Improvements in or relating to Whip Sockets.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Whip Sockets.
I, GEORGE HAMILTON, of East Woodhay, in the County of Hampshire, and of
Highclere, Newbury in the County of Berkshire, Coachbuilder, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object improved means whereby whip sockets may be
easily and securely fixed to the side, splash-board, or other part of the vehicle that
may be found most convenient.
Whip sockets as ordinarily constructed of leather are provided with two straps
and buckles by the aid of which they are secured in position; but this arrangement
is only serviceable where the vehicle has suitable bars, rods, or projections, around
which the straps may be secured at the point where the socket is required.
Now the device I employ according to my invention consists of two metal plates
of suitable length and width, each of which is curved to fit partly round the body
of the whip socket and is provided at each side with outwardly projecting flanges.
Projecting from the edge of one or both of these flanges is a lug shaped to fit
the part to which it is desired to fix the socket and to which it may be secured by
screws, or, where the lugs are shaped to fit a circular piece, a curved clamping plate
may be used for this purpose, the ends of the lugs being secured by screws to the
ends of the curved clamping plate.
Two of these plates are secured to the vehicle one below the other, and when the
whip socket has been fitted into them the two straps on the latter are secured round
the backs of said curved plates between the flanged edges thereof.
When found desirable, the two curved plates may be connected together by a rod
from the centre of which projects a stem provided with a foot by which the whole
may be secured to the vehicle.
Thin 7th day of Santamber 1893
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in or relating to Whip Sockets.
I, GEORGE HAMILTON, of East Woodhay, in the County of Hampshire, Coach
Builder, 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 improved means whereby whip sockets may be
easily and securely fixed to the side, splash-board, or other part of the vehicle that
may be found most convenient.
Whip sockets as ordinarily constructed of leather are provided with two straps
and buckles by the aid of which they are secured in position; but this arrangement
is only serviceable where the vehicle has suitable bars, rods, or projections, around
which the straps may be secured at the point where the socket is required.
Now the device I employ according to my invention consists of two metal plates

page_text: of suitable length and width, each of which is curved to fit partly round the body
of the whip socket and is provided at each side with outwardly projecting flanges.
Projecting from the edge of one or both of these flanges is a lug shaped to fit
the part to which it is desired to fix the socket and to which it may be secured by
screws, or, where the lugs are shaped to fit a circular piece, a curved clamping plate
may be used for this purpose, the ends of the lugs being secured by screws to the
ends of the curved clamping plate.
Two of these plates are secured to the vehicle one below the other, and when the
whip socket has been fitted into them the two straps on the latter are secured round
the back of said curved plates. between the flanged edges thereof.
When found desirable, the two curved plates may be connected together by a rod
from the centre of which projects a stem provided with a foot by which the whole
may be secured to the vehicle.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
drawings of which
Figs. 1 and 2 is a side elevation and plan respectively of a device for securing
whip sockets in position constructed according to my invention; and
Figs. 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 9 and 10, 11 and 12, 13 and 14, and 15 and 16,
similar views of slightly modified forms thereof.
Two plates a curved to receive the whip sockets are secured one below the other
to any convenient part of the vehicle by means of lugs b projecting from the edges
of said plates and shaped to fit the part to which they are to be secured this being
effected either by the aid of a clamp plate c and suitable bolts as shown in Figs. 1
and 2, 3 and 4, and 5 and 6 by screws, nails or bolts as shown in Figs. 7 and 8,
11 and 12, and 13 and 14, or set screw as shown in Figs. 9 & 10.
The whip socket is fitted into these two plates, when secured in position one below
the other, by passing the two straps on the former round the backs of the latter
between the flanged edges d thereof.
Instead of forming the two plates separately as above described, these may be
connected together as shown in Figs. 15 and 16, by a suitable connecting piece e
from which projects stem f provided with a foot at its free end by which the whole
may be secured to any convenient part of the vehicle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The means of securing whip sockets in position consisting essentially of curved
plates a provided with suitable means of attachment substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.