An Improved Mode of Manufacturing Tips for Walking Sticks, Umbrellas, Sunshades, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1891-Accepted, 25th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mode of Manufacturing Tips for Walking Sticks,
Umbrellas, Sunshades, and the like.
We FRIEDRICH WILHEM SCHRÖDER and SALY CULP trading under the
style or firm of The Metallwaarenfabrik Schröder & Co. of Barmen-Rittershausen
Rhenish Prussia in the Empire of Germany Hardware Manufacturers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our said invention relates to the tips of solid metal usually inserted into the
bottom of the ferrules of the better classes of walking sticks umbrellas sunshades
and the like. Hitherto such tips which are of the form of a double cone have been
turned or finished in a lathe at considerable expenditure of time and skill.
According to our improved method we shape the tips from a suitable piece of metal
at one blow by the action of dies operated by a hammer or press. The lower die
may be fixed and the upper movable. Each die half is made conical so as to
impart the proper double cone shape to the tip. In the centre of each die is a stud
held up to its work by a spring. The material to form the tips may consist of
pieces of round metal cut from a bar to the proper length. In operating the
apparatus the blank or piece of metal is placed in the lower die supported on the
spring stud.
The upper die then descends and the metal blank is compressed
between the spring studs which are both forced home against solid butts. The
presser bulges the blank so as to fill the two conical halves of the die and thus
produce a neatly finished and true tip of the proper shape and of the exact size.
On raising the upper die half, the spring stud of whichever half the tip adheres to,
pushes the tip out and the die is ready to receive another blank. The tips so
produced are secured to the ferrules by soldering or by any other suitable or
ordinary means.
Dhin and day of October 1800
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mode of Manufacturing Tips for Walking Sticks,
Umbrellas, Sunshades, and the like.
We FRIEDRICH WILHELM SCHRÖDER and SALY CULP trading under the
style or firm of The Metallwaarenfabrik Schröder & Co. of Barmen-Rittershausen
Rhenish Prussia in the Empire of Germany Hardware Manufacturers 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 and accompanying drawings :-
Our said invention relates to the tips of solid metal usually inserted into the
bottom of the ferrules of the better classes of walking stick, umbrellas, sunshades
and the like. Hitherto such tips which are of the form of a double cone have been
turned or finished in a lathe at considerable expenditure of time and skill.
According to our improved method we shape the tips from a suitable piece of metal
at one blow by the action of dies operated by a hammer or press.
To render our invention more thoroughly understood we will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the annexed sheet of drawings.
Fig 1 is a view of a piece of metal of suitable proportions for being acted upon
by the stamps.

page_text: Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the under die.
Fig. 3 is a similar section of the upper die.
Fig. 4 shows the form given to the metal by the stamping dies.
Fig. 5 shows the tip connected to the ferrule.
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As shown
The lower die o may be fixed and the upper die o¹ may be movable.
in the drawings each die half is carried in or on a suitable " cress or holder and
is made conical so as to impart the proper double cone shape to the tip. In the
centre of the lower die o is a stud band in the centre of the upper die o¹ is a stud b¹
each stud being held up to its work by a spring fand f¹. The material to form
the tips may consist as shown at Fig. 1 of a piece a of round metal cut from a bar to
the proper length. In operating the apparatus the blank or piece of metal a is
placed in the lower die o as shown in dotted lines and supported on the spring
stud b. The upper die then descends and the metal blank a is compressed between
the spring studs which are both forced home against solid butts at xx.
The
pressure bulges the blank a so as to fill the two conical halves of the die and thus
produce a neatly finished and true tip r of the proper shape and of the exact
size as shown at Fig. 4. On raising the upper die half, the spring stud of
whichever half the tip adheres to say for example the stud in the lower half
pushes the tip out and the die is ready to receive another blank. The tip may
show a rag at the junction of the two dies but this easily removed and the tip may
then be secured to the ferrule h by soldering or by any other suitable or ordinary
means.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
Producing solid tips for application to the ferrules of walking sticks, umbrellas,
sunshades and the like by stamping or pressing them in dies from metal blanks
substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 19th day of June 1901
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester, Agents.