Improvements relating to Cycle and like Bells.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cycle and like Bells.
I, HARRY LUCAS, Managing Director of the Firm of Joseph Lucas Limited,
of The "Tom Bowling" Lamp Works, Little King Street, in the City of Birming-
ham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to cycle and like bells having a
flexible joint or connection between the dome and the base part as and for the
purposes described and claimed in the Specification No. 2737 of 1896 on which
Letters Patent have been granted to me.
The object of my present invention is to construct and arrange the said joint
or connection in a more convenient and effective manner.
My improved flexible joint or connection I form preferably from two main
parts, each part consisting of a central screwed boss with two or more spring like
arms or projections. The two parts are secured by riveting together the extremities
of the arms or projections after such arms on the lower part have been suitably
bent or formed to prevent contact of the parts other than at the said extremities
of the arms.
Into the boss of the upper part of the flexible joint or connection I screw the
stud projecting from the inner and central portion of the dome, and I make the con-
nection between the boss of the lower part of the joint or connection and the base
plate of the bell in a similar manner.
Instead of forming a tapped hole in the central portion of each part to receive
screw studs from the dome and base plate of the bell respectively, I sometimes
form such central portions as studs to screw into tapped holes in the dome and the
base plate, and I make other modifications in the construction and arrangement
of my improved flexible joints or connections to suit the particular bells for which
they are required.
I, HARRY LUCAS, Managing Director of the Firm of Joseph Lucas, Limited,
of "Tom Bowling" Lamp Works, Little King Street, in the City of Birming-
ham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
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page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to cycle and like bells having a
flexible joint connection between the dome and the base part as and for the
purposes described and claimed in the Specification No. 2787 of 1896 on which
Letters Patent have been granted to me.
The object of my present invention is to construct and arrange the said joint
or connection in a more convenient and effective manner.
to.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
Figure 1 is an elevation, with part in section, representing my improved bell.
Figure 2 is an elevation and Figure 3.a plan of the upper part of the flexible
joint or connection, whilst Figure 4 is an elevation and Figure 5 a plan of the lower
part of such joint or connection.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
My improved flexible joint or connection. I form preferably from two main parts
as A and B, each part consisting of a central screwed boss with arms or projections,
The two parts are secured by, riveting together the extremities of the arms or
projections as shown at Figure 1. The arms or projections of the lower part B
of the joint or connection are suitably bent or formed to prevent contact of the
parts other than at the said extremities of the arms.
Into the boss of the upper part of the flexible joint or connection I screw the
stud projecting from the inner and central portion of the dome C, and I make the
connection between the boss of the lower part of the joint or connection and the
base plate D of the bell in a similar manner.
Instead of forming a tapped hole in the central portion of each part to receive
screw studs from the dome and base plate of the bell respectively, I sometimes
form such central portions as studs to screw into tapped holes in the dome and the
base plate, and I make other modifications in the construction and arrangement
of my improved flexible joints or connections to suit the particular bells for which
they are required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The construction and arrangement of parts as A and B to form the improved
flexible joint or connection between the dome and the base part of a cycle or like
bell, substantially as described and as illustrated.
2. A cycle or like bell having an improved flexible joint or connection between
the dome and the base part, substantially as described and as illustrated.
Dated this 19th day of January 1899
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.