Patent ID: 8499776

Claim:
A stick comprising: a stick body of a rod-like shape that is provided with a grip, wherein: the stick body includes an extension pipe of a telescopic type formed by fitting an outer tube and an inner tube together in a nesting manner; inside the extension pipe, a compression spring that urges the extension pipe so as to be extended, and an oil damper having velocity dependence that damps a relative sliding movement between the outer tube and the inner tube are connected in parallel; the oil damper includes a cylinder coupled to one of the outer tube and the inner tube, and a piston rod that is slidably held with respect to the cylinder and is coupled to the other one of the outer tube and the inner tube; the cylinder and the piston rod each include a flange that protrudes outwards; and the compression spring is a compression coil spring having an inside diameter greater than a body part of the oil damper and smaller than the flanges of the cylinder and the piston rod, the compression coil spring elastically contacting at one end thereof the flange of the cylinder and elastically contacting at the other end thereof the flange of the piston rod while concentrically fitting onto the main part of the oil damper.