Improvements applicable to the Production of Electric Light in Walking Sticks and other similar articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1892-Accepted, 5th Nov.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements applicable to the Production of Electric Light in
Walking Sticks and other similar articles.
I, SAMUEL HARRIS LEVI, of 43 London Wall, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a walking stick, in the upper or handle portion of which
is fitted a small electric incandescent lamp which may be brought into action as
required by the person carrying the stick.
The body of the stick is tubular, and may be made of vulcanite, steel, copper, or
other suitable material, and is adapted to contain one or more primary, or secondary,
batteries for generating the current necessary for the electric light. Any suitable
form of battery may be employed, but I prefer to use a number of small dry
batteries superposed one above another. The incandescent lamp may be of the
ordinary construction and preferably arranged to project from the central upper
portion of the stick. Surrounding the lamp, more or less, I arrange a thick glass
or other transparent or translucent globe or lens of any suitable design, securely
attached to the stick. When a globe is employed, it not only forms a guard for the
protection of the incandescent lamp, but also a knob handle for the stick. The
conducting wires, from the battery or batteries, are properly insulated and led to a
switch which may be actuated by means of a push or other device when it is desired
to light or extinguish the lamp.
In some cases, I furnish the stick with a silver or other metal cap, somewhat of
the usual kind, but provided with an opening which may be automatically uncovered
when the current is switched on.
My invention may also be applied to umbrella sticks, riding whips, alpenstocks,
and other similar articles.
Dated this 2nd day of January 1801
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements applicable to the Production of Electric Light in
Walking Sticks and other similar articles.
I, SAMUEL HARRIS LEVI, formerly of 43 London Wall, in the City of
London, but now of 12 Laurence Pountney Lane, in the same City, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This invention relates to a walking stick, in the upper or handle portion of which
is fitted a small electric incandescent lamp which may be brought into action as
required by the person carrying the stick.
Figure. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a sectional elevation of the upper pårt
of a walking stick constructed in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation taken on a plane at right angles to that shewn in
Figure 1.
A is the body of the stick which is tubular and may be made of wood, vulcanite,
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page_text: steel, copper, or other suitable material, and is adapted to contain one or more
primary, or secondary, batteries B for generating or storing the current necessary
for the production of the electric light. Any suitable form of battery may be
employed, but I prefer to use a number of small dry batteries, superposed one
above another and surrounded by an envelope of brown paper or other non-
conducting material O, the whole being held in place in the body of the stick A by
any suitable means. C is the incandescent lamp which may be of the ordinary
construction and preferably arranged to project from the plug I forming the central
upper portion of the stick A as shewn. D is a globe of thick glass or other
transparent or translucent material securely attached to the stick A and forming
not only a guard for the protection of the lamp C but also a knob handle for the
stick. Or, if desired, instead of the globe D, a lens or "bulls-eye" may be fitted
into the end of the stick A for the same purposes, or the guard or handle may be
of any suitable design and shape. E F are properly insulated conducting wires
leading from the batteries B to the lamp C, having in their circuit any convenient
form of contact maker or switch for the purpose of lighting and extinguishing the
lamp C. For example ordinary contact plates G G¹ may be employed which may
be actuated from the exterior of the stick by means of the push H.
In some cases the stick may be furnished with a silver or other metal cap, some-
what of the usual kind, but provided with an opening the act of uncovering and
closing of which may be made to automatically switch the electric current off and
on to the lamp.
bulls-
Figures 3 and 4 are sectional elevations taken at right angles to one another, and
Figure 5 a section taken at 1-1 of Figure 3 of a modification in which the lamp C
is enclosed in a stem or prolongation I of the knob or handle J, which stem
extends downwards into the upper part of the body of the stick A and is adapted to
be turned in the stick A as desired in such a manner as to bring the lens or
eye" D' opposite to the opening A' in the body of the stick A when it is desired
to use the lamp C, the contact plates G G being so placed in relation to the
projection H on the body of the stick A that they are automatically pressed into
contact by the said projection H when the lens or "bulls-eye" D' is turned opposite
to the opening A' whereby the lamp C is only placed in circuit and lighted when
the lens D is opposite to the opening A1; the contact plates G G' springing out of
contact and thus breaking the circuit and extinguishing the lamp C as soon as the
knob or handle J is turned so that the lens D' and opening A¹ do not coincide.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 also illustrate an arrangement whereby the incandescent part
of the lamp may be utilised not only for the purpose of producing light but likewise
as a cigar lighter. C₁ is a coil of platinum wire or other suitable material which
is so mounted in the prolongation 1 of the knob or handle J that when the said
knob or handle is turned into such a position that the said coil coincides with
the opening A¹ the contact plates G G³ are brought together by means of the
projection H whereby the platinum coil C¹ is rendered incandescent, producing the
required electric light and, being uncovered, enables a cigar to be lighted by its
means, the cigar being inserted into the opening A' for that purpose.
K is a pin
fixed to and moving with the prolongation I of the knob or handle J when the same
is turned. The said pin projects through the slot L formed in the body of the
stick A and serves as an indicator whereby the relative position of the parts is
determined, for example when the pin K is in the centre of the slot L both C and C¹
are out of circuit, when the knob or handle J and its stem I are turned to the right
into such a position that the pin K is at one end of the slot L the coil C¹ is brought
into circuit, and when the knob or handle I is turned to the left until the pin K is at
the other end of the slot L the lamp C is brought into circuit.
The batteries contained in the body of the stick A may be recharged by placing
them in an electric circuit either with a dynamo, battery or other source or store of
electricity. This may be effected by placing wires from the opposite poles of the
dynamo, for example, into connection with the charging pins M'N.
The abovementioned improvements have been described in reference to walking

page_text: sticks, but it is obvious that they are applicable to any other similar articles, as for
example to the sticks of umbrellas, whip handles, alpenstocks and such like.
It will be understood that the arrangement shown in Figures 1 and 2 for putting
the lamp in and out of circuit with the batteries may be employed with the arrange-
ment shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5 instead of the rotating handle and stem shown and
described in reference to that figure and that per contra the said rotating handle
and stem may be employed for that purpose in the arrangement shown in Figures 1
and 2 instead of the contact plates shown in those figures.
Similar letters of reference relate to like parts in all the figures of the drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First For the purpose of producing electric light in a walking stick or other
similar article one or more primary or secondary batteries enclosed in a tubular or
hollow part of the body of the said stick or other article, an electric lamp, a trans-
parent or translucent globe or knob, suitable electric connections between the
battery or batteries and the electric lamp and means of putting the said lamp in or
out of circuit with the said battery or batteries, combined, arranged and operating
substantially as herein before described, and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the
drawings.
Second For the purpose of producing electric light in a walking stick or other
similar article one or more primary or secondary batteries enclosed in a tubular or
hollow part of the body of the said stick or other article, an electric lamp enclosed
in the stem of the handle and visible through a hole in the side of the stick or other
article, suitable electric connections between the battery or batteries and the electric
lamp, and means of putting the said lamp in or out of circuit with the said battery or
batteries, combined, arranged and operating substantially as hereinbefore described,
and illustrated in Figures 3, 4 and 5 of the drawings.
Third The improvements applicable to the production of electric light in
walking sticks and other similar articles substantially as hereinbefore described.
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S. H. LEVI.
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, Agent.