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UNITED STATE-s PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN J. TOWER., lor BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

POLICE-CLUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,242-, dated January 1, 1884. Application filed November 522, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it 72mg concern: y

Be it known that I, JOHN J. TOWER, of Brooklyn, inthe county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Police-Clubs, of which the following isaspecification.

Police-clubs are frequently Wrenohed out of the oflicers hand by a powerful criminal and 4used upon him, to his injury. It is hence very important that the club be constructed so as to give the officer the advantage, and

enable him to hold his club in the most irmv manner.

My improvement is made with reference to the roughening of the police-club, baton, or billy, in such a manner that the hand is not liable to injury, and the club can be held both against a twisting and a wrenching action.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of my improved vclub-handle. Fig. 2 is a crosssection at the line x a'. Fig. 3 shows the handle port on of the baton or day-club, With my improvements applied thereto; and Fig. 4 is an elevation, in smaller size, of the night- 25 club, with the handle shown in Fig. 1.

In Letters Patent No. 190,869, granted May 15, 1877, the handle for atool is shown, with longitudinal channels for roughening the same and giving a rmer grasp in operating the tool.

My police-club is a new article of manufacfacture, in which the handle portion is rough ened by longitudinal grooves, said grooves being semioircular, or nearly so, in sectional 35' shape, so as to furnish numerous edges against which the hand or glove comes in contact, to prevent the club being revolved in the ofiicers hand 5 and I also use similar peripheral grooves to prevent the club being Wrenehed from the hand by an endwise movement.

In the drawings the handle-portion b of the club a is grooved longitudinally, as at o, such grooves being of asemioircular sectional shape, by preference. I also employ, in most inA stances, the similar peripheral grooves, e, at the ends of the grooves c, so as to prevent the olub being wrenched out of the hand endwise.

The 'club for night service is usually a plain cylindrical stick, as seen in Fig. 4. The club or baton for day service is more Ornamental, with 5o a turned handle, as seen in Fig. 3, the grooves being applied in either oase in the same mannei` and for the same purpose.

lIhe longitudinal grooves may be made at an inclinationv to the axis, if desired.

* I claim as my inventionm 1. The polioe-club having the handle portion groovedv longitudinally, substantially as specified, the same forming a new article of manufacture.

2. The police-club having the handle portion groovedlongitudinally and peripherally, as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this 17th day of November, A. D. 1883.

JOHN J. TOWER.

Witnesses:

GEO. I. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. MOTT.

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