Improvements in or applicable to Walking Sticks or other similar articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Walking Sticks or other similar
articles.
I HENRY GUARD KNAGGS of 189 Camden Road in the County of Middlesex
Doctor of Medicine do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or applicable to walking sticks,
unbrella-sticks or other sticks, racket handles, fishing rods or poles or other articles
carried in the hand in like manner, the improvement or attachment being designed
to facilitate the carrying of parcels or articles of other kinds suspended from the
attachment and so as to relieve the user of constant strain from the weight.
In carrying out my invention many forms of the part used for suspension of the
carried articles to the stick may be adopted within the scope of the improvements it
may be simply a slot in any part of the handle or stem but I find one very convenient
form may be embodied in a suitably formed hook, or pin, projecting upward more or
less parallel with the stem or lying partly or wholly within a countersunk recess, or
slot, in the stem, or handle. Or, the attachment may be a hook, catch, snap or pin
capable of swivelling upon the stem or handle so as to be useful in any direction of
support of the stem. Or, the attachment may be mounted or connected to the stem
or handle by a ring band or plate encircling or partly gripping the stem or handle
aided or not by rivets pins or screws; or the pins or hooks or attachments may be
capable of opening or closing from or into recesses adapted to receive them when
out of use. Or, the attachments and their supports may be bolted to the stems or
handles.
In the case of a walking stick being carried and a weighty parcel being suspended
on the attachment the user by alternately swinging the parcel forward in walking
and planting the stick on the ground and then repeating the swinging forward
movement is alternately relieved of the dead weight of the parcel to the relief of the
muscles of the arm.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Walking Sticks or other similar
articles.
I HENRY GUARD KNAGGS of 189 Camden Road in the County of Middlesex,
Doctor of Medicine, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in or applicable to walking sticks,
umbrella-sticks or other sticks, racket handles, fishing rods or poles or other
articles carried in the hand in like manner, the improvement or attachment
being designed to facilitate the carrying of parcels or articles of other kinds
suspended from the slot, holder, or attachment and so as to relieve the user of
constant strain from the weight.
In carrying out my invention many forms of the part used for suspension of
the carried articles to the stick may be adopted within the scope of the improve-
ments, it may be simply a slot in any part of the handle or stem but I find

page_text: one very convenient form may be embodied in a suitably formed hook, or pin,
projecting upward, downward or sidewise more or less parallel with or at an
angle to the stem or lying partly or wholly within a counter-sunk recess, or slot,
in the stem, or handle. Or, the attachment may be a hook, catch, snap or
pin capable of swivelling upon the stem or handle so as to be useful in any
direction of support of the stem. Or the attachment may be mounted or con-
nected to the stem or handle by a ring, band or plate connected with,
encircling or partly gripping the stem or handle aided or not by rivets, pins or
screws; or the pins or hooks or attachments may be capable of opening or
closing from or into recesses adapted to receive them when out of use.
attachments and their supports may be bolted to the stems or handles.
Or the
In the case of a walking stick being carried and a weighty parcel being
suspended to or on the slot, holder, or attachment, the user by alternatively
swinging the parcel forward in walking and planting the stick on the ground
and then repeating the swinging forward movement is alternately relieved of
the dead, weight of the parcel to the relief of the muscles of the arm.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews by edge view a hook made to open and shut with a back
spring like an ordinary penknife. In this figure the hook is opened ready for
use the cord shews the method of carrying parcels by a loop or loops. It is
most useful when a number of small or light parcels or a shopping net have to
be carried. When the hook is shut down on the loops the umbrella may be
inverted without detaching the parcels.
Figure 2 shews the same closed, the dotted lines in each case indicate the
position of the hook in the recess in the stick.
a is the stick, the recess preferably metal lined, the hook centred at c¹
to the lining, d is the parcel string.
Figure 3 shows a swivel hook e attached to the runner of the umbrella.
When the latter is "up" or opened for rain the hook e hangs towards the
handle a, but when the umbrella is down the hook hangs away from the handle,
and the loops of the parcels pass between the ribs of the umbrella and over the
covering. The figure shows the umbrella "up."
Figure 4 shews the umbrella "down." The dotted lines show the rivetting
into the runner.
Figure 5 shews a bored and slotted handle of a stick-which will be found
particularly useful in carrying heavy parcels-the loops show how the parcels
are carried.
In this arrangement in order to secure greater ease the stick
should be short enough to swing without the user bending his elbow, and great
easement of the weight in carrying will be saved by this arrangement.
Figure 6 shews the same viewed from another angle or direction-the dotted
lines indicate the direction of the slots &c.
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 :-
The combination with or addition to or arrangement in walking sticks or
other similar articles, carried in the hand, of means for suspending or facilitating
carriage of parcels or articles substantially as set forth.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.