US533539A - Cane and camp-stool - Google Patents

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J. M. KINGADE. GANE AND CAMP STOOL.

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UNITED STATES PATENT JOHN M. KINOADE, OF WVESTVILLE, OHIO.

CAN E AND CAMP-STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,539, dated February 5, 1895. Application filed October 16,1894. Serial lie. 625,946. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN M. KINGADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at IVestville, in the county of Ohampaign and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Cane and Camp-Stool; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a combined folding camp stool and cane, which may be constructed at small cost and readily adjusted for use or folded into compact form for storage or transportation.

My invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a partial sectional and elevational view of the camp stool in position. Fig. 2 is a view of the device folded for use as a cane. Fig. 3 represents the device completely folded so that it may be placed in a valise or trunk.

Like characters of reference in the different figures designate corresponding parts.

The trunk or the body of the device is composed preferably of two metallic tubes sliding one within the other, the outer one being designated in the drawings by the character 1, and the inner one by the character 2. The outer tube is made at its lower end with three rather wide slits 3 each having on its sides ears 4. These ears are perforated to receive a pint-lo 5 by which the legs 6 are hinged thereto. The legs 6 are preferably made of hard wood bent at their upper ends to form short arms or stops 1% that are provided with notches or kerfs 7 to receive a ring 8 that surrounds and slides on the tube 1. These stops are also constructed so that when the legs are folded together below the trunk their inner edges will move out of the slits 3 to permit the ring 8 to pass down between the stops and tube and thus hold the legs in this position. (See Fig. 2.) When the legs are turned to their proper standing position on their pivots and the ring is inserted into the kerfs they are retained in that position.

The seat frame is composed of arms pivoted to the ears on the upper end of the inner tube 2 in substantially the same way as are the legs, except that I deem it unnecessary that the arms shall fold downward, although this may be done.

The seat consists of a piece of fabric 10 suitably cut and formed with pockets to fit in the ends of the arms, and when the seat overlies the arms it is preferably padded substantially as indicated.

The inner tube which fits to slide in the outer one is provided near its lower end with a fixed screw 11 which projects through a longitudinal slot 12 in the outer tube, and a nut 13 is placed on the projecting end of the screw by means of which the two tubes may be locked in any position to which they are adjusted on each other; but numerous devices are obvious for adjusting the tubes on each other and fixing them in adjusted positions.

By reference to Fig. 3 it will be seen that the device may be folded into a compact structure thus enabling. it to be stored in a trunk or valise.

\Vhen the device is used as a walking stick, the ring may be placed behind the short arms or stops 1% of the legs and the lower ends of which are bound together by astrong rubber band. In this use of the device, the upper ends of the seat arms are also held together in a similar way as shown in Fig. 2. It will thus be seen that the ring 8 serves to hold the legs in position when the device is used as a seat and also when used as a cane.

That I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

In a combined cane and stool, a trunk having slits 3 at its lower end, legs 6 pivoted in said-slits and formed with stops 14 having kerfs or notches 7 to. receive a ring 8 surrounding the trunk for holding the legs in position when the device is used as a. seat and also having inner edges that move out of the slits when the legs are folded together below the trunk for use as a cane to permit the ring 8 to pass in between said inner edges and the trunk to secure the legs in this position, and the said ring 8, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN M; KINCADE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE M. FINoKEL, CHAS. E. BEDWELL.

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