Improvements in Umbrellas, Parasols, and Walking Sticks, combining Receptacles for Smelling Salts or Scents
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 18th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Umbrellas, Parasols, and Walking Sticks, combining
Receptacles for Smelling Salts or Scents.
I, JOSEPH Cook, of North Biddick Hall, in the County of Durham, Iron
and Steel Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of said invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to providing in the upper end of the stick or partially
therein and partially in the handle of an umbrella, parasol or walking stick, a
receptacle for smelling salts or scent, preferably contained in a glass bottle
made to fit into said receptacle and provided with a stopper which may be
attached to a cap (which may for the handle or part thereof), hinged, screwed,
or otherwise secured to the stick so as to open the bottle when partially or wholly
removed and to perfectly close it when replaced; or said stopper may be separate
from the cap so as to be accessible when the latter is removed, or partially
removed, or it may pass through the handle, working in a screw therein, so that on
turning a slightly projecting milled rim, which may form a plate for a name or crest,
the stopper can be readily unscrewed or screwed to open or close the bottle without
interfering with the handle.
In another form the bottle may be opened or closed by turning round the
handle on the stick in a segment of a circle thereby opening or closing slots or
holes in the cover of the bottle.
Improvements in Umbrellas, Parasols, and Walking Sticks, combining.
Receptacles for Smelling Salts or Scents.
I, JOSEPH Cook of North Biddick Hall, in the County of Durham, Iron
and Steel Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to providing in the upper end of the stick, or partially
therein and partially in the handle of an umbrella, parasol, or walking stick, a
receptacle for smelling salts or scent, preferably contained in a glass bottle made
to fit into said receptacle and provided with a stopper which may be attached to a
cap (which may form the handle or part thereof) hinged, screwed, or otherwise
secured to the stick, so as to open the bottle when partially or wholly removed and
to perfectly close it when replaced; or said stopper may be separate from the cap
so as to be accessible when the latter is removed, or partially removed, or it may
pass through the handle, working in a screw therein, so that on turning a slightly
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page_text: projecting, "milled" rim, which may form a plate for a name or crest, the stopper
can be readily unscrewed, or screwed, to open, or close, the bottle without
interfering with the handle. In another form the bottle may be opened, or closed,
by turning round the handle on the stick in a segment of a circle thereby opening,
or closing, slots or holes in the cover of the bottle.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
The drawings herewith illustrate my invention in various forms of application,
and of approximately actual size, for walking sticks, umbrellas, and sunshades or
parasols, the same letters of reference applying to corresponding parts on all
the figs.
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In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 5^ the attachment of the handle to the top of the stick
is effected by a "bayonet-joint as an efficient means both of securing it and
providing for readily detaching it, when necessary to get at the bottle containing
the smelling salts or scent to replenish it, but instead of such a form of joint,
I may use as an equivalent a screw the threads of which are partially cut away,
so that a half or quarter turn of the handle will detach it after the manner of
the breech " screw in guns, but I prefer the "bayonet-joint."
In Figs.
and 6 the handle forms a lid, secured by a spring catch when closed.
and opening on a hinge, being an alternative form of fitting.
