An Improved Device for Supporting Bicycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improved Device for Supporting Bicycles.
I, EDWIN RUSS, of Rozel, Kew Gardens, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device for supporting bicycles, and is
particularly adapted for use in transporting bicycles on railways, but is also
applicable for use in all other places where it is required to store such machines,
and where economy of space is an object.
My improved device consists of a clip in the form of a loop of a size such that
it will clip or hold the wheel of a bicycle by the tyre; my clip is hinged to a bracket
or support fixed to the side of a railway van or to the wall of a room, or where
economy of space is not an object my device may be fixed to the floor. The
bracket to which my clip is hinged is advantageously made to slide vertically so
that its height may be adjusted to suit different sizes of bicycles.
To make use of my device the clip is raised into a horizontal position, and one
of the wheels of the bicycle is passed into the loop of the clip, the other wheel
resting on the floor in which position the bicycle will be securely held.
When not in use my device lies flat against the wall to which it is fixed.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
I, EDWIN Russ, of Rozel, Kew Gardens, in the County of Surrey, 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:--
This invention relates to an improved device for supporting bicycles, and is
particularly adapted for use in transporting bicycles on railways, but is also
applicable for use in all other places where it is required to store such machines,
and where economy of space is an object.
My improved device consists of a clip in the form of a loop of a size such that
it will clip or hold the wheel of a bicycle by the tyre; my clip is hinged to a
bracket or support fixed to the side of a railway van or to the wall of a room or
in any other suitable position; or where economy of space is not an object my
device may be fixed to the floor. The bracket to which my clip is hinged is
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page_text: advantageously, made to slide vertically, so that its height may be adjusted to suit
different sizes of bicycles.
The loop clip is provided at its outer end with an adjustable additional loop in
order that the device can be used for bicycles of different sizes and the bracket or
support is furnished at its lower end with a hinged spring clip for further
steadying the bicycle wheel.
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To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe it by reference to
the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved device for supporting bicycles
shewing the clips raised.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a front elevation of the device with the clips lowered.
Figure 5 is a plan of the device shewing the clips raised.
Figure 6 is a side elevation, drawn to a smaller scale, shewing the manner in
which the device is used.
Figure 7 is a sectional view illustrating a method of supporting a machine
having à mud guard.
a is the clip which is made in the form of a loop from a length of steel wire
the ends b, of which are bent outwards at right angles to the loop, as clearly
shewn in Figures 4 and 5; c is the sliding bracket or support to which the clip is
hinged by means of its two outwardly projecting ends b, which engage in holes d, d
in the sides of the head e of the bracket c. The said head c is provided with horizontal
recesses f, f into which the two legs a of the clip spring when the said clip is raised
into a horizontal position.
The bracket e is fixed to the side or end of a railway van or to the wall of a
room by means of the guide in which the bracket c can slide vertically.
A is the additional loop provided at the outer end of the loop a, the said loop / being
secured to the loopa by the clips i, i which are tightened by the screws and thumb
nuts 23. On loosening the nuts the loop h can be adjusted in position (as shewn in
dotted lines Figure 5) for enabling the device to take a bicycle too small for the
loop a.
j (Figures 2, 3 and 4) is the hinged spring clip, the outwardly bent ends j¹ of
the same entering holes in lugs upon the lower end of the bracket c. Recesses
or notches into which the legs of the clip spring when the latter is raised into a
horizontal position serve to hold the clip in this position..
To make use of my device the clip a is raised from the position shewn in Figure 4
into a horizontal position when the inner ends thereof will spring into, and be
held by, the recesses f,f in the head c of the bracket and the clip 7 is also raised
so that its legs spring into the recesses in the lugs as shewn in Figures 1, 2
and 6. The front wheel of the bicycle, which is in such a position that its long
axis is vertical, is then passed under the loop a (or loops a and h) the other wheel
resting on the floor as shewn clearly in dotted lines in Figure 6 so that the bicycle
is securely held in its upright position by the clip a, the clip j also serving to steady
the wheel as shewn in Figure 6.
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In some cases notably where bicycles having mud guards are to be stored, I
provide a support m for the said bicycles the said support being fixed to the floor
and being of such a thickness that it can if necessary pass between the back wheel
and the mud guard as shewn in Figure 7.
When my device is not in use the clips a and are sprung out of the recesses in
which they are held and are placed flat against the bracket c as shewn in Figures 4
and 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A device for supporting bicycles, such device consisting of a clip a in the

page_text: form of a loop and a bracket c adapted to slide in a guide g fixed to a wall or the
like the said bracket being provided with holes d, d for receiving the ends b of
the loop and with recesses f,f for holding the clip in a horizontal position, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination with a device of the kind described in Claim 1 of a spring
clip hinged to the bracket c and adapted to be held in a horizontal position,
substantially as, and for the purpose, hereinbefore described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
3. In a device of the kind described in Claim 1 the employment of an additional
adjustable loop h secured to the loop a by clips substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 30th day of November 1897.
G. 'F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.