Side handle police baton for striking and blocking

Abstract

A baton having a stick with a smaller side handle secured at an angle thereto to move with the stick and an axle which passes through a spindle and attaches it to the free end of the side handle. The operator can now grasp the baton by the spindle with his or her index finger and overlying thumb, while the baton's stick and side handle rotate. A top ridge or stop prevents the grasping hand from slipping off the handle laterally. The middle, ring and little fingers and palm of the hand can now be used to firmly grasp the side handle to precisely interrupt the rotary travel of the baton's stick and side handle while the baton remains secured at its spindle by the operator's index finger and thumb. When the side handle is grasped between the operator's middle, ring and little fingers and his or her palm, the handle, fingers and palm act as a drum brake with the handle acting as the brake drum and the skin of the operator's fingers and, primarily, the skin of the operator's palm acting as the brake pad. As the skin is pressed against the side handle more and more forcefully, forces of friction bring the rotating side handle to a stop. Cutting grooves into the rotating side handle, that is attached to the bound spindle, can make this breaking even more precise. The grooves and their corresponding ridges rotate and contact and drag along the surface of the operator's palm skin at different speeds. Different areas on the continuous sheath of highly elastic palm skin simultaneously experience forces of friction of differing magnitudes.

1 . A side handle police baton for striking and blocking; the baton comprising: 
 an elongated stick;    a handle having a proximal end and a distal end and extending from a radial surface of said stick, said handle having a brake portion affixed to said stick for rotation therewith and having a grip portion being free to rotate relative to said stick;    said brake portion being at the proximal end of said handle; and    said grip portion being at the distal end of said handle.    
   
   
       2 . The police baton recited in  claim 1  wherein said handle further comprises a stop ridge at said distal end.  
   
   
       3 . The police baton recited in  claim 1  wherein said handle comprises a plurality of annular gripping ridges each such ridge separated from another such ridge by a recessed annular region having an arched surface.  
   
   
       4 . The police baton recited in  claim 3  wherein each of said gripping ridges has an outer surface of substantially constant diameter.  
   
   
       5 . The police baton recited in  claim 3  wherein each of said gripping ridges has an outer surface of substantially flat cross-section.  
   
   
       6 . The police baton recited in  claim 3  wherein said gripping ridges and said recessed annular regions having substantially equal widths.  
   
   
       7 . A baton for striking and blocking and having a side handle affixed to an elongated stick; the stick handle comprising: 
 a spindle affixed to said stick and a grip portion attached to said spindle for relative axial rotation thereto; said spindle residing between said stick and said grip portion.    
   
   
       8 . The baton recited in  claim 7 , said handle further comprising a stop ridge affixed to the distal end of said grip portion.  
   
   
       9 . The baton recited in  claim 7 , said handle further comprising a plurality of sequentially interspersed gripping ridges and recessed annular regions, said ridges and regions being of substantially equal heights along said handle.  
   
   
       10 . The baton recited in  claim 9  wherein each of said ridges has a substantially constant diameter.