Improvements in and relating to the Tips and Ferrules of Umbrellas and Walking Sticks.
Year: 1896

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883), as allowed
by the decision of the Comptroller General of the 23rd day of June 1897.
Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1896
Improvements in and relating to the Tips and Ferrules of Umbrellas
and Walking Sticks.
We, LEWIS CLARKE, of 70, Windsor Road, Penarth, near Cardiff, Auditor, and
HUBERT CLARKE, of Ellerslie, Ninian Road, Cardiff, Secretary to Railway Company,
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 :-
This invention relates to that class of tips and ferrules of umbrellas and walking
sticks in which the tips are removable from the ferrules without necessitating remova
of the ferrules from the sticks. According to this invention the tips, which are
made of suitable material, are screwed into the ferrules, or they may be fitted in the
ferrules in any other suitable manner which enables them to be withdrawn when
desired. Among other suitable substances for the tips, india-rubber may be used.
This material also prevents slipping.
Various kinds of tips may be made to fit any one ferrule. Thus, a spiked tip
may be substituted, when desired, for a rounded tip, or a more or less flat-ended tip,
according to will or requirement.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig. 1 represents, in section, a
ferrule and tip made in accordance with one arrangement comprised in this invention.
In this example, the tip a is a spike of steel having a barbed stem at around which is
moulded an india-rubber plug b. The ferrule c is corrugated at its lower end to form
screw threads. The plug b is inserted in the corrugated portion of the ferrule by
being compressed and started into the end thereof, and then screwed in to its fullest
extent. After being thus inserted the plug bis securely held by the corrugations.
It is removed by simply unscrewing. At Fig. 2 is shown a rounded tip d of steel
which, with its plug d', is adapted as a substitute, at will, for the tip and plug shown
at Fig. 1. In the example shown at Fig. 3 the tip e is extended as a plug in one
piece of india-rubber which is screwed into the corrugated ferrule c in the same way
as in the examples shown at Figs. 1 and 2. The plugs which are in each case
interchangeable, may be corrugated or ridged or grooved prior to insertion in the
ferrules, or they may be made plain, and in the latter case they assume the corrugated
form by expansion after insertion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The provision, in umbrellas and walking sticks, of removable tips or end plugs
having rounded, flat, pointed, or other suitably shaped outer ends, and adapted to

page_text: be screwed or otherwise introduced into the ferrules, from which they are readily
withdrawn without necessitating removal of the ferrules from the sticks to which
they are attached, substantially as hereinabove described and with reference to the
accompanying drawings, or any mere modification thereof.