An Improvement in and in connection with the Manufacture of Stands or Supports for Bicycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1897-Accepted, 27th Nov., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in and in connection with the Manufacture of Stands
or Supports for Bicycles.
I JAMES STRADLING 79 Northbrook Street Newbury Cycle Manufacturer &
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I take a piece of board or metal framing of suitable size, width, & thickness and
attach two metal bracket arms of such length and strength as may be required by
means of two pivots working in holes at the top & bottom of the support which
supports are screwed to the board or frame. The pivots are so arranged that the
bracket arms are held either straight out at right angles, or folded in close to the
board or frame. I also affix a suitable box to contain the necessary articles for
cleaning the cycle. The whole being capable of being fixed to any wall or con-
venient place by means of two nails or hooks, for which purpose two holes are
provided. The whole apparatus being instantly detachable from one place and
fixed in another. The cycle being securely held upon the two bracket arms when
these are at right angles to the board or frame.
Dated this 4th day of December 1896.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in and in connection with the Manufacture of Stands
or Supports for Bicycles.
I, JAMES STRADLING of, 79, Northbrook Street, Newbury Cycle Manufacturer
and Agent, 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 improvements in and connected with the manufacture
of stands or supports for bicycles, the object being to provide a cheap and efficient
support, self contained and having no separate pieces, and combined with a box,
or receptacle designed to hold the various requisites for cleaning the velocipede,
the whole device being readily suspended from a wall by hooks, nails, or other

page_text: suitable contrivances, in such a manner as to allow of its being readily removed
when required either for use in the garden or in an out-house, shed, or the like.
In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1
is a plan of my improved device with one of the brackets or supports closed and
the second bracket or support open as when in use, Fig. 2 being a front elevation
of the device with the brackets or supports in the same positions.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation and a plan of one of the bottom bracket carriers drawn
to an enlarged scale, and Fig. 4 is a plan of the bottom pin of the bracket.
My improved cycle supporting device comprises essentially a base piece a of
wood, metal, or other suitable material of sufficient size and thickness, upon which
is mounted two brackets or supports b, b, carried in suitable sockets or bracket
supports c, c, c¹, c¹, suitably secured to the said basis a, while beneath the
brackets b, a storage receptacle or hox d is arranged. furnished with a hinged
lid and designed to receive and contain the various requisites for cleaning or
adjusting velocipedes.
The brackets b, b, are furnished at their upper part with cylindrical pins p, P
designed to take into the sockets or bracket supports c, c, while the lower end of
each bracket is furnished with a projecting pin having a squared portion q and a
cylindrical part q¹, the corresponding sockets or bracket supports cl each having a
squared hole g so that in order to turn the bracket into the closed position as shown
at the left hand half of Figs. 1 and 2, or into the open position for use as shown at
the right hand sides of the same figures, it is necessary to first raise the bracket.
until the cylindrical portion q¹ of the lower pin is contained within the square
hole or perforation of the socket or bracket supports c', when the said bracket can
be freely turned into the required position, when it is then lowered until the
squared portion q takes into the correspondingly shaped hole or perforation g
which prevents further movement of the bracket until it is again lifted or raised.
The basis a is furnished with suitable openings or piercings h so as to allow of
its being readily slipped over hooks, nails, or the like supporting it in the required
position.
When it is required to support the bicycle for cleaning purposes the brackets
are both turned in an outward direction until at right angles to the basis a when
the velocipede is placed upon same and supported clear of the ground.
The cycle is thus held firmly and suspended for cleaning purposes, the holder or
support being suitable for taking any form of bicycle, and the method of suspend'-
ing is simple and efficient, the whole apparatus being capable of being readily
removed from one place to another with the greatest ease, so as to allow of the
cycle being cleaned in or out of doors and the same stand or support being used in
each case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
my said
claim is:-
1. The new or improved support for velocipedes comprising essentially a basis a
of suitable material furnished with brackets b, b, carried in suitable sockets or
supports c, c, cl, cl, in combination with a box or receptacle such as d arranged also
upon the basis a, which is likewise furnished with openings or perforations h,
the whole combined and arranged substantially as herein described and shown,
and for the purposes specified.
2. In a cycle support such as above claimed the use of brackets such as b, b,
having their lower pivotal or supporting pins formed with a squared portion qand
a cylindrical portion g', and arranged in combination with sockets or supports cl
each having a square opening or perforation g, substantially as herein described
and showu, and for the purposes specified.
3. The improvements in and connected with the manufacture of stands or

page_text: supports for bicycles, substantially as herein described and shown, and for the
purposes specified.
Dated this 2nd day of September, 1897.
F. G. CASSELL,
(Of Cassell & Co.)
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.