An Improved Frame or Front Fork for Cycles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Frame or Front Fork for Cycles.
I, SAMUEL DAVIES, of 1 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, in the County of
London, Hotel Keeper, 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 frame or front fork for cycles, and is
intended to be used in conjunction with the invention described and claimed in my
Specification No, 15,360, bearing date August 26, 1892.
I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
in which-
Fig. 1 is the back elevation of the fork.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the fork.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the base of the fork drawn to an enlarged scale.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the clip.
Figs. 3, and 4, are broken off for convenience. ·
Like letters refer to like parts throughout the views.
This invention consists of a fork a for front driving wheel cycles which may be
placed in any suitable position when fitted to a machine. At the base of the fork a
I fix an adjustable block or bearing c with an arm h projecting to the front having
a clip d at the end, this said clip d has in the inside an indente and opposite this
indent e is a bolt with a lock nut fin order to receive the block of the bearings
claimed in my Specification No. 15360, of 1892. A. stay b is fixed to each clip d
and prong of the fork a, as Figs. 2, and 3.
If preferable I can place the clip d and adjustable block or bearing c (to receive
the treadle spindle in any suitable position), either to the front or rear of the
base of the fork a.
The object of my invention is to construct a fork a with the adjustable block or
bearing c in the rear of the clip d, whereby the block or bearing with the treadles
shall be at the back of the axle of the front wheel, and to drive by an endless
chain geared to a suitable driver and follower, from the treadles to the front wheel
axles.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration, and
that the materials, parts and shapes, may be varied in many ways within the scope
of my invention.
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 1
claim is :-
1. In a front fork for driving a cycle with treadles in the rear of the axle, the
combination of the blocks or bearings c on the fork a arm h adjustable clips d with
indent e bolt g lock nut f and stay b, substantially as herein described and according
to the accompanying drawings.
2. In a front fork for cycles, the blocks or bearings c placed in any position at
the base of the fork a which receives the treadle spindle, for the purpose of
driving the front wheel with the treadles in rear of the front wheel axle,
substantially as herein described.
3. In a front fork for cycles, the adjustable clips d placed in any position at the

page_text: base of the fork a to receive the bearings of the axle of the front wheel in front
of the treadles, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 19th day of November 1892.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham, Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.