US839717A - Folding umbrella. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906.

R. O. BRETSHER. FOLDING UMBRELLA.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 28, 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906.

Application filed February 28,1906. Serial No. 303.498.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH C. BRET- SHER, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing at l/Vilkinsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennnsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Umbrellas, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawmgs.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in umbrellas.

The invention has for its primary object to provide a folding or collapsible umbrella which can be folded into a comparatively small space and conveniently carried or packed away.

Another object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive umbrella which can be easily and quickly collapsed and folded at any desired time.

Briefly described, my improved umbrella consists of a two-part rod or stem, one of said parts carrying a handle and an elevatingfurl, while the other of said parts carries the radiating ribs and supporting-arms, said ribs being made in two parts to fold one within the other and within the supporting-arm.

The detail construction entering into my invention will hereinafter be more fully described and then specifically claimed.

Referring to the drawings accompanying this application, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views of the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved umbrella, showing the same in a collapsed position with the cover thereof removed. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, partly in section, showing a portion of the umbrella folded. Fig. 3 is a' fragmentary side elevation, partly in section, of my improved umbrella. Fig. 4 is a detached detail perspective view of a coupling used in connection with the umbrella. Fig. 5 is a detail side elevation of the coupling, illustrating one of the two-part ribs and the spreader connected thereto. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the end of one of the spreaders. Fig. 7 is a similar view of the opposite end of one of said spreaders; and Fig. 8 is a fragmentary sectional view of an elevatingferrule, illustrating a slight modification in the construction thereof.

To put my invention into practice, I construct my improved umbrella of a stem or rod 1, consisting of parts 2 and 3, the part 3 being provided with a screw-threaded contracted end 4, adapted to engage in a screw threaded socket 5, formed in the part 2 of the stem. The part 3 is provided with a suitable handle 6, while the part 2 carries a suitable tip or ferrule 7.

The upper end of the' part 2 is provided with the conventional form of sleeve 8, hav ing radiating arms or lugs, between which are pivotally mounted the upper ends of a plurality of radiating ribs 9. Each rib consists of two parts 10 and 11, the part 11 being fixed to a coupling member 12, which is pivotally connected, as at 14, to the lower end of the part 10, this construction permitting of the part 11 being folded in alinement with the part 10.

The coupling 12 (shown in detail in Fig. 4 of the drawin s) is channel-like in form, being bent at both ends, so as to receive the adjacent ends of sections 10 11 therein, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, and also to have the outer end of the s readers 19 pivoted thereto, as shown in said *ig. 5.

Slidably mounted upon the part 3 of the stem or rod 1 is a sleeve 15, said sleeve carrying an integral collar 16, consisting of a plurality of radiating lugs somewhat similar to the sleeve 8, heretofore mentioned. The lower end of the sleeve 15 is provided with a cup-shaped ferrule 17, said ferrule being slidably mounted between the collar 16 and the lower end of the sleeve 15.

Pivotally connected, as at 18, to the coupling member 12 of each rib is a channelshaped spreader 19, the lower end of each spreader being provided with a pivoted retaining-lug 20. The lower end of each retaining-lug is substantially hook-shaped, as at 21, and the free ends of said lugs are adapted to engage under the collar 16 and be retained there by the cup-shaped ferrule 17 The umbrella when in a raised position conforms substantially to the ordinary type of umbrella, this also being true of the umbrella in a lowered position. WVhen the umbrella is to be folded, the retaining-lugs 20 are removed from engagement with the collar 16 by lowering the ferrule 17. The parts 11 of the ribs 9 are then swung within the channelshaped spreaders 19 of the umbrella, and said spreaders, together with the parts 11 of the ribs, are swung upwardly into alinement I 10 with the parts of said ribs and the ribs and arms folded inwardly in parallel alinement with the part 2 of the rod or stem 1. The part 1 of the rod or stem is then detached from the part 2 and placed alongside thereof. The two parts of the umbrella can then be tied together or incased in a suitable bag or receptacle, as may be desired.

In Fig. 8 of the drawings I have illustrated a sleeve as having a ball-socket 16 to receive a ball carried by a spreader 19 The balls 20 are retained within their respective sockets by a cup-shaped ferrule17 similar to the ferrule 17, heretofore described.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that I have devised a novel form of folding umbrella which can be conveniently manipulated at any desired time the umbrella is to be folded.

Such changes in the construction and manipulation of my improved umbrella as are permissible by the appended claim may be resorted to without departing from the scope of the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

In a folding umbrella, a stick, a sleeve fixedly mounted thereon near the outer end thereof, a sleeve slidably mounted on the stick, and a ferrule slidably mounted on said last-named sleeve, combined with two-part ribs pivoted at their inner ends to the fixed sleeve on the stick, a channel-like coupling receiving the adjacent ends of the ribs and in which said ends are pivoted by a common pivot, spreaders of channel form having their outer ends pivoted to said couplings, and their inner ends pivoted to the sleeve slidably mounted on the stick, and retaining-lugs pivoted in the inner ends of said Spreaders and adapted to be received within said slidable ferrule.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

A. M. WILSON, K. H. BUTLER.

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