Improvements in Ferrules for Sticks and Umbrellas.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ferrules for Sticks and Umbrellas.
I, EDGAR GARLICK of Lynx Works, Portland Lane, in the City of Sheffield,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the ferrules used upon the ends of walking sticks, and
umbrellas the object of the invention being to provide a ready means for smokers
and others to strike matches upon.
I therefore propose to form upon the body or tubular part of the ferrule, either
after the ferrule is made, or during the process of manufacture, a surface
constructed for the ready ignition of matches, such surface being either a portion,
or the entire outside of the ferrule.
I may either encircle the ferrule with fine grooves or threads, or I may indent
or perforate it, or I may solder or otherwise attach to it a small, separately made
roughened plate, as preferred.
Dated the 29th day of June 1894.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ferrules for Sticks and Umbrellas.
I EDGAR GARLICK of Lynx Works, Portland Lane, in the City of Sheffield,
Manufacturer 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in the ferrules used upon the lower end
of walking sticks, and umbrellas, the object of the invention being to provide a
ready means for smokers and others to strike matches and fusces upon.
I have illustrated my invention in the sheet of drawings annexed, in which:
Fig. 1, represents the end of a walking stick with a ferrule made according to
my invention.
my
Fig. 2, shows two modifications of roughing the ferrule, included in invention.
The stick is marked S, the ferrule F, and the solid end or button B.
Various ways are used by smokers to strike a match, taper or fusee, when
out of doors, and most of them are 'inconvenient and seme render the operation
difficult.
It is to provide a handy and efficient means of accomplishing this which forms
the object of my invention, and in carrying it into effect I form upon the body or
tubular part of the ferrule of a walking stick, or umbrella, either during the
process of its manufacture or a'ter the terrule is made, a roughened surface
such as will readily cause the ignition of a match, vesta, or fusee when drawn
across it.
The roughened surface may either take the form of a fine thread or groove or
sharp ridge as shown at C, in Fig. 1, or of a fine tooth as at T, in Fig. 2, or as
ribbed grooves G, Fig. 2, serrations, indentations, perforations, teeth such as file
or rasp teeth, or of any other form or configuration that will accomplish the

page_text: desired purpose. I may also if desirable construct a separate roughened plate or
equivalent and solder or otherwise attach it to the ferrule.
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. A ferrule for walking sticks and umbrellas having a ribbed, grooved, serrated,
indented, perforated, toothed, file or rasp cut, or otherwise equivalently roughened
surface, capable of being used for the ignition of matches or other like light
producers, as hereinbefore described and shown.
2. The combination with a walking stick or umbrella of a ferrule, having a
roughened surface for the purpose herein before specified.
Dated the 13th day of August 1894.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.