US1179611A - Policeman's club. - Google Patents

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E. O. & I. I. CILLEY.

' PoLIcEMAN's CLUB.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 13 l|914.

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U TED sTATEs PATENT EAR-r. o.- CILLEY, or coNKLIN,- AND ITHIEL sr. GILLET,v or GRAND RAPIDS, MICHG'AN. i

PoLIcEMANs CLUB.

Specication of Letters Patent. ylfaigtgjxrhed Apr, 18, 1916.

' Application led April 13, 1914. Serial No. 831,669. I

To' all whom t may concern:

'l spectively, and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Policemens Clubs, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in policemens clubs and like weapons, and its objects are: First, to provide a club with whichan oiiicer may readily overcome a disorderly prisoner without permanently injure ingk him. Second, to provide a weapon of the "kind with which an officer may readily impregnate the air that a culprit must breathev with a strong volatile liquid that will strangle him into submissiveness. Third, to provide a weapon of the kind with which a strong pressure may be maintained in one compartment yand the other compartment, containing the volatilel liquid will be without pressure, but may be readily' connected with the compartment in which the pressure is conined, and, fourth, to provide a weapon of the kind that may be readily' charged and manipulated by an oiiicer having occasion to use it. We attain these' objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying draw# ing, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of one offk these implements showing the internal construction of the same. `Fig`. 21is an en-k larged longitudinal section of one end of the weapon showingl the manner/of applying the valve in the compression chamber. Fig. 3 is a plan of acomplete weapon of the'kind. Fig'. 4 hows a full sizedl handle for the weapon with a piece of the body shown in section to disclose the manner vof connecting the two. Fig. 5 is a like view ofthe other end of the weapon. Fig. 6 is la sectional plan of the handle .showing a modiied form of appliance for charging the compression chamber, and, Fig. 7 indicates how the pressure for forcingthe liquid may be applied -whih must be' so emily Secured upon the end of the handle as to withstand an eX- tremely high degree of pressure in the chamber in the body of the club between the par-y tition 4 and the end of the handle 1, and should be provided with a screw thread e on its surface to mesh closely with a corresponding screw thread in the' end of the body 1. The body 1 should be made of a strong tube of brass or steel, or vother available metal that may be painted or finished to closely represent an ordinary black thorn policemans club. v

The body 2 is divided into two compartments by securely soldering or welding a partition, ase, inside of the body. vA tubular extension, 8, is securely connected with the partition 41 and extends back nearly to the back end of the body 2 where a valve seat is formed in its end for the perfect sea-ting of the valve 9 so that no g'as or other substance, under pressure, can be forced,

through the tube 8 until the valve 9 has been unseated. An air and liquid tight bearing should be formed around the valvestem 9 next to the end 'of the handle 1, and for this purpose any available-form of packing may be used, as suggested by the washers 13 and 15 with the packing lll between them. In Fig. 1, it will be noted, a spring 10 is placed in the end ofthe handlev 1 to press against a collar j on the valve stem to force lthe valve 9" against the valve seat, and in' Fig. 2 this spring is` shown within the pressure chamber. The latter form is preferable for the reasons, first, that it obviates the necessity of boring a hole in the end of thehandle 1 for chambering the spring, second, itavoids,

the handle 1, and be provided with a screw i thread b, or other available means for firmly and conveniently securing the handle orflnger piece 12, which passes out through the mortise d in the handle l in position to rbe readily accessible with thefinger ofthe operator for the purpose of drawing the valve off of its seat and thus form direct communication between the chambers 17 and 1-8. In Fig. 2 the end a; of the valve stem 9 is shown smaller than the body of the stem so ably centrally located, andwith an inclosing cork'L', that 'should fit closely enough so as to insure against any leakage of any liquid that may be stored in the chamber 18. In the back end of the chamber 18 a sliding piston should be placed, and so constructed thatno` air, gas or liquid can pass by uit, as indicated bythe barrel 7, the washer 5 and the packing between the two, indicated at 6, or their equivalent in any available'form. In the application of this club,the chamber 18 is to be filledvwith some very strong, volatile liquid, as strongerammonia, water strongly impregnated with oil of mustard, liquid formaldehyde, or otherv extremely pungent, volatile liquid, and the chamber 17 is to be filled with some material that iwill produceand retain avery high degree of pressure, as sulfuric acid and marble dust, kindred substances so that when the lvalve 9 is drawn from its seat in the tube 8 so the expansive gas may pass through into `the chamber 18 back of thepiston 7,`said piston will be forced yforward with V such force 'that the cork" it will be blown out of' its seat and thevolatile liquid in the chamber-18 will'be forced ythroug'h'the orifice g in an extremely fine spray, so that if it should be directed against the breast of a fractions prisoner the rapidly frising `fumes would tend to,l strangle and disarm the prisoner so he could be readily overpowered byl A the oiiicer, but will not bey thereby permanently injured or :inconvenienced except for the moment of opposition to lawful arrest.

vf, in Figs'l and 2, merely suggests a screw for securing the packing 6 between vthe ing'li as tovrender this washer 5 and the b`arre17 for the purpose of forminga very close packing joint between the piston 7 and theewall of the body 2. It

will be readily understood that with the ex'-v treme pressureVV in thel chamber 17 the washer 15 will be so firmly pressed against the packpacking absolutely gas and pressure tight.

