US388368A

US388368A - James latheop

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Publication number: US388368A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-08-21
Anticipated expiration: 1905-08-21

Description

J. LATHROP.

(No Model.)

WHIP SOCKET.

No. 388,368. Patented Aug. 21 1888.

.UNI S ATES ATENT ()FFICE.

JAMES LATHBOP, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WVILLIAM L. BEACH, OF SAME PLACE.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,368, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed April 2, 1888. Serial No. 269,312.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES LATHROP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwich, in the county ofNew London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vhip-Sockets, which improvements are fully set forth and described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of awhip socket of my improved form, and Fig. 2a central vertical section of the same.

This invention relates to whip-sockets, and has for its immediate object the improvement of such devices, so that they may serve the double purpose of whip and rein holder. By thus combining the two devices in one I am able to conceal in a measure the rein-holder, instead of having it prominently displayed on the top or end of the dashboard, as is necessary with many of the reinholders now in common use. My new construction is such that it adds but little to the cost of the socket. It also locates the reiuholder at one side of the vehicle, where the reins when held by it are out of the way of the horses tail.

Referring to the drawings, the letter a denotes the barrel of the socket, the upper portion being adapted to receive a whip in the usual manner, aspring, b, (secured within said barrel by a rivet, 0,) being provided to prevent the whip from rattling or jumping out. Projecting laterally from said barrel about midway of its length is a lug or plate, d,which (No model.)

forms the fixed jaw of my rein-holder. \Vithin said barrel is a disk, 6, having a. jaw, 0, projecting laterally through a longitudinal slot, g, in barrel a, said jaw being held normally upward in engagement with its companion jaw by a strong spiral spring, h, seated in barrel a, below the disk e, as illustratedin Fig. 2. Disk 6 has preferably a stud, i, projecting downward through a hole in the end of the barrel, which stud serves to prevent the rocking or displacement of disk e and its attached jaw. This disk e forms the bottom of the whip-socket proper and supports the whip when it is in said socket.

Assuming now that a whip is in plaeein the socket and that it is desired to use the reinholder, the jaw e may be depressed by pressing downward with said whip. When the jaws e d are opened sufficiently, the reins are placed between them and the pressure of the whip released, when spring h immediately raises jaw 0 with force enough to firmly clamp and support the reins. When it again be comes necessary to release the reins, the whip is grasped and pushed downward, as above described, when the reins may be removed.

I claim as my invention A whipsocket with a laterally-projecting fixed jaw, having in combination therewith a movable jaw actuated by a spring within the barrel of the socket, substantially as set forth.

JAMES LATHROP.

Witnesses:

ALLEN TENNY, FRANK H. ALLEN.