An Improved Locking Apparatus for Supporting and Securing. Bicycles and other Vehicles when at Rest.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1893-Accepted, 23rd June, 1894
An Improved Locking Apparatus for Supporting and Securing.
Bicycles and other Vehicles when at Rest.
JOHN HILTON 22 Grosvenor Street Blackpool in the County of Lancaster
Glass and China Dealer 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:—
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. No. 1 represents in side view partly in section one form of the improved
locking apparatus for supporting and securing bicycles and other vehicles when at
rest constructed and arranged according to my said invention. The several parts
are shewn in the positions which obtain when the apparatus is closed or locked
upon the handle of a bicycle perambulator or other vehicle. 1 is a circular clip
having a hinged upper half the hinge pin being at the point a. The clip b has a
slotted lip which overlaps a corresponding lip on the lower half c of the clip the
latter being a fixture upon the casing or box 2. In the box 2 is fitted a sliding
spring bolt e having one end f enlarged and sloped off downwardly and carrying
near its opposite end the wards 3. In Fig. No. 1 as well as in the other figures
illustrating various arrangements of the improved locking apparatus it will be
observed that the arrangement of spring bolt e having its end sloped off causes
the clip b when pressed down-over the handle bar of a bicycle for instance-to
become locked automatically that is to say when so pressed down the spring bolt
will be forced back until the slot in the lip comes opposite to the pointed end f
of the bolt e whereupon the latter will spring into the slotted lip and will so
remain until withdrawn by means of a key as hereinafter described. h is a guide
pin for a key for unlocking the apparatus that is to say for withdrawing the end f
of the bolt e from the hole or slot in the lip b' so that the latter may be opened out
(as shewn at Fig. 3). 4 is a rod and ii links for connecting and attaching the
locking apparatus to the wall j. The said link may be formed at one end with a
ball working within a socket the two forming a joint 5 arranged within a wooden
brackets as shewn at Fig. No. 1 or as shewn at Fig. No. 1 in which the socket
part of the joint is secured to or against a wall in another form of bracket or as
shewn at Fig. No. 1 in which the socket forms part of a hoop or ring 1 upon a
shaft bar or rod k which may be attached to a wall in the manner shewn at
Fig. No. 4.
Fig. No. 2 illustrates a similar arrangement to that shewn at Fig. No. 1 in
combination with a second lock having a chain n fastened thereto whose normally
free end is in the form of a rectangular or square link which upon being pressed
down within the slot 7 against the pointed end of the spring bolt e becomes
automatically locked therewith. This arrangement of apparatus is readily
attachable and removable and may be carried about by a cyclist from place to
place and used independently that is to say where there is no specially fitted shaft
or bar k such as shewn at Fig. No. 4 in which case it may be attached to a railway
eye-bolt or other fixed object.
Fig. No. 4 is an outside view of a building illustrating a method of applying my
said invention in which the improved locking apparatus is attached to a shaft bar or
tube k (or it may be attached to a chain or other material such as a wire rope)
secured to the wall and the locks of various forms as hereinbefore (and herein-
after) described being at a convenient height for being readily fastened to the
handle bars of bicycles or other velocipedes.

page_text: Fig. 4 shews more clearly the method of securing and supporting a bicycle
according to my invention k being the shaft bar or tube the locking apparatus
and m the handle bar of a bicycle.
Fig. 5 shews an adaptation of apparatus such as hereinbefore described to an
ordinary form of padlock in which the hasp o corresponds with the hinged clip 6 in
Fig. No. 1 and the hollowed out part p with the lower clip c in the same fig.
this form of apparatus being portable and suitable for use with a bicycle or
perambulator.
Fig. 6 illustrates a form of double locking apparatus in which two separate locks
are joined together back to back.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what.
.I claim is :-
The improved automatic locking apparatus for supporting bicycles and other
vehicles when at rest.
ehicles when at rest.
Dated this 1st day of December 1893.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.