Improvements in or connected with Dress-guards for Velocipedes and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1897-Accepted, 24th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Dress-guards for Velocipedes and
the like.
We, FRANK HENRY BLUEMEL, ERNEST ADOLPHUS BLUEMEL, and CHARLES
WILLIAM BLUEMEL, (trading as C. W. BLUEMEL & BROS.) all of Crown Works,
Globe Road, London, E. Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in or connected with dress-guards for
velocipedes and the like, the object being to prove a light, detachable dress-guard
of handsome appearance, which can be quickly attached or detached from the
velocipede as required, said dress-guard being secured in position by means of
special fastenings arranged upon the under surface of the mud-guard."
In carrying our Invention into practical effect, our improved dress-guard
comprises two sides or parts suitably shaped and of sufficient size to cover enough
of the wheel, so as to afford sufficient protection to the rider, the said sides or
parts consisting of thin sheets or discs of celluloid, vulcanite or other suitable
material or metal, the said sides or discs being preferably fluted or formed with
corrugations or the like upon the surface for additional strength, and to further
add to the appearance, while the edges are preferably enclosed in paragon wire,
or the said edges may be stiffened or strengthened by means of ordinary wire, or
strips of any suitable material fastened or secured to same in any convenient
manner.
In order to secure the two sides or parts of the dress-guard to the velocipede,
the under surface of the mud-guard is furnished with a suitable number of strips
or plates, of metal for preference, and which are rivetted or secured to the said
guard in any convenient manner, while the ends are so bent or shaped as to form
spring clips having raised portions, recesses or channels, and into which can be
passed the ends of suitable fastening tabs or lugs secured to the side portions of
the dress-guard, said tabs or lugs being formed with ribbed or raised portions
corresponding to and designed to be received by the recessed or channelled portions
in the aforesaid fastening clips.
Instead of forming the two sides or parts of the dress-guard of stiff material,
said parts may comprise suitable frames of sufficient stiffness and strength which
may be filled with leather, American cloth, or similar material, fabric or the like.
For additional steadiness the sides of the dress-guard may be fastened to the
tubes forming the back fork of the machine by means of any suitable and well
known spring clips or the like, secured, one to each side or portion, or the said
sides may be fastened or attached to the tubes of the back fork in any other
convenient and suitable manner.
1
1000
F. G. CASSELL,
Of Cassell & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W..
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Dress-guards for Velocipedes and
the like.
We, FRANK HENRY BLUEMEL, ERNEST ADOLPHUS BLUEMEL, and CHARLES
WILLIAM BLUEMEL, (trading as C. W. BLUEMEL & BROS.) all of Crown Works,
Globe Road, London, E. Manufacturers, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in or connected with dress-guards for
velocipedes and the like, the object being to provide a light, detachable dress-guard
of handsome appearance, which can be quickly attached or detached from the
velocipede as required, said dress-guard being secured in position by means of
special fastenings arranged upon the under surface of the mud-guard."
In carrying our invention into practical effect, our improved dress-guard
comprises two sides or parts suitably shaped and of sufficient size to cover enough
of the wheel, so as to afford sufficient protection to the rider, the said sides or
parts consisting of thin sheets or discs of celluloid, vulcanite or other suitable
material or metal, the said sides or discs being preferably fluted or formed with
corrugations or the like upon the surface for additional strength, and to further
add to the appearance, while the edges are preferably enclosed in paragon wire,
or the said edges may be stiffened or strengthened by means of ordinary wire, or
strips of any suitable material fastened or secured to same in any convenient
manner.
In order to secure the two sides or parts of the dress-guard to the velocipede
the under surface of the mud-guard is furnished with a suitable number of strips
or plates, of metal for preference, and which are rivetted or secured to the said
guard in any convenient manner, while the ends are so bent or shaped as to form
spring clips having raised portions, recesses or channels, and into which can be
passed the ends of suitable fastening tabs or lugs secured to the side portions of
the dress-guard, said tabs or lugs being formed with ribbed or raised portions
corresponding to and designed to be received by the recessed or channelled portions
in the aforesaid fastening clips.
Instead of forming the two sides or parts of the dress-guard of stiff material,
said parts may comprise suitable frames of sufficient stiffness and strength, which
may be filled with leather, American cloth, or similar material, fabric or the like.
For additional steadiness the sides of the dress-guard may be fastened to the
tubes forming the back fork of the machine by means of any suitable and well
known spring clips straps or the like, secured, one to each side or portion, or the
said sides may be fastened or attached to the tubes of the back fork in any other
convenient and suitable manner.
In order that our invention may be more fully understood, we will now proceed
to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1
is an elevation of a rear portion of a velocipede showing our improved dress guard
applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the dress-guard and mud-guard to
a somewhat larger scale. Fig. 3 is a full sized cross section through the mud-
guard showing one of the clips and attaching lugs in elevation. Fig. 4 is an
underside plan of one of the clips and Fig. 5 is a corresponding view of one of
the lugs detached.
According to our invention we provide two panels p suitably shaped and of
sufficient size formed of celluloid, thin sheet metal or other suitable material, and
stiffened around the edges by paragon wire or the like a (Fig. 1) or the said panels

page_text: may comprise suitably shaped frames filled with American cloth, leather, or other
suitable fabric or material