A universal clip or fastener for crutch handles, stretchers, tools, tent poles, hooks, lamps, and handles, applicable also for joining lengths of poles, rods, tubes, and the like / [Ernest Augustus Barber Beaumont].

Beaumont, Ernest Augustus Barber.

Date:: 1893

Credit: A universal clip or fastener for crutch handles, stretchers, tools, tent poles, hooks, lamps, and handles, applicable also for joining lengths of poles, rods, tubes, and the like / [Ernest Augustus Barber Beaumont]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$2 N° 3 2,875.—A.D. 1892. Beaumont's Universal Clip or Fastener for C rutch Handles, Stretchers, Tools, tfc. projecting ribs of the split socket it wedges them closer together causing the the socket B to clamp the stick firmly, the handle Gf being thus secured at any part of the stick where the socket is applied. In figures 1 and 2 the socket B is shown with its back left open leaving however at each end a ring B1 connected, to the part carrying the dovetail ribs in front; this is done for the sake of making a the socket as light as possible, as is desirable in the case of a crutch, but in many other cases, where weight is not of importance, the socket may be made continuous from end to end instead of being left open at the back. Hooks or other appliances besides handles may be thus fixed on rods, poles or tubes ; and, in like manner, two lengths of rods, poles or tubes may be fixed 10 together by enclosing their ends in the socket of such a clip and forcing on the projecting dovetail ribs of the socket a key or clamp of any suitable form made with a dovetail recess to fit them. The socket may be made in two parts hinged together at the back, as shown at I in Figure 3, so that it can be opened and put on a rod, pole, or tube, without being 15 passed over the end ; and in some cases the hinge maybe formed with half dovetail tapered ribs shown in dotted lines at F1 similar to those shown at the front of the socket and any article provided with a dovetail recess adapted to fit over the said ribs may be thereby attached to the socket. For example, in the case of a tent pole, one article may be hung or attached to it by the front dovetail ribs F, whereby 20 the clip or fastener is caused to clamp the pole firmly, while another article may be hung or attached to the back dovetail ribs F1 which thus serve not only as a means of support for the said article but as an additional means of clamping the clip on the pole, and relieving the strain on the hinge. Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven- 25 tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :— The clip or fastener consisting of a split socket having, at each side of the split, a projecting rib of half dovetail section tapered lengthwise, and a key or clamp made with a dovetail tapered recess corresponding to the shape of the said half 30 dovetail ribs for the purpose of clamping the socket to the object to which it is to be attached substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in the drawings. Dated this 13th d?vy of April 1893. E. A. B. BEAUMONT, 3* Per W. H. Beck, ’ 115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent. London : Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Darling & Son. Ltd.—1893 „: i \ i . L > i I ’ » » , i . . t • . v# - » l , . J . * f ' Jid * I. Ij... »$

A universal clip or fastener for crutch handles, stretchers, tools, tent poles, hooks, lamps, and handles, applicable also for joining lengths of poles, rods, tubes, and the like / [Ernest Augustus Barber Beaumont].

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