ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR PLATTING OR WEAVING OF WHIPS
Year: 1761

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, 'GEORGE
DUNDAS, of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, Whipmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Third
day of August, in the first year of His said Majesty's reign, did give and
grant to me, the said George Dundas, my exors, admors, and assigns,
His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
George Dundas, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, should and lawfully might,
during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, &
vend, within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and. Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
new-invented "ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR PLATTING OR WEAVING OF WHIPS;" in
which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said George Dundas, by writing under my hand, and seal, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of the said Invention to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court. of Chancery within four calender months after the
date of the recited Letters Patent,. as in and by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Dundas, do hereby declare that my said new machine or Invention is
composed and made in manner following (that is to say):
A square wood tube fixt perpendicular; at the top, middle, and bottom of it
is fixt horizontally a circular board; upon the top board is placed a wood collar,

page_text: with scollops cut out in the edge; but as collars of different numbers of
scollops are required, they are moveable to the form of those scollops, and in
them are placed peices of brass, with rollers in them, upon which the gutt
that is worked upon the whip moves, one end of the gutt being fixt to the
whip which rises out of the tube, and the other to lead weights that hang
beneath the top board. Round the top board moves upon rollers a wood
coller, which is confined to its place by rollers that are fixt upon standards
which rises from the middle board that is fixed to the tube. Upon this collar
are moveable pegs, to varey with the different scollop boards that are upon the
top board that is fixt to the tube. These pegs, as the collars are moved,
force the brasses from one scollop to another; and as a peg is fixed to receive
each brass, the whole have their movement together. At the top of the lead
weights are springs which, striking against the collar that moves, unwind the
gut that is wound upon them to the same degree as it is worked upon
the whip.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth
day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and sixty-one.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stamp'd, in the presence of
BENJ. APLIN.
GEORGE DUNDAS. (L.S.)
ELIZ. APLIN.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fifth day of November, in the
year of our Lord 1761, the aforesaid George Dundas came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledge the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamp'd according to the tenor of
the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-one.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DUNDAS, of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, Whipmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Third
day of August, in the first year of His said Majesty's reign, did give and
grant to me, the said George Dundas, my exors, admors, and assigns,
His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
George Dundas, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might,
during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, &
vend, within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
new-invented "ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR PLATTING OR WEAVING OF WHIPS;" in
which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said George Dundas, by writing under my hand and seal, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of the said Invention to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender months after the
date of the recited Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Dundas, do hereby declare that my said new machine or Invention is
composed and made in manner following (that is to say):-
A square wood tube fixt perpendicular; at the top, middle, and bottom of it
is fixt horizontally a circular board; upon the top board is placed a wood collar,

page_text: with scollops cut out in the edge; but as collars of different numbers of
scollops are required, they are moveable to the form of those scollops, and in
them are placed peices of brass, with rollers in them, upon which the gutt
that is worked upon the whip moves, one end of the gutt being fixt to the
whip which rises out of the tube, and the other to lead weights that hang
beneath the top board. Round the top board moves upon rollers a wood
coller, which is confined to its place by rollers that are fixt upon standards
which rises from the middle board that is fixed to the tube. Upon this collar
are moveable pegs, to varey with the different scollop boards that are upon the
top board that is fixt to the tube. These pegs, as the collars are moved,
force the brasses from one scollop to another; and as a peg is fixed to receive
each brass, the whole have their movement together. At the top of the lead
weights are springs which, striking against the collar that moves, unwind the
gut that is wound upon them to the same degree as it is worked upon
the whip.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth
day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and sixty-one.
UNDAS.
(L.8.)
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stamp'd, in the presence of
BENJ. APLIN.
ELIZ. APLIN.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fifth day of November, in the
year of our Lord 1761, the aforesaid George Dundas came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledge the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamp'd according to the tenor of
the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Sixth day of November. in the year of our Lord One