Improvements in Walking Sticks and the Sticks of Umbrellas and Parasols.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1898-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Walking Sticks and the Sticks of Umbrellas and
Parasols.
I, HENRY ALBERT JEE, of 17, Loughborough Road, Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, Comedian, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention consists of improvements by way of a combination by which a
walking stick or the stick of an umbrella or a parasol will answer any one two
three or four of the following purposes that is to say: First. An alarm whistle.
Secondly. A door fastener. Thirdly. A key to a railway lock. Fourthly. A
cork screw. By the word stick throughout this Provisional Specification
is meant a walking stick or the stick of an umbrella or a parasol.
First. The alarm whistle.
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The stick has the upper portion where held by the hand hollowed and in the
cavity so formed a whistle of wood metal or other suitable material is inserted.
One or two slits are cut in the handle at a suitable distance from the end of the
handle the slit or in the case of two, each slit corresponding with an air escape
of the said whistle the mouth piece of the said whistle being so placed as to be
conveniently blown.
Secondly. The door fastener
At a convenient distance from the upper end of the stick the stick is
cut in two parts and the upper end of the longer part of the stick is fitted with a
metal band or spike or spikes or roughed edge the upper end of which, if a band,
is cut in teeth sawwise or if a spike or spikes has a sharp point the lower end of
the longer portion of the said stick has a moveable metal ferrule which covers
a metal band cut in teeth sawwise or a spike or spikes or roughed edge. When
the stick is intended to be used as a door fastener the said moveable ferrule is
removed. The stick having a metal toothed band or a spike or spikes or roughed
edge at each end when it is placed obliquely with one end against a door and the
other end on the floor it will render the door immoveable as a portion of the teeth
of the one band or the point of the spike or spikes or roughed edge will be inserted
in the door and a portion of the teeth of the other band or the point of the spike
or spikes or roughed edge will be inserted in the surface of the floor and the more
the door is pushed from the outside the tighter the fastener will become.
Thirdly. The key to a railway carriage lock.
Where the stick is cut as herein before described a key to a railway carriage is
inserted in the upper or shorter part of the stick-the part of the stick in which
the key is inserted being surrounded with a metal band one inch in depth and the
upper portion of the said key is enclosed in the metal band which forms the
above described upper door fastener.
Fourthly. A cork screw.
At the lower end of the stick in the space enclosed by the lower door fastening
band spike or roughed edge and covered by the said moveable ferrule a moveable
cork screw is inserted. When the cork screw is required the said ferrule is
removed and the cork screw can then be taken out.

page_text: By the combination above described a walking stick or the stick of an umbrella
or a parasol can be made to provide the four following articles.
1. An alarm whistle.
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A door fastener.
Improvements in Walking Sticks and the Sticks of Umbrellas and
Parasols.
HENRY ALBERT JEE, 17, Loughborough Road, Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, Comedian, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:―
The invention consists of improvements by way of a combination by which a
walking stick or the stick of an umbrella or a parasol will answer any one two
three or four of the four following purposes that is to say:-First. An alarm whistle.
Secondly. A door fastener. Thirdly. A key to a railway qarriage lock.
Fourthly. A cork screw. By the word " stick" throughout this specification is
meant a walking stick or the stick of an umbrella or a parasol.
First. The alarm whistle.
The stick has the upper portion where held by the hand hollowed and in the
cavity so formed a whistle of wood metal or other suitable material is inserted.
One or two slits are cut in the handle at a suitable distance from the end of the
handle the slit or in the case of two each slit corresponding with an air escape of
the said whistle the mouth piece of the said whistle being so placed as to be con-
veniently blown.
Secondly. The door fastener.
At a convenient distance from the upper end of the stick the stick is divided
in two parts and the upper end of the longer part of the stick is fitted with a
metal band or spike or spikes or roughed edge the upper end of which if a band
is cut in teeth sawwise of if a spike or spikes has a sharp point-the lower end of
the longer portion of the said stick has a movable metal ferrule which covers a
metal band cut in teeth sawwise or a spike or spikes or roughed edge. When
the stick is intended to be used as a door fastener the said movable ferrule is
removed. The lower length of the stick having a metal toothed band or a spike
or spikes or roughed edge at each end when it is placed obliquely with one end
against a door and the other end on the floor will render the door immovable as
a portion of the teeth of the one band or the point of the spike or spikes or roughed
edge will be inserted in the door and a portion of the teeth of the other band or
the point of the spike or spikes or roughed edge will be inserted in the surface
of the floor and the more the door is pushed from the outside the more firmly will
the fastener be held.
Thirdly. The key to a railway carriage lock.
Where the stick is divided as herein before described a key to a railway carriage
is inserted in the upper or short part of the stick-the part of the stick in which
the key is inserted being surrounded by a metal band and the upper portion of

page_text: the said key is enclosed in and surrounded by the metal band which forms the
above described upper door fastener.
Fourthly. A cork screw.
At the lower end of the stick in the space enclosed by the lower door fastening
band, spike or roughed edge, and covered by the movable ferrule hereinbefore
referred to, a removable corkscrew is inserted. When it is desired to use the cork-
screw the said ferrule is removed and the corkscrew can be taken out.
By means of the combination above described a walking stick or the stick of
an umbrella or parasol can be made to provide for the four purposes hereinbefore
mentioned, viz. an alarm whistle, a door securing device, a railway carriage key
and a corkscrew.
My invention will be clearly understood from an inspection of the accompany-
ing sheet of drawings which represent a walking stick embodying the invention in
its most complete and preferred form. Fig. 1 represents the stick in elevation
partly sectional with the upper length or section and ferrule removed, while
Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the parts fitted together.
A is the upper length or handle section. The handle is hollow as shown and
has inserted therein an alarm whistle a. A slot or slots a¹ is or are cut in the
handle to allow of escape of air from the whistle a. b is the railway carriage key
secured to the handle section in any convenient way and surrounded by a
threaded band or collar c adapted to engage with a corresponding thread on the
metal band or collar d which collar d is secured on the upper end of the bottom
length B of the stick. The top edge of collar d is serrated as shown and a
cavity e in the top of section B serves to receive the railway key 6 when the parts
are fitted together. f is a serrated band or collar fitted to the lower end of the
bottom length B. A cavity g is provided in the stick at this point to receive a
corkscrew. This corkscrew is preferably of the form shown, that is to say
having a separate handle in the shape of a bar h¹ adapted to be passed through
an eye in the corkscrew proper h. The ferrule i with internal thread screws over
the collar f.
I have described and illustrated my invention as applied to a walking stick.
Its application to the stick of an umbrella or parasol will be readily understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A walking stick, umbrella stick or parasol stick, comprising a separable
length or section adapted to constitute a door-securing device substantially as
herein before described.
2. A walking stick, umbrella stick or parasol stick combined with an alarm,
whistle, a railway key, a door securing device and a corkscrew, substantially as
herein before described and represented in the accompanying drawings.
3. The improved combination walking stick, umbrella stick or parasol stick
substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying
drawings.
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