US985842A - Umbrella. - Google Patents

Description

R. H. RoNEY.

UMBBELLA. I APPLICATION FILED APRAI. 1910.

Patented 111111.11911.r

BOBERT HENRY BONNEY, 0F BURLINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.

Patented Mar. *7, 1911.

Application led April 21, 1910. Serial No. 556,816.

reference 1 designates the rod or staff of the unitamente.`

985,842. Specication of Letters Patent.

Toall ma/y concern:

`Be Amown that I, ROBERT H. HONEY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Alamance and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Umbrella, of which the following is a specification.

Thls invention relates to umbrellas and more ,particularly to means whereby the ribs and s'tretchers may be detachably connected to the rod and runner without danger of becoming accidentally displaced relative y thereto.

Another object is to provide improved means whereby the ribs and stretchers may be securely locked in position without however interfering with the pivotal movement thereof necessaryin opening and closing the umbrella. ,l

. A further ob]ect is to provlde an. umbrella of this character which is simple and durable i in construction and the ribs and stretchers of which can be removed without the necessit of detaching the cover from the rod.

ith these and o ther objects 1n view the invention consists in certain novel details. of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

'In the accompanying drawings the pre- -ferred form ofthe invention has been shown.

In said drawings :-Figure 1 .is a view partly in section and artly in elevation of a portion of an umbre la having the present improvements combined therewith. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the runner the rod being shown in section therein. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one end portion of the runner and showing the stretcher receiving collar, the locking plate being removed from the runner. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of 4one end portion of a stretcher adapted to be used inA connection with the runner shown in Figs. 1, 2 and B. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the rib engaging collar adapted to be secured to the rod at the ferrule end thereof, the cap ring being removed therefrom. Fig. 6 1s a central longitudinal section through the collar shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a perspectiveview of a cap ring adapted to be used in connection with the collar shown in Figs. 5 and G. Fig. 8 is a perspective vienT of the pivot end of a rib to be used in connection with the collar shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

l'eferringA to the figures by characters of umbrella, there 'being a sleeve 2 secured thereto close to the ferrule thereof, said sleeve being fastened in any preferred manner, as by means of a locking pin 3 extended diametrically therethrough and through the staff. An annular collar 4 is formed around the inner end of the sleeve and has a series of radial slots 5 extending thereinto at regular intervals, each slot opening into a cylindrical bore 6 which is parallel with the longitudinal axisA of the sleeve. The outer ends of these bores 6 and the slots 5 are adapted t0 be closed by a split spring ring or Washer 7 which extends around the sleeve 2 and is adapted to be sprung into an annular groove 8 formed within said sleeve and flush with the outer face of the collar. The bores 6 do not extend entirely through the collar 4 but merely extend thereinto a suilicient distance to constitute eiiicient seats for the ribs of the umbrella as will be hereinafter set forth. rIl he slots 5, however, extend entirely througlithecollar and are constantly open at their inner ends, to-Wit, those ends nearest the handle of the umbrella.

A tubular runner 9 is slidably mounted on the rod or staff 1 in the usual manner, this runner bein provided at that end thereof nearest the errule of the staff, with an annular collar 10 provided with a series of radial slots 11, lall of said slots opening into an annular groove 12 formed Within/the face of the collar nearest the umbrella handle.`

about therunner so as to bring the slot 15.

into register with any one of the slots 11 and with the adjoining portion of the annular groove 12.

A spring 1G is coiled about and secured to the runner and has a locking tongue or extension 17 extending radially from said runner and adapted, when the ring 111 is in a predetermined position and with its slot 15 out of register with any of the slots 11, to be seated Within said slot 15 and thus lioldthe ring against movement. The ring is additionally held by a knob or projection 18 formed upon the end of the extension 17 and adapted to be seated within a relos cess ll) formed in the periphery of the colheld against detachment, are, nevertheless lar 10. NV hen this enlargement is thus seatfree to swing relative to the collars 4 and 10. ed Within the recess, it becomes impossible In order that the runner 9 may be prefor the end of the spring to be shifted latvented from rotating upon the statt1 l erally. through the action oit the Wind While the Each rib 2O of the umbrella has a subumbrella is open or as a result of whirling stantially semi-circular head 2l provided the open umbrella, a notch 23 is preferably with fiat opposed faces, the distance beformed in one end of the runner, and is tween these faces being a little lessthan the adapted, when the umbrella is raised or Width of any one oit the slots 5. That poropened, to receive a spring catch 24 or the 65 tion of the rib adjacent the head is also like mounted Within the stal l and which shaped so as to be readily inserted into and thus serves not only to hold the runner rotated within one of the slots 5. against longitudinal movement but to 4also Each of the ribs has a stretcher 22 pivotprevent it from rotating. ally connected to it as ordinarily, each of It is of course to be understood that varithe stretchers being provided with a T- ous changes may be made in the construcshaped head 23 at its free end and which tion and arrangement of the parts Without is so shaped as to lit snugly Within the andeparting from the spirit or sacriicing any nular groove l2 while the adjoining port-ion of the advantages of the invention as deof the stretcher is mounted to swing within fined in the appended claim. one of the slots 1l. The head 23 is pretcn y W'hat is claimed is ably tapered toward each end and is rounded so as to reduce friction to the minimum.

When it is desired to disengage a rib and its stretcher from the stati" or rod of the nmbrella, and from the runner, the extension 17 of the spring is shifted out of the slot tion of the respective stretchers, means on l5 and the locking ring la is then rotated the stretchers for preventing their With.-

r' An umbrella including a statt, a runner l 1 i so as to bring the slot l5 into register with l drawal from the slots, a ring mounted to roslidably mounted thereon, ribs pivotallyand detaehably connected to the staff, stretchers connected to the ribs, a collar upon the run- S0 ner and having radial slots for the recepthe slot ll in which the stretcher 22 to be tate upon the runner and bearing upon one 85 removed, is located. rlhe said stretcher and end thereof to close the slots and retain the its head 23- can. then. loe-slid out of the slot stretehers in position therein, said ringdiav- 11. and'throiigli tti/l slot l5 thus becoming ing a slot movable into register with anydetached from the collar l0. Ilhe rib 2() one of the slots in the collar to release the is nony free to be partly rotated and by givstretcher in said slot, a spring secured to ing it a one-quarter rotation, the head 2l and coiled about the runner and bearing thereon can be brought into register With upwardly, on the rings, to retard the rotathe slots 5 and can be Withdrawn through tion of the ring, said spring having'an upsaid`slots. To place the rib and stretcher i wardly extending terminal portion provided upon the statil and runner, the foregoing with a knob, there being a recess in the operation is reversed. The rib 20 is lirst peripheral portion of the collar for the replaced so as to permit its head 2l to be inception of the knob, said spring being .movserted into the proper slot 5 and said rib l able into the slot in the ring to hold said is then givenaone-quarter turn so as to bring ring against movement relative to the colthe head 2l in position across the slot 5 lar when the slot in the ring is brought into 100 and within the bore 6. The ring ist is then position out of register with the slots in rotated to bring the slot J5 into register I the collar. with the proper slot ll and 'the head 23 I ln testimony that I claim the foregoing on the stretcher 22 oi the rib is then swung l as my own, have hereto affixed my signathrough said slot 15 andhinto the groove l2 ture in the presence oi two Witnesses.

and the slot 1l after which, by turning the ROT HENRY HONEY' ring 14 to its normal. position, the stretcher will be firmly held .fxgaiiist disi'ilacemel'it. l VitnesseS: I

It will be obvious of course that the ribs l J. M. Dix, and stretohers, all'hougli being thus securely M. A. @Maven

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