AN IMPROVED STICK OR STEM FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, WHIP AND OTHER HANDLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Tracy and Henry Tracy, of Shacklewell
Lane, Dalston, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED STICK OR STEM FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, WHIP AND OTHER
HANDLES."
Sealed the 3rd May 1870, and dated the 10th November 1869..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Tracy and Henry
Tracy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 10th November 1869.
We, JOHN TRACY and HENRY TRACY, of Shacklewell Lane, Dalston,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED STICK OR STEM FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, WHIP
AND OTHER HANDLES," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to facilitate the partial separation for
folding of the "stick" or "stem" or handle so as to reduce the length
of it, and thereby enable it to occupy less compass when required. For
this purpose the "stick" or "stem" or handle is divided into two or it
may be more than two parts, and at the junction of them one part is
formed with a smaller stem to fit into a socket in the other part. The
end of this smaller stem is connected by a swivel joint to one end of a
small chain or flexible band, the other end of which is connected to a

page_text: stop, which also acts as a weight to aid in drawing in this connexion.
The chain or connection to the stem may be connected to the interior of
the socket by a spiral or other suitable spring. The smaller stem is also
provided with a projection, which on being passed into a corresponding
recess in the socket may be there held by the turning thereon of a
ferrule or collar applied to the socket portion of the stick or stem, such
ferrule or collar being formed with an inclined groove to receive and
hold the projection in the smaller stem as a bayonet or such like joint.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Tracy and Henry Tracy in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 10th May 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
TRACY and HENRY TRACY, of Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Tenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said John Tracy and Henry Tracy, Her special
licence that we, the said John Tracy and Henry Tracy, our executors,
'administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Tracy
and Henry Tracy, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no. others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED STICK OR STEM FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, WHIP AND OTHER
HANDLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John
Tracy and Henry Tracy, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Tracy, on behalf of myself
and the said John Tracy, 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
thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the Invention is to facilitate the partial separation for
folding of the "stick" or "stem" or handle so as to reduce the length
of it, and thereby enable it to occupy less compass when required. For
this purpose the "stick" or stem or handle is divided into two or it
may be more than two parts, and at the junction of them one part is
formed with a smaller stem to fit into a socket in the other part. The
end of this smaller stem is connected by a swivel joint to one end of a
small chain or flexible band, the other end of which is connected to a
stop, which also acts as a weight to aid in drawing in this connection.
The chain or connection to the stem may be connected to the interior of
the socket by a spiral or other suitable spring. The smaller stem is also
provided with a projection, which on being passed into a corresponding
recess in the socket may be there held by the turning thereon of a
ferrule or collar applied to the socket portion of the stick or stem, such
ferrule or collar being formed with an internal groove to receive and
hold the projection in the smaller stem in the manner of a bayonet or
.such like joint.
But that the Invention may be fully understood we will proceed to
describe means pursued by us in carrying the same into effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a section on an enlarged scale of a portion of the
"stick" of an umbrella, or a parasol, or it may be a whip or other
handle, the parts of which are arranged for partial separation and
folding according to our Invention. This Figure 1 shows the parts firmly
connected together for use. Figure 2 shows a similar view of the parts,
but partially separated and folded to enable them to occupy less space
in the length of it, or for other convenience. Figure 3 shows an
external view of Figure 1; and Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
and 13 show various views of the parts separately. In each of the views
the same letters indicate corresponding parts.
a, a', are the two parts of the "stick" or "stem" or handle, and it
will be seen that the part a has firmly fixed into, or it may be formed as

page_text: part of it, a smaller stem b, which part b, as shown, is connected to a
chain c, which may be of the curb or other suitable form, and this
chain c may be connected to the end of the stem by a swivel joint if
desired, as shown at Figures 12 and 13. The chain c passes through a
socket d firmly affixed in the part a', and at its outer end this chain c is
connected to a weight c, which also acts as a stop to prevent the chain
being drawn out from the socket d, and the consequent separation of
the parts. The inner end or stop e of this chain may be connected to a
spring if desired. To the outer end of the socket d there is applied a
ferrule or collar f, which is capable of partial rotation on the socket d,
and is formed with an internal groove f¹ around-it-to-receive-the stud d'
projecting from the socket d, and also to receive another stud b' pro-
jecting from the stem 6 when the parts are together as in Figure 1, and
to facilitate the admission of this stud to the groove f¹ there is an
opening to that groove. The form of this ferrule or collar with its
groove and the parts thereof is more clearly shown by Figures 4, 5, 6,
and 7. Figure 7 shows an internal view of a part of the ferrule or collar
opened out. There is a stop f applied to the ferrule or collar f to act
on the stop d' and regulate the extent of motion of the socket f for the
connection or disconnection of the parts by which when connected the
parts will be held firmly together.
Having thus described our Invention, and means which we adopt in
carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that we do
not confine ourselves to the precise arrangement of parts as shown and
described; but what we claim is, the improved stick or stem for
umbrellas, parasols, whip and other handles, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Tracy, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.