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I (No Model.)

J. T. SULLIVAN.

' WHIP.

No. 426,419. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

JOHN T. SULLIVAN, OF IVESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ELMER IV. DICKERMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

WHIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,419, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed October 21, 1889.- Serial No. 327,631. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN T. SULLIVAN, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at \Vestfield, in the county of Ilampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in IVhips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the improvement in the construction of Whips, the main purposes thereof being the provision of simple and inexpensive means for insuring a most desirable weighting, loading, and balancing of the whip and for rendering the internal portions of the whip proof against moisture.

In the accompanying drawings a whip constructed in accordance with this invention is illustrated as far as it is practicable to illustrate an invention of this nature.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the greater part of the length of a whip with outer parts removed in sections for better illustration. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing a slightly-modified construction. Fig. 4 is a very much enlarged cross-sectional View of the whip seen in Fig. 2, taken on the line 4 4 thereof. Fig. 5 is a very much enlarged crosssectional view of the whip shown in Fig. 3, taken on the line 5 5 thereof. I

In carrying out this invention in the manufacture of the improved whip, I form the whip, as usual, up to the stage of plaiting, employing a center or core and sidings a, rounding the whip up into the desired proportions, and I then subject the same, preferably for its entire length, with a coating Z) of adhesive material, varnish being in practice employed, and before the same becomes dry the varnished whip is rolled in a quantity of comminuted material, receiving thereon a layer (Z thereof, the material preferably employed being what is termed floured iron, in which stuff the particles are somewhat finer than ordinary iron. filings. I may employ other material than floured iron, and will name as equivalents, either of which maybe employed, comminuted lead or other metal, ground corundum, emery, sand, and the like.

After one coating, substantially such as described, has been applied on the whip and it should be found that the loading and balancing of the whip is not exactly as required or desirable, another coating of adhesive ma- 5 5 terial maybe applied, and upon that another layer of the coinminuted material may be affixed, the same being disposed as to the length of the whip so as to lie upon a portion or portions or the whole thereof, as the case may require.

In addition to the coating or coatings of commiuuted material, which is usually mineral, and, substantially as described, over the same, a coating f, of flock or shoddy, may be applied to give a yielding resistance and good feeling to the whip, relieving the same from its rigid characteristic and rendering but a single plaiting requisite or desirable. The coating of flock is caused to adhere to the layer cl by coating the outer surface of said layer with glue or varnish and applying the flock before the glue or varnish has dried.

In Fig. 2, over the coating (Z of comminuted material are placed two layers g g of plaiting, while in Fig. 3, in which the layer of flock f is shown as covering the said layer d, but one plaited covering is shown as provided.

The covering d, or the covering (1 together with the overlying one f, in addition to the effects above named, protects the internal portions of the whip from the effects of moisture.

I/Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. The combination, in a whip, of a central core of usual construction, a coating of heavy comminut-ed material adhesively secured to said core, and a covering of braid surrounding said comminuted material, substantially as described. 9

2. The combination,in a whip, of a central core, a layer of comminuted material adhesively secured thereto, a coating of flock overlying said comminuted material, and a covering of braid overlying all, substantially as described.

JOHN T. SULLIVAN. Witnesses:

ELMER W. DIOKERMAN, WM. S. BELLoWs.

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