US92372A - Improvement in whips - Google Patents

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ANTHONY SCHARFF, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Letters Patent No. 92,372, lated efuly 6, 18th).

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY SCHARFE, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement vin Whips and I do Vhereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention consists in the substitution of a steel wire, or its equivalent, for the strips of whalebone which arc ordinarily used for stiffening and for imparting the necessary degree of elasticity to whips, the said wire being perfectly elastic, not liable to becorne bent or broken, cheaper', and free from all the objections arising Afrourthe employment ot'- whalebone in whips. y

In order to enable others skilled in the art t0 make and apply my inventionI will now proceed to describe` the mode of carrying the same into effect, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side View, partly in section, of sufficient of a whip to illustrate my invention;

Figure 2, a transverse sectional View of the same;

Figure 3, a view of part of an ordinary whip.

The' central portion of an ordinary carriage-whip consists of one or more rounded or partly-roumled pieces of whalebone, which are thickest at thebut, and gradually taper' to a small diameter at the opposite exible end of the whip. To thiscent-ral stiifening of whalebone are glued or otherwise secured strips of rattan or light flexible wood, which'are also thickest at the but ofthe whip, bnt'do not extend entirely to its opposite end, the strips being bound together by suitable cords, and the whole heilig covered by the outer wrapping ofthe whip, which may be of leather or any other suitable material. y

The Whalebone is used for the purpose of imparting the necessary degree of elasticity to ,the whip, an ob'- ject which it accomplishes well for a short time, or so longr as the whip is carefully handled and not exposed to wet or dampness. v n

` The whalebone, however, is apt to become permanently bent or broken, if an unyielding object is accidentally struck by the whip; it alsofrays out at vthe end after a short period of use, as shown in fig. 3, and

thus destroys the utility and appearance of the whip, and when exposed to dampness, it soon loses its elasticity, and becomes so warped and bent asto be almost useless.

All of these objections I have entirely overcome by substituting a finely-tempered steel wire, of small diameter, for the whalebone, this wire imparting the necessary degree of stiness to the whip, being perfectly elastic, and not liable to bend or break, while its cost is considerably less than one-half of that of the whalebone.

It will be understood that this wire is of such small diameter, (less than a sixteenth of an inch,) and is so perfectly elastic, thatthe whip willb'e no more severe than one in which whalebone is used.

It will be seen, on reference to figs. land 2, that no change whatever is made in the manufacture of the whip, the wire being enclosed between strips of rattan,

and completely covered, in the same manner as the.

whalebone.

Although I prefer-to use a steel wire, I do not con'- fine myself to the same, if a wire of any other metal shall be found to answer the purpose.

I therefore claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patenty p A whip, consisting of' an outer wrapper,enclosing a strip of rattan, within which a wire is secured as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have signedv my name to this ,specilieatiom in the presence of two vsubscribing witnesses.

A. SCHARFE.

Witnesses E. Il. BAILEY, LoUls 'Boswsnrh

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