An Improved Tool for Adjusting the Spokes of Velocipedes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 21st Feb., 1890-Accepted, 29th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tool for Adjusting the Spokes of Velocipedes.
We, HENRY MILES MERRY of 133 Brewery Road, Plumstead, in the County of
Kent, Fitter, and CHARLES ROBERT HINDES of 5 Mount Terrace, Lower Eglinton
Road, Plumstead, in the County aforesaid, Blacksmith, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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Our improved tool for adjusting the spokes of velocipedes commonly known as a
"spoke grip" is constructed in the following manner :- -We take a length of steel of
a square or other convenient section and we flatten the one end of it to form the
upper or fixed jaw. In this piece of stee! a hole is drilled longitudinally to adapt it
to receive the shank of the lower or moving jaw which is formed with either a convex
or concave gripping face. The shank of this jaw may be made square or
section that will prevent it turning in the other part, or it may be made round and the
face of the jaw adapted to bear and slide against the face of the fixed jaw to prevent
it twisting. The outer end of the hole is tapped to receive a thumb screw or its
equivalent, to operate the moving jaw. After the moving jaw is in position the
flattened part to form the fixed jaw is heated and lapped, or bent over, into a semi-
circle to form the said jaw.
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ROBT. ED. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
Royal Courts Chambers,
70, 71 & 72, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tool for Adjusting the Spokes of Velocipedes.
We HENRY MILES MERRY of 133 Brewery Road Pluinstead in the County of
Kent, Fitter, and CHARLES ROBERT HINDES, of 5 Mount Terrrace, Lower Eglinton
Road, Plumstead in the County aforesaid Blacksmith, 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:
Our Invention relates to an improved tool for adjusting the spokes of velocipedes
generally known as a "spoke grip" and has for its object to provide a handy tool
which will firmly hold the spokes after the manner of a vice.
In carrying our invention into practice we provide a steel bar of square or other
section and we flatten one and thereof and afterwards curve it in order to form the
lower or fixed jaw.
A central hole or opening is formed through the straight portion of the steel bar
and is tapped at its apper extremity. In this opening is fixed the stem of an anvil
shaped piece which forms the upper or movable jaw. The shank of a thumb screw
is inserted in the tapped end of the steel bar and serves to push the moveable jaw
forward to nip the wire or spoke against the inner side of the curved end of the
lower or fixed jaw.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have shewn
the same in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2
is a sectional view of my improved tool Fig. 3 is a plan of the same.
B. is the steel bar flattened and curved at its lower extremity to form the fixed
jaw j as shewn in Fig. 2 and provided with a perforation p tapped at its upper
extremity e to received the shank c of a thumb screw 8. In the lower or smooth part
of the perforation is inserted the stem d of the moveable jaw ; having a base o

page_text: grooved centrally as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The spoke of -the-velocipede or wire t
is secured as shewn between the curved end of the fixed jaw ; and the central groove
of the moveable jaw j¹ by turning the thumb screw inwardly and driving the said
moveable jaw against the said spoke b so that the latter is formly gripped as in
a vice.
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
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.