An Improved Portable Stand or Rest for Sticks, Fire Arms, Golf Clubs, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Stand or Rest for Sticks, Fire Arms, Golf
Clubs, and the like.
I, KILLINGWORTH WILLIAM HEDGES, of 7 Carteret Street, Westminster,
London, S.W., Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to manufacture an appliance which may be used as
a walking stick, and is so constructed as to be convertible into a stand or rest for
sticks, fire arms, golf clubs, and the like.
My invention consists in the adaptation of two sticks or portions of sticks, tubes,
rods, or their equivalents, so pivoted together near their upper ends, as to form and
be conveniently used as a walking stick, when the owner is walking or travelling,
and also capable of being opened outwards at their lower ends, so as to form two
sides of a triangle when so opened out, for the purpose of forming a rest or stand
as aforesaid.
The two extended lower ends may be pressed into soft ground, when available,
for securing greater firmness, but the contact of the articles to be supported, when
placed at an angle to the stand is usually sufficient to secure them against falling.
By pivoting the two portions of the stand or rest together at a short distance
from their upper ends, a fork is provided, in which the articles to be supported are
securely held.
The appliance may consist of two segments of a stick, or of a stick and pivoted
rod, or of channel metal and a pivoted rod, or of channel metal and a pivoted
tube, or equivalent materials.
The pivot, or a portion of the upper fork, is sometimes fitted with a suitable
spring, having a tendency to open out the parts of the stick, so that it may be
readily placed in position with one hand only. The same effect may be produced
by arranging the weight of material of one of the limbs, so that it may open out by
pivoting round the other limb when held at an angle. In some cases I fit a syren
or a whistle at the top of the handle, which will be found convenient when the
stand is used for golf.
Dated 21st Februar 1904
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Stand or Rest for Sticks, Fire Arms, Golf
Clubs, and the like.
I, KILLINGWORTH WILLIAM HEDGES, of 92 Victoria Street, London, S.W.,
Electrical Engineer, late of 7 Carteret Street Westminster 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 :-
The object of my invention is to manufacture an appliance which may be used as

page_text: a walking stick and is so constructed as to be convertible into a stand or rest for
sticks, fire-arms, golf clubs, and the like.
My invention consists in the adaptation of two sticks, or portions of sticks, tubes,
rods, or their equivalents, so pivotted together at their upper ends as to form and
be conveniently used as a walking stick, when the owner is walking or travelling,
and also capable of being opened outwards at their lower ends so as to form two
sides of a triangle when so opened out, for the purpose of forming a rest or stanl
as aforesaid. The two extended lower ends may be pressed into soft ground, when
available, for securing greater firmness, but the contact of the articles to be
supported, when placed at an angle to the stand, is usually sufficient to secure them
against falling.
By pivotting the two portions of the stand or rest together at a short distance
from their upper ends, a fork is provided, in which the articles to be supported are
securely held.
The appliance may consist of two segments of a stick, or a stick and pivotted
rod, or of channel metal and a pivotted rod, or equivalent materials.
The pivot, or a portion of the upper fork, is sometimes fitted with a suitable
spring, having a tendency to open out the parts of the stick, so that it may readily
be placed in position with one hand only. The same effect may be produced by
arranging the weight of the material of one of the limbs, so that it may open out
by pivotting round the other limb when held at an angle. In some cases I fit a
siren or a whistle at the top of the handle which will be found convenient when the
stand is used for golf.
If it is found objectionable to carry the clubs independently from the stick,
I provide a means of causing the stick to support them in the following simple
manner. A light metal rod or of wood or cane is hinged or otherwise fastened to
the stick, and at its bottom end is fitted a bucket or suitable support or protection
for the clubs which, if placed with their heads uppermost, will tend, on setting down
the stick, to cause the support to stand away from the other two legs and thus make
the rest stand by itself as well as when the clubs were in contact with the ground;
when lifted, the tendency of the clubs to fall out is prevented by a support fixed
either to the stick or to the suspension rod.
My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings to which the following
description refers.
The
Fig. 1 shows a walking stick fitted with a metallic rod, a, hinged at the point, b;
when inclined, it will take the form shown in Fig. 2, thus forming a rest at c.
metallic rod can be placed either in front (Fig. 1) or at the side (Fig. 2) of the
crook, or it can be made detachable from the stick and can be placed inside a hollow
stick or cane, when the latter is used as a walking stick. To secure an adjustment
allowing for varying thicknesses of sticks, I form the pivot as shown in Fig. 3; the
stud, a, has a thread cut on it and carries two back nuts, b, b, which can be adjusted
so that the requisite amount of the pin projects, on which the metallic rod pivots
at a¹ and is secured by the nut c.
In another form, Fig. 4, the stick is made in two halves with the exception of
the handle, and the halves are fastened together, when used as a walking stick, in
some suitable manner; the section, a, Fig. 4, shown projecting slightly above b, is
either fitted with a spring or slightly weighted at its lower end so that, when the
stick is tilted, a tends to open and assumes the form shown in Fig. 5.
Fig. 6 shows an arrangement by which the rod is caused to lock itself mechanically;
a is the steel rod; b, the pin fastened to the stick and having two flat sides; c is
a slot in the rod, the lower part of which is of sufficient size to allow of the pin
turning in it, while in the upper part of the slot the pin is locked. As the rod, a, is
slightly longer than the stick it will, when placed on the ground, cause the lower
part of the slot to come to the pin and thus allow the rod to pivot round the pin.
In another application, Fig. 7, the metallic rod, a, which may be of any suitable
section and is shown square in the enlarged view of the joint Fig. 74, is pivotted to
a channel-shaped tube 6, the section of which is shown at c. The upper part of this

page_text: tube has the opening on the opposite side to the opening in the lower part, as shown
in Fig. 74, from which it is evident that the whole of the rod, with the exception
of the handle, may when required be concealed within the tube. The pivot, e, may
be rivetted at one end on the outside of the tube, b, and screwed at the other end
to take a nut which will keep the rod, a, in place. A spring is fastened in the
groove of the tube to cause the rod to slightly open and stick into the ground when
the rest is to be used. When used as a walking stick, the rod shuts into and is
concealed by the channel-shaped tube and may be secured from swinging by any
suitable fastening; d is a whistle attached to the handle of the rod.
Fig. 8 shows an attachment which may be temporarily fastened by the hook, a,
on to an eye formed for the purpose at the end of the pin on which the stick
and rod pivot; this arrangement consists of a stiff rod, b, with a metal ring, c, at
the upper end and a bag, d, at the lower end made of leather, wire work, or other
material. When this attachment is fastened to the rest, it enables the golf clubs
or other appliances to be put through the ring with their ends in the bag, thus
keeping them clean and enabling the whole of them as well as the stand to be lifted
by means of the handle of the stick. When not in use, the attachment can be
easily unfastened from the stick. I may also use for holding the bag, instead of
the metal rod, a stick or cane in which case I prefer to attach it to the support by
affixing to the upper end of the cane or stick a piece of leather having a slit in it
which may be slipped over a hook on the end of the pivot or over a suitable
projecting point on the stick. The top support c may be a ring or hook and may
be fixed to the stick or that portion of the rest which is held in the hand. Such a
support, used without the bag attachment, is shown by the hook, d, Fig. 2.
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 improved form of portable stand or rest substantially as described and shewn
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Fifteenth day of November 1894.