AN IMPROVED WHIP, STICK, OR CANE TO BE USED WHEN RIDING
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPHI
ALEXANDER TAYLOR, of George Street, Hanover Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifth day of June, in the second year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Alexander Taylor, His especial licence, sole privilege and autho-
rity, that I, the said Joseph Alexander Taylor, my exors, adññors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Alexander Taylor, my exors,
admiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
WHIP, STICK, OR CANE TO BE USED WHEN RIDING;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joseph Alexander Taylor, by an
Instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Alexander Taylor, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention

page_text: to consist in the addition of a long tuft or tassel of hair to the handle of such
whips, sticks, or canes as are used when riding, for the purpose of enabling the
rider to relieve the animal he is riding from the annoyance of flies.
And in
further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Joseph Alexander Taylor,
do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed,
by the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing an-
nexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents the handle of a riding whip made hollow to receive a
tuft, or, as it may more appropriately be termed, a tail, of horsehair, and
which in this Figure is represented as drawn into the handle by the check
string A, the operation of which is more clearly shewn in the next Figure.
B is the end of the tuft or tail, which, when made tapering, must always
protrude a little beyond the end of the handle, or the hairs will be deranged in
pulling it out for use.
Figure 2 is a section of a whip handle to which my said Invention has been
added. C is a metal tube, furnished with two friction rollers e, e, for the
check string A to work over. B is a tuft or tail of horsehair, supposed in this
instance to be dyed of a red color, but which may of course be of any color
that may be approved. This tuft or tail is securely fastened by cement into
the lesser tube or slide D. This tube D should be of a size to slide freely in
the tube c, and is kept from drawing out of the tube C by the screw ring or
collet F, which I call a lip screw, and which, when the hair has been drawn
through it, and the lesser tube D inserted in the tube C, should be screwed on
to the end of the tube c to keep all in its proper place. A is a string, which I
call the check string. It is tied round the whip handle at G, and the other
end is fastened to the tube D by being tied to a small wire eye, the shank of
which is forced into the cement when it is warm. When the tail is not in use
it may be drawn by the string A into the handle, as shown at Figure 1. H
is the stock of the whip inserted into the end of the tube c, and L, L, L, is
the paper, braiding, and buttons braided and worked on the whips in the usual
manner, leaving only the opening between the thumb buttons at the rollers
e, e, for the string to pull through.
Figure 3 are separate views of the tube c, with the rollers e, e, the lesser or
sliding tube D, and the lip screw F, the dotted lines showing their relative
positions when put to their proper places.
Now, whereas it is evident that my said addition of long tufts or tassels of
hair may be made to slide in and out of the handle without the check string,

page_text: by adding a weight to the lesser tube D sufficient to pull the tail into the
handle by merely holding the whip in a perpendicular position; and whereas
my said Invention may be made to the handles of such whips, sticks, or canes
as are used when riding, without their sliding into the handles of the same, for
the tube D may be made simply to screw into or otherwise to attach to the
handle, or it may be cemented or otherwise fastened into the handle as a
fixture; and whereas the color of the tuft or tassel is immaterial, being a
mere matter of taste; and whereas any kind of long or flowing hair may be
used, though I prefer horsehair; but whereas I claim as my Invention the
addition of a long or flowing tuft, tail, or tassel of hair to the handle of such
whips, sticks, or canes as are used when riding for the purpose of enabling the
rider to relieve the animal he is riding from the annoyance of flies; and such
my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new, and
never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification
of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth
comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso
in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore
I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Alexander Taylor, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and thirty-two.
JOSEPH ALEXANDER (L.S.) TAYLOR.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1832, the aforesaid Joseph Alexander Taylor came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
O above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Third day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand