buckle, the strap being thus adapted to clasp umbrellas of different sizes and to hold them securely. In Fig. 7 the fulllines show the strap, R, buckled into a circle as it appears in use, while the dotted lines showthe strap extended and ready to be wrapped about the umbrella. The upper ends of the straps may be connected with the hook, H, in any desired manner, but I prefer the construction shown in the drawings in which the hook, H, is formed integrally with the plate, 71, of metal lyingbetween two disks of leather, H, H, the two disks being united by rows of stitching out side the edges of the metal plate.

Fig. 10 shows a modified form of clasping ring composed of a single piece of spring metal, R having its ends separated by a considerable space and curved outward so that an umbrella may be pushed laterally through the space between the ends, or may be dropped vertically into the space within. Such a ring may be supported either by chains or straps, though the use of chains is preferable. It is, of course, to be understood that the word umbrella as used throughout the specification is intended to include not only rain umbrellas, but parasols, sun-shades and all similar devices by whatever name they may be called. Furthermore, I intend not to limit my invention to the use of the particular forms of clasping devices shown in the drawings as hereinbefore described, but to include in the term expansible ring any device of metal, leather, or fabric adapted to closely encircle umbrellas of difierent sizes.

In all the forms shown and described herein, the plate which supports the umbrella securing device, is itself provided with a hook by means of which it may be readily attached to and detached from a belt or band of any kind worn at the waist, whether the belt or band be part of the skirt or other garment, or a separate article of dress. I consider this feature of ready detachability essential to the convenient use and operation of my device, since it would be inconvenient and impracticable to wear with a number of different garments, the same belt having the umbrella-supporting device permanently attached to it.

I have found in practice that it is desirable to support the umbrella-clasp by two chains, cords or straps rather than one since the clasp is balanced much better by a double than a single support. In the use of two suspended cords or chains, it is evidently much more convenient to fasten their upper ends to a single hook-bearing platein the manner shown in drawings, than to provide them with separate hooks or other fastenings, each of which must be separately connected with a belt every time the device is used; nor is this merely a matter of convenience, since the use of the single plate supporting the two chains or cords permanently fastened to it, insures their proper spacing with relation to each other and makes the device always practical and certain in its operation.

Having now described and explained my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a device of the class described, the combination with a plate provided with a hook adapted to engage the upper edge of a waistband or belt, of chains or cords attached to the plate and depending from it and a clasp fastened to said chains or cords and adapted to embrace and support an umbrella; substantially as shown and described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a plate, of a clasp suspended from the plate and adapted to embrace and support an umbrella, the plate being provided with two hooks turned downward and upward respectively, one of said hooks being adapted to detachably engage a waistband or belt, and the other being adapted to form a support for the clasp and hold it above its normal working position.

3. The combination with the plate, A, having the hooks, H, H, of the clasp formed substantially as shown and described, and suspended from the plate, the hook, I l, being adapted to engage a waistband or belt, and the hook, H, being adapted to support the clasp when raised above its normal position; substantially as shown and described.

JENNIE O. HAYDEN.

IVitnesses:

CHARLES O. SHERVEY, A. I. H. EBBESEN.

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