US393160A

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Publication number: US393160A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-11-20
Anticipated expiration: 1905-11-20

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OOMB-INED SEAT AND CANE. No. 393,160. Patented .N0vr20, 1888.

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COMBINED SEAT AND CANE.

No. 393,160. Patented Nov. 20, 1888 N PETERS, Prwmum m hen wumngw'n. b. c.

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CARL LANGE, OF NEU WE ISSENSEE, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY.

COMBINED SEAT AND CANE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,160, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed March 2, 1887. Serial No. 229,466. (No model.) Patented in Belgium January 31, 1887. No. "15,944 in France June 6, 1887, No. 181,048, and in Austria-Hungary June 21, 1887, No. 4,751 and No. 25,356.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL LANGE, of Non Weissensee, near Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, and German Empire, have invented a newand useful Combined Seat and Cane, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, no patents being obtained by me anywhere for this invention, save in Austria- Hungary, No. 4,751 and No. 25,356, dated June 21, 1887; Belgium, No. 75,944, dated January 31, 1887; France, No. 181,048, dated June 6, 1887.

My invention relates to a combined seat and cane, the handle, the upper and lower parts of which can be dismounted, whereby the upper part forms, when taken to pieces, a frame upon which is-tightened a net.

Figure 1 shows the combined seat and cane in a longitudinal section; Fig. 2, the upper part when the cane is dismounted arranged as seat in plan; Fig. 3, the same in a cross-section on line 3 s; Fig. 4, the lower part of the cane with the ferrule and the spring 9. Fig. 5 represents the handle. Fig. 6 shows an iron leg-disk, such as may be fastened on the legs of the frame. Fig. 7 shows a cross-section through the combined seat and cane on line a 5; Fig. 8, a cross-section. Fig. 9.is a front view of the lower part of the cane with spring {1 caught in the opening 1; of leg I). Fig. is a front view of a portion of one of the legs.

The exterior shape of this combined seat and cane does not differ in any way from a common cane. It can be dismounted in an upper and lower part. The former is made of gas-pipe and hoop-iron, and consists of three single legs, a b 0, connected to each other by a common trunnion, d, a little below the middle of thelegs. On the upper end of this part there is tightened, by means of little screws, a net, 0, made of strong laces. YVhen using the cane, this net 6 will serve as a seat after said upper part has been dismounted into a frame, Fig. 2. To prevent the frame from sticking or sinking into the soft ground, there are fixed on the lower end of the legs little disks, Fig. 6, which oppose a larger surface to the pressure. The three legs of the upper part may be pressed together in such a way as to form a part of cane that shows a round cross-section, Fig. 3. On the upper end of this part (lettered 0) thus pressed together there will be fixed, in case the combined seat and cane is to be used as a cane, the lower part, U, with ferrule, Figs. 1 and 4. This latter is composed of a wooden stick and a thin walled tube, n, arranged upon it, which, when the legs a b 0 have been pressed together, fits closely on over the leg ends of the upper part, thus keeping them together. In order to prevent the lower part, U, falling off the upper part, there is fixed on the lower part a spring-catch, 9, that is placed into one of the hollow legs, 5, and catches into an opening, 1', in the same, Fig. 9, in such manner that the upper part, 0, and the lower part, U, are connected to each other. The net fastened to the upper part will, after the combined seat and cane has been put together, be placed in the handle k. This handle is hollowed out and can be taken off the upper part, 0, or fixed on it by means of the bayonet-closure Z. The hollow handle is just large enough to receive the leg-disks f, Fig. 6, also, and it may be given any other shape different from the present one. By pressing the spring-catch g the lower part, U, can be removed from the upper part, 0.

Figs. 8 and 10 show the manner in which the trunnion d is inserted into the legs a b c. This is effected by boring a hole, z, into each of the legs near the hole m for one arm of the trunnion d. The hole 2, which is somewhat larger than the balls of the trunnion, is provided with a screw-thread and communicates with the boring a, so that the total boring in the band shows an egg shape. The trunnion, with a ball, is introduced through the hole z and moved until its arm is held in the hole 00. Then the hole 2 is closed by a short pin, 2', fitted with an exterior thread. Thus the trunnion is tightly secured to the one leg, and in i the same way it is inserted into the other legs.

This new combined seat and cane shows very 5 important advantages when compared to the well-known camp-cane. In the first place it does not differ in the least in its exterior shape from a common cane, its weight also being only a very little more than that of a common IOO cane. There are further adapted to it all the necessary parts requisite to offer a comfortable seat.

, What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A eombined seat and cane composed of upper part, 0, consisting of the three legs a b 0, under part, U, and handle 76, as set forth, the under part, U, having a thin Walled tube 2. In a combined seat and cane having up per part, .0, consisting 0fthe three legs a b 0, under part, U, and handle k, as described, I 5 the disk f on the lower end of legs a b c, substantially as, described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two Witnesses.

CARL LANGE.

fitting loosely over the ends of the legs a b e, Witnesses: and the spring catching into the opening 2' DR. BRAOKEBUSCH,- in the hollow leg Z), substantially as described. I B. ROI.