Year: 1888

page_text: 1, JAMES RICHARDSON CRAIG, of Barrhill House, Gourock, Renfrewshire, Rope and
Sail Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the making of walking sticks or staffs, also
convenient as flasks, for carrying spirits or other liquors or liquid beverages or
mixtures: And consists in making the stick much of an ordinary tapered shape
externally, but hollow throughout or for as great a distance down from the top as
would contain the quantity of liquid beverage desired to be carried in it; and in
making the handle or head part also hollow or partly hollow to act as a drinking cup
when removed, and in securing this hollow top or handle to the top of the staff part
by a screw, bayonet joint, or other equivalent, either with or without a cork, disc
ring, or stopper for making the open neck of the staff liquid tight, or this might be
secured by an ordinary cork or stopper within the hollow handle part.
By these improvements the hollow part of the stick or staff, would preferably be
made of light tubular metal, to give strength and lightness, but solid at the lower
shod wearing end. And to give the light hollow tube strength, it might be formed
with light circumferential rings or corrugations in the longitudinal direction, and be
enamelled or japanned, or painted and varnished outside to ornament them in imitation
of canes or sticks; and electro plated inside with nickel, or other non-oxidisable metal
inside, or coated with glass. Or the sticks or staffs might be made of strong light
cane and have light electro plated tubes inserted into them, or have glass tubes
inserted in them to contain the liquid; in either case secured liquid-tight in the upper
end of the staff part. And the hollow top or handle part might also be made of
embossed metal, vulcanite, horn, ivory, composition or other material, and coated
inside so as to be easily cleaned, and resist the action of and act as a drinking cup for
the beverages used.
1000

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Walking Sticks or Staffs.
I, JAMES RICHARDSON CRAIG, of Barrhill House, Gourock, Renfrewshire, Rope and
Sail Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object and comprises the making of walking sticks or
staffs, also convenient as flasks or vessels for carrying spirits or other liquors or liquid
beverages or mixtures.-
And in order that my said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended
an explanatory Sheet of Drawings, in which the same reference letters are used to
indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown. Figure 1 is an external
elevation of my new or improved walking stick or staff, and Figure 2 is a corre-
sponding view of same in section as constructed with and to show the new inner flask
or hollow vessel for holding liquors. Figure 3 is an external elevation of the head of
the stick which is formed hollow internally to serve as a drinking cup for the liquor
in the flask. Figure 4 is an external elevation broken away of the upper part of the
stick showing the screwed part on which the head is secured, and the internal screwed
stopper of the flask. While Figure 5 is a corresponding view showing the upper end
of flask in section.
Referring to these Drawings, the improvements of my invention consists in making
the stick A much of an ordinary tapered shape externally, as shown in Figure 1, but
hollow throughout as shown in Figure 2, or for as great a distance down from the top
as would contain the quantity of liquid beverage desired to be carried in it; and in
making the handle or head part A' shown particularly in Figure 3, also hollow or
partly hollow, to act as a drinking cup when removed, and in securing this hollow top
or handle A' to the top of the staff part A, by a screw A" on the handle A¹ taking on
to a screw A³ in the top jointing part of the staff A, or instead of a screw, it might
be by a bayonet joint, or other equivalent, either with or without a cork, disc ring or
stopper for making the open neck of the staff liquid tight. A mill headed screw
stopper a would be screwed into a hollow screw a' in the top jointing part of the
stick A, to act as an internal stopper, with an elastic or other washer at a to make
this stopper a perfectly liquid tight.
By these improvements the hollow part A of the stick or staff, would preferably be
made of light tubular steel or iron or other metal, to give strength and lightness as
shown in the Drawings, and painted outside to imitate a malacco or other cane or
stick, but formed or fitted with a solid shod at the lower wearing end A². And to
give the light hollow tube A strength, it might be formed with light circumferential
rings, or corrugations in the longitudinal direction and be enamelled or japanned or
painted and varnished outside to ornament them in imitation of canes or sticks; and

page_text: be electro-plated inside with nickel or other non-oxidisable metal or enamelled or
japanned with varnishes, or coated with glass or other silicious material or enamel.
Or the sticks or staffs A might be made of strong light cane and have light electro
plated tubes inserted into them, or have glass tubes inserted in them to contain the
liquid; in either case secured liquid-tight in the upper end A of the staff part. And
the hollow top or handle part A' might also be made of embossed metal vulcanite,
horn, ivory, composition or other material, and coated or enamelled inside so as to be
easily cleaned, and resist the action of and act as a drinking cup for the beverages
used.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed or carried into effect or
practice, I would have it understood that I am aware that shallow receptacles have
heretofore been formed in the handles or tops of sticks or staffs for containing scent
or other material, and I make no claim to such, but what I consider to be novel and
original and therefore claim is.-
The making of sticks or staffs for the whole or the greater part of their length in
the form of or fitted with a hollow or tubular internal flask or vessel for holding
spirits or other liquids, and closed at their upper ends by a stopper or head, sub-
stantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
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