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` IMPROVEMENT' IN UMBRELLAS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: i i

Be it known that I,l WILLIAM F. 'lURNER, of the city and county of Bhiladelphia, inthe State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Umbrellas; andl do herebydeelare the following tobe a' full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. y v

The subject of thisirrvention is an improvement upon the methodof combining an umbrella. and cane, so as to render it convertible into lan umbrella, for which Letters Patent of. the United States, No. 70,378, were` granted to me on the 29th day of October, A. D. 1867.

In carrying out myinvention, I'provide' a hollow cane, et wood or other suitable material, and apply to the same a ferr-ale, a head, and a eap,'all of which parts are detachable, as shown in Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. The device is convertible, it being used as a walking-stick or umbrella, as maybe desired. When used as a walkingstick,the hollow cane eneloses the ribs, stretehers, and runner, and then presents the appearance in which it is represented in Figure 1. '.Ihe cane, as transformed into an umbrella., is seen in Figure 13. The

cover of the umbrella is to be carried in the pocket, but all theother appliances are apart of or enclosed within f the walking-stick.

. S and U are small plates, 'fastened -to the exterior of the, cane. These plates have each a hole to receive a pin on the runner, which holds the cover in its open or closed position, as presently. explained.

In iig. 6 is shown the upper portion of thecane, with the head, iig. 8, and cap, iig. l0, removed. The cane is the receptacle for the ribs and stretehers, as here clearly shown. The head, iig. 8, is the receptacle for the runner, which is shown protruding at H. i

i Figure 2 represents the ferrule detached from thecane. A is a nut, within the ferr'ule, adapted to t upon the .screw C, Figure 4, and be screwed down' upon the ferrule.end of `the cane, to secure the'ribs and cover, as shawn at n n, sg. 13.

'Figure3 represents the central portion of the umbrella-covemwith a brass plate attached, said plate having a central aperture, and being placedv upon the screw C previously to the application of the ferrule thereto when 'an-umbrella is tovbe constituted.

Permanently attached to the ferrule-end of the cane is an end-piece or thimble, D, iig. 4, provided with notches, which, hymeans of suitable depressions or an encircling wire ring, are made to form attaching-points for the ribs, as shown in iig. 9.

Figures 5 and I1 represent the runner detached. L represents a. steel spring,.attached to the runner, and having a small inwardly-projecting pin. M is a brass slide, made movable upon the `spring L by means o f the knob N, and employed to press the pin on the spring into the holes in the plates S U, so as to thus maintain the open or closed, condition of the umbrella., The runper has a slit or opening', K, g. 11, which, in connection witha pin, T, inserted in thecane, as seen in fig. 1, serves to limit the movement of the runner upon the cane or handle, so as to arrest the same, when thev cover is properly expanded, in the act of raising the umbrella.

In fig.'7, the runner is shown as slip'ped over or upon the.cane,lit being held in the position seen by the pin on the spring L. This figure also illustrates the method of hooking the stretcher's E on to the wire ring O, which cneircles l the notches in the-runner', as shown in iig. 11. As soon as the stretchers are hooi-:ed to the lrunner, the ribs are raised and hooked in-thenotches in the end-piece or thimble D, Eg. 4, as shown in Iig. 9.

vFigurev 12 is a view ef one ofthe gilded tipsattached to the umbrella-cover. P is the end of a rib. Fig. 13 shows the cover securedby the ferrule, and the rib bcnt'or insertion into thetip Q, which done, the umbrella is rcadyfor use.v

Having thus described my inventionfwliat I claim as new herein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

I. The notches in the permanently-attached thimble D, or the ferrule-end of the cane, wherein to hook or attach'the ends oi' the ribs, as herein described and represented. l

2, The'notehed runner, figs. and 11, provided with the spring L, having a detaning-pin, the slide M, and the encircling-ring O, and adapted to oecupythe detachable head of the'walking-stick, as herein described and represented. t v

WM. F. TURNER.

Witnesses:

GEORGE WuNDEnLIeH, DAVID BEULER.

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