An Improvement in the Manufacture of Whip Stocks, Fishing Rods, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 23rd Nov., 1891-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Whip Stocks, Fishing Rods,
and the like.
I, GEORG MICHAEL WEIDENHAMMER of Aglasterhausen, Baden, Germany,
Whip Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of whip stocks and the like from rattan
or other cane or reed which are provided with a core of steel whalebone or the like
being of taper form and having a handle of the natural product without any
disfigurement of manufacture.
It has hitherto been the custom to make these whip stocks of several strips thus
constituting the handle of several parts glued together or if made in one piece after
inserting the core the exterior portions had to be worked off. As.the exterior skin
of the cane is very strong, it is evident that by that mode of manufacture the
portions most capable of resistance instead of being utilized were cut away.
My improved process for making a tapered whip stock out of one piece of cane
and in which the part forming the handle remains undisfigured, consists in splitting
the cane by making two incisions at right angles to each other at a certain part of
its length and removing the pith from the interior to such an extent that after the
core has been inserted the strips when bound together form a tapering stock. The
incisions are glued with suitable cement and the cleaned stock may be covered with
leather or the like.
Whips made according to this process are very durable, because the fibres of the
skin are not injured and extend from heel to point. The process may be applied
to any kind of hollow cane or reed and the material may be split by more than two
cuts longitudinally.
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G. M. WEIDENHAMMER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Whip Stocks, Fishing Rods,
and the like.
I, GEORG MICHAEL WEIDENHAMMER of Aglasterhausen, Baden, Germany,
Whip Maker, 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:-
This invention relates to the manufacture from rattan or other cane or reed of
whip-stocks, fishing and other rods or sticks, provided with a core of steel, whale-
bone or the like, and of taper form, externally, with a natural handle undisfigured
by any joint. These whip-stocks are usually made of several strips glued together,
the handle, if required to present the natural appearance of the wood, being usually
a separate piece, or if the stick be made in one piece the exterior portion had to be
worked off to bring the stock to the required taper form after inserting the core.
As the exterior skin of the cane is very strong it is evident that by that mode of
manufacture the strongest portion is cut away instead of being utilized.
My invention consists in a method of making tapered whip-stocks, fishing and
other rods out of one piece of cane without removing the outer skin and without

page_text: disfiguring the handle portion which is integral with the stick and presents the
appearance of the natural wood.
This improved method will be described with reference to the accompanying
drawing, forming part of this Specification, and consists in making two sets of
longitudinal incisions extending a certain distance along the cane so as to remove
the material, as shewn in Figure 1, the two sets of incisions being at right angles to
each other (as shewn in Figure 3 which is a cross-section of the cane on line 3-3
Figure 1) and made in such manner that the internal portion having been bored
out or otherwise removed to receive the core, as shewn in Figure 4, when the strips
into which the cane is thus divided are glued together, as shewn in Figure 5 (which
is a cross-section on line 5-5 Figure 2) a tapering stock or stick will be formed,
as shewn in Figure 2, and the core having been inserted the tapering stock thus
formed may be cleaned and covered with leather or other material. Whip-stocks
thus made are very strong and durable because the fibres. of the skin are not
removed but extend from heel to tip. The method of manufacture may be applied
to any kind of hollow cane or reed which may be split by more than two longi-
tudinal sets of cuts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
The herein described method of making whip-stocks, fishing-rods, or the like,
of tapering form without removing the external skin or disfiguring the handle
portion, which consists in making sets of longitudinal incisions in the canc
removing interior material and glueing together the strips into which the cane is
thus partially severed so as to bring it to a tapering form, as described.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1891.
G. M. WEIDENHAMMER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.