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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Date of Application, 13th July, 1892 Complete Specification Left, 13th Apr., 1893—Accepted 13th May, 1893 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. -A Uni/versal 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. 1, Ernest Augustus Barber Beaumont, of No. 49 Pall Mall, in the County of London, Retired Army Officer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :— My invention relates to the construction of a clip or fastener which can be used 5 for fixing a handle such, for example, as that of a crutch at any part of the stick, or for fixing other appliances to poles, rods, tubes and the like or for joining two ' lengths of rod, pole or tu be. For securing the handle to a crutch, I place on the stick a tubular socket longitudinally split along one side, and having at each side of the split a projecting 10 rib of half dovetail section somewhat tapered lengthwise. The handle is made with a dovetail recess of equivalent taper so that when it is pushed on to the dovetail projections of the split socket, it wedges them closely together causing the socket to clamp the stick firmly, the handle being thus secured at any part of the stick where the socket is applied. Hooks or other appliances besides handles 15 may be thus fixed on rods, poles or tubes ; and, in like manner, two lengths of rods, poles or tubes may be fixed together by enclosing their ends in a socket of the kind described, and forcing on its projecting ribs a key made with a dovetail recess to fit them. The tubular socket may be lightened by making it with more or less of its back left open, retaining however at each end a ring connected to the dovetail 'zO ribs in front. The socket may be hinged at the back so that it can be put on a rod, pole or tube without being passed over the end. Dated this 13th day of July 1892. ABEL & IMRAY, Agents for the Applicant. M: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. 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. ^ I, Ernest Augustus Barber Beaumont, of No. 49 Pall Mall, in the •30 County of London, Retired Army Officer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say My invention relates to the construction of a clip or fastener which can be used for fixing a handle such, for example, as that of a crutch, at any part of the stick, 35 or for fixing other appliances to poles, rods, tubes and the like or for joining together two lengths of rod, pole or tube. And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I will now proceed to describe the same with the aid of the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 is an elevation and Figure 2 a sectional plan taken on line X X of Figure 1 of one of my clips or AO fasteners applied to a crutch handle. A is the stick of the crutch, B is a tubular socket longitudinally split along one side as at E and having at each side of the split a projecting rib F of half dovetail section somewhat tapered lengthwise. The handle Gr is made with a dovetail recess H of equivalent taper so that when it is pushed on to the dovetail [Price 8a.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30738751_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
