Improvements in connection with Signals for Road Vehicles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left 3rd Nov. 1891 Accented 24th 1004
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Signals for Road Vehicles.
I, WALTER JONATHAN CHESTERTON, of Leicester Square, Lichfield Street,
Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Gas Lighting Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The signal whip socket is fitted inside with india rubber ball or box, which if
pressed with butt end of whip will sound a horn. The signal may also be a whistle,
bell, or gong sounded by a movement of the whip.
The signal may be given to the horse, instead of using the whip, to foot
passengers in times of danger, and to the driver on a dark night, to tell him the
whip is safe in its socket.
I claim the invention of attaching a signal to a whip socket, which may be
sounded by moving the whip.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1891
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Signals for Road Vehicles.
I, WALTER JONATHAN CHESTERTON, of Leicester Square, Lichfield Street
Walsall in the County of Stafford, Gas Lighting Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invenion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in audible signals for road vehicles
generally, for the purpose of warning foot passengers, and assuring the driver that
the whip is securely placed in its socket.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I have appended the
accompanying two sheets of drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2, Sheet 1 are
sectional elevations of a whip socket and handle, shewing the application of my
invention, and Figures 3 and 4 Sheet 2 are an elevation and sectional elevation of a
modification of the device, respectively.
In carrying my invention into effect, I attach to the base of the handle of a whip A
Figure 1, Sheet 1, a flexible ball B, of india rubber or other elastic material. The
handle or stock A is hollowed so as to contain a horn a, attached to the ball B.
When the whip is placed in the socket C, and pressed downwards so as to compress
the ball B against the bottom of said socket, the signal is sounded. I may modify
this arrangement by placing the ball B and horn a at the bottom of the socket C as
shewn by Figure 2, Sheet 1. A further modification is shewn by the elevation
Figure 3, and sectional view Figure 4, Sheet 2, in which an ordinary gong sounder b
is placed at the bottom of the socket C so that the striking piston c may be
depressed when the whip is placed in the socket C and the double gong of the
sounder struck by the hammers hh, which are each pivotted against the tension of
a spiral spring, tending to keep them away from the interior edges of the gongs of
the sounder. An extension; beyond the pivot of each hammer, which is of angular
or wedge-like shape, projects so that the descent of the piston c causes a projection
or disc d to strike the angular extension; upon each hammer hh', and thus cause
said hammers to strike the gongs of the sounder both in the upward and downward
movements of d. This arrangement is, however, well known in connection with gong
sounders, and I do not claim it as part of my invention.

page_text: The audible signal is thus effected when the whip is pressed downwards into the
socket. I may attach said sounder (with the piston c projecting downwards) to the
stock of the whip instead of to the socket, but do not prefer to do so, because of
the necessity for a large and inconvenient stock in which to place the sounding
appliance.
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,
An improved audible signal for road vehicles in which a horn or sounder is
operated by the action of placing or pressing the stock of a whip in the socket
thereof, substantially as herein described and shewn by the appended drawings.
Dated this 31st day of October 1891
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.