Referring to Figs. and 2, A is a thin metallic case secured on the top of the:
stick B, by the rivetted pins C, and forming the receptacle for the glass bottle D;
Around this case A, fits a metal socket E, into which the handle F is secured
by cement or otherwise, and in this socket is a right angled slot G, the open end
of which slips over a stud H, fixed in the case A, and, being turned about
half a revolution, the handle is secured, like a bayonet on a rifle barrel:
The glass stopper J, of the bottle D, is kept tight in its seat by a washer K
of india rubber or other suitable soft material, upon which the handle
presses, and, when the handle is detached, the stopper can be taken out,
but in Fig. 2 the stopper J (in this case of metal) is screwed through a metal
socket in the handle, having a milled head M, which opens or closes
the bottle by withdrawing or inserting the stopper, and in this modification the
bottle may be cleaned out and replenished without detaching the handle which may
be permanently secured upon the case A, without a bayonet joint fitting. Fig. 3
shews a modification in which. the handle F fits over the case A (containing the
bottle), and the bayonet-joint is so formed-by the slot G being inclined--that
when the handle is turned in one direction the stopper J, cemented into the
diaphragm N, is withdrawn with the handle, and, on the handle being replaced
and turned in the opposite direction, the stopper is tightly inserted in the bottle
by the inclined slot, an elastic washer K preventing too great force being applied
to split the neck of the bottle. Fig. 4 shews this mode of application of the
"bayonet-joint" in another form in which the stopper J is extracted without
removing the handle by turning it in one-direction, as shewn by, full lines, when
the scent, or aroma of the salts, issues through small perforations P in the handle,
and when the latter is turned in. the opposite direction the stopper is tightly
inserted in the bottle against the elastic washer K in. the handle F, as, shewn
by dotted lines and this will be found a very convenient form of construction and is
that which I prefer.
On Figs. and 5 is shewn another modification in which the handle F, being
turned on the case A, by the "bayonet-joint" fitting, in one direction or the
other, by means of a radial slot S, formed in a diaphragm N; opens or closes a
similar radial. slot, S' in the glass bottle (or in a cover attached thereto), and the
scent issues through perforations in the handle. In this case, there is no stopper,
and for that reason it is; not, so reliable for tightness as a ground tapered stopper
which is preferable.
Figs. 6 and 6 shew modified forms in which, instead of the "bayonet-joint
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page_text: fitting, the handle F is hinged on the metallic case A, and secured when closed
by a spring catch Q, rivetted thereto. As shewn by Fig. 6 the handle F when
opened, as shewn by dotted lines, withdraws the stopper J, cemented into the
diaphragm N, and, when closed, as in full lines, re-inserts it, undue pressure of the
stopper in the neck of the bottle being prevented by an elastic or flexible washer K.
As in Fig. 6 the handle when opened leaves the stopper J, which has previously
been pressed close into the neck of the bottle by a washer K of some suitable
material on the underside of the diaphragm, to be extracted by the finger and
thumb.
The case A, socket E, and handle F, may be made of any suitable metal as
gold, silver, aluminium, or any inferior metal electro plated or otherwise, and may
be ornamented in any way by carving or engraving.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
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1st. The improvements in umbrellas, parasols, or walking sticks, consisting in
the application of a bayonet-joint to the handles of umbrellas, parasols, or
walking sticks, in such manner that a bottle, containing smelling salts, scents, or
the like, fitted in a case secured on the top of the stick, can be opened or closed
by a stopper being withdrawn or inserted by turning the "bayonet-joint So as
either to detach it entirely, or so far that it will operate to withdraw or insert
the stopper without being detached, substantially as described and shewn by
Figs. 3, 4, and 5, or in a modified form by Fig. 1.
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2nd. The improvements in umbrellas, parasols, and walking sticks, consisting in
providing on the top of the stick thereof a receptacle for a bottle to contain
smelling salts, scent, or the like, in the form of a case A, over which fits a socket E,
forming part of, or attached to, the handle F, the said socket being connected to
the case by a "bayonet-joint" in such manner that it can be readily detached for
access to the stopper J, as in Fig. 1; or to withdraw the stopper with the handle
as in Fig. 3; or, as in Fig. 4, to withdraw it by turning, without detaching, the
handle; or, as in Fig. 2, with the stopper J inserted through a screwed socket L;
or the modifications shewn by Fig. 5, without a stopper, and Figs. 6 and 64 in
which the handle F is hinged to the case A and secured with a spring catch Q,
and the stopper J is either withdrawn by the handle F in opening, or by hand
when open, in all the various forms, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 16th day of March 1895
T. J. DANSON, F. Inst. P.A.,
Chartered Patent Agent,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Agent for Applicant.