Illumination – With cane – baton – umbrella or club
Patent
1992-03-03
1994-02-15
Cole, Richard R.
Illumination
With cane, baton, umbrella or club
362202, 273 84R, F21L 100, A45B 304, A45B 312, A63B 1502
Patent
active
052872556
ABSTRACT:
A combination flashlight-baton has a head assembly connected at one end of a flashlight barrel which houses a substantially parabolic reflector, a planar lens, a lamp bulb receptacle, and a lamp bulb. A battery source of power is contained within the barrel and a switch on the barrel energizes the lamp bulb. A baton assembly carried in the tail end of the flashlight barrel has telescoping tubular members movable between a retracted position substantially within the barrel and an extended position extending outwardly therefrom. The innermost tubular telescoping member has a small mass at the distal end. With the baton retracted, the combination flashlight-baton can be carried, stored, and used as a conventional flashlight. To extend the baton, the user holds the flashlight by the handle with the tail end pointing away and sharply snap the wrist forward in a slinging action and the telescoping members are extended outwardly due to centrifugal force. The telescoping members are maintained in the extended position by frictional engagement and are released by holding the flashlight-baton vertically above a hard surface and bringing it sharply down in the vertical position to strike the distal end of the baton assembly on the hard surface. An adapter fitting or outer baton member carrying the baton assembly allows a conventional flashlight to incorporate a baton without modification of the existing flashlight components and may be provided as a conversion kit for existing flashlights.
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Dick Tracy, Washington Post, May 31, 1970, Comic Strip.
Cole Richard R.
Quach Y.
Roddy Kenneth A.
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