Improvements in Walking-stick and Umbrella Handles and Attachment therefor.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Walking-stick and Umbrella Handles and
Attachment therefor.
I, JACQUES MÜLLER, of 73', Markgrafenstrasse, 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 present invention relates to walking sticks and umbrellas and consists of
an attachment or appliance at the ends of the handles of the same by means
of which these articles especially in the case when their handles are not formed
in the shape of a hook may be hung up in wardrobes or other suitable places.
Whilst the stick or umbrella is in use this hanging up appliance is completely
concealed so that the user of these articles is not in the least inconvenienced by
its presence.
In the accompanying drawing this hanging up attachment is illustrated by
a longitudinal section (scale about twice the actual size).
Inside a cylindrical tube a which is held immovably in a hole bored in a
radial direction and inclined to the longitudinal axis of the stick or umbrella
handle h there is a second tube 6 which contains within it a bar chaving a
knob d at the end. The latter can be drawn out or pushed in along the tube b,
and this again along the tube a, both the sliding parts being prevented from
turning round during the movement as well as from being drawn completely
out of their guides by projections e and f attached to their inner ends sliding
in longitudinal slits of their respective guiding tubes which slits are closed at
their front ends. In their initial position inside the fixed tube a, a movement
of the bar a and tube b along the guides can be prevented by the projections ef
of the parts referred to being brought into a wider part of the guiding slits by
turning them a little way round.
When drawn out the bar c and tube 6 form an acute angle with the stick or
umbrella handle h thus forming a hook by which the article in question can be
hung up.
The sliding tube may in some cases be omitted so that the bar c
works then immediately in the tube a; on the other hand also several tubes b
can be made to slide one inside another, the innermost of which receives the
solid bar c.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. An attachment or appliance for hanging up sticks or umbrellas formed
of a tube a fixed in a hole bored in a direction inclined to the long axis of the
stick with one or more tubes 6 sliding lengthwise therein also a bar c with
a knob d at the end likewise sliding lengthwise in the innermost tube in such a
way that the bar c and tubes 6 can be drawn out of each other in the manner
of a telescope while they are prevented from turning round by attaching guiding

page_text: projections ef to slide in longitudinal guiding slits the drawn out arm forming
an acute angle with the stick h being used for hanging up the article while all
the sliding parts can be made fast in their initial position by turning round the
projecting guides e f into wider portions of the guiding slits at their open
ends substantially as described.
2. The combination with a stick or umbrella handle of an appliance or attach-
ment for hanging the same up constructed and arranged substantially as described.
Dated this 18th day of December 1899.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.