Improvements in the Combination of Pencils and the like with Walking Sticks and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Combination of Pencils and the like with
Walking Sticks and the like.
We, CHARLES HENRY DUMENIL of No. 16 Broad Street, Golden Square,
Manufacturing Silversmith, and WILLIAM HENRY BRIGG of No. 23 St. James'
Street, Stick and Umbrella Manufacturer, both in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention relates to improvements in the combination of pencils and the like
with walking sticks and the like.
In carrying it into effect, we form a perforation in the stick lengthwise thereof
in a proper position for presenting its outer end at or near the top or handle of the
stick. This perforation, preferably, receives a tube. The concealed end of the
perforation, or of the tube, terminates in, or is provided with, a spring finger clip
adapted to hold the pencil or the like when the latter is pushed into it.
A cap is
pivoted upon the outer end of the pencil or the like. This fits down close upon
the stick or upon the outer flange of the tube and serves as a convenient thumb
bit for the withdrawal of the pencil.
Dated this 7th day of August 1894.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Combination of Pencils and the like with
Walking Sticks and the like.
We, CHARLES HENRY DUMENIL of No. 16 Broad Street, Golden Square,
Manufacturing Silversmith, and WILLIAM HENRY BRIGG of No. 23 St. James'
Street, Stick and Umbrella Manufacturer, both in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in the combination of pencils or other
articles of the like conformation, with walking sticks and the like.
In carrying it into effect, we form a perforation in the stick lengthwise thereof
and in a proper position for presenting its outer end at or near the top or handle of
The concealed, i.e.,
the stick. This perforation is preferably lined with a tube.
the inner, end of the perforation, or of the lining tube if one be used, terminates in,
or is provided with, one or more spring fingers or clips adapted to grip the pencil
or other similar article when the latter is pushed down into the perforation.
A cap is pivoted upon the outer end of the pencil or other similar article, large
enough to cover the outer end of the perforation, but its principal functions are to
serve (a.) as a lever by means of which the pencil or other similar article, can be
raised out of the perforation for part of its length, and (b.), as a small handle to be
used in completing the withdrawal of the said pencil.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, illustrating the application of the
present invention to an umbrella having a bent handle.
Figure 2 is a front elevation illustrating the application of the present invention
to a walking stick having a bent handle.

page_text: Figure 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, illustrating one way of using the
cap as the lever above referred to.
Figure 4 is an elevation illustrating the action of the cap as the said lever and
the use of it as the small handle above referred to, in the case of the application of
the invention to a straight stick.
Figure 5 is a vertical section of a lining tube, its spring fingers and flange.
Figure 6 is a side elevation of a lining tube, its spring fingers and flange.
a is the handle or top of the stick. A comparison of Figure 6 with Figures 1, 2
and 3, shews that the present invention may be applied to a stick having either a
bent or a straight handle.
is the perforation. In respect of its position in the stick, it is axial, i.e.,
longitudinal and central; the outer end of it presenting itself through the skin of
the handle near the top of the latter, as illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3, or in the
centre of the top of a straight stick as illustrated in Figure 4.
c is a pencil. We have chosen a pencil for illustration because such an article
is, by reason of its so frequent combination with a walking stick or with that of an
unbrella, so typical of the conformation of the class of articles, the combination of
one of which with a stick of the class specified, forms the subject matter of the
present invention.
d is the lining tube. It fits the perforation but need not extend to the bottom
of it. Both these constructional features are illustrated in Figures 1 and 3. The
lining tube is fixed to the stick by means of holding screws d' which are passed
through the flange d² into the handle. When the latter is straight, the tube d
may be soldered to the cap e of such straight stick. In any case, this lining tube
may be dispensed with as it is not an essential element of the invention but only a
convenient constructional feature in respect of safeguarding the perforation against
friction and more particularly of carrying the spring fingers next described.
ff are the spring fingers. There are, preferably, two of them, one opposite to
the other. Their natural resilience holds them apart by a distance about half that
of the diameter of the pencil. When therefore the pencil is pushed down into the
perforation as far as it will go, these fingers are separated by its thickness, and
closing upon it, in virtue of their resilience, grip it between them. In the event of
a lining tube being dispensed with, the fingers may be held in position by being
fixed to the sides of the perforation.
One finger only can be made to meet the requirements of the invention, but we
prefer to use the pair described and illustrated.
g is the cap or lever. It has its fulcrum upon or in a pivot gl or the equivalent
thereof, by which, it is held to the pencil. The pivot g' stands at right angles
with the axis of the pencil. The said cap or lever is larger than the perforation
that it may cover it, that it may serve, at the same time, as a stop against the
pencil being pushed too far down into the perforation, and afterwards as the small
handle above mentioned. When the invention is to be fitted to a bent handle, we
make the pivot transverse to the direction of the handle, and the cap itself oval,
thereby making the lever as long as the maximum convenient dimension of the cap,
permits of.
98 is a thumb nail sink formed in the flange. This is shewn only in Figures 2
and 3.
The cap or lever is used as a lever in either of two ways. One way is to grasp
the stick below the handle, with the thumb resting upon the lower half of the
lever and push the convexity of it upwards. This makes the lever turn upon its
fulcrum and present part of the length of the pencil above the handle. Another
way is to insert the thumb nail under the lever where it overhangs the sink g³ and
pull the lever up-see Figure 3. Either method of turning the lever g on its
fulcrum g' withdraws the pencil from the perforation far enough for the said lever
to be held as a small handle in the way illustrated in Figure 4 for completing the
withdrawal.
Provided that the two principal functions above specified are provided for, the

page_text: present invention does not limit us in respect of the shape of the cap, which may
for that reason be varied accordingly.
The flange serves also as a bearing surface for the cap, especially when it is
being used as a lever, and it is for that reason, desirable, apart from its use in
connection with the lining tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination of pencil or the like, cap or lever pivoted upon the end
thereof and spring finger or fingers, as set forth.
The combination of pencil, pivoted cap or lever, perforation, and stick handle
as set forth.
3. The combination of stick handle, perforation, spring finger or fingers, pencil
or the like, and pivoted cap or lever, as set forth.
Dated this 30th day of October 1894.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.