An Improved Combined Walking-stick and Pipe.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1894-Accepted, 8th Sept., 1894
An Improved Combined Walking-stick and Pipe.
A communication by HIERONYMUS WIMMEL, of 16, Dielenhausweg, Cassel, in
the Empire of Germany, Joiner.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street, Manchester,
both in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 has for its object a walking stick composed of various parts, the
separate parts of which are so formed that they may be taken apart, and parts of
the same may contain a long pipe.
The invention is shown on the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 being a longitudinal section of the stick showing the parts of the pipe
contained therein;
Figure 2, an elevation of the stick with the pipe removed;
Figure 3, an elevation of the pipe composed of the various parts;
Figure 4, a section through the centre piece b showing another form of the inner
parts.
The handle a (Figures 1 and 2) consists of two parts, namely, a handle piece
with a half crutch a and a half crutch a¹. Both parts are connected by means of a
hinge and are held together, when closed, by means of suitable mechanism. In the
hollow handle a, the inside of which divided into two parts by means of a
partition o, there is the lower part or socket g of a pipe and a pipe head h, so
arranged that the handle of the stick may have a very convenient form. To the
shank or neck a³ of the stick, a hollow part or tube b, which is also composed of
various parts, is fitted, the same being directly screwed into the shank or neck a³.
A piece c is screwed on this part b and on this piece c again the piece d, on which
the end piece, or ferrule e, is also screwed. The separate parts of the stick are
very different one from another; thus the part 6 carries inside it the tubes m and n
(Figure 1) telescopically inserted one in another, the first of which tubes has an
end piece m' against which a spiral springs, provided in the interior of the stick b,
presses.
Another form of construction of the tubes m and n is shown in Figure 4, in which
the tube m is limited in its outermost position by means of a screw t, whilst the
tube n possesses a partition n' on which a plates with a suitable recess for the
screw presses by means of the spring s. Whilst in Figure 1 the tube m, with its
tube n lying inside, is pressed out, in Figure 4 the spring only acts against the
tube n. In this latter arrangement the tubes are easily drawn out and the
The part c forms
inner tube n is prevented from sticking fast in the outer tube m.
the stem of the pipe, and has a mouthpiece f screwed on, a flexible tube connecting
the mouthpiece and the stem c. The under part d, which, when the parts of the
pipe lie inside the stick, is screwed on the tubular piece c, forms the extension of
the socket g and has a knob or ferrule e when put together as shown in Figure 1.
If it be desired to draw the parts of the pipe out of the stick shown in Figure 1
containing the same, and to put them together, the part e together with the mouth-
piece is first unscrewed from the part b; d is removed from the tube c; the
socket 9,
which has been taken out of the handle a and a¹, is then screwed onto the
tube c and under this socket g, the tube piece d. When the head of the pipe has
been inserted, the long pipe is ready for use.

page_text: The necessary tobacco may be carried in the lower hollow part of the shank a
of the handle, and access to the tobacco placed therein is obtained by opening the
slide piece p (Figure 2).
By simply drawing out of the remaining parts of the stick the tubes m and n
which are telescopically inserted one in the other, which tubes, when drawn out,
are retained in an extended position by means of springs and by screwing the
ferrule e on the end piece n, a stick is produced in its original length as shown in
Figure 2.
In order to facilitate the drawing out of the tubes m and n telescopically inserted
in one another, a spiral springs presses either directly or by means of a plate s¹ on
the end m' of the tube m which is closed at one end (Figure 1) or the end n' of the
tube a (Figure 4). Further, in the upper part of the stick b a match holder i may
be arranged which may be closed by a lid or cover k. The stick, as shown in
Figure 2, may thus be used as such when the separate parts of the pipe have been
removed therefrom. After the pipe has been used, the separate parts of the same
may be taken apart, the socket with the pipe head may be laid in the opened
handle a, the handle closed, and the tube c after the telescopic tubes m and n have
been inserted one in the other, be screwed into the tube piece b. After the part
has been screwed on c and the ferrule e on d, the stick assumes its original form
with the pipe contained in the inside. It is evident that the separate points of
connection may be fastened by a bayonet joint instead of by screws, or in other
suitable manner.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is-
1. A walking stick containing a pipe characterised by the separate parts of the.
pipe when taken apart being arranged in the interior of the stick in such a way
that, on the unfastening or removing of the parts of the pipe from the stick, the
parts which form the pipe are replaced by other parts of the hollow stick
telescopically inserted in one another substantially as hereinbefore described and
shown on the accompanying drawing.
2. In the walking stick described in Claim 1 having a pipe contained in its
interior, the arrangement of the pipe head and socket in a hollow space formed in
the handle of the stick, which has the shape of a hollow crutch substantially as
described and shown.
3. In the walking stick containing a pipe described in Claim 1, the arrangement
of a spring buffers within the cylindrical part of the stick with the object of
pressing outwards the smaller of the two tubes which are telescopically inserted
one in the other, in order to allow of such smaller tube being drawn out more
conveniently substantially as described and shown.
4. In the telescopic tubes described in Claim 1 the stopping or fixing devices for
preventing the tubes, when drawn out, from shutting up, substantially as described
and shown.
Dated this 11th day of July 1801