AMERICAN WHIP 00. V. HAMPDEN WHIP 00. 87 �under the bankrupt law ; and if it be said that we have not, in the case at bar, direct proof of active participation by the bankrupt to facilitate his creditors in securing a preference, and that he was only silent under authorized legal proceed- ings, I must reply that the circumstances show it to have been but the outward silence of concealed co-operation. Decree for complainant. ���The American Whip Co. v. The Hampden Whip Co. �and others. �(Circuit Court, B. Massachusetts. February 2, 1880.) �Invention — Whip Tip Independbnt op Stock. — A whip tip, made inde- pendent of the stock, to which it may be fltted by means of a soclîet, ia not alone such an improvement as may be patented. �LowELL, J. Clark E. Shelton's patent, now the property of the plaintiffs, is re-issue No. 7382, for an improvement in ■whip tips. The specification represents that driving whips, especially long whips vsrithout a lash, are expensive, and fre- quently broken or frayed out at the tip end, and that several inconvenient and imperfect devices have been resorted to for repairing them. The patented improvement is to make a whip tip independent of the stock, and providing it with a socket which may be fitted to the stock. The partieular mode de- scribed, which is mentioned as one of many possible modes, is to make a screw-thread on the inside of the socket of the tip, whereby the tip can be readily screwed upon the stock, and again removed at pleasure. The first claim is: "As a new article of manufacture, a whip tip provided with a socket, so as to be attached to the stock proper, as and for the purposes set forth." �The defendants make and sell a whip tip constructed after the patent of Edward B. Light, No. 154,876, which bas a socket or ferrule, which fits the stock, and, instead of the screw-thread, the raetallie ferrule has certain pieces partly ��� �
