r power greater than can be applied to an ordinary sembling those on the weapons of the stone period, without that when the whip is placed in the socket it is clasped by hand machine like that illustrated. the aid of any metallic instrument, but merely by means of the semicircular hasp of the lock,… … the useful work to be accomplished. Both the interior of the hasp and that of the recess which forms its counterpart, are lined with thick leathers, cut in the form of halves of a flat ring, and let into grooves formed in the interior side of the hasp and the recess. This prevents rattling and…
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