IMPROVEMENTS IN WHIP SOCKETS OF SOLID WOOD WITH LEATHER OR METAL FASTENINGS
Year: 1884

page_text: I CHARLES PETERS of 52 Great Charles Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Whip Socket Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN WHIP SOCKETS OF SOLID WOOD WITH LEATHER OR METAL
FASTENINGS to be as follows:-
The being made of solid blocks of wood without any joinery, and suitably
hollowed to receive Whip Stocks, or handle part of whips, and so turned or carved
outwardly as fitted for leather or metal fastenings, as models sent herewith, as to
easily fix or unfix them to or from carriages, or other vehicles. A principal object
of my invention is to provide all kinds of vehicles, as drawn by horses or other
animals, with whip sockets that will not corrode or become disjointed; whip
sockets having been previously made of tin or iron japanned, or other metals liable
to corrode and break where jointed, or soldered, and of leather liable to rapidly
decay, where sewn together, also for improvements in fastenings for stems of metal
so made to affix, with screws both to whip sockets and to Vehicles, or for leather
straps and buckle fastenings going entirely round whip sockets.
Dated this first day of January 1884

page_text: I CHARLES PETERS of 52 Great Charles Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Whip Socket Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING WHIP SOCKETS OF SOLID WOOD, WITHOUT JOINERY,
WITH LEATHER OR METAL FASTENINGS and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Being made of solid wood without joinery, and suitably hollowed to receive
whip stocks, or handle of whips being so turned or carved outwardly as suited for
leather straps for fastening to carriages, &c. see Illustrations, drawings N° 4, or for
metal bands with stem and flange adapted with screws to easily fix or unfix whip
sockets to carriages, see Illustrations drawings No 1. 2. 3. 9. 8. 11. 13 The object
of my invention is to provide all kinds of vehicles, drawn by Horses or other
animals with improved Whip Sockets, that will not rust, or corrode or become
disjointed; Whip Sockets having been previously made of Tin, Iron, Brass or
other metal, all liable to corrode, or break where soldered or jointed, and when of
leather liable to rapidly decay; also for improvements in the fastenings to attach
whip sockets to vehicles the leather or straps going all round in space turned or
carved in wood giving support on each side of straps, see Illustrations drawing N. 4
and for improvements in metal fastenings consisting of bands, or rings with stem
and flange adapted with screws for affixing to both Whip Socket and carriages, see
Illustrations drawings No 1. 2. 3. 8. 9. 11. 13.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Ivention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is 1) The construction of Whip Sockets of Wood carved, or turned on the
outside substantially as described, and illustrated.
2) The methods of fastening the Whip Sockets to carriages, &c. substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated this 26th day of September 1884.
CHARLES PETERS.