Show Is It Raining Just Drop Coin New Vending Machine Hands Out Umbrellas GARY IND No No need need to worry about sudden showers Just purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase an umbrella from a vending machine at a department store depot airport even airport even at a baseball game Such a possibility may become become be be- come a reality soon all because of an idea that came to Jane Burgess an Indianapolis Ind hous housewife wile and mother of three children reports National Patent Council Mrs Burgesss Burgess's idea came to her herout herout herout out of necessity Caught in the rain without an umbrella and without money enough with her to purchase even the cheapest umbrella she could find Mrs Burgess began thinking thinking someone someone should invent a throw away umbrella that would cost well under a dollar The idea haunted her until at Christmastime last year she came across a little folding Christmas bell There was the answer and her idea material material- She and her husband Bob a railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road conductor developed the idea Then they took their umbrella to a friend Curtiss McCoy a toy and gadget manufacturer He liked what he saw and by early summer their product was ready for marketing The product consisted of ot a neat packet of ot black pleated accordion waterproof paper 16 16 Inches long and a wooden rod 19 Inches long Unfold the paper into a circle snap together insert the rod in a metal holder and the result is a serviceable serviceable serviceable service service- able With their idea ready to be marketed marketed marketed mar mar- and already accepted by one Indianapolis store the inventive Burgess had to face still another another another an an- other problem There was no machine machine ma chine available that would fold paper paper pa pa- per into accordion pleats So Bob went to work and nd with his typewriter typewriter typewriter type type- writer scored paper so that it could be evenly pleated Later the Job was turned over to a company with machinery machinery ma ma- chinery for scoring until a machine for such pleating could be So far 60 surplus Government-surplus waterproof paper is being used but the inventors hope eventually to use colored paper In a recent issue of ol Toys and und Novelties it was indicated that a similar umbrella will be manufactured man man- for for kiddies |