It will be readily appreciated that with a club thus equipped, the necessity of using it as a club and badly disguringand injuring ak fractious prisoner, or of resorting vto the use of re arms in extreme cases, may,A

in manyinstances, be wholly avoided and the prisoner brought into subjection with no actual damage, or danger of permanent y injury. It will be` readily understood that this implement may bemade operative without the piston 7, and also without the tubular valve-body 8, but its action would not be nearlyas satisfactory for the,A reasons, first,"` that with the piston 7 the liquid in the chamber '18 will always be conned within definite bounds and in a compact mass, while without the piston, as soon'asla part. of the liquid has kbeen discharged the chamber will notbe full. andthe liquid would be free to splash from end toend of the coinpartment, and when more 'than half of the liquid has been discharged the position of the implement may' bel such as to render its discharge' very unsatisfactory Iand yinef'ective, and with the valve body 8 dispensed 80 with the length of the valve stem 9, necesv sary to seat-the valve on, the'- partition 4f might render the action of the piston veryk unsatisfactory and u ncertain.v A

In Fig, 6 the stem a is shown as being made hollow and extending to the end ofthe. handle and provided with screw threads'lc' to whicha conductor from acompression chamber may be screwed for the purpose of filling the compartment 17 with compressed gas instead of placing the expansible substance directly in said. compartment, thus dispensing with the necessity'ot removing the handle for filling this com-y f, partment, and rendering the weapon much more cleanly and longer livedfthan l it.. would be with the pressure lproducing cornpound within the chamber.. When using n this construction it .is necessaryI to have a -CheCk valve, as m,` to prevent vthe -pressureilO from .escaping through kthefstem when the filling appliance is removed, and thefinflowing gas is allowed top'ass throughthe openings 11. into the chamber 17. f j

In Fig. 7 all the parts are identicaljwith corresponding parts in other views, except thatvin this view we khave showna heavyr spring, 19, in the compression chamber ,-17 that may be usedina cheaper'y line of, weapons for forcing the valvel 7.*forward' `to} forcey out the, volatile "liquid, instead of ap-: plying f pressure v.as hereinbefore described In this instrument .they partition 4 is dis+ pensedwith, as'` is, also, the valve`9fand-its` f seating tube 8. l t. f While this weapon may'gvbe'fused kwith limited. success, .we would ystrongly advise the` other-'weapon as being much more conVen-,- ient to handle, more effective and morevpositive in its action.-

2,120 When filling the lform of v`club indicated in Fig. 7, with volatile liquid, the plug 3 is' removed and the piston 7 is forcedback't0- ward the handlelby'm'eans of any formof available implement, as a Vrod 24, until the l Y catch 20engages an available point in the, spring 19S or the piston, and vholds vit in place, lwhen the plug isreinserted and the. piston held locked in place until a discharge of liquid is'ydesire'd when` the spring'mayibe' 130 released by pressing downward on the handle 2O until the catch 21 is disengaged from the spring or'piston. This catch is pivoted to the club, as at 28, and has an actuating spring 22 to hold it normally in contact with the spring 9.

What is claimed as new, have secured by Letters Patent of United States, is:

1. A policemans club having a tubular body divided into two compartments for the storage of a volatile liquid in one compartment and a high pressure producing substance in the other compartment, and means for discharging the volatile substance with the pressure from the pressure compartment.

2. A policemans club having a tubular body, a permanently located partition dividing said body into two compartments, one compartment for the storage of a volaand desired to the Atile liquid and the other compartment for the storage of pressure producing material, a handle firmly secured into one end of the body and a plug firmly secured into the other end of he body, a tube passing through the partition to a point near the inner end of the handle, a valve tted to seat in the end of said tube, the stem of said valve extending back into the .handle and having a linger piece extending to position to be operated by the linger to actuate the valve, and a liquid tight piston in the compartment on the opposite side of: the partition.

8. A policemans club having a tubular body, a partition within said body dividing it into two compartments, said partition having an opening therethrough and a backwardly extending tube secured therein, a valve seat formed in the back end of said tube, a valve arranged to seat on said seat and to be actuated from the handle of the club, a spring for forcing said valve upon its seat, a plug in the end of the club, having a longitudinal orifice therethrough and a temporary closing element or cork therein, and means for allowing the pressure to escape from the pressure chamber to the liquid chamber and force the liquid out through the orice to form a ne mist in the open atmosphere.

Signed at Grand'Rapids Michigan March 80, 1914. f

EARL O. CILLEY. ITI-HEL J. CILLEY.

In presence of- CARL L. ADAMS, A. W. SNoWDoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patenti,

` Washington. D. C.

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