Improvements in or applicable to Driving Whips and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Driving Whips and the like.
I, GEORGE BRENDON of No. 52, St. James Square, Notting Hill, London,
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The method at present adopted for fixing the lash of driving whips to the stick
bas several serious drawbacks. Besides being an operation requiring consider-
able skill and practise and therefore relatively costly the attachment is of such a
nature that any damage to the lapping causes it to become loose and destroys the
tightness of the binding on which the security of the junction depends. Moreover
the ordinary method of securing the lash is especially liable to injury from wet,
which sooner or later rots the binding material and spoils the joining.
My present invention has for its object a method of securing the lash of the
whip to the stick in the firmest possible manner, and which moreover whilst not
materially increasing the weight of the top of the whip, will combine the further
advantages of protection of the joint from the weather, with increased strength and
springyness of the whole at the joint, the stick being effectively supported at its
thinnest part, whilst the joint is capable of being made more ornamental and
graceful in appearance than is the case with the ordinary lapped joint.
I accomplish this object by the use of two or more sockets or ferules fitting
one inside the other telescope fashion and through which the lower end of the
lash passes.
The whip lash is preferably secured to the end of the stick by means of a
simple attachment such for instance as a wire eyelet firmly secured to the end of
the lash through which is passed a bent wire which grips the end of the stick, and
the ends or points of which are sharpened and bent inwards, so that when in place
they can be driven into the wood and thus hold the wire firmly in place.
The end of the stick is preferably trimmed so that the first ferule or socket
made of steel, aluminium or other suitable material, can be fitted on to it, and
countersunk level with the surface of the stick. In order to fix this ferule or
socket more firmly to the stick and also to increase the strength of the latter at
its thinnest part, I usually prolong a strip or projection from the ferule for a
suitable distance down the stick to which it may be attached by small nails or
screws or in any other suitable manner. The next ferule or socket fits inside the
first one and in order to secure it the upper end of the first socket or ferule is
preferably provided with a catch or pin arranged to engage in a notch or slot in
the second ierule on what is known as the bayonet-catch principle, but any other
suitable means of securing the ferules may be made use of such for instance as.
bolts or rivets, or a screw thread.
In like manner further ferules are adjusted to fit each within the preceding
one, until the last one is of such an internal diameter that it tightly grips the
lash.
in order to prevent its edge from fraying the whip lash when in use and also
to add to the elasticity of the combination, I prefer to secure to the end of the
last ferule a short coil of spring wire, through the centre of which the whip lash
passes and which tightly encircles the same. Or may make use of an india
rubber cap or ring for the same purpose.

page_text: The whole combination forms a sightly and light attachment of great strength
and elasticity. It may if desired be covered coloured or ornamented in any
suitable manner.
Dated this 26th day of February 1895
Improvements in or applicable to Driving Whips and the like.
1, GEORGE BRENDON, of No. 52, St. James Square, Notting Hill, London,
Gentleman 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 :-
The method at present adopted for fixing the lash of driving whips to the stick
has several serious drawbacks. Besides being an operation requiring considerable
skill and practice and therefore relatively costly the attachment is of such a
nature that any damage to the lapping causes it to become loose and destroys
the tightness of the binding on which the security of the junction depends.
Moreover the ordinary method of securing the lash is especially liable
injury from wet, which sooner or later rots the binding material and spoils the
joining.
to
My present invention has for its object a method of securing the lash of the
whip to the stick in the firmest possible manner, and which moreover whilst not
increasing the weight of the top of the whip, will combine the further advantages
of protection of the joint from the weather, with increased strength and
springyness of the whole at the joint, the stick being effectively supported at its
thinnest part, whilst the joint is capable of being made more ornamental and
graceful in appearance than is the case with the ordinary lapped joint.
I accomplish this object by the use of sockets or ferrules fitting one inside the
other telescope fashion and into which the lower end of the lash inserted in a whole
quill is secured.
The whip lash is preferably secured to the inner socket by means of a thin
screw or bolt of special pattern passing through the ferrule and through the quill
and the whip.
The end of the stick is preferably trimmed so that the first ferrule or socket
made of steel, aluminium or other suitable material, can be fitted on to it, whilst
the inner socket can be pushed down within the outer one until its lower end firmly
embraces the end of the stick. In order to fix the outer ferrule or socket
more firmly to the stick I prefer to secure it by a screw or bolt as hereinafter
described.
To prevent the whip lash from fraying when in use and also to add to the
elasticity of the combination, I secure around the lash, within or without the quill
a short coil of wire, and prolong the same to form a support for the lash as
shewn in the drawing through which the whip lash passes and which tightly
encircles the same.
I will now describe the method preferably employed by me in carrying my
invention into effect with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents the complete apparatus secured on the whip stock.
Fig. 2 the whip lash and parts fixed thereto ready for insertion in the outer
ferrule.
A is the whip stock to which is attached the ferrule B. This is best secured by
a small screw passing through a hole drilled in the stock; the screw is preferably
made with a ring as shewn to serve as a haudle and dispense with the use of a screw
driver. The inner socket C may be made to screw into B but 1 prefer to secure it

page_text: by pressing it down to embrace the end of the stick A within the outer socket.
The strength of the whip at this point is therefore trebly secured by the
strength of the stick and that of the two sockets.
The two ferrules are
prevented from drawing apart by projections in the same manner as the sliding
tubes of telescopes.
These ferrules are made of any suitable metal preferably of aluminium or an
alloy thereof. The whip lash is inserted into a whole quill E and firmly
secured thereto, either by a ferrule G gripping the quill and the wire lashing D
or in any suitable manner. D represents a lashing of steel, brass or other elastic
wire, preferably silvered, arranged substantially as shewn to afford support to the
whip lash without rendering it too stiff, and its lower end may be secured to the
whip lash under ferrule G within E, on it may be wound round the quill E and
thus dispense with the ferrule G. When the stick inclines to become bent with
the weight of the lash, the user can draw up and revolve the socket C a half turn
more or less and thus transfer the strain to another side. The lash with the quill
can also be taken out of the socket C or replaced with the greatest facility. I am
aware that various attempts have been made to produce a whip with metallic
junction which shall be at once cheap, efficient, light and sightly, but hitherto as
far as I know without success and I do not regard these imperfect devices as
within the scope of my invention, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I
claim is:-
-:
nature of my said
declare that what I
1. The combination of parts constituting the improved whip attachment
consisting of outer socket B, inner socket C, screws a and b, whole quill E and
wire lashing D substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Namber 1805
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
31, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.