An Improved Clip for Attaching to Cycle Frames.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip for Attaching to Cycle Frames.
1, CHARLES HENINGHEM 51 Landcroft Road East Dulwich Surrey Clerk do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I prepare a strip of steel of any desirable length, width and gauge, and bend it
so that it forms a clip for attaching to the tubing of cycle frames, and what I claim
is a new shape and device which by means of tightening a single put on a bolt
passing through the clip, results in a
triple grip one grip being on the tube of the
cycle, and the other two grips on the ends of any article desired to be attached to
the cycle frame-such as the two ends of a wire lamp bracket-or a parcel carrier
and the like.
The clip can be made with the ends so shaped that the article intended to be
attached to the tube of the cycle may be held at a vertical, horizontal or any one
angle.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the above, to which the following
refers.
A in Fig. 1 and 2 is a flexible steel band. The method of forming the ends or
grips C. may vary.
In Fig. 1. the metal is bent into a box shape at B, ending with the tongues
or grips C. Holes are pierced, so that a screwed bolt may be passed through
-see dotted line D. By screwing a nut along this bolt, the flexible band A
is tightened round the tube of the cycle, and the same action simultaneously
tightens the tongues or grips C. holding the article intended to be attached to the
cycle.
Fig. 2 represents a simpler form of the same clip. The tongues or grips C, can
be bent so as to hold the article intended to be attached to the cycle either
vertically C.X., or at another angle say C.Y or C.Z..
Dated this 17th day of April 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip for Attaching to Oycle Frames.
I CHARLES HENINGHEM 51 Landcroft Road East Dulwich, Surrey Clerk, 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 consists of an improved clip for attaching to cycle frames, and is
performed as follows. I first stamp out by machinery a strip of steel of suitable
gauge, and of equal width, except at the ends, where I arrange a piece at right
angles. After certain necessary holes are stamped out, that part of each end
running parallell with the strip is bent into a box shape (B) the piece at right
angles being turned down to form the grips (C).
I then bend that part of the strip which is of equal width into nearly a circle,
or suitable shape for going on to the tubing of a cycle.

page_text: I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the drawings filed
with my Provisional Specification.
A. Fig. 1. is a flexible band of steel formed at each end into a box of 4 sides (B)
open top and bottom, and carrying a tongue (C) designed as shown so that a piece
of round wire of suitable gauge may be forced into it.
A hole is provided on each side of each box (B) and a corresponding hole in
each tongue, (dotted line D) the hole in one of the tongues (C) being square.
When the clip is required for use, these six holes all being in line, allow of a
screwed metal bolt with square shoulder being passed through. When the bolt is
passed through as far as it will go (in the direction of dotted line D) it is prevented
from turning round by reason of its square shoulder fitting into the square hole in
the tongue (C), and it is of such a length that its screwed end protrudes outside
the opposite tongue (C) and can be there provided with a wing nut. Now, if the
nut be screwed up along the bolt, the first result is to deflect the flexible band (A)
and reduce its diameter. When the diameter of this flexible band (A) is reduced
as much as the resisting substance it incircles will allow if the tension is main-
tained by continuing to screw up the nut; the next result is, that the tongues (C)
are drawn in, and exert an increasing pressure or grip on the wire ends of anything
that may be incircled by them.
A simpler method of making the clip is shown in Fig. 2, the method of tension
being the same as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of iny said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed-I declare that what I
claim is―
A combination of a flexible band of metal, and a tongue or grip at each end,
with a screwed bolt and nut-the whole forming an adjustable triple grip clip, the
three grips occurring simultaneously with the tightening of a single nut.
Dated this Ninth day of January 1895.
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CHARLES HENINGHEM,
Applicant.