AN IMPROVED MODE OF MAKING WHIPS
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD.
THOMASON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting for and in
behalf of His Majesty, has by His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of
the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at West-
minster, the Third day of July last, in the fifty-third year of the reign of His
present Majesty, did give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomason, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence that I, the said
Edward Thomason, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, execute,
execute, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF MAKING WHIPS;" in which
Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Edward Thomason,
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and agreeable to the true
intent and meaning of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained,
I, the said Edward Thomason, do hereby declare that the following is a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and methods and

page_text: improvements in the mechanism of whips, both in respect to principle and the
way and means in which the same may be perform'd, that is to say:
With respect to principle I cause a spur, or what is called the rowel of a
spur, to be ejected or thrown out of a chamber placed in or at any convenient
part of the whip, by the action of pushing from you or pulling towards you,
or screwing from you or screwing towards you, the head or seat of a locket
screw or slide, which seat of locket screw or slide, which seat locket screw or
slide, is to be placed at the handle or any other convenient part of the whip.
And this whip I call the patent spur whip.
Now, I do declare that the above-mentioned principle comprehends the real
object of my Invention; and, in order for the better comprehension and under-
taking how the aforesaid may be reduced to practical use, I do hereby further
declare that, although I vary the mode of construction by a variation of circum-
stances to produce the said effect and maintain the main purpose intended, yet
I principally adhere to the methods herein described as being fully answerable
to what is required, and best calculated to be understood from the Drawings
and sections represented in the margin of these presents.
Drawing No. 1 represents the whip in a quiescent state, the rowel or spur
part being within the ball of the chamber.
Drawing No. 2 represents the whip ready for use charged as a spur, the
spur part or rowel being ejected or forced out of the chamber. Section No. 1
represents the whip with a tubi cap A, fastened at the end ready to receive the
machinery, the whalebone or clastic part being perforated or a groove cut
down the side of it sufficient to admit a small steel wire or other rod. Section
No. 2, B represents the aforesaid wire or rod fastened to a thumb bit C, and
D is a wire spring which encircles the rod. Section No. 3, E is a cap which
moves easily upon the tube A, Section No. 1, and plays in contracting the
spring D at pleasure, thereby forcing the rod B farther down; at F is cut a
rectangular groove for the purpose of keeping or confining the spring D in
a contracted state when required. Section No. 4, G is a small pin with a flat
head, and on or about the center is slided or fixed a small wheel V with a
pully groove round it; in this groove are placed the joints of darts II which
compose the rowell-of the spur. Section No. 5, I is a tube with a kind of
dish-form mouth, and has holes perforated round it to permit the darts of the
rowel or spur to pass through when the cap E is pressed down on the tube A,
for the thumb bit C lays directly under the bridge of the cap E; therefore by
moving or pressing forward E, it advances the wire rod B, which wire rod
forces down the pin G, and thereby compels the darts or rowel part to be
ejected through the holes at K. Section No. 6, L is a corresponding tube

page_text: with a dish-form mouth, and which fits on, or in, or to Section No. 5, and
assists to hold the spur part, Section No. 4; M is a wire spring and passes
over the lower end of the pin G, and assist in keeping the darts of the spur
tight; the tube L is in part or wholly plaited over, and at a convenient
distance is put or attached the lash part of the whip.
Drawing No. 3 exemplifies another mode of forcing out the darts or rowel
part, that is, instead of the rod going all throw, (meaning the rod B,) it only
goes from half an inch to an inch, and is moved forwards and backwards by a
locket in the manner of a pencil in a pencil case, and is kept down by a spring
screw or catch, the mechanism being at or nearly at the bottom of the whip,
as at Z.
And I do hereby further declare that these spur whips may be made of any
kind of substances or composition of substances that may be found sufficiently
strong and proper for the purposes of manufacturing them; and that the body
or St part may be made of wood cover'd or uncover'd with gut or any
other approved substance, as may be judged fit for the purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomason, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
EDWARD THOMASON. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stamped, in the presence of
JOHN MERREDITH, Att', Birm".
FRANCIS BROWNSWORD.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of August, in the year above written.