US457160A - Hubert killenberger - Google Patents

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(N M "d 1; i 8 1-1. KILLEN-BERGER.

WALKING CANE WITH REMOVABLE TOBACCO PIPE TUBE, &c. No. 457,160.

Patented Aug. 4, 1891 'WALKING-CANE WITH REMOVABLE TOBACCO-PIPE TUBES, 8 c.

v UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

HUBERT KILLENBERGER, OF- HOSSKIRCH, WURTEMBERG, GERMANY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,160, dated August 4, 1891. Application tiled April 6, 1891. Serial No. 387,830. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUBERT KILLENBERGER,

royal woodranger; ofHosskirch, in the Kingdom of Wl/ iirternb'ergfand'"German Empire have invented new and useful Improvements in the Combination of \Valkihg-Canes' with Removable Tobacco-Pipe Tubes and Bayonet Closures,of which the followingis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in the combination of walking-canes with removable tobacco-pipe tube and bayonet closure.

The numerous lovers of long pipes have not hitherto had the opportunity of carrying such pipes everywhere with them without suifering considerable inconvenience. The object of this invention is to obviate this defect in a simple and expeditious manner, and as it consists of a combined walking-stick and pipestem it unites the agreeable with the useful. The upper as well as the lower part of the stick can be removed in a very convenient manner, while without any timebeing wasted the bowl portion of the pipe, which is carried in a case 011 the person, can be connected with the pipe-stem, or the walking-stick itself may be used as a long pipe-stem. After use the pipe may be again converted after a few manipulations into a walking-stick.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 8 show the upper and lower part of the combined walking-stick and pipe-stem. Figs. 2 and 9 show the turned upperand lower ends of the cherry-wood pipe-stem. Fig. 3 shows the mouth-piece of the pipe with itsindia-rub her tube, which are both placed inside the upper end of the stick. Figs. 4 and 11 are respectively a longitudinal section of the upper and lower ends of the walking-stick combined with the long pipe-stem. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are plans corresponding to Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Fig. 10 shows the lowerend of the pipe, which is placed within the lower turned end of the stick, together with the lower end of the cherry pipestem.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, A is the upper end of the walking-stick, consisting of a handle, a knob, and a closing end or tube. f, Figs. 1 and 2, is the upper part or handle of the stick below the knob, this part having a somewhatlargerdiameter than that of the cherry- ;wood pipe-stem. The knob w, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, may have any suitable form or shape. The

pipe-stem 2', Figs. 1, 3,4, 8, and 10, is provided inwardly and throughout its length with a narrow cylindrical perforation (2, Figs. 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 11.

The upper part A of the walkingstick is furnished inwardly with a perforation b, Figs., L 1

4 and 6, in which are placed the mouth-piece c of the .pipe and the india-rubber tube (1, Fig. 3. This mouth-piece c is preferably made of horn. Below the india-rubber pipe d is placed the small horn tube g, Figs. 3 and 4, with its appendage h, Fig. 4, and below this horn tube is arranged a nickeled ring it, Figs. 1, 3, and 7, furnished with two quadrangular pins Z, Figs. 1, 3, 5,.and 7. The ring it fits snugly in the two vertical guiding-openings of the closing end m, Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 6, which is further furnished with corresponding transverse openings 17., Figs. 1 and 2. i

0, Figs. 8 and 9, is the ferrule, arranged at the lowermost end of the walking-stick, so that it can be readily removed.

1;, Figs. 10 and 11, is the lowermost end of the pipe-stem projecting within the ferrule 0, and is made of cork. q, Fig. 10, is a nickel ring,and 1" are two quadrangular pins of the same. 19, Figs. 8 and 9, are two vertical guidingopenings, in which the ring q fits snugly. p are two corresponding transverse openings, Fig. 3.

When the combined walking-stick and pipestem is required for use as a long pipe, the whole of the upper part A of the walking stick is removed by turning the handle f toward the left-hand side until the pins reach the vertical guides n, the lower part 0 being removed in a similar manner when the pipebowl or upper part of its neck or holder is fixed upon the lowermost part or cork 7.) of the pipe-stem, this holder being perforated for this purpose. WVhen, on the contrary, it is desired to convert again the pipe into a walking-stick, the part A is placed over the mouth-piece c of the pipe and the india-rubber tube cl, and the pipe-bowl is removed from the cork end "0.

The new combined walking-stick and pipestem need not be used solely for long pipes. It may be used for ordinary pipes, in which case the upper part A of the walking-stick is turned and removed in the manner above set forth, the mouth-piece c and the india-rubber tube d being removed from the part of the pipe shown in Fig. 3 and replaced by an ordinary horn mouth-piece, while the lower end 0 of the stick is likewise withdrawn. The pipe-bowl is now fixed to part c in the usual or in any other preferred manner.

To reconvert the ordinary pipe into a walking-stick the horn mouth-piece and the bowl are removed, and the parts A and o are placed back in their normal position.

- In order to render the use of this new article thoroughly practical, it is necessary that all these manipulations should be readily and conveniently efiected.

When the walking-stick itself is used as a pipe, the parts thereof which are not wantedthat is to say, the part A and the lower part aare put away or simply placed in the ocket. When the new article is used as a walking-stick, the pipe-bowl is returned to its casing, so that the walking-stick may be converted without inconvenience into a pipe, or vice versa.

The pipe-bowl used may obviously be made to assume any form or shape, according to the taste of the smoker.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The herein-described combination walkingcane and pipe-stem, comprising a tubular stick provided at the upper extremity with a mouthpiece and at the lower extremity with a pipe cork or nozzle, a knob provided with a sleeve detachably fitting the upper extremity of said stick, a ferrule provided with a sleeve 'detachably fitting the lower extremity of said stick, and bayonet connections for detachably connecting said knob and ferrule to said stick, for the purposes setforth,

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 'hand in presence of two witnesses.

HUBERT KILLENBERGER.

Witnesses:

IRLAY WETZEL,

Ger'ichts amt. Assistant in Saulgau.

ROBERT BLiiM,

Not. land tn-Saulgau.

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