An Improved Carrying Clip or Suspender, more especially Intended for use in connection with Velocipedes, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1897-Accepted, 7th Aug., 1897
An Improved Carrying Clip or Suspender, more especially Intended
for use in connection with Velocipedes, and the like.
I PHILIP O'NEIL, 191, Hampstead Road, London, N.W., Electrical Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to an improved carrying clip or suspender, more especially
intended to be used as an attachment to the polished metal tubing of velocipedes
and the like.
My object is to provide an article which, while forming an easy and effective means
for securing and suspending the tyre inflator, or other similar article, to the machine,
will not impair or disfigure the part or parts to which it may be attached.
It is obvious that enamelled or polished surfaces must show signs of scratching and
disfigurement when rubbed or pressed with any hard substance such as metal,
celluloids and the like, I, therefore, avoid the use of any material likely to produce so
undesirable an effect.
In constructing my invention I provide a square-shaped piece of wire, or fitting of
any suitable substance, across or around which I place a soft material to act as a kind
of buffer, or cushion, that cannot possibly scratch or deface any polished surface with
which it may be in contact. To one side of this buffer fitting is attached a band of
india-rubber, or other elastic material, one end of which is designed to pass round
the inflator and the other to pass over the velocipede tube and then to, or through
the wire frame to which the buffer is attached. The ends of the band are now
fastened together with a hook and eye or by means of an ordinary collar-stud.
My contrivance now gives the appearance of the figure 8 having a firm grip upon
both the tube & the article to be carried.
I may, if necessary, use more than one band, one hook and eye & one collar-stud
to effect my purpose.
Dated 21st day of September 1896
An Improved Carrying Clip or Suspender, more especially Intended
for use in connection with Velocipedes, and the like.
I PHILIP O'NEIL, 1, Augustus Square Park Village, West, Regent's Park, London,
N.W., late of 191, Hampstead Road, London, N.W., Electrical Engineer, 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 :--
My invention relates to an improved carrying clip or suspender more especially

page_text: intended to be used as an attachment to the polished metal tubing of velocipedes and
the like.
My object is to provide an article which, while forming an easy and effective means
for securing and suspending the tyre inflator or other similar article to the machine,
will not impair or disfigure the part or parts to which it may be attached.
It is obvious that enamelled or polished surfaces must show signs of scratching and
disfigurement when rubbed or pressed with any hard substance such as metal,
celluloids and the like, I therefore avoid the use of any material likely to produce sol
undesirable an effect.
In constructing my invention I provide a square-shaped piece of wire, or fitting of
any suitable substance, across or around which I place a soft material to act as a kind
of buffer or cushion that cannot possibly scratch or deface any polished surface with
which it may be in contact.
To one side of this buffer fitting is attached a band of india-rubber, or other elastic
material, one end of which is designed to pass round the inflator and the other to pass
over the velocipede tube and then to or through the wire frame to which the buffer is
attached.
The ends of the band are now fastened together with a hook and eye or by means
of an ordinary collar-stud.
My contrivance now gives the appearance of the figure 8 having a firm grip upon
both the tube and the article to be carried. I may, if necessary, use more than one
band, one hook and eye, and one collar-stud to effect my purpose.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of the clip or suspender shown in connection with two
portions of metal tubing in section.
Fig. 2, is a front elevation of Fig. 5.
Fig. 3, is a kind of frame or connecting link which is used to maintain the india-
rubber band or bands in position as shown at d, Fig. 1.
Fig. 4, is a piece of india-rubber tubing which I term a buffer, it is shown at e,
Figs. 2 and 5, as being placed around the frame or connecting link to form an extra
or double check to the destructive effect of the tyre inflators movements upon the
enamelled tubing of the velocipede.
Fig. 5, is another side elevation of the clip or suspender in connection with two
portions of metal tubing in section fitted with buffer e, frame piece d, and two
india-rubber bands c, c.
Fig. 6, is another description of frame piece or connecting link in which two slots
are cut at b, b, to receive the india-rubber bands more conveniently from the outside.
The clip band ends are secured together by means of a hook and eye fastening as
shown in position at F, Fig. 5.
It must now be seen that the essential part this invention lies in the fact of
protecting the enamelled tubing of the velocipede from destruction by the same
ineans which so readily adapt themselves to the maintenance of the tyre inflator
upon the same.
A slight reference to the combination of india-rubber band e, and the frame piece d,
Figs. 1, & 5, will show that my improved carrying clip fully embodies this
principle in every detail.
Having now particularly described & 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) An improved carrying clip or suspender consisting essentially of a frame piece
or connecting link as arranged and described in combination with one or two lengths
of india-rubber or other elastic material, and buffer fitting substantially as berein
described and for the said purpose as shown in the accompanying drawings.

page_text: (2) An improved carrying clip or suspender consisting essentially of a frame
piece or connecting link in combination with one or two lengths of india-rubber or
other elastic material, with hook and eye fastenings, substantially as herein described
and for the said purpose as shown in the accompanying drawings.
(3) An improved carrying clip or suspender substantially as herein described and
shown in the accompanying drawings, and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 21st day of June 1897.