Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1900
I, RICHARD BATTEN ROACH, of 98, Locksley Street, Limehouse, E., Gentle-
man, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to a new or improved portable tent particularly designed
for use by cyclists, the object being to provide a light portable tent of sufficient
size for camping out purposes, and in its general form to accomodate two machines
and riders, moreover parts of the said tent are formed in such a manner as to
admit of their being used for other purposes.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, the upper portion or roof of
the tent comprises two rounded end pieces formed in such a manner that when
not being used in connection with the tent, may be utilized by the riders as
ordinary cyclist's capes. These two capes or end piece portions are connected
together by sheets of material of suitable size and shape to complete the top
or roof of the tent, the meeting edges being hooked, laced or secured together
in any other convenient and suitable manner. The side walls of the tent are
formed by a length or lengths of material of a width corresponding to the
height of the said walls, this material being secured to the upper or roof portion
preferably by means of hooks in such a manner as to depend therefrom and
enclose machines and riders.
The tent formed in the manner above described is supported upon a suitable
upright or uprights clamped to the frame of each machine, the whole being
secured firmly and steadily in place by means of ropes and running lines in a
similar manner to that employed in connection with portable tents of any
ordinary and well known kind.
The tent is constructed wholly of water-proof material and may be of any
convenient size and shape within practical limits and to enclose one, two, or
more cycles or multi-cycles, the essential feature of this invention being the
employment of end roof pieces capable of being further utilized as ordinary
cyclists riding capes, and in the general combination of the various parts con-
stituting a light, portable cyclist's tent.

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:
This invention relates to a new or improved portable tent particularly designèd
for use by cyclists, the object being to provide a light portable tent of sufficient
size for camping out purposes, and in its general form to accomodate two machines
and riders, moreover parts of the said tent are formed in such a manner as to
admit of their being used for other purposes.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, the upper portion or roof of
the tent comprises two rounded end pieces formed in such a manner that when
not being used in connection with the tent they may be utilized by the riders as
ordinary cyclist's capes. These two capes or end piece portions are connected
together by sheets of material of suitable size and shape to complete the top
or roof of the tent, the meeting edges being hooked, laced or secured together
in any convenient and suitable manner. The side walls of the tent are
formed by a length or lengths of material of a width corresponding to the
height of the said walls, this material being secured to the upper or roof portion
preferably by means of hooks in such a manner as to depend therefrom and
enclose machines and riders.
The tent formed in the manner above described is supported upon a suitable
upright or uprights clamped to the frame of each machine, the whole being
secured firmly and steadily in place by means of ropes and running lines in a
similar manner to that employed in connection with portable tents of any
ordinary and well known kind.
The tent is constructed wholly of water-proof material and may be of any
convenient size and shape within practical limits and to enclose one, two, or
more cycles or multi-cycles, the essential feature of this invention being the
employment of end roof pieces capable of being further utilized as ordinary
cyclists riding capes, and in the general combination of the various parts con-
stituting a light, portable cyclist's tent.
In order that this invention may be more fully understood, I will now
proceed to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which:
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Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the complete tent closed.
Fig. 2 being a longitudinal section through the tent showing the bicycle
supporting same.
Figs. 3 to 6 are details hereinafter referred to.
According to this invention the roof of the tent is formed of two end pieces a
(Figs. 1, 2 and 3) each of which, when not employed for this purpose, serves
as an ordinary cyclist's cape, these two end pieces a a being united to complete the
roof by one or more sheets of material 6 (Figs. 1, 2 and 4) the necessary connection
being made by means of hooks and rings, or by lacing or in any other convenient
and suitable manner. The side walls of the tent are formed by one two or more
lengths of material c (Figs. 1, 2 and 5) furnished upon their upper edge with
rings d designed to engage with hooks or the like: attached to the lower edges of
the end pieces a and roof sheets b, or vice versa, or connection between these parts
may be made in any other convenient and suitable manner, the height and length
of the tent being capable of variation according to the height of the strips c
forming the side walls and the number and length of same.
The tent is supported as shown in Fig. 2 by means of supporting rods which
are tied on to the machine (indicated in dotted lines) or secured thereon in
any convenient and suitable manner. Each of these rods, as shown at Fig. 6,
terminate in a projecting pin g' as shown, which passes through a hole or perfora-
tion formed in the top of its corresponding end piece a, and the side of the roof
piece b, the whole being secured by guy ropes of any suitable kind, after the
manner of an ordinary tent, but as these are well understood and are not a
novel feature of the present. invention, they have not been indicated in the
drawing.

page_text: Where the tent is designed to contain more than one machine the supporting
rods g g may be carried by separate machines.
Having now 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. The new or improved portable cyclist's tent, consisting essentially in the
combination of end pieces such as a which are capable of also being employed as
ordinary cyclist's capes, with roof sheets such as 6 and side pieces such as c, the
whole designed to be supported by rods such as 9 which are suitably secured to a
velocipede or velocipedes, substantially as herein described and shown with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. In a portable cyclist's tent the employment of end pieces such as a which
are further capable of being used as ordinary cyclist's capes, substantially as
set forth.
3. In a cyclist's portable tent, the method of supporting same by rods or their
equivalent such as g designed to be secured to one or more velocipedes, substan-
tially as set forth.
Dated this 10th day of March 1900.
F. G. CASSELL,
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse St., Regent St., London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.