US292977A - Whip-socket - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

F. A. BRADLEY.

WHIB SOCKET.

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@maga UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK A. BRADLEY, oF NEW IIAvEN, CONNECTICUT.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,977, dated February 5, 1854.

ADDlicaticn led Noyezulnr 26,1583. (No model.)

To LZ/ whoml it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDII. A. BRADLEY, of New Haven, in the countyY of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Whip-Sockets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to bea full,

clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specication, and represent, inv

Figure l, a front View; Fig. 2, a vertical central section; Fig. 3, a modification.V Y

This invention relates to an improvement in whip-sockets, with special reference to their attachment to carriages. Sockets have usually been attached, in the better class of carriages, to lugs made on the dash-frame; but objections have been made on account of the time and trouble to t t-heleather around the lugs, and also because of the difficulty to secure the sockets firmly.

The object of my invention is to overcome these difficulties, and make a socket which can be readilyT attached to any carriage without connection with the dash-frame; audit consists in the construction of the socket firmly uni-ted to ametal base, and secured to the carriage by a single bolt passing` vertically 'through the bottom of the socket and holder,

which bolt serves as a means for securing the socket, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents a common wooden socket; B, the cup-shaped holder or base into which the socket is placed, and C the bolt through the bottom of the socket and holder.

I make the interior diameter of the cup part of the holder Ba very little less than the diameter of 4the socket A, so that considerable pressure will be required to force the socket into the holder. Before forcing the socket into the holder, I line the interior of the` cup with white lead, or any equivalent substance, so that, when the socket is forced into the cup,

they become .substantially one and the same piece. After the parts have been thus united, a bolt, C, is passed verticallythrough the bottom of the socket and base, and screw-threade on its lower end, to receive a nut, E.

To secure the socket to the carriage, simply make a hole for the bolt--say in the rocker D, or at the point it is desired to be secured; then pass the bolt through the hole, and apply the nut, as shown in Fig. 2. The head of the bolt, taking its bearing upon the bottom ofthe socket, draws the socket and base so firmly t0- gether that the lining; of the white lead in the cup may be dispensed with, and the interior diameter of the cup made the same or greater than theu diameter of the socket.

I preferably make the holder B a malleable iron, it being cast with the hole through the center for the bolt to pass.

In order to allow the'water which may fall into the socket to pass oft', I make perforations f around the bottom of the socket, as seen in Fig. 2; or it may be accomplished. by using a hollow bolt, g, as seen in Fig. 3.

In case it should be desired to secure the socket from a point at right angles to the socket, instead of directly below it, the securing devices may be made fast to or made a part of the socket7 extending radially from the socket. It that casev the bolt will be shortened, so that the end will bear directly against the bottom ofthe base, and thus bind the socket firmly to the base. Y

The combination of the socket A, the metal base B, constructed to receive the` lower end ofthe socket, and the bolt C through the bot-

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