Improvements in Tips for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 2nd Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tips for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and the like..
I, RICHARD CUNLIFFE, of 61, Derby Villa, Derby Road, Weaste, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to-
be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a tip for umbrellas, walking sticks,.
crutches and the like, which can be readily applied thereto and renders the use of
the same in walking noiseless and elastic.
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To this end my invention consists in forming such tips of ribbon steel coiled to
the shape of a "volute or "buffer" spring and suitably tempered, the wide end of
which, being formed with a number of holes, is attached by means of nails or other
suitable fastenings to the end of the stick or crutch and the narrow end left open or
furnished with a plug of rubber, cork, wood, or soft metal.
Dated this 2nd day of October 1893.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tips for Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, and the like..
I, RICHARD CUNLIFFE, of 61, Derby Villa, Derby Road, Weaste, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 has for its object to provide a tip for umbrellas, walking sticks,.
crutches, and the like, which can be readily applied to and renders the use of the
umbrella, walking stick, crutch, or the like noiseless and elastic.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to-
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference.
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a vertical section of one form of my improved
tip shown applied to an umbrella.
Fig. 3 is also an elevation and Fig. 4 a vertical section of a modification of
the same.
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In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally the
improvements consist in forming such tips a of ribbon steel coiled to the shape
of a "volute or
"buffer" spring and suitably tempered, the wide end of which,
being formed with a number of holes b, see Figs. 1 & 2, is attached by means of
nails c or other suitable fastenings to the end of the umbrella stick d and the
narrow end left open or furnished with a plug e of rubber, cork, wood or
soft metal.
In lieu of fixing the spring tip a directly to the stick d the latter may be
furnished with a taper ferrule f, see Figs. 3 & 4, and the spring tip a placed into-
the same with its wide end bearing against the end of the stick d.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
A tip for umbrellas, walking sticks, crutches, and the like, consisting of a coiled
spring a the inner end of which is received by the end of the stick d and the outer
end, open or plugged, serves as the wearing surface, substantially as and for the.
purpose set forth.
Dated this 1st day of August 1804
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.