An Improved Combined Stick and Umbrella.
Year: 1898

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Stick and Umbrella.
I, ERNST HUGENDUBEL, of 25, Hirschstrasse, Stuttgart, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, 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:-
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This invention has essentially for its object a stick umbrella which without the
cover has the appearance of an elegant umbrella, whilst when provided with the cover
fully resembles an ordinary walking stick. The manipulation is extremely
practical as the leather cover may be carried as a small packet in the pocket.
The combined walking sticks and umbrellas hitherto employed no longer comply
with modern requirements as regards elegance of appearance, etcetera. As sticks
they are always very thick, clumsy and impractical and their double object is at
once obvious. This equally applies when they are used as a closed umbrella as the
transfer from walking stick to umbrella stick takes place very incompletely.
This improved umbrella entirely avoids these drawbacks and possesses all the
properties as regards elegance, ease of handling and solidity which can be required
of such an appliance.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a view of this improved combined walking stick and umbrella with
the outer cover removed; and
Figure 2, with the cover on; whilst
Figures 3 to 10 are various details hereinafter described, on an enlarged scale,
by means of which an elegant appearance is imparted to the appliance as a walk-
ing stick and as an umbrella.
At the lower end of the stick handle A, a metal sheath or casing B is fixed which
has places partly stamped out so as to be free at the sides and thus act as spring
tongues and which are provided in the centre with a small outwardly bulging
projection 61, Figure 3. A cover E preferably made of thin leather is fixed at its
upper end to a long thin sheet metal sheath or holder D which has a screw thread d
at top and is thus adapted to be screwed into a metal cap or ring C provided with
an internal thread c¹ and serving as a fastening holder so that the upper end of the
cover is firmly held between C and D, Figure 5. The lower end of the cover E is
fixed in a groove i of a tapering hollow ferrule J which if desired has a metal end
or point, Figures 8 and 10, or may form an open socket, Figure 9. When the
cover E is drawn over the umbrella the fastening ring C fits exactly over the
sheath B and the ferrule J of the cover bears against a projection h on the point H
of the umbrella stick as soon as the spring tongues b of the locking holder B have
snapped with their projections in an inner groove e provided in the fastening
ring C. The cover E is then drawn taut and tapers progressively and continuously

page_text: from top to bottom, Figure 2, that is to say the combined stick and umbrella
appears quite like an ordinary walking stick. The thin metal casing D lying
under the cover produces a continuous or straight continuation of the cover from
the sheath B over the thinner part of the umbrella almost up to the thickest part of
same and also imparts a certain rigidity to the upper part of the stick.
A band fastener must be employed which fits closely to the umbrella and which
thereby opposes no resistance to the holder 1) when slipped in and out.
Without
this fastening band this form of construction of combined walking stick and
umbrella would be impossible as the umbrella covering would be destroyed by
the sheath moving to and fro.
In order to avoid this the fastening band F shown in Figure 6 is used, the low
flat fastening hooks y of which band are inserted through a slot g¹ of the elongated
fastening eyelet G and then fixed on a bar g2 of same. The fastening eyelet G is
in the centre domed outwards and has on its perimeter a countersunk groove in
which a number of holes o are provided for the attachment of the fastening band
so that the fastening threads do not project above the edge of the groove, and as
further the cover holder is held somewhat away from the threads and the edge of
the groove by the said domed part when the cover is passed over the umbrella the
threads are not damaged.
The umbrella handle A is tapered conically at the point a² beneath the handle
socket or locking sheath B and has a tapering projection a' which gradually merges
into the stick a of the umbrella S, on which projection a¹ the ribs of the umbrella
rest when closed so that externally they appear of equal thickness with the handle
part a and impart an elegant appearance to the umbrella.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A combined walking stick and umbrella characterised by a sheath (B) being
fixed at the lower end of the stick handle (A) in which sheath (B) spring tongues (b)
are formed by partial stamping out, and have outwardly bulging projections (0)
which when a cover (E) is drawn on, snap into an internal groove (c) of a locking
holder (C) which is fastened to the cover (E) by means of a thin walled short metal
holder (D) and strains said cover (E) taut by a hollow ferrule (3) provided on said
cover bearing against a projection (h) of the umbrella point, whereby there is
imparted to the combined stick and umbrella (or rather to its cover) an elegant
appearance resembling a walking stick, whilst when the umbrella is used, the
cover (E) may be conveniently carried in the pocket owing to the use of only a
short holder (D) substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In the combined walking stick and umbrella hereinbefore described, a hollow
ferrule (J) with or without a metal end () and provided with a groove () in which
the lower end of the cover (E) is so held that externally it appears as a gradually
and evenly tapering continuation of the lower part of the ferrule (J) substantially
as described.
3. In the combined walking stick and umbrella hereinbefore described, a fasten-
ing band for the umbrella, having on one end an elongated fastening eyelet (G) 4
somewhat domed in the centre which eyelet has thread holes at the edge in
channelled or grooved recesses with the object of preventing the attachment threads
being cut by the drawing on of the closely fitting cover (E) which latter is pro-
vided with a fastening socket or sheath (C), and which is locked by a flat hook (g)
which enters through a slot (g) and is held fast on a bar (92) on the eyelet (G) 5
and lies so deep that the cover (E) does not come in contact with it, substantially
as described.
4. In order to impart an elegant appearance to the combined stick and umbrella
hereinbefore described when used as a closed umbrella, the tapering of the stick
at (a²) under the sheath or socket (B) and providing between this tapered part and 5

page_text: the actual umbrella stick (a) a further projection (a) on which the ends of the
umbrella ribs rest in such a way that they appear externally as an even continua-
tion of the stick part (a) substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of November 1898.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.