An Improved Stand or Support for Bicycles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stand or Support for Bicycles.
I, GEORGE TRYON TURNER, of 1705 Tioga Street, Philadelphia United States
of America, Broker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved stand or support for bicycles.
According to my invention I provide a stand or support for a bicycle which
while holding the machine upright does not raise the same from the ground. An
important feature of my invention is that the bicycle wheel is held at the top.
In carrying my said invention into practice I provide a base piece which may
be made of wood or other suitable material and formed with a slot or passage for
receiving the wheel, the said slot however being so long that the wheel is not
supported by the ends thereof but rests on the ground. I thereby avoid any risk
of the tyre of the wheel being damaged or cut by its support. On the base I fix
by any suitable means a pillar to which is secured a vertically adjustable rod
furnished with a projecting arm. The said projecting arm is suitably formed
at the end to engage with the top part or with the mud guard of the wheel when
in the stand. I may make the upright pillar hollow and arrange that the vertical
rod can slide up and down in the said pillar and be fixed thereto by a suitable
clamp with its arm at any desired height above the base. I sometimes arrange a
spiral spring in conjunction with the rod and pillar so that the spring is extended
or compressed when the said rod is raised I can then dispense if desired with any
clamping device. When the base is made of metal I may form the pillar in one
piece with the same or secure it thereto in any suitable manner. I sometimes make
my improved stand with a pillar on each side of the slot in the base the wheel to
be supported being passed between the two pillars the projecting arms of which
may meet forming an arch over the top of the wheel and adapted to engage there-
with as hereinbefore described for the single pillar.
My improved stand will fit a wheel of any ordinary diameter. It is very light
and portable and is moreover easily and cheaply constructed and is not liable to
get out of order.
Dated this 10th dose of Avant 1909
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stand or Support for Bicycles.
I, GEORGE TRYON TURNER, 1705 Tioga Street, Philadelphia United States
of America Broker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to an improved stand or support for bicycles.
The important feature of my invention is that the bicycle wheel or mud guard
of the same is held at the top.
In order that my invention may be easily understood will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a view of one form of my improved bicycle stand supporting a
machine

page_text: Figures 2 and 3 are views partly in section illustrating modified forms of my
improved stand.
Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the drawings.
Referring to Figure 1 A is a base piece of wood or other suitable material
formed with a slot or passage A' for receiving the wheel and supported on feet A².
The slot A is preferably hollowed a little at the ends as shewn at A³. Any risk
of the tyre of the wheel being damaged or cut by its support is thereby avoided.
The ends of the slot serve to retain the bicycle wheel in place in the stand. Bis
a hollow pillar secured to the base by screws passing through its flanged end into
the wood of the base or by other suitable means. C is a rod adapted to slide up
and down in the hollow pillar. I may provide a screw clamp B for securing the
rod C at different heights in the pillar. The said rod C is furnished with a pro-
jecting arm which is suitably formed at the end to engage with the top part or with
the mud guard of the bicycle wheel D as shewn at C'. When the bicycle'is to be
supported by the stand the clamp B' is loosened and the rod C lifted up to allow
one of the wheels to be put into the slot in the base, the part C¹ of the rod C is
then brought down to engage with the top part or with the mudguard of the
wheel as shewn in the figure and clamped there by the screw B'.
It is obvious that instead of making the pillar Bhollow and the rod C to
slide up and down therein I may make the said pillar solid and the part C
tubular so as to slide up and down outside the pillar.
In
In Figure 2 is shown a modification of my invention in which a stand is
provided with two pillars secured thereto. The wheel of the bicycle is placed
in the slot between the two pillars the adjustable vertical rods being joined at
the top by the part C and furnished with suitable clamping devices as shewn.
Figure 3 a spiral spring C² is shown in conjunction with the vertical rod aud
pillar so that the spring being extended when the rod is raised keeps the projecting
part C¹ in contact with the top part of the wheel or with the mud guard of the
same without the necessity of any clamping device to keep it in position. To
attain the same object I sometimes arrange that the spring instead of being
extended is compressed when the vertical rod is raised. Or I may dispense with
the spring the sliding rod being then kept in position by its weight or by the
friction on the pillar.
I sometimes pivot the pillar, or both pillars when two are used, to the stand so
that the same can be folded down in a more convenient form for carriage.
When the base of my stand is made of metal I may form the pillar in one
-piece with the same or secure it thereto in any suitable manner.
My improved stand will fit a wheel of any ordinary diameter.
It is very
light and portable and is moreover easily and cheaply constructed and is not liable
to get out of order.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A bicycle stand comprising a slotted base piece and an extensible rod
attached thereto, said rod being furnished with a projecting arm adapted to
engage with the upper part or the mudguard of a bicycle wheel, when said wheel
is placed in the stand, substantially as, and for the purpose, specified.
2. The modified form of my improved stand wherein I employ two extensible
rods joined by a projecting arm, substantially as described.
3. A bicycle stand constructed substantially as described with reference to any
of the accompanying drawings.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.