A New or Improved Support for Velocipedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left 27th Feb.. 1897-Accepted, "th May. 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Support for Velocipedes.
I. WILLIAM HAYWARD of 106, Albacore Crescent Lewisham, S.E. Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved support for velocipedes, the object
being to provide a supporting device of extremely simple construction and which
is designed to be secured to a wall or the like for the purpose of supporting the
machine, while when not required for use it can be folded back so as not to project
from the wall more than about two inches. It is further not at all unsightly and
can be very cheaply produced.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I provide a suitable basis of
wood, metal or other material furnished with two short lugs or standards carrying
a vertical rod upon which is mounted a socket free to slide up and down, and
which can be secured at any required height according to the machine to be
supported, by means of a small thumb-screw, while the said vertical rod is preferably
provided with a V-shaped groove running along one side, the end of the locking
screw being pointed to enter same, so as to prevent the socket turning on the rod
when in use. Projecting from the said socket at right angles is a tube of sufficient
length within which slides telescopically a small rod secured in any required
position by means of a thumb-screw or the like, said rod being bent at right angles
in a downward direction and furnished with a double fork designed to engage with
the handle-bars of the velocipede, the stem of the handle-bars passing between the
said forks, while one fork supports the handle bar on each side, the said forks
being preferably covered with a short length of india-rubber tubing or the like so
as to prevent the plating of the handle-bars from being scratched or damaged.
In some cases instead of providing a thumb-screw for locking the shifting socket
in position, the vertical rod upon which it slides may be furnished with a series of
holes or perforations through any one of which a pin, preferably arranged at the
end of a short length of chain, may be passed, for the purpose of supporting the
lug at the required height.
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1, WILLIAM HAYWARD of 106, Albacore Crescent, Lewisham, S.E. Gentleman,
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 a new or improved support for velocipedes, the object
being to provide a supporting device of extremely simple construction and which

page_text: dispensed with and the rod
said rod would have to
handle-bars in general use.
connected direct with the sockets, in which case the
be of sufficient length to accommodate the widest
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.) The new or improved support for velocipedes comprising essentially a
vertical rod r mounted upon a basis such as 6 in combination with a sliding sockets,
a tube t within which slides telescopically a rod such as r, and a double forked
piece such as f. f¹, designed to engage with the handle-bars of the velocipede,..
substantially as herein described and shown, and for the purposes specified.
2.) In a support for velocipedes such as above claimed the inodified form or
arrangement of sockets and rod r, substantially as herein described and shown
with reference to Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings.
3.) The new or improved support for velocipedes, substantially as herein..
described and shown, and for the purposes specified.
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,.
Agent for the Applicant.