An Improved Seat-stick or Combined Stick and Camp Stool.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Seat-stick or Combined Stick and Camp Stool.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the Firm of G. F. Redfern & Co., The
General Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London,
Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me by Carl Gründig, of Dresden, in the German Empire, Gunmaker),
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved seat-stick o' combined stick and camp
stool, the object being to provide a more comfortable and rigid seat than with
seat-sticks as generally made.
According to the invention I provide a stick made of any suitable material,
but preferably of steel tube, the lower end of which is provided with the usual
dise or flange preferably detachable and to the upper end of which are hinged
three rods, preferably of steel tube. One of these rods carries the handle and
a triangular seat, advantageously of canvas lined leather, is secured by its corners
to the said three rods.
With this arrangement, when the combined stick and seat is to be used as
a stick the three rods can be collapsed so as to form a continuation of the stick
proper, the seat being collapsed with the rods which can be secured in the
collapsed position by any suitable device, for example by pins which enter holes
in the handle and in which the said pins can be retained by a sleeve or the like:
When it is desired to use the combined stick and seat as a seat the rods are
released from the handle and opened out so as to stretch the leather seat.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.
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I, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the Firm of G. F. Redfern & Co., The
General Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London,
Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me by Carl Gründig, of Dresden, in the German Empire, Gunmaker),

page_text: 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 an improved seat-stick or combined stick and camp
stool, the object being to provide a more comfortable and rigid seat than with
seat-sticks as generally made.
According to the invention I provide a stick made of any suitable material,
but preferably of steel tube, the lower end of which is provided with the usual
disc or Hange preferably detachable and to the upper end of which are hinged
three rods, preferably of steel tube. One of these rods carries the handle, and
a triangular seat, advantageously of canvas lined leather, is secured by its corners
to the said three rods.
With this arrangement, when the combined stick and seat is to be used as
a stick the three rods can be collapsed so as to form a continuation of the stick
proper, the seat being collapsed with the rods which can be secured in the
collapsed position by any suitable device, for example by pins which enter holes
in the handle and in which the said pins can be retained by a sleeve or the like.
When it is desired to use the combined stick and seat as a seat the rods are
released from the handle and opened out so as to stretch the leather seat.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is an elevation of a seat-stick constructed according to the invention,
the said stick being shewn with the seat in its folded or collapsed position:
Figure 2 is a similar view of a portion of the stick shewing the seat opened
out for use:
Figure 3 is a plan of the expanded seat-sta
Figure 4 is a view to an enlarged scale ewing the means for securing the seat
in its collapsed position:
Figure 5 is a section on the line 5-5 Figure 4; and,
Figure 6 is a section on the line 66 Figure 1, the said section being drawn
to a larger scale.
a is the stick which, as above stated, is preferably made of steel tube and a¹
is the disc or flange which is usually provided at the lower end of the stick and
is fitted to the stick a so as to be easily detachable therefrom. 6, 6, 61 are the
three rods which are, as above mentioned, also preferably formed of steel tube
and c is the seat formed of canvas lined leather or other suitable material which
is triangular in shape and is connected at its corners to the outer ends of the three
rods b, b b¹, as clearly shewn in the drawing. 6 is the handle, the said handle
being secured to the outer end of the rod 61.
The three rods b, b, b' are hinged by their flattened lower ends to pins 63 which
pass through lugs 6 formed upon the head a³ of the stick a.
To secure the seat in its collapsed position I provide the corners of the seat
secured to the two rods b, b with pins d, d having heads d', d, which heads are
adapted to enter holes d³, d³ formed in the lower end of the handle 6 and in a
sleeve which is loosely mounted upon the said handle. When the heads d¹
have been inserted in the holes de, d the sleeve f is turned by means of the
lug f (as illustrated in dotted lines Figure 5) so that slots extending from
the said holes d, in the sleeve engage the shanks of the pins d and securely
hold their heads d in the holes in the handle be. It will be clear, however,
that the rods can be retained in their collapsed position by other suitable means
and I therefore do not wish to confine myself to the use of the sleeve catch above
described.
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:
1. A combined stick and camp stool comprising a stick proper preferably made
of steel tube and having hinged to its unner end rode
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page_text: steel tube, and adapted to carry a leather or other seat in such a manner that
the said seat can be opened out to form a camp stool, or collapsed, substantially
as herein before described and illustrated.
2. The improved seat-stick or combined stick and camp stool, constructed sub-
stantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4. South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.