Improvements in or Additions to Whips.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct.,
1898
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Whips.
I, MATTHEW HENRY MASON, of 55, Bissell Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Whip Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has relation to whips, particularly to whips of that class known
as dealers whips, and has for its object to provide a simple means of connecting
the whip lash or thong to the tip or fore end of the stock or handle.
Usually stocks or handles having inserted steel liners, centres or cores have
the lash, or the keeper end of the lash connected to the end of the stock by wrap-
ping or binding on a leather loop to the said end of the stock and connecting
the keeper end of the lash thereto by means of a running knot. This mode of
connection is defective owing to the hardness of the core or liner preventing the
wrapping cord from biting sufficiently into the material to provide an efficient
hold.
According to my invention this defect or defects is obviated by providing the
lash end of the stock with a metallic or like end fitting consisting of an eyed tip
or ferrule, through the eye of which a metallic ring or loop is threaded and into
the said ring, the keeper end of the lash is knotted.
Thus, in carrying out one form of my invention, the lash end of the steel liner
or centre of a whip stock is notched, serrated, roughened or otherwise prepared
after the covering of the same by the usual plaiting. Then I take an eyed ferrule
consisting of a thin-walled socket or cap terminated by an eye or loop and I fit
this eye with a split or other ring or equivalent through which the keeper end of
the thong or lash is looped and knotted, thus forming a flexible connection of the
lash to the end fitting, the barrel or socket part of which is closed by pressure
around the tip end of the stock, whereby the metal of the said socket is forced,
into the notches or serrations of the steel liner.
I wish it to be observed that I do not confine myself to any particular manner
of preparing the steel liner or core, as instead of being notched or the like, it may
be slightly headed to prevent the pulling off of the metallic end fitting, which
may be made in any way in any metal.
Instead of employing a metallic ring, I may employ a ring of any description
into which the keeper loop of the lash is knotted, thus making an extremely
flexible connection.
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page_text: Improvements in or Additions to whips.
I, MATTHEW HENRY MASON, of 55, Bissell Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Whip Manufacturer, 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;―
This invention has relation to whips, particularly to whips of that class known
as dealers whips, and has for its object to provide a simple means of permanently
affixing the whip-lash connection fitting to the tip or fore end of the stock or
handle.
Usually stocks or handles having inserted steel liners, centres or cores have the
lash, or the keeper end of the lash connected to the end of the stock by wrapping or
binding on a leather loop to the said end of the stock and connecting the keeper
end of the lash thereto by means of a running knot. This mode of connection is
defective owing to the hardness of the core or liner preventing the wrapping cord
from biting sufficiently into the material to provide an efficient hold.
According to my invention this defect or defects is obviated by providing the
lash end of the stock with a metallic or like end fitting consisting of an eyed tip
or ferrule, through the eye of which a metallic ring or loop is threaded and into
the said ring, the keeper end of the lash is knotted, whilst the ferrule is closed
onto or directly connected to the core or centre of the stock and thereby per-
manently affixed, as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an elevation of a whip in
which the lash-connection fitting is attached to the stock in accordance with one
form of my invention.
Figure 2 is a view shewing the lash and stock detached from one another.
Figure 3 represents the end of the core or steel centre to which the ferrule carry-
ing the ring or loop is connected.
Figure 4 is a section view of the said ferrule and ring separately.
Figure 5 is an edge view of the said ring and ferrule and Figure 6 a plan
thereof, prior to its attachment to the core.
Figure 7 is a sectional view showing the ferrule applied to the end of the core
or steel centre, but before the closing of the two together is performed.
Figure 8 represents a similar view to that of Figure 7, but showing the con-
nection of the ferrule to the core.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
In carrying out this form of my invention, the lash-end a¹, of the steel liner
or centre a, of a whip stock (which is covered with the usual plaiting b, except-
ing at the extreme tip of the said lash end) is notched at a³, or it may be formed
with a sinking or serrated, roughened or otherwise prepared either before or after
the covering of it with the thread or other covering. Then I take an eyed
ferrule c, consisting of a thin-walled socket or cap c¹, terminated by an eye or loop c²,
and I fit this eye with a split or other ring d, or with a loop or equivalent through
which the keeper end 4, of the thong or lash d², is looped and knotted, thus form-
ing a flexible connection of the lash to the end fitting, the barrel or socket part
of which is then closed by pressure around the tip end of the stock,, whereby the
metal of the said socket is forced into the notch at the tip of the steel centre. The
enlarged mouth of the socket takes over the threaded or other covering of
the stock and thereby conceals the loose and rough ends, so that the outside of the
fitting is thereby made absolutely flush with the said thread.

page_text: In order to provide the necessary metal for filling up the notch in the ferrule
without indenting or otherwise disfiguring the same, I may provide a rib or
collar c³, around the said socket and this additional metal may be displaced inwardly
by the act of closing together the parts, after which any webs or other superfluous
metal remaining is removed by filling or otherwise so that the neat appearance of
the connection is preserved.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to any particular method
of preparing the cone or centre of the whip stock in order to provide for the lock
connection between it and the ferrule, as the said centre may be headed at the end
to prevent the pulling off of the ferrule, which may be of any configuration or
pattern and be made of any suitable metal.
Instead of providing the ferrule with a metal ring or loop as shown, a ring or
loop of any other description may be used into which the keeper loop of the lash
may be knotted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:―
First In a whip, connecting or permanently affixing the ferrule or cap of
the lash-connection fitting, which is of the kind hereinbefore described, to the
core or metal centre of the stock by notching, sinking or serrating the end of the
said core and forcing or closing the metal of the ferrule into it, substantially as
described and set forth.
Secondly: A whip lash connection fitting, comprising a cap with a socket
terminated at one end by an eye through which a ring passes and at the other and
attachment end by an enlarged mouth, for taking over the raw end of the thread
or other covering of the stock, and with the said fitting permanently affixed to the
core or centre of the stock by closing or forcing the metal walls of the socket
into a notch or cross sinking in the end of the said core, substantially as described
and set forth.
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MATTHEW HENRY MASON,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.