Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1887
Complete Left, 16th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888
JOHN HENRY CLYMER 418 Villiers Road Willesden Green N.W. do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Paper walking stick made with pieces of paper threaded on steal wire and screwed
up at each end with nuts afterwards planed and pollished made with newspaper coloured
paper & brown paper.
JOHN HENRY CLYMER,
418, Villiers Road,
Willesden Green, N.W.

page_text: I, JOHN HENRY CLYMER 418 Villiers Road Willesden Green N.W. 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:
My invention relates to an improved walking stick which combines elegance of
appearance with great flexibility and strength.
To carry out my invention I take any kind of paper such as newspaper, brown
paper, colored paper or the like and cut it into a series of pieces of any convenient
size and shape. These pieces I thread on a steel wire rod of any suitable length and
thickness say about ths of an inch thick or instead of such rod I sometimes use a
steel tube so as to impart greater rigidity to the stick. Each end of such rod or tube
is screw threaded and fitted with a nut and washer between which the pieces of paper
are placed and whereby they are tightly screwed together, or they may be secured on
the rod or tube in any other convenient manner so as to form a solid compact body.
The edges thereof are then planed turned or otherwise reduced to a perfecily even
surface after which they are sized or otherwise prepared and polished I then fit the
upper end of the wire rod or tube with any suitable handle and the lower end thereof
with an ordinary or other suitable ferrule.
Walking sticks so manufactured will be found extremely useful durable and elegant
in appearance.
DRAWING.
The accompanying drawing shews a view in vertical section of a walking stick made
according to my invention-a represents a series of pieces of paper threaded on a steel
wire rod b, which is fitted at each end with nuts c, c, which are screwed down upon
metal washers d. A suitable recess e is formed in the handle to receive the nut and
washer fitted on the top of the rod. The handle is secured by screwing it on to the
upper end of the steel wire rod or tube while the ferrule is fixed on the lower end in
the ordinary way and serves to hold the nut and washer on the bottom of such rod or
tube securely in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The employment of any suitable kind of paper for the manufacture of walking
sticks substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described.

page_text: 2. A walking stick made of pieces of paper threaded on a suitable steel wire rod or
tube and screwed up with nuts and washers or otherwise secured thereon so as to form
a solid compact body-the edges of which are afterwards planed turned or otherwise
reduced to a perfectly even surface and sized or otherwise prepared and polished and
fitted with a suitable bandle and ferrule all substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore specified and shewn.