Undertaking
Patent
1979-08-09
1980-12-02
Pinkham, Richard C.
Undertaking
46123, 135 74, A63J 2100, A45B 900
Patent
active
042367115
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a device that can be used as a magician's prop that in one instance functions as a rigid walking stick or cane, but when released and actuated becomes coiled upon the floor and takes on the appearance of a snake with its head raised. This is accomplished by means of an inner core structure that is comprised of a series of disc like segments strung on a thin cable in a bead like fashion leading to a lever device disguised in the head that when compressed and latched draws the cable taunt compressing the discs one upon another causing the entire length of the body to become rectilinear and rigid in the form of a cane. In the head of the cane the latching device maintains the tension drawn on the cable; however, when unlatched the tension subsides, the discs separate a discrete distance and its body becomes flexible. The entire body is covered with an elastic outer skin that is affixed to the body while the body is in a flexible coiled posture so that the membrane has a memory and the body returns to that coiled posture when the cable tension is released.
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Kramer Arnold W.
Pinkham Richard C.
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