Improvements in Supporting Devices for Walking Sticks, Umbrellas or the like,
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1899-Accepted, 15th July, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supporting Devices for Walking Sticks, Umbrellas or
the like,
We, CARL LOTHAR EDUARD BUSSE, and FRANZ RICHARD KÜHNEL, both of
62, Kommandantenstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers,
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 follow-
ing statement:-
The present invention relates to improved devices or arrangements admitting
of the attachment or fixing of walking sticks or of umbrellas to tables, chairs,
cornices, and generally to articles of furniture or utensils of any description, as
well as to clothes.
The characteristic features of the invention consist in that the walking stick
or the umbrella etc., is provided with a pincers or nippers of any suitable descrip-
tion which by seizing or gripping a piece of furniture, a utensil, a dress, etc.,
establishes between the walking stick, the umbrella, etc., and the other object, a
connection of such a sort that the said walking stick or umbrella cannot fall
to the ground.
The device can be applied or connected to the walking stick or to the umbrella
in any desired manner, for example by means of a nail, of a screw, etc., or by
means of metal wires, small chains, cords, bands, etc., these latter means admit-
ting of their being twisted round the walking stick or the umbrella or passed
through an opening or hole formed in the said walking stick or the said
umbrella.
The pincers or nippers itself may be constructed of any suitable material and
be of any desired shape.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, of the annexed drawing illustrate by way of example,
some forms or modifications of construction of the invention.
Fig. 1, represents a pincers or nippers the two jaws or arms a of which are
jointed together in a groove b. Between these jaws or arms a is provided a
spring e, which during a state of rest, serves the purpose of holding open or
apart the upper portions of the said jaws or arms, which action at the same time
brings together or closes the lower portions of the said arms or jaws.
By pressing upon the upper parts of the arms or jaws a at the points e so as to
close or bring together these parts, the lower parts or portions of the arms or
jaws are opened out as is indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the pincers
or nippers will seize or take hold of the object at the points d, d.
In this instance the pincers or nippers is connected by means of chains or
cords to a small metal plate g, which is fixed to the walking stick or to the
umbrella as is shown in Fig. 2, of the annexed drawing.
or
Fig. 3, illustrates a form or modification of construction of the pincers
nippers which is far simpler being formed of spring wire. Whilst in a state
of rest the points d' of the arms or jaws a are in a position close together; in
order to use the device, the arms or jaws a must be opened or separated by setting
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page_text: apart the points d', as is shown by the dotted lines, and can then be caused to
seize or lay hold by means of these open arms or jaws of the object which it is
intended to use for the support respectively of the walking stick or of the
umbrella.
This pincers or nippers is fixed to the walking stick or or to the umbrella by
means of a small chain, or of a cord for in any other desired manner.
Fig. 4, illustrates the manner in which the walking stick or the umbrella h
may be secured to the table i by means of the pincers or nippers illustrated in
Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
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An arrangement or device admitting of establishing between walking sticks,
umbrellas, etc., and other objects, furniture, etc., a connection such that the
throwing down of the said walking sticks, umbrellas, etc., will be rendered
impossible, the said arrangement or device being characterized by a pincers or
nippers of any suitable form applied to walking sticks, umbrellas etc. substan-
tially as hereinabove described and illustrated in the annexed drawing.
Dated this 6th day of May 1899.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.