IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STICKS OF UMBRELLAS, AND IN WALKING STICKS AND WHIPS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Boulthee Brooks, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer and Factor, and George Picken,
of Birmingham, aforesaid, Commercial Traveller, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STICKS OF UMBRELLAS, AND IN WALKING STICKS
AND WHIPS."
Sealed the 7th December 1869, and dated the 19th June 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Boultbee
Brooks and George Picken at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 19th June 1869.
We, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer and Factor, and GEORGE PICKEN, of Birmingham,
aforesaid, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STICKS OF UMBRELLAS AND IN
WALKING STICKS AND WHIPS," to be as follows:-

page_text: umbrella sticks, walking sticks, and whips a corkscrew or carriage key
the body or other part of the umbrella stick, walking stick, or whip,
having a recess for the reception of the corkscrew or carriage key. In
fixing the corkscrew or carriage key to the landle of the umbrella,
walking stick, or whip the said corkscrew or carriage key may be fixed
rigidly thereto by the shank or stem being screwed or rivetted to the
handle, or both.a corkscrew, and carriage key may be combined and con-
nected to the same handle. In this case the connection is not rigid but
is made in either of the following ways: In the handle a tube is fixed
in which the corkscrew slides, the tube being closed by a cap carrying
the carriage key. On unscrewing the cap and withdrawing the corkscrew
the said corkscrew is turned upon a joint at its base. The cap now
being screwed on the tube described forms with the handle of the
umbrella, walking stick, whip a complete handle to the corkscrew, by
which it may he conveniently turned. Or the corkscrew and carriage
key may be jointed together and made to screw at their junction into the
said tube. On unscrewing them from the tube turning the corkscrew at
right angles and serewing the junction piece into the tube a complete
handle for the corkscrew is formed. In either case the rotation of the
carriage key is prevented by a bolt or cotter. In order to connect
together the top or handle and body of the umbrella stick, walking
or whip, and prevent their accidental separation, we employ the following
mechanical arrangements:
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According to one of the arrangements we employ we connect the top
or handle with the stick or whip by a fastening somewhat resembling
the fastening called a bayonet joint, we make, however, the cross slot of
the said joint convex on its inner edge, so that the stud which engages
in the said slot after passing the said convexity can only be made to
return by the application of considerable force, and there is consequently
no risk of the top or handle becoming detached accidentally.
According to another arrangement we lix on the top or handle a spring
catch or snap fastening which engages in a slot or opening in, a socket
fixed on the body of the stick or whip. Pressure upon the said fastening
disengages it from the slot and permits the withdrawal.of the top or
jandle.
According to another arrangement are form a convex screw on the top
or handle which takes into a concave screw in the socket on the stick or

page_text: whip, a sliding bolt being employed to lock the screw and prevent the
accidental separation of the top or handle from the stick. When the
separable top or handle is fixed on the body of the umbrella, walking
stick, or whip, the said umbrella, or walking stick, or whip differs but
little in appearance from those of the ordinary construction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Boulthee Brooks and George Picken in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th December 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we. JOHN
BOULTBEE BROOKS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer and Factor, and GEORGE l'ICKEN, of Birmingham, aforesaid,
Commercial Traveller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself. Her heirs and suecessors, give
and grant unto us, the said John Boultbee Brooks and George Picken,
Her special licence that we, the said John Boulthee Brooks and George
Picken, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said John Boultbee Brooks and George Picken, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE STICKS OF UMBRELLAS, AND IN WALKING STICKS AND WHIPS."
upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Boulthee Brooks
and George Picken, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us, or them, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Boultbee Brooks, on behalf
of myself, and the said George Picken, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention has reference to the sticks of umbrellas, and walking
sticks, and whips, having separable tops or handles provided with a cork-
screw, or carriage key, or a combined corkscrew and carriage key, and
our said Invention consists of the arrangement or combination of parts,
herein-after described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, for
connecting the said separable tops or handles with the hollow body or
upper part of the stick or whip. Our Invention also consists in
arranging and connecting together the parts of combined corkscrews and
carriage keys for the said separable tops or handles, in the manner
herein-after described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Figure represents partly in elevation and partly in section the
separable top or handle of an umbrella stick or walking stick provided
with a carriage key, the said top or handle being connected to the
upper part or body of the stick, according to our Invention, and Figure 2
represents in elevation the said separable top or handle and body of
the stick disconnected from one another; Figures 3, 4, and 5 are parts of
the same, as herein-after described. The same letters of reference
indicate the same parts in each of the Figures of the Drawings.
is the separable top or handle, and is the carriage key fixed
rigidly thereto; e is the upper part of the stick having a hollow in it
for the reception of the carriage key b. The separable handle is
connected to and disconnected from the hollow body of the stick by
the following arrangement of parts:-On the said handle a is a metallic
collar, provided with a stud e and slots /. g, opening into one another
after the manner of the slots of a bayonet joint fastening.
The cross
slot of the joint is best seen in the elevation of the separate handle,
Figure 8. On the upper end of the body of the stick a metal collar h
is fixed (shewn separately in Figure 4), the said collar having a narrow
slot at top in which the stem or neck of the stud c on the collar may
engage. In the said collar is a horizontal slot, and over the said
slot a ring works. The said ring is connected to the collar by
means of a pin or stud m working in the slot
pin or stud me and the slots f, g, in the collar
of the said ring. This
constitute the fastening

