Show Is it raining just drop coin new vending machine hands out umbrellas GARY IND no need to worry about sudden showers just purchase an umbrella from a vending machine at a dep department artmen t store depot airport even at a baseball game gamel such a possibility may become a reality soon all because ot of an idea that came to jane burgess an indianapolis ind housewife and mother of 0 three children reports national patent council mrs burgesss idea came to her 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 airs burgess began thinking someone should invent a throwaway throw away umbrella that would cost well under a dollar the idea haunted her until at Christma christmastide christmastime last year she came across a little folding christmas bell there was the answer and her idea materialized she and her husband bob a railroad conductor developed the idea then they took their umbrella to a friend curtiss mccoy a toy and gadget manufacturer lie ile liked what he saw and by early summer their product was ready tor for marketing the product consisted of a neat packet of black accordion pleated waterproof paper inches long and a wooden rod 19 inches long unfold the paper into a circle snap together insert the rod in a M metal etal holder and the result Is a serviceable pap ersol with their idea ready to be mar feted and already accepted by one indianapolis store the inventive burgess had to face still another problem there was no machine available that would told paper into accordion pleats so bob went to work and with his typewriter scored paper so that it could be evenly pleated later the job was turned over to a company with machinery tor for scoring until a machine tor for such bleating pleating pl eating could be manufactured |