Improvements in or relating to Bicycle-supports.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Bicycle-supports.
NIKLAUS HAAS, Manufacturer, of Stolberg, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, 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:—
Nearly all bicycle-supports used until now show the disadvantage that the
bearing-arms seize the inferior part of the frame of the bicycle near by the crank-
axle-bearing. Therefore, the bicycle can very easily fall, because the center of
gravity is situated above the fulcrum.
Also, in the bicycle-supports used until now the fork intended for stopping the
leading wheel was never fixed to the support, whereby said fork could not only not
be fastened strongly enough to the support, but also the same was displaced by the
least impact and did fall out.
In the annexed drawing there is represented a new support for bicycles, in which
the aforesaid inconveniences are avoided.
Fig. 1 represents the new support in combination with a bicycle suspended
therein.
Figs. 2 and 3 show the front-view and side-view of the new support and Fig. 4
represents the top view of the pivoted fork.
The bearing-arms t t₁ being connected to the main-part or body h of the support
and having their extremities bent round and felted, seize the inclined tubes of the
frame as high as possible, the consequence thereof being that the center of gravity
is placed as much as possible under the fulcrums. Therefore, the bicycle cannot
at all stagger or fall.
In order to fastly squeeze the bicycle in the support, a flat iron fis arranged on
the upper extremity of the main-pait or body h of the support, this flat-iron being
eventually also garnished with felt. Before suspending the bicycle in the bearing-
arms tt, one must lower the flat-iron fas shown in Fig. 2; and after having
suspended the bicycle, one has to rise the flat-iron, so that the same takes the
position shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The flat-iron is bent slightly, as shown in
Fig. 3, in order to press the bicycle towards the uppermost horizontal tube of the
frame and in the mean time to press the undermost part of the frame near the
crank-axle-bearing, towards the main-part h, which is also felted on its surface of
friction. This action is shown by the arrows in Fig. 3.
In order to stop the leading wheel and contrarily to the supports usually known,
a pivoted fork g fastly connected to the body is disposed, the same being also
felted inside (Fig. 4). By lowering or rising this pivoted fork, the same is to be
applied to all wheels of any diameter, for it seizes the wheels of larger diameter in
a higher place than those of smaller diameter.
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 :-
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In a bicycle-support, the combination of a main-part or body h, of two arms t t₁
connected to said body h and seizing as high as possible the inclined tubes of the
bicycle-frame, of a pivoted flat-iron f being slightly bent, said flat-iron being

page_text: arranged on the upper extremity of the aforesaid main-part h, of a pivoted fork g
also connected to the named main part h, substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of August 1895.
JOSEPH MOHLIG,
Agent for Applicant.