US433016A - Combined head-rest and walking-cane - Google Patents

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T. S. MINNISS. COMBINED HEAD BEST AND WALKING CANE. No. 433,016.

Patented July 29, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS S. MINNISS, OF MEADVILIJE, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBIN ED HEAD-REST AND WALKING-CAN E.

SP ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,016, dated July 29, 1890.

Application filed March 29, 1890. Serial No. 345,924, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. MINNISS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mead- Ville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined I Iead-Restand alking-Cane an d Idohercby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the present application is to simplify and cheapen and at the same time retain all the desirable points in my former patent, No. 418,800, of January 7, 1890, and application Serial No. 339,911, filed February 10, 1890.

Figure 1 shows the combination complete of the head-rest when in use. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same of full practical size. Fig.

is a crosssection of cane full size locked together. Fig. at is a view of the cane ready for use as such with a section cut away to show the central lock.

The cane, as in my former applications, is made in two equal parts and is to be used in the same man ner when the parts are togethere'. e, the support to the head is sustained at the tops of the two half-canes, which reston the front of the shoulders, reaching to the hands, which can adjust the rest to an easy poise for the head and hold it there.

The headrest B is a block curved on the side where the head rests, and the rod C runs through 13 from end to end. (See dotted lines.) C fits snugly through B, but not so tight but that it may be turned to accommodate the head in any position desired. After C is forced through B itis then bent, as seen in Fig. 1, and the shanks I I are pressed into holes in the tops of the half-canes. (See dotted lines, Fig. l.) The holes in both A and B are made to hug the rod C so tight as to require some force to turn them, so that they will maintain any adjustment desired. The rod 0 is made of about one-eighth-inch steel wire, and by its elasticity allows great freedom of spread or contraction when the canes come down each side the body under the hands, thus conforming to Varioussized pen sons. The rod 0 may be bent first, as seen in Fig. 1, when a groove made along the back of B will receive it, where it can be fastened with a staple or screw at each end driven so as to give the required friction to prevent easy turning, or B can be made of tin or other sheet metal, and in any case itcan be tastefully upholstered.

The dotted lines 011 A, Fig. 2, show the position of the half-canes when adjusted to the front of the shoulders, while the curved side of B sustains the head. The head-rest, which is made of the two parts B and 0, when drawn from the holes in the tops of A, being about six inches long, can be carried in the pocket, and the two parts of the cane can be united, as seen in Fig. 4. The ferrule G is fixed to one of the halves, and to the same side there is a plate F secured, that is just flush with the flat surface of A. F has a slot at its upper end just wide enough to receive the neck of the screw D; but before the plate F is fixed by brads or screws in position a gutter E is made deep enough to allow the projecting head of D to slide under F. Now J is slipped in G and D slipped under F, the cap is pushed on, and lock is complete. (See Fig. 4.) This combination of D and F may be fixed at three or more places from top to bottom and the cap II and ferrule G dispensed with, if desired.

To separate the parts, remove the cap H and tap the top of the side of A with the fixed ferrule, and they will unlock.

In my former patent, No. 8,806, and application, Serial No. 339,911, I have set forth the use of two half-canes, united in the first case with a web and in the second with a hinged hand-piece. I therefore do not claim this combination, broadly.

Vhat I do claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a combined cane and head-rest, the combination of the two half-canes A A, adapted to be unlocked and locked together, a headrest B, adjustably supported on rod C, having shanks I I, which tightly fit into holes in the top of the two half-canes A A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

THOMAS S. MINNISS.

Witnesses:

J. N. MoCLosKEY, ISAAC MONDERAU.

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