Improvements in or connected with Floorings or Surfaces for Cyclists.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept.. 1896
Complete Specification Left. 25th June, 1897-Accepted, 31st July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Floorings or Surfaces for
Cyclists.
I, GUSTAVE ADOLPH ZOBEL of 81 Euston Road, County of Middlesex, Cycle
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object the construction or formation of paths, flooring, or
surfaces in seginents or rings or their equivalents and constituting a track from
Asphalte, cobbles, wood, gravel, sand, loose stones, Macadam, cinders, grass, mud, or
other or any combination of material for the purpose of affording facilities to Cycling
pupils when learning how to travel over any roadway they may come across when
they are efficient.
Said surface or surfaces may be regular or irregular in each or any segment or ring
to serve as obstacles to riders in a school.
For the purposes of my invention I prepare say, a ring shape flooring or track in
segments and at or about the same level, each segment being of different material
or of any other arrangement. If the ring be composed of four segments, two of
them alternately formed may be of wood and of Asphalte, or of cobbles and Macadam
respectively.
The rings, segments, or portions of the track, or tracks by being concentric to one
another give facilities to the riders going from one to the other, and each may be
entirely formed from one material, and the next from another material, or each one
of different material in segments; and if the School be under cover the surfaces may
be variously coloured as fancy may dictate.
D
L001000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for G. A. Zobel.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Floorings or Surfaces for
Cyclists.
I, GUSTAVE ADOLPH ZOBEL, of 81 Euston Road, County of Middlesex, Cycle
Manufacturer, 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:-
This invention has for obiect, the construction or formation of paths, flooring or

page_text: surfaces or rings or their equivalents and constituting a track from Asphalte, Cobbles,
Granite setts, Wood, Gravel, Sand, loose Stones, Macadam, Cinders, Grass, Mud, or
other or any combination of material for the purpose of affording facilities to Cycling
Pupils when learning to ride. Said surface or surfaces may be regular or irregular in
each or any seginent or ring to serve as obstacles to riders in a School such as would
be met with on any roadway they may come across when they are efficient.
For the purposes of my invention, I prepare, say, a ring shape flooring or track
in segments and at or about the same level, each segment being of different material,
or of any other arrangement.
...
If the ring be composed of four segments, two of them alternately formed may be
of wood and of Ashphalte, or of Cobbles, or Granite setts, and Macadam respectively.
The rings, segments, or portions of the track or tracks by being concentric to one
another give facilities to the riders going from one to the other, and each may be
entirely formed from one material and the next from another material, or each one of
different material in segments, and if the School be under cover or otherwise the
surfaces may be variously coloured as faney may dictate.
My invention will be understood by a reference to the accompanying drawings
which show three examples of the surface of a track or flooring. Figure 1 is a plan
view of a circular track having a large smooth inner surface with an outer or edge
surface inade from various materials in segments.
Figure 2 is a plan view of a circular track with a small inner smooth surface.
surrounded by concentric rings each formed from different materials. Figure 3 is a
plan view of a circular track or flooring with a small inner smooth surface surrounded
hy concentric rings each formed by segments of different material.
For the purpose of illustrating the invention, the following letters of reference and
their designation will indicate the materials and their approximate position in making
up a track or flooring.
A, Ashphalte or concrete. B, Cobbles or Granite setts. C, Macadam, Gravel,
loose Stones, Sand, or Cinders. D, wood paving blocks. E, grass or mud.
It is impossible to represent on the drawings every change or variation in arranging
the flooring or in the shape of the flooring for the purposes of my invention but
it will be understood that each segment or portion of a track may be separately
constructed as to be easily removable from place to place and be fitted in position by
any means of attachment for locating them and to constitute a complete track for
practising riding in, say, a Public Hall or Assembly Room.
Where space is available more than one track could be fitted in proximity, so that
Classes could be formed under suitable Trainers or Experts for teaching the young
how to sit on a Saddle, how to straddle the legs, how to pedal, to grip the handles and
other technicalities connected with the new hygienic exercises now so effectually
advocated by the Medical Profession.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is
1. The combination of a series of road or other surfacing material or substance in
sections arranged to form a track or flooring, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
2. The construction of tracks or flooring for Cycle riding from segments or sections
of different materials substantially as described.
The 25th day of June 1897.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Gustave Adolph Zobel.