Improved Combined Portable Seat, Table, and Walking Stick.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1896
[Communicated from abroad by ANTON VON ANDRASSY, of Döbrentey
Gasse No. 20, Buda-Pest, in the Kingdom of Hungary and Empire of
Austria, Chief Cashier of the Franzens-Canal Gesellschaft.]
Improved Combined Portable Seat, Table, and Walking Stick.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 31, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the
County of Lancaster, and Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of the present application for Letters Patent consists essentially of a
stick suitable for use as a walking stick which is also capable of being employed as
a seat or camp stool or as a table and which is consequently of great utility for
sportsmen, tourists, painters and so forth.
The construction of the apparatus is as follows:-The stick is formed of three
pieces pivoted on a three armed axis and capable of being turned thereon when the
apparatus is opened until a leather seat attached to the upper ends thereof is
stretched and a firm seat thus provided.
In order to prevent the feet of this stick sinking too deeply into soft ground, the
foot of each is provided with a triangular spike and a horizontal projection forming
one-third of a circle which serves to prevent the foot from sinking into the ground.
The three feet or segments of the stick are provided each at their upper ends with
a slot or bevelled-out piece in which the seat folds when the stick is closed. By
this arrangement the three feet can be folded together parallel to each other in
which my invention differs so far as I am aware from every other previous
construction. A portion of the seat projects when the stick is closed and can
be folded around the stick and secured with a strap or clip thereon.
A modification of the apparatus provides a folded table which when in the closed
condition is wrapped in the same manner round the stick and secured thereon.
When the table is required to be used the strap is released and the table is folded
backwards upon a hinge over the handle of the stick until it comes to rest upon the
same and thereby secures the requisite support.
Dated this 4th day of November 1895.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 31, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the
County of Lancaster, and Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of
.

page_text: Warwick, 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 :—
The object of the present application for Letters Patent consists essentially of a
stick suitable for use as a walking stick which is also capable of being employed as
seat or camp stool or as a table, and which is consequently of great utility for
portsmen, tourists, painters, and so forth.
Refouring
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of the present application for Letters Patent consists essentially of a
stick suitable for use as a walking stick which is also capable of being employed as
seat or camp stool or as a table, and which is consequently of great utility for
sportsmen, tourists, painters, and so forth.
Refouring he accompanying drawings +
Fig. 1 shews the apparatus closed.
Fig. 2 the same extended.
Fig. 3 the table addition closed.
Fig. 4 the same in use.
The construction of the apparatus is as follows:-The stick is formed of three
pieces A, B, C, pivoted on a three armed axis D and capable of being turned
thereon when the apparatus is opened until a leather seat E attached to the upper
ends thereof is stretched and a firm seat thus provided.
In order to prevent the feet of this stick sinking too deeply into soft ground, the
foot of each is provided with a triangular spike and a horizontal projection G
forming one-third of a circle which serves to prevent the foot from sinking into the
ground. The three feet or segments of the stick are provided each at their upper
ends with a slot or bevelled-out piece M in which the seat folds when the stick is
closed. By this arrangement the three feet can be folded together parallel to each
other in which my invention differs so far as I am aware from every other previous
construction.
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The edges of the segments G are preferably curved as shewn in dotted lines to
facilitate the opening and closing of the device. A portion of the seat projects
when the stick is closed and can be folded around the stick and secured with a
strap or clip thereon. Figure 3 shews the application of a folding table H which
when in the closed condition is wrapped in the same manner round the stick and
secured thereon by the strap I. When the table is required to be used, the strap I
. is released and the table is folded backwards upon a hinge K over the handle of
the stick L until it comes to rest upon the same and thereby secures the requisite
support.
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 :-
1. The combination of parts forming the improved walking-stick seat, with or
without the table attachment substantially as described.
2. In a walking-stick seat combination, the construction of the upper parts of
the legs with hollows M into which the rolled up sent E fits, so that the legs can fit
together closely and parallel throughout their length.
3. In a walking-stick seat combination the tripartite stop or plate G substantially
as described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
4. In a walking-stick seat combination, the folding table H revoluble on the
hinge K and supported when in use by the stick handle, substantially as described
and shewn.
Dated this 13th day of August 1896.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322 High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.