Improvements in Flap Riding-whips.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flap Riding-whips.
I, BENJAMIN CHARLES HENRY PRICE of 33, Vaughton Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Whip Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide means whereby the flaps of flap riding-
whips will not be so liable to become broken or unworkable as they now are,
which arises from the constant bending they necessarily receive in the course of
their use.
I provide the flap of my riding-whips with a stiffener of some springy, and yet
hard and durable material, such for instance as steel, so that although the leather
flap is allowed all the full and necessary play it cannot get bent too far and so
cause a breakage.
I prefer the stiffener to be a strip of spring steel such as is used in the best
English clocks, and I prefer to make the leather flap twofold, inserting the strip of
steel in between the two leathers by stitching, or in any other suitable way.
Birmingham, March 25th 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, BENJAMIN CHARLES HENRY PRICE of 33, Vaughton Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, 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 :-
My invention has for its object to provide means whereby the flaps of flap riding-
whips, such as are used more particularly in hot countries for flipping the flies off
horses, will not be so liable to become broken or unworkable as they now are,
which defect arises from the constant bending they necessarily receive in the course
of their use.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings
Fig. 1 is a top view of the end of a flap riding-whip fitted with my invention
and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof.
I provide the flap a of my riding-whip with a stiffener of some springy, and
yet hard and durable material such, for instance, as steel. This stiffener is shown
in Fig. 1 by the chain dotted lines and in Fig. 2 by the thick black line running
down between the upper and lower folds of the flap into the wooden stock.
It will
be understood that although the leather flap is allowed all the full and necessary
play it cannot get bent too far, and so cause a breakage.
I prefer the stiffener to be a strip of spring steel such as is used in the best
English clocks, and I prefer to make the leather flap twofold, inserting the strip
of steel in between the two leathers by stitching, as is shown in the drawing, or in

page_text: any other suitable way. is the binding attaching the leather flap to the wooden
or other stock d.
In manufacturing flap whips according to my invention I prefer, first of all, to
stitch the two folds of the leather flap together, and to provide the end of the stock
with a slit. I then insert the stiffener 6 in such slit, having well waxed the end to
be inserted, and finally draw up over the stiffener and the end of the stock, the
stitched up flap and bind it securely to the stock in the usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tiou, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:―
The improvements in flap riding-whips herein before set forth consisting in
providing the flap with a stiffener for the purposes stated.
Birmingham, June 19th 1895.
BENJAMIN CHARLES HENRY PRICE.