IMPROVEMENTS IN WALKING STICKS AND IN STICKS OR HANDLES FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS; AND SUNSHADES, AND IN CERTAIN OTHER PORTABLE ARTICLES MAINLY COMPOSED OF WOOD OR CANE
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles August Bluemel, of York Street, Globe
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention
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of IMPROVEMENTS IN WALKING STICKS AND IN STICKS OR HANDLES FOR
UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS; AND SUNSHADES, AND IN CERTAIN OTHER PORTABLE
ARTICLES MAINLY COMPOSED OF WOOD OR CANE."
Sealed the 6th December 1870, and dated the 17th June 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles August Bluemel
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th June 1870.
I, CHARLES AUGUST BLUEMEL, of York Street, Globe Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WALKING STICKS AND IN STICKS OR
HANDLES FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, AND SUNSHADES, AND IN CERTAIN OTHER
PORTABLE ARTICLES MAINLY COMPOSED OF WOOD OR CANE," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its main object the imparting of a novel
appearance to walking sticks, and to sticks or handles for umbrellas,
parasols, and sunshades, and to certain other portable articles mainly
composed of wood or cane, such as snuff boxes, needle cases, and other
articles of luxury and ornament.
The Invention consists mainly in an application of leather or of sheep

page_text: skin or skin of other animal for purposes of ornamentation of walking
sticks, and sticks or handles for umbrellas, and also other above-named
articles so as to represent the bark or bole of trees and shrubs, and thus
produce a novel and effective appearance resulting in a new article of
manufacture.
I prepare for the purpose leather or animal skin or hide (preferring
sheep skin and selecting for the best use practically the upper skin) by
saturating or soaking the same in a solution of gelatine or glue or in
liquid gelatine or glue. I then cut a strip of such prepared and saturated
leather or skin of suitable size and shape and I apply the same in a
tubular form or otherwise to the stick, handle, or other article to which
the same is to be applied.
I can improve the appearance by punching holes in the leather or
skin and attaching by adhesive material projections as representations of
knots, knobs, or bulges, to simulate boles, trunks, or surfaces of trees.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles August Bluemel in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th December 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
AUGUST BLUEMEL, of York Street, Globe Road, in the County of i
Middlesex, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles August Bluemel, Her special licence that
I, the said Charles August Bluemel, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles August Bluemel, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term a
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WALKING STICKS AND IN STICKS OR HANDLES FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, AND
SUNSHADES, AND IN CERTAIN OTHER PORTABLE ARTICLES MAINLY COMPOSED OF WOOD

page_text: OR CANE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
August Bluemel, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles August Bluemel, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thercof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object the imparting of a novel and effective
appearance to walking sticks, and to sticks or handles for umbrellas,
parasols, and sunshades, and to certain other portable articles, mainly
composed of wood or cane, such as snuff boxes, needle cases, and other
articles of luxury or ornament.
The Invention consists in an application of leather or of sheep skin
or of skin of other animal for purposes of ornamentation of walking
sticks, and sticks or handles for umbrellas, and also of the other above-
named articles chiefly for the purpose of representing the bark or bole of
trees and shrubs, and thus producing a novel and effective appearance,
and the result is a new article of manufacture.
I prepare for the purpose leather or animal skin (preferring to employ
sheep skin, sometimes selecting for the best practical use the upper
skin) by saturating or soaking the same in a solution of gelatine or
glue, or in liquid gelatine or glue. I cut a strip of such prepared or
saturated leather or skin of suitable size and shape for the purpose,
(or the leather or skin may of course be cut before soaking or saturating
it), and I apply it in a tubular form or otherwise as required to the
stick, handle, or other article to which it is to be applied.
I can improve the appearance of the article by punching holes in the
leather or skin and attaching to the article by adhesive material pro-
jecting pieces of wood or other material as representations of knobs, knots,
or bulges, to simulate those on the boles, trunks, or surfaces of trees. .
I now proceed to describe more particularly in what manner the same
may be carried into practical effect.
Suppose, for instance, I have to apply my Invention to a walking
stick or stick for umbrellas, parasols, or sunshades.
I take sheep

page_text: skin, preferring the upper skin or the "cuttings," and I cut the
same into the desired shape, and I then soak the cut piece in liquid
glue or liquid gelatine until it is thoroughly saturated therewith, I
then fold or wrap it on the stick making the meeting edges overlap
and the glue or gelatine causes them to adhere, and I rub the seams,
joints, or edges with glass paper and then coat the sheep skin with
hard varnish."
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I sometimes punch holes in the sheep skin, and before or after
applying it I punch or bore holes in the stick to which it is to be
applied, and I attach by glue, cement, or other adhesive material plugs,
knobs, or pieces of wood, ivory, mother-o'-pearl, or other hard substance,
which appear or project through the holes in the sheep skin, and
additionally ornament the article to which it is applied.
Although I have particularly described the Invention as applied to
walking sticks or handles for umbrellas and the like, it is easy to under-
stand from such explanation how the same is applied to other articles.
But I may mention that when it is applied to lids or sides of boxes or to
other flat or nearly flat articles or things, the skin or leather may be
folded over the edges thereof, and caused to adhere to the material of the
lid or article by the glue or gelatine with which it is saturated, instead of
causing the edges of the skin or leather to overlap each other.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, the employ-
ment or application of leather, sheep skin, or other animal skin,
substantially in the manner herein-before described and for the purpose
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles August Bluemel, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy.
Witness,
M. HENRY,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
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CHARLES AUGUST BLUEMEL. (L.S.)