An Improved Sportsman's Walking Stick or Alpine Staff, capable of being Utilized as an Aiming Pole or Rest, and Shooting or Camp Stool.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sportsman's Walking Stick or Alpine Staff, capable of
being Utilized as an Aiming Pole or Rest, and Shooting or Camp
Stool.
I, GUIDO BECKER, of 16, Kommandantenstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant, 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:―
The walking sticks or alpine staff's as at present used in hunting for instance
are mostly also used as shooting or camp stools but do not admit of a further
important use, namely:-that of an aiming pole or rest.
The object of the present invention is to provide a stick or staff which is as
simple as possible to handle and which by reason of its simplicity can be very
easily held and also may without great difficulty be put to various uses such
as a staff, camp stool and also aiming pole or rest.
The invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which :--
Figure 1 shows the device as a walking stick or sportsman's staff;
Figure 2 as an airing pole or rest with an extension tube B drawn out, and
Figure 3 as a shooting or camp stool;
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are modifications in the construction of the hunting pole
such as appear advisable.
This staff consists as may be seen in the drawings of an outer hollow metal
tube A preferably of aluminium tube which is arranged like an alpine stick for
insertion in the ground. At the upper open end of the outer tube A there is
cut a thread a which ends at top in a tapering projection which is split or pro-
vided with slots C in order to allow of the said part being pressed or clipped on
the extension tube B when used as an aiming pole or rest. nut D having a
left and right hand internal thread is screwed on the threaded tube A, which nut
has internally an annular tapering projection d. On the nut D being tightened,
this ring fits over the tapered end 6 of the outer tube A in such a way that
the inner tube B may be fixed when adjusted to any desired height. The inner
tube B has at top a pinion g which fits exactly in holes h and in the handle E
according to the mode of using, (Figures 2 and 3). This pin g may also be
provided with a thread as also may the holes h and i in the handle E. The
handle E is provided with a nipple to allow of its attachment to the stick, which
nipple has a screwed projection P which engages in the nut D and thus firmly
connects all together. In its use as an aiming pole or rest the handle E is
screwed off and the inner pole B drawn out. When the stick is adjusted to
the height desired the nut D is tightened, the handle remains with the hole i
sticking on the pin g and the upper recess serves as a support for the gun
barrel Figure 2. In order to form a shooting or camp stool, the handle E is
screwed off and placed horizontally with the hole h on the pin g. A hook e
on the handle E serves for attaching the shooting staff to the pocket or belt.
A form of construction of the staff is shown in Figures 4 and 5 in which the
fixing of the extension tube B when the staff is used as an aiming pole or rest is
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page_text: effected by means of a spring mounted pink which when the tube B is drawn
out engages in a groove F provided in the tube B until it snaps into one of the
existing holes f f.
Figure 6 shows a form of construction in which the extension to form an
aiming pole or rest is effected by means of several tubes A B C inserted one in
the other, which tubes are also provided with spring studs m m¹ and holes 1 l.
Any suitable number of tubes may be inserted one in the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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A walking stick or staff capable of being used as aiming pole or rest and shoot-
ing-or camp stool characterized by two or more tubes (A B C) telescoping one
in the other, which tubes when the staff is used as an aiming pole or rest are
drawn out and may be fixed at any suitable height by means of a nut (D) or
spring knobs or studs (k m m³) snapping into suitable holes (f f 7 ) whilst the
concave or recessed handle (E) serves as rest for the gun barrel, whilst when
used as a shooting or camp stool the handle (E) is placed horizontally on the
collapsed stick, thus forming a scat, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 15th day of August 1899.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.