“Cable Cane” folding cane

Cane, Folding

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