Improved Ferrules with Adjustable Action and Cushioned Ends for Walking Sticks and Crutches.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Ferrules with Adjustable Action and Cushioned Ends for
Walking Sticks and Crutches.
I, JULIAN GILLMAN HOPGOOD, of 74 Clissold Road, Stoke Newington, Middlesex,
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide lame, infirm, and other persons, also
cripples who use walking sticks, or crutches, with an article that will not slip on the
paving stones, and also to provide such sticks and crutches with means of lengthening
or shortening them, as circumstances demand, and having also the advantage of
easily renewing the non-slipping cushion at little expense.
For the purpose of my invention, I fit a tubular ferrule on the end of the stick
or crutch with a screw thread on the outside, on which, a screw cap or tube can be
adjusted. This cap or tube is open at the bottom and a plug of india rubber or the
like is pushed or screwed into it, with part projecting as a body to be put into contact
with the ground.
The inner end of the rubber presses against the ferrule.
The rubber plug can be cured at the exposed end to the desired hardness
to resist wear, without destroying the gripping action while in contact with the
pavement.
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1000
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said Julian Gillman Hopgood.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Ferrules with Adjustable Action and Cushioned Ends for
Walking Sticks and Crutches.
I JULIAN GILLMAN HOPGOOD of 74 Clissold Road, Stoke Newington Middlesex,
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 this invention is to provide lame, infirm and other persons also
cripples who use walking sticks or crutches with an article that will not slip on the
paving stones, and also to provide such sticks and crutches with means of lengthening
or shortening them as circumstances demand and having also the advantage of easily
renewing the non-slipping cushion at little expense.
For the purpose of my invention I fit a tubular ferrule A on the end B of the
stick C, Figure 1 of the annexed drawings, or crutch, Figure 2. with a screw thread
on the outside on which a screw cap or tube D can be adjusted. This cap or tube D
is open at the bottom and a plug of india rubber E or the like is pushed or screwed
into it, with part projecting, as a body to be put into contact with the ground. The
inner end of the rubber presses against the ferrule A.
The rubber plug can be cured at the exposed end to the desired hardness
to resist wear without destroying the gripping action while in contact with the
pavement.
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 appliances A D for the aediustment of a oushion II of a walking stick or a

page_text: 2. Fitting a walking stick or a crutch with an adjustable tube D on a ferrule A
when an india rubber plug E is employed therewith as and for the purposes described.
The 6th day of September 1889.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said J. G. Hopgood.