Accession Number: 2007.33.54
Description: Six-segment folding long cane; steel cable in clear plastic tubing, locked at cast aluminum handle by lever which pivots into handle; handle secures to top of cane with hex key; aluminum segments are enameled in acrylic white epoxy, bottom segment is enameled red; bottom of each segment flares to fit over conical shape of the segment below; straight handle, enameled black, pewter colored braised wrist loop with a sliding black plastic tube to hold cane when folded; red nylon standard pencil tip with screw eye to secure bottom end of the cable assembly; label, "HYCOR/Woburn, Mass. 01801 U.S.A./Pat No. 3,669,133.
Height: 47.5
Width: 1
Depth: 1
Date Made: ca. 1973
Maker: Hycor, Inc.
Place of Origin: Woburn, MA
Collection: AER O&M Division C. Warren Bledsoe Archives
History/Provenance: AER O&M Division C. Warren Bledsoe Archives
Credit Line: Gift of Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
Subjects: Blindness Rehabilitation Orientation & Mobility Canes for the blind
Dimension Notes: overall, open
Made: Hycor, Inc.
Material: Aluminum, steel, nylon
Exhibit Label: Cane, Folding
Updated: 04/02/2015