An Improved Means of Suspension for Sticks, Umbrellas, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Means of Suspension for Sticks, Umbrellas, and the like.
I, JACQUES MÜLLER, Merchant, of 78, Markgrafenstrasse, Berlin, Germany, 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:
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The subject matter of this invention is an arrangement, on umbrellas sticks
and the like by which these articles may be suspended when not in use.
The
arrangement is intended to supersede suspension by the handles, which in most
cases are of unsuitable form for this purpose, as well as the loops which hitherto
were frequently attached to them, over which it will have the advantage of greater
efficiency and more especially of not being visible when not in use, and not in-
commmoding the carrier.
The annexed drawing shows one form of execution of this arrangement.
Fig. showing the arrangement when out of use.
Fig. 2 when ready for use.
Just above the handle a longitudinal slot a is formed in the stick, in which
a hook turning on a pivote is lodged, the bend of the hook being turned towards
the handle. The hook is guided between two strips of metal e arranged at right
angles to the covering plate of the slot, and which have fastened to them, at
their end opposite to the covering plate, a spring f which, pressing against the
hook causes its bent part, (when released) to protrude from the slot a and a
correspondingly placed slot in the covering plate. On an extension of the shank
of hook projecting beyond the pivoting point c, a small spring-catch g is
arranged, the head of which projecting through a slot in the covering plate h,
and lodging with a narrow ledge against the extension of the hook, will fix the
suspension hook in the slot a, keeping the spring f compressed. This is the
position of the mechanism while the stick or umbrella is in use. If the catch g
is withdrawn, hook b, being thus released will be forced by the pressure of the
spring, into the position indicated in Fig. 2, and may thus be used for safely
suspending the article fitted with it. When the hook is pressed back into the
slot it will be fixed automatically in its original position by the catch springing
forward and once more catching into it.
The arrangement may be modified in various ways as regards its details, but
its characteristic feature is always a hook-like arrangement which is concealed
while the stick or umbrella is in use and which after releasing a bolt-like catch
is automatically forced out by a spring and which may serve for suspending the
article.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
In sticks umbrellas or the like a suspension arrangement consisting of an

page_text: under the influence of a spring arranged behind it, on releasing a catch y will
be forced with its bent part out of the slot sufficiently far to perimit of its being
used for suspending the article provided with it.
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J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.