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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mansons2005, post: 63752, member: 121&quot;]Finally found the time to find it! </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1928, Hans Haupt&#039;s pocket umbrellas appeared. In Vienna in 1928, Slawa Horowitz, a student studying sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Wien (Academy of Fine Arts), developed a prototype for an improved compact foldable umbrella for which she received a patent on 19 September 1929. The umbrella was called &quot;Flirt&quot; and manufactured by the Austrian company &quot;Bruder Wuster&quot; and their German associates &quot;Kortenbrach und Rauh&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Umbrella#cite_note-27" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Umbrella#cite_note-27" rel="nofollow">[27]</a> In 1969, Bradford E Phillips, the owner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totes" rel="nofollow">Totes Incorporated</a> of Loveland, Ohio obtained a patent for his &quot;working folding umbrella&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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