Improvements in Carriage Whip Sockets or Holders.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carriage Whip Sockets or Holders.
I, FREDERICK WEST of 9, Parsonage Road, Northam, Southampton, in the
County of Hampshire, Carriage Trimmer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to whip sockets or holders for carriages and comprises
various improvements hereinafter described.
My improved whip socket or holder is so constructed that the butt end or handle
of whip can be very readily inserted in same, and there firmly held after insertion,
and the whip can be as readily removed from the socket by the driver when
desired.
In making and fitting a whip socket according to my invention, I provide and
secure two bowed plates of steel, or other suitable material, within the socket
lengthways of same, forming a clip fitting which embraces the butt end of whip in
two places for the purpose of holding and steadying same when the whip is in the
socket.
The tube forming the socket may be similarly constructed as those now ordinarily
used, and of the like materials.
The form of said plates in cross section is semicircular, or approximately so, and
they are covered with leather or other suitable material. At or about the centre
of the length of, and on each side of each plate two lugs are formed, preferably out
of the material with which they are covered, the plates are fitted in the socket
opposite each other with the back or rounded side to the sides of the socket, and
they (the plates) are fastened to the socket by means of rivets passing through the
When
aforesaid lugs and the sides of the socket or by other suitable means.
the whip is not in the socket the lower end of plates-near the bottom of socket-
meet, or nearly so, and they are held in this position by means of a piece of elastic
webbing or a strap connected to the top part of each plate, and the sides of the
socket. The action of the whole is as follows:-Upon inserting the butt end or
handle of whip in the socket it is passed down to the bottom of same between the
aforesaid plates whereby they are separated at the bottom part aud-hinging upon
the lugs before referred to the upper end of plates brought together, thus both
the upper and lower part of butt end, or handle of whip is embraced between the
upper and lower ends of plates respectively.
.
Following upon the insertion of the whip the elastic bands are brought into
tension but directly the whip is withdrawn from the socket, the lower end of plates
spring together by reason of the withdrawal of the whip and the re-action of the
elastic bands, the top part of each plate is thus brought back flush with the side of
socket, leaving a clear passage for the withdrawal of the butt end of whip, and the
plates are then in position to again receive and hold the whip in manner as
herein before described.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1893.
HERBERT P. BLAKE, M.I.N.A.,
70, High Street, Southampton, Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carriage Whip Sockets or Holders.
I, FREDERICK WEST, of 9, Parsonage Road, Northam, Southampton, in the
County of Hampshire, Carriage Trimmer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement -
My invention relates to whip sockets, or holders, for carriages, and comprises
various improvements hereinafter described.
My improved whip socket, or holder for carriages and the like, is so constructed
that the butt end or handle of whip can be very readily inserted in same and there
firmly held after insertion, and the whip can be as readily removed from the socket
by the driver when desired.
In the accompanying drawings I have shewn what I consider to be the best
means of constructing and fitting my improved whip socket, in which :-
Fig. 1, is a vertical sectional elevation of same taken on the line a, a.
Fig. 2, a sectional plan taken on the line b, b.
Fig. 3, a sectional plan taken on the line c. c.
Fig. 4, a vertical sectional elevation also taken on the line a, a, shewing the whip
handle F, in position in the socket.
Fig. 5, a vertical sectional elevation taken on the line d, d.
Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.
A, is the whip socket proper, which may be constructed in any of the forms now
ordinarily adopted, but shewn in the drawings to consist of a tube B, with an inside
and outside covering of leather e, e, and provided with a bottom C.
Within the socket, lengthways of same, I fit two bowed plates D, D, these plates
are covered in part, or wholly, with leather, or other suitable material, and each of
them pivot on a pair of lugs E, E, E, E', which are preferably formed out of the
material with which the plates are covered, these lugs are fastened to the sides of
socket by means of rivets passing through same and the lugs, or by other suitable
means, the plates D, D, thus form a pair of levers.
When the whip is not in the socket the plates D, D, are held normally in the
open position at the top, and partially closed position at the bottom (as shewn at
Fig. 1) by means preferably, of pieces of elastic webbing G, or other suitable
material, secured to the top of each plate, and the top inside part of the socket.
The form of the plates D, D, in cross section at the top and bottom ends is
semicircular or approximately so, so that they will fit round and embrace the
round whip handle when in the socket.
When the whip is inserted in the socket between the plates D, D, the position
of the latter are as shewn at Fig. 4, that is, the upper ends of plates are brought
together and the bottom ends opened out to a distance corresponding to the size of
the whip handle where embraced between the plates.
The action of the whole is, as follows:-
Upon inserting the butt end or handle of whip in the socket it is passed down to
the bottom of same between the plates D, D, whereby they are separated at the
bottom part, and pivotting upon the lugs E, E, E, E, brought together at the
upper part, thus the upper and lower part of handle of whip is embraced between
the upper and lower ends respectively of the plates D, D, and the whip consequently
firmly held in the socket until it is withdrawn from same.
The insertion of the whip in the socket brings the elastic webbing G, into
tension, but following upon the withdrawal of the whip from the socket the plates-
pivotting on the lugs E, E, E', E',-resume the position as shewn at Fig. 1, by
reason of the re-action of the elastic webbing, and when in this position they are
best suited to receive the whip again, as the plates are then opened out to their
greatest extent at the top part.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved whip socket or holder consisting of the parts arranged, constructed,
and combined, substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings, and operating as, and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 2nd dow of Mauch 10014
FREDERICK WEST.
Herbert P. Blake,
70, High Street, Southampton, Agent for the Applicant.