IMPROVEMENTS IN WALKING STICK UMBRELLAS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson, of G, Southampton Buildings,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WALKING STICK UMBRELLAS." A communication from abroad by Emile Alfred
Ernest Wydts, Manufacturer of Clothing, of Chauny, in the Department of
Aisno, in the Republic of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Charles Henderson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th February 1880.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN WALKING STICK UMBRELLAS." A
communication from abroad by Emile Alfred Ernest Wydts, Manufacturer of
Clothing, of Chauny, in the Department of Aisne, in the Republic of France.
The improvements referred to consist in rendering umbrellas serviceable as sticks
by providing them with a metallic case telescopic in construction, that is to say, of
tubular form, the tubes tapering and sliding one within the other.
This case is perfectly independent of the umbrella, and when the latter is opened
the case is closed, and, occupying a small space, can be placed in the pocket.
In covering the umbrella with this case the latter is passed over tho ferrule end
of the umbrella, and the joints are opened telescopically, the last joint reaching just
above the ribs, which are collected and held together by a forked piece mounted on
the umbrella stick; this latter terminates in a piston which moves up and down
inside the handle of the umbrella, which is hollow for the purpose.
When tho umbrella is covered as described the handle is pressed towards the last
joint of the case, the piston sliding downwards in the handle; this allows the end
of the handle, which is here rimmed, to meet the hollow rim of the joint which it
boxes into. The rim of the handle has a projection or projections on it, and the
rim of the joint has notches; the pin or pins enter the notches, and by turning the
handle a bayonet fastening is secured, and the case and handle of the umbrella
become one, and are perfectly solid.
In opening the umbrella the reverse movements are made, and the case removed
from the umbrella can be placed in the pocket.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Arthur Charles Henderson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th August 1880.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN WALKING STICK UMBRELLAS." A
communication from abroad by Emile Alfred Wydts, Manufacturer of Clothing,
of Chauny, in the Department of Aisne, in the Republic of France.
The Invention relates to improvements which make it possible to turn an
umbrella into a walking-stick, and, vice versa, a walking-stick into an umbrella,
and to combine a telescope with the part forming the body of the walking-stick or
the case of the umbrella, as the whole is illustrated in the accompanying Drawings,
of which Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of the umbrella and walking-stick
combined; Fig. 2, a section of the same through X, Y; and Fig. 3 a longitudinal
outside view of the telescope combined with the case or sheath of the umbrella, thus
forming the tube of the telescope.
In Fig. 1, A is the stick of the umbrella; B, the ribs and the stretchers made in
the usual way; C, a tube of brass, or any other suitable metal or suitable material,
made up of several parts, which by sliding one into the other are gathered together
like a telescopic tube, so as to be of small bulk when the umbrella is being used, not
too large to bo put into the pocket; D is the end of the stick into which its other
part is screwed; E, the handle into which the other end of the stick is made to
slide up and down by friction.
The end of the tube C of smallest diameter is provided with a flange bent inwards,
which bears against the natural shoulder formed by the mounting of the umbrella,
or by the ordinary grouping of the ribs of the same when it is put into the tube;
the other end of this tube, that is to say, the end of greatest diameter, ends in a
hollow rim with two notches in it corresponding to two projections or studs on the
end of the handle, which pass into the two notches and run into the hollow of the
rim, thus forming a bayonet fastening to keep the tube and the handle attached to
one another, and thus to fashion the walking-stick in which the umbrella, strictly
speaking, is enclosed.
In Fig. 3, C is the tube above described, in the ends of which, when it is separated
from the umbrella, the parts A and B, constituting with it a telescope, can be
screwed, the tube thus forming the telescopic tube, the length of which can be
regulated at pleasure.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying it into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the precise details above enumerated, as theso may obviously be modified without
departing from the principle of the Invention; but what I claim, and desire to secure
by the Royal Letters Patent is, the combination with an umbrella of a walking-
stick or a telescope constructed as above described and represented in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, Arthur Charles Henderson, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.