US1145994A - Camp-stool cane. - Google Patents

Description

W. JASINSKI.

CAMP STOOL CANE. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 9, 1914.

Patented July 13, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANonRAPH CO.,WASHINGTON. nv c4 WLADYSLAW JASINSKI, OF INDIANA HARBOR, INDIANA.

CAMP- STOOL CANE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1915.

Application filed October 9, 1914. Serial No. 865,891.

To all 107mm it may concern.

Be it known that LIWLADYSLAW JASINSKI, subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Indiana Harbor, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Camp-Stool Canes, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in camp stool canes.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a walking cane with a foldable head or handle which forms a seat when in its open position.

A further object of the device is to provide a member serviceable as a walking cane or club and having a foldable seat member carried thereby ordinarily utilized as a carrying handle.

A still further object is to provide a spring-held shank within the end of a cane and having a foldable seat upon its outer end, the seat being retained in its closed position and serving as a handle when the shank is completely inclosed in the cane.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and set forth in the appended claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views,Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device operatively positioned as a cane. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the shank partially withdrawn for releasing the handle. Fig. 3 is a side view of the device with the handle unfolded in the form of a seat. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the device positioned as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an enlarged side view thereof partly broken away and with the cane shaft in central longitudinal section. Fig. 6 is a centrallongitudinal se'ctionthrough the caneshaft with the device in its cane formation, the head and shank being shown in elevation. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a portion of the shank detached. Fig. 8 is an enlarged transverse sectional view through the cane, and Fig. 9 is an enlarged sectional view throughthe hinged connection of the shank and folding handle-members.

Referring more in oletail to the drawings the cane 1.0 is illustrated formed in two sections 11 and 12 secured together and having a weighted ferrule 13 at the lower end thereof and provided with a tapered bore 14: at its upper end which terminates in an eg -shaped recess 15 within the body of the cane-shaft. A shank lfi tapered for entering the bore 1 1- is positioned within the said bore and has oppositely arranged springs 17 upon its lower contracted end which springs are positioned within the recess 15 and at all times resiliently engage the sides of said recess. Two rings 18 of slightly different diameters are firmly secured within the bore 1 1 of the shaft and project therein sufliciently to be engaged by the transversely positioned pins 19 carried by the shank and thus a limited movement of the shank within the bore is permitted but the entire removal of the shank is prevented.

The cane head or handle 20-is formed in two sections 21 and 22 each of which is hinged to the top face 23 of the shank upon a single hinge pin 24 mounted thereon. The hinging of the handle sections upon the shank is accomplished by means of curved metal frames 25' which are secured to and recessed in the inner faces of the sections being of substantially the same curvature as the sections and having base portions 26 projecting beyond the base portions 27 of the handle sections as best shown in Fig. 9 and thus positioning the handle slightly spaced above the shank and allowing the sections to fold downwardly in opposite directions with the portions 26 engaging the top of the shank and with the bases 27 of the sectionsresting upon the top of the cane as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 5. It will be thus seen that with the device positioned as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 6, the same may be employed in the manner of the usual walking stick or cane but that the handle may be forcibly pulled outwardly together with the shank 16 to the position illustrated in Fig. 2 and whereupon the handle sections may be moved upon their hinges and separated so as to assume a horizontal position member at the enlarged end-'of the cane. A unitary structure is thus provided in which a serviceable cane may be quickly formed into a seat and the same maybe positioned upright in the ground if desired by forcing the end ferrule 13 thereinto.

"as illustrated in Fig. 3 and forming a seat ofsaid shank and disposed in said recess,

foldable head sections hinged to the upper end of said shank and adapted for fiat positioning upon the end of the shaft when the device is in its seat formation.

'2. A device of the class described comprising a sectional cane shaft having a tapered bore in one end thereof terminating inwardly in a substantially eg -shaped recess, rings of different sizes secured in the walls of said recess and projecting within the bore, a tapered shank, opposite springs adjacent the smaller end of said shank engaging within the said recess, the said shank being longitudinally shiftable within the said bore, oppositely positioned stop- WLADYSLAW J ASINSKI.

Witnesses BOLESLAM SALIK, EDMUND SZYMEZAK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

I Washington, D. G.

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