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Description

(No Model.)

J. MADDEN & G. R. BROWN.

LOOK FOR WHIP SOCKETS.

Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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LATENT JOHN MADDEN AND CHARLES R. BROXVN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO; SAID MADDEN ASSIGNOR TO SAID BRO\VN.

LOOK FOR WHIP-SOCKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 337,846, dated March 16, 1886 To a whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN MADDEN and CHARLES R. BRO N, of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and Improved Lock for XVhip-Soekets and other Purposes; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and complete description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of the same, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of a whip socket having applied thereto the locking device for securing the whip therein. Fig. 2 is a transverse longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a detached portion of the socket. Fig. 4 is a detached section of the soekets locking device.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The improvement in whip-sockets, above mentioned, relates to a device for securing the whip therein, and is intended for that particular purpose; however, the invention may be applied to other purposes than that specified, as hereinafter manifest.

\Vhips which are left standing in the whipsocket of a carriage, without being secured therein, are sometimes stolen therefrom during the temporary absence of the owner. To prevent such stealing is the object of this invention, which consists in looking the whip in the socket.

The construction of the socket and the looking device is substantially as follows: Said socket consists of two longitudinal sections, A and B, Fig. 1, which may be of the shape shown, or such modification of thesame as may be desirable. The two sections are connected to each other by a hingejoint. Said joint consists of a pair of ears, (3 and D, one at each end of the diameter of section B, and are integral parts thereof, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

a a are the pivotal pins of the joints, and by which joints the upper and the lower ends of the two sections are free to open and close for inserting in the socket the end of the whip G in Fig. 1.

The locking device consists of a tubular neck, H, provided with a ring, I, by which Serial No. 181,375. (No model.)

the lock is attached to the socket, as seen in Fig. 1, in which it will be noticed that the ring surrounds the upper end of the socket.

J, Fig. 2, is a threaded bolt passing freely through the side of the socket in a slot, 0, Figs. 2 and 3, thence loosely through the neck H to a flange-nut, K, screwed thereon, as seen in Fig. 2. Said nut is adapted to fit in a recess in the end of the neck, while the flange projects circu'mferentially beyond the end of the neck. In the flange of the nut is a peripheral groove, d, the use of which will presently be shown.

L is a cap fitted loosely to and covering the flange of the nut, and which is prevented from coming off therefrom by a nib, c, Fig. 4, projecting from the inner side or rim of the cap into the groove (Z in the flange of the nut. While the said groove and nib prevent the cap from leaving the nut, the cap is free to be turned around on the nut without the nut being turned thereby, unless the cap is made fast to the nut by the key M, screwed into and through the rim of the cap to the nut, as seen in Fig. 2. That portion of the bolt J that is in the slot 0 of the socket is square, and is thereby prevented from turning around in the said slot on working the nut J and the head of the bolt, for being on the inner side of the slot is thereby retained therein.

The operation of the above-described device is as follows: As shown in the drawings, the whip G- is inserted in the socket and locked therein. To remove the whip from the socket the key M is taken and screwed into the cap to the flange of the nut, as seen in Fig. 2, thereby fastening the cap to the nut, which can now be screwed back on the bolt by means of the cap. This will slacken the head I) of the bolt from the socket, between which and the neck H the side of the socket was firmly clamped. The ring and lock can now be slid upward to the smaller diameter of the socket, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, so that the ends of the socket can be spread apart to allow the whip to be taken out. The socket being unlocked and the ends thereof open, as above described, awhip may then be inserted therein, which when done, the ring is slipped down over the larger part of the socket to the position shown in the drawings. As the ring slips down the ends of the socket are closed thereby tightly about the whip, which are made fast in their position by screwing up the nut by the cap L, secured to the nut by the screw-key M, as above described. This screwing up the nut draws the head of the bolt against the side of the socket, thereby clamping the side B of the socket between the said head and the end of the neck, so that the ring cannot be pushed up. The key is now removed, and the nut cannot be turned on turning the cap, as thecap will simply turn it, and instead of thewperipheral groove and nib a flange may be turned down over the nut' for confining the cap thereon.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by letters Patent, is-

1. In whip-sockets, in combination with the jointed two-part socket, consisting of section A and slotted section B, the binding-ring and tubular neck, bolt J, and nut, said nut having a peripheral groove in its flange adapted to receive the nib of the cap L, constructed and arranged to operate in the manner substantially as described, and for the'purpose' specified.

2. The combination, with the cap L and nut of the herein-described lock for whip-sockets, of the screw-key M, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN MADDEN. CHARLES R. BROWN.

\Vitnesses:

W. H. BURRIDGE, J. H;'BURRIDGE'.'

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