US684219A - Cane-umbrella. - Google Patents

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No. 684,2l9. Patnted Oct. 8, l90l.

. G. A. GEIGER.

CANE UMBBELLA.

(Application led Aug. 23, 1900.)

(No Model.)

Ili mw UNITED' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GRACE A. GEIGER, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

CAN E-UMBRELLA.

SPECEFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 684,219, dated October 8, 1901.

Application filed August 23, 1900. Serial No. 27,813. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, GRACE A. GEIGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Impoved Umbrella-Oase, of 4which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a case for covering umbrellas when closed; and the object is to provide means for securing the usual leather case neatly and effectively in place, so as to give the umbrella as nearly as possible the appearance of a cane.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of the invention, while the claim defines the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a view of an umbrella to which my invention is applied. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing the handle of the umbrella at its juncture with the mount. Fig. 3 is a detail section of the upper end of the case. Fig. 4. is a sectional elevation showing the manner of joining the upper end of the case to the handle. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the connecting-thimble for joining the case to handle. Fig. 6 is a detail View of the threaded collar which is attached to the handle. Fig. 7 is a detail view of the threaded collar which is attached to the case, and Fig. 8 is a detail view of the ring or annulus which is located inside of the case at its upper end and fastened to the threaded collar which is shown in Fig. 7.

a representsthe handle of an umbrella, to which the staff, rod, or shank is attached, as usual, by means of the mount a.

c represents a threaded metallic collar which is fastened to the handle a directly adjacent to the upper extremity of the mount a. (See Fig. 2.) This collar` is preferably formed of spun sheet metal; but obviously it could be constructed in any other manner without departing from the spirit of my invention.

d represents the case, which is preferably and usually of leather, but which of course may be of any other flexible material. The

case has a ferrule fastened to its lower end in any suitable manner. Inside of the upper end of the case CZ a metallic annnlus f is placed, and outside of the upper end of the case d a metallic anuulus or collar e is located. These parts e and f are riveted together, as shown best in Fig. 3, so as to hold the case between them. The collar e is formed with a screw-thread thereon in the same manner as the collar o, excepting that the collar e is of greater diameter than the collar c, as is illustrated in Fig. 4. Arranged on the handle CL is a metallic collar comprising two diameters g and g', the smaller diameter g matching with the collar c, so as to screw thereon, and the larger diameter g matching with the collar e for the same purpose.

In order to secure the case d in place, it should be drawn up in the position shown in Figs. l and 4, and the collar g g' should be moved down, so that the part g will screw on the collar e and the part g will screw on the collar c. This will draw the case up into place and hold it there. The duplex diameter of the collar g g' prevents it from moving down below the handle a not only when the case d is i-n place, but when the case is removed, and this collar g g when the case is removed is adapted to lie loosely around the handle a and may be permitted to rest on the collar c. The collar g g may, however, be removed, if desired, by unscrewing it from the collar c. The collar cis fastened permanently to the handle, and of course the parts e andfare removable with the case CZ. By these means I am enabled to transform the umbrella into an instrument which resembles a cane in every way.'

By arranging the collar c directly adjacent to the upper extremityof the mount the case d is held to cover all of the umbrella including the mount of the handle, thus giving the umbrella a uniform appearance and making it almost an exact representation of a cane.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'- The combination with an umbrella, of a threaded collar fastened to the handle di' rectly adjacent to the upper extremity of the mount, a casing formed of flexible material arranged to tit snugly over the umbrella and IOO to extend upward to said threaded collar, the ease being formed of a continuous unbroken length of material, a threaded collar fastened to the upper end 0f the ease and adapted to lie directly adjacent to the threaded collar on the handle, and a thimble for joining the two threaded collars together, said thiinble having two portions of different diameters, each of said portions being threaded and designed respectively tohengage VtheV beforeleV mentioned threaded collars. Y Y In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing Witnesses. Y

GRACE A. GEIGER. Vitnesses:

BLANCHE H. LEAYCRAFT, GEORGE BRAND.

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