US1181950A - Whip-center. - Google Patents

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WHIP CENTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9.1914.

Patented May 2,1916.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH F0.- WASHXNGTON, (L C! CORNELIUS F. DONOVAN AND JOHN P. DONOVAN, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO UNITED STATES WHIP COMPANY, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS,

A CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA.

a WHIP-CENTER.

Specification 01' Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1916.

Application filed June 9, 1914. Serial No. 843,938.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OonNnLms F. DoNo- VAN and JOHN P. DONOVAN, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Whip- Oenters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction of a whip center, that is to receive the usual outer coverings to form the complete article, that will possess the desired and requisite amount of elasticity, and yet will insure great durability in the article.

A further object of the invention is to provide such a device in which the winding will not result in the formation of channels or depressions after it becomes set or fixed on the core. a

In the accompanying one embodiment of our invention,Figure 1 shows a partial length view of the center in elevation; Fig. 2 shows a similar length of the core; Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modification; Fig. A shows a front elevation, and Fig. 5 shows a side elevation of the winding strip and Fig. 6 is a cross section on the line 8-8 of Fig. 4.

In the drawings we show a core 10 formed of a rod that is very slightly tapered throughout its length, and which is cular cross section; the rod being formed of spring steel of a high grade. On this rod we place a covering, by taking a strip 13 of raw hide, and wind it spirally around the rod with the edges adjacent as indicated in the drawings. The raw hide strip is preferably first moistened or saturated. with water and then spirally wound on the core, so that when the strip becomes dry, it will shrink onto the core and become firmly fixed or set thereon. The strip of raw hide is preferably reduced at its edges or skived, as indicated in Fig. 6; and this form of strip is wound spirally on the core 10 preferably with the comparatively thin edges slightly,

- in its wet or saturated condition, and becomes fixed or set thereon by drying, the shrinkage that will reduce the width of the topics or this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Co of cirstrip, will still leave overlapping edges, and, therefore, there will be no channels or recesses formed in the device.

In the use of the whip, when it becomes slightly bent by reason of its elasticity, the small amount of movement of the overlapping edges of the raw hide will not produce channels or depressions, partly by reason of the material being lapped; and partly be cause of the pliability or slight degree of extension of the comparatively thin lapping edge portions; and which edges being brought together while wet will have a certain amount of adhesion that will hold them together.

l Ve claim 1. A whip center composed of a core of a slightly tapered spring steel rod of circular cross section, and a covering on the core formed of a strip of raw hide of gradually I reduced thickness from its longitudinal drawing, showing center to its side edges, said strip spirally wound on the core.

:2. A whip center composed of a core of a slightly tapered spring steel rod of circular cross section, and a covering on the core formed of a strip of raw hide that has its side edges reduced or skived, the strip being spirally wound on the core with the edges slightly overlapping.

3. A whip center composed of a core of a slightly tapered spring steel rod of circular cross section, and a covering on the core formed by spirally winding thereon a strip of raw hide of non-uniform thickness transversely in its wet condition to become set thereon by its shrinkage on the core.

4. A whip center composed of a core of a slightly tapered spring steel rod of circular cross section, and a covering on the core formed by spirally winding thereon a strip of raw hide that has its side edges skived and which is wound on the core in its wet condition to become set thereon by its shrinkage on the core.

Signed by us at Westfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CORNELIUS F. DONOVAN. JOHN P. DONOVAN.

Witnesses:

Enw. H. OoMsTooK, FRED A. SANFORD.

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