A New or Improved Portable Sound Reflector Attached to or Combined with Walking Sticks, Umbrellas, Parasols, or other Portable Cases or Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Feb., 1892-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Portable Sound Reflector Attached to or
Combined with Walking Sticks, Umbrellas, Parasols, or other
Portable Cases or Articles.
I JOHN WARD COUSINS of "Riversdale" Kent Road Southsea in the County
of Hants Surgeon do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My new or improved sound reflector (to be placed at the back of the ear of the
user) consists of two or more plates of metal or other suitable material so combined
as to be readily spread open or closed and folded together into a compact form
and then slid into or enclosed within a receptacle formed in the handle of a walking
stick, umbrella, parasol or enclosed in other portable case or article carried by the
user being mounted thereon or combined therewith so that it can be very quickly
opened for use and closed when not required.
The jointed or pivotted plates fit one over the other and can be readily opened
and fixed in position by a screw thumb piece projecting from a slot to force them
from the top of the case where they are fixed by a turn of the screw. Or other
suitable equivalent means of opening and fixing in position and closing the sound
reflector may be employed if desired.
The size or shape of the sound reflector may be greatly varied as also the
number of the plates which act somewhat after the manner of a folding
ladies-fan.
Dated
+1
1001
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
A New or Improved Portable Sound Reflector Attached to or
Combined with Walking Sticks, Umbrellas, Parasols, or other
Portable Cases or Articles.
I JOHN WARD COUSINS of "Riversdale" Kent Road Southsea in the County
of Hants Surgeon 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 :-
My new or improved sound reflector (to be placed at the back of the ear of the
user) consists of two or more plates of metal or other suitable material so combined
as to be either readily spread open or closed and folded together into a compact
form and then slid into or enclosed within a receptacle formed in the handle of a
walking stick, umbrella, parasol or enclosed in other portable case or article carried
by the user being mounted thereon or combined therewith so that it can be very
quickly opened for use and closed when not required.
The jointed or pivotted plates fit one over the other and can be readily opened
and fixed in position by a screw thumb piece projecting from a slot to force them
from the top of the case where they are fixed by a turn of the screw. Or other
suitable equivalent means of opening and fixing in position and closing the sound
reflector may be employed if desired.
The size or shape of the sound reflector may be greatly varied as also the

page_text: number of the plates which in opening and closing act somewhat after the manner
of a ladies folding fan.
And in order that my present invention may be readily understood and easily
carried into practice I have in the drawings hereunto annexed illustrated by way
of example a walking stick constructed according to my present invention and
having my improvements applied thereto.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side view of the upper part of a walking stick having my improve-
ments applied thereto and showing the sound reflector drawn out of its case in the
stick and spread out ready for use. The lower part of the stick is broken away.
Figure 2 is an edge view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a plan of the top of the stick the lid or cover being open and the
sound reflector in its closed position stowed away inside the stick.
Figure 4 shows a side view of the stick with the sound reflector device closed
and stowed away inside and the lid closed down-the stick thus appearing externally
similar to an ordinary walking stick.
a is the stick.
b is a metal cap to same having a lid e hinged thereto.
The plates leaves or sectors d are made of any suitable thin material but are
advantageously made of thin sheet metal and are all pivotted on the pine which
latter moves in guides or is otherwise made capable of travelling up and down a
certain distance inside the upper part of the stick.
These plates d may be arranged similarly to a ladies folding fan so that the
leaves d are capable of being spread out as in Figure 1 and fixed by their own
friction or by a clamp screw and also when closed all together the pin e and
leaves d can all descend together into the handle of the stick and the lid c is then
closed down.
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 1
claim is :-
1. The combination of a folding or collapsible sound reflector such as herein-
before described with a receptacle formed to receive same in articles such as
walking sticks umbrellas parasols or other similar articles or portable receptacles
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
2. The combination with a walking stick or umbrella stick such as a of a folding
or collapsible sound reflector formed of a series of thin plates such as d turning on
a common axis e and capable of opening aud closing after the manner of a ladies
folding fan substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this 2nd doy of Wah 1805
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.