page_text: by which the separable handle a is connected to the body of the stick.
The ring is shown separately in elevation and plan in Figure 5. In
fastening the handle a provided with the carriage key to the body e
of the stick the ring is turned so that its stud m. is in a line with the
slot and stud e. The handle is now introduced into the hollow
body of the stick c, the stud e being inserted in the slot 7, and the
stud m of the ring passing through the slot g in the collar d. The
parts now assume the respective positions represented in Figure 1, the
stud m being opposite to the horizontal slot in the collar d. By now
turning the moveable ring the stud m moves in the slot in the
collar, and takes into and passes to the top of the slot f in the collar
of the separable handle as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1.
The separable handle is thereby securely fixed to the body of the stick,
and the said stick differs but little in appearance from an ordinary stick.
The cross slot g of the joint is made convex or straight on its inner edge
at g, that is the metal forming a continuation of the slot f is not cut
away, so that the stud mafter passing the said part at g² can only be
made to return by the application of considerable force, and there is
consequently no risk of the top or handle becoming detached accidentally.
In order to detach the separable top or handle a from the stick c the
moveable ring m is again turned into the position represented in Figure 1,
when the said handle may be withdrawn from out the hollow of the
stick, and the carriage key b is then ready for use.
Figure 6 represents in elevation the separable top or handle of an
umbrella stick or walking stick provided with a corkscrew; and Figure 7
represents the hollow upper part of the body of the said stick to which
the separable handle Figure 6 is to be connected. The corkscrew fixed
rigidly in the handle a is marked p. The parts by which the separable
handle Figure 6 is connected to the body Figure 7 are constructed in
the manner described with respect to Figures 1, 2, 5, 4, and 5, and cor-
responding parts are marked with the same letters of reference.
Figure S represents in elevation and Figure 9 partly in section the
separable top or handle of an umbrella stick or walking stick provided
with a combined corkscrew and carriage key according to our Invention.
In this arrangement we fix the corkscrew ? to the separable handle as
described with reference to Figure 6, and we make the carriage key
tubular and detachable from the said fixed corkscrew. The hollow or

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tubular carriage key is marked and is represented detached from the
corkscrew partly in section and partly in elevation in Figure 10, and
plan in Figure 11. The detachable carriage key is attached to and
removed from the corkscrew p in the following manner:-On the stem
of the corkscrew and at opposite points are pins , r, and in the top of
the carriage key are slots s, 8, in which the pins , r, may engage. On
the said stem of the corkscrew are slots t, u, similar to those on the
fixed collar of the separable handle and on the outside of the
carriage key is a spring clip w (shown separately in Figure 12) capable
of turning on the said key. The said clip is provided with a stud a
which works in the horizontal slot in the said carriage key. The
spring clip and its stud aet similarly to the ring and its stud n herein-
before described.
In connecting the hollow key to the corkscrew p
the said key is placed upon the corkscrew, and its slots s. s, made to
engage with the pins r. r. on the stem of the corkscrew. In thus
placing the key on the corkscrew the stud a of the clip enters the cross
slot of the corkscrew, and by now turning the clip the stud ar passes
into the horizontal slot ar, and fastens the carriage key securely to the
corkscrew fixed in the separable handle and the said key is ready to be
used. When it is wished to use the corkscrew p the clip w is turned so
as to bring its stud into the cross slot t, when the tubular key may be
withdrawn from the corkscrew. The separable handle provided with
the combined corkscrew and carriage key is connected with the body of
the stick in the manner herein-before described with respect to the
separable handle provided only with a carriage key or with a corkscrew.
The improvements described are applicable to whips as well as to
umbrella sticks and walking sticks.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood
that we do not limit ourselves to the precise details herein described
and illustrated as the same may be varied without departing from the
nature of our Invention; but we claim as our Invention of improve-
ments in the sticks of umbrellas and in walking sticks and whips. the
arrangement and combination of parts, substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, for connecting
the separable tops or handles of umbrella sticks and walking sticks and
whips provided with a corkscrew or carriage key, or combined corkscrew

page_text: and carriage key, to the bodies of the said sticks and whips; also com-
bining and connecting together in the manner described and represented
the parts of the said combined corkscrew and carriage key
In witness whereof, I, the said John Boultbee Brooks, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS. (L.S.)