Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 19th Jan., 1895
A communication by VICTOR MÜLLER, of Frankershausen, in the District of
Cassel, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 31 High Holborn in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object an improvement in whips or whip handles or
stocks, separate parts of which produce by their combination with one another, all
those properties which must exist in order to meet the requirements of a good,
durable whip from all points of view.
The improved whip forming the object of this invention possesses great
durability, as the construction of the same is peculiarly advantageous, in so far
that in the top portion of the whip handle or stock the elasticity is very great, and
the whip is so constructed that it cannot break with ordinary use and cannot absorb
damp and wet.
This invention is shown on the accompanying drawing, and the separate figures
will be explained during the following description.
A smooth untreated cane a, Figure 1, of suitable dimensions and as small as
possible, is used along the whole length of the whip handle as its core or centre,
the cane having its natural bark on which the durability of each cane depends.
This core is covered with a thin woven fabric cut into narrow strips in order to
protect the cane and to be able to durably attach pieces of cane up to about of
its length, or as far as is necessary for obtaining a conical form of the handle.
A closely fitting spiral spring 6 which is protected against oxidation, is firmly
wound round this covered cane (see Figures 2 and 3). The spring may then be
protected against the penetration of moisture by wrapping it round with thin,
preferably glued strips c, (Figure 4). Over this wrapping up to about three
quarters of the whole length of the whip handle or stock there are then glued or
otherwise secured either pieces of whip cane d planed off conically in the usual
way, or narrow strips of woven fabric are so wound round the lower end of the
whip stock or handle that a conical form of the same is obtained (Figures 5 and 6).
The whip stock or handle prepared in this manner may then receive wrappings of
thread of various sorts round which may be placed metal rings 999, Figure 7,
in order to impart to it a smarter appearance and greater durability. Figure 8
shows a section of a whip stock or handle constructed in the above named
manner.
Another method of construction which however rests on the same principle is as
follows-
Pieces of cane are glued round the covered core a (Figure 1) up to about three
quarters of the length of the stock and these are planed off in the usual manner in
order to obtain the tapering form (Figure 5), the top portion of the handle or
stock consisting of the coated core of untreated cane still bearing its natural bark.
The planed off part of the stock is then also covered with a fabric cut into
narrow strips and impregnated. For whips with loops, the loop i is then attached.
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page_text: Round the whole whip stock from one end to the other a spiral spring of spring
wire is then wound and durably fixed, the separate coils of this spiral spring fitting
close together and adhering tightly to one another, the whole spring being rendered
proof against oxidation. The end of the whip, or in other words the handle is
provided with a metal cap g, which serves also as an ornament (Figure 7). Metal
rings g¹ gå may also be placed round the handle at intervals as an ornament. The
spiral spring may also be coated with a specially durable colourless varnish or
lacquer.
The novelty of this invention consists in the use of thin entirely untreated cane
still bearing its natural bark as the core of the whip handle or stock and in
surrounding the same with a spiral spring protected against rust, the result of
which form of construction is extremely great durability and elasticity.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, 1 declare that what I claim is―
1. An inproved whip which consists in forming the handle or stock with a core a
of untreated cane of even thickness, which core with the object of obtaining
adhesiveness is wrapped with a thin fabric and in surrounding the same by a coil
of spring wire 6 with the object of producing an elastic and in all its parts
thoroughly durable whip, substantially as described and shown in the accompanying
drawing.
2. The improved whip stock or handle constructed substantially as herein
described and shown on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 17th day of December 1894,
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.