An Improvement or Improvements in Whip Thongs or Whip Lashes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1889
An Improvement or Improvements in Whip Thongs or Whip
Lashes.
I MATTHEW HENRY MASON of Albert Works No. 55 Bissell Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Whip and Whip Thong Manufacturer and Coach and
Saddlers Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention is applicable principally to the whip thongs or whip lashes of driving
whips but is also applicable to the whip thongs of other kinds of whips.
In whip thongs or whip lashes for driving whips as ordinarily made the butt or base
part of the thong or lash is supported or strengthened by a core or elastic support
usually made of a tapering piece of whalebone the leather thongs being plaited upon
the said core or elastic support.
My invention consists in substituting for the elastic supporting core of whalebone
or the other material usually employed at the butt or base of the whip thong or whip
lash a hardened and tempered steel wire or a wire of other elastic metal or alloy
preferably covered with india rubber or fabric or other soft material. I prefer to
cover the tapering steel or elastic wire supporting core of the whip thong or whip
lash with a strip of sheet india rubber coiled upon it but I do not limit myself to any
particular way of or to the use of any particular material for covering the metallic
supporting core of the whip thong or whip lash.
The thongs of leather or other material are plaited about the covered taper steel or
metallic core or support in the same way as the plaiting operation is performed upon
the ordinary whalebone, or other non-metallic elastic core of the whip thong or whip
lash.
By substituting for the ordinary supporting core a covered steel or elastic metallic
according to my invention as before described the whip thongs are more durable and
elastic and their figure is better preserved and they are less expensive to manufacture
than ordinary whip thongs.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in Whip Thongs or Whip
Lashes.
I MATTHEW HENRY MASON of Albert Works No. 55 Bissell Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Whip and Whip Thong Manufacturer and Coach and
Saddlers' Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of my 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 is applicable principally to the whip thongs or whip lashes of driving
whips but is also applicable to the whip thongs of other kinds of whips.
In whip thongs or whip lashes for driving whips as ordinarily made the butt or
base part of the thong or lash is supported or strengthened by a core or elastic support
usually made of a tapering piece of whalebone the leather thongs being plaited upon
the said core or elastic support.
My invention consists in substituting for the elastic supporting core of whalebone
or the other material usually employed at the butt or base of the whip thong or whip
lash a hardened and tempered steel wire or a wire of other elastic metal or alloy

page_text: preferably covered with india rubber or fabric or other soft material. I prefer to
cover the tapering steel or elastic wire supporting core of the whip thong or whip
lash with a strip of paper or sheet india rubber coiled upon it but I do not limit
myself to any particular way of or to the use of any particular material for covering
the metallic supporting core of the whip thong or whip lash.
The thongs of leather or other material are plaited about the covered taper steel
or metallic core or support in the same way as the plaiting operation is performed
upon the ordinary whalebone or other non-metallic elastic core of the whip thong
or whip lash.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in olevation partly in section
a driving whip thong or whip lash the butt or base part of which is supported or
strengthened by an elastic metallic core consisting of a tapering piece of hardened
and tempered covered steel wire according to my Invention. The said clastic
metallic core is marked a and the butt or base part of the whip thong or whip
lash in the axis of which the metallic core is situated is marked b.
"
Figure 2 represents the elastic metallic core a before it is "packed" or covered
with a strip of paper or sheet india rubber or other non-inetallic material and
Figure 3 represents the elastic metallic core a after it has been " packed or
covored with a strip of paper or other non-metallic packing material c.
The
elastic metallic core « is covered with the paper or other strip c by coiling it
thereon so as to give the elastic metallic core the general figure and size of the
whalebone core ordinarily employed in the butt or base of the whip thong.
Instead of using a core consisting of a tapering piece of hardened and tempered
steel wire a wire of other elastic metal or alloy may be used such as brass.
The thongs of leather or other material of which the whip thong is made aro
plaited about or upon the covered taper steel or metallic elastic core or support a
in the ordinary way and the whip thong or whip lash the butt or base of which
is supported or strengthened according to my invention is attached to the top of
the stick of the whip in the ordinary way.
By substituting for the ordinary supporting core a covered steel or elastic
metallic core according to my Invention as before described and illustrated the
whip thongs are more durable and elastic and their figure is better preserved and
they are less expensive to manufacture than ordinary whip thongs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed 1 declare that I claim
as my invention of "An improvement or improvements in whip thongs or whip
lashes" :-
Supporting or strengthening the butt or base part of the whip thong or lash by
means of a hardened and tempered steel core or support or other elastic metallic
core or support preferably covered or "packed" with a covering of paper sheet
india rubber or other non-metallic packing material substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated the Twelfth day of September 1880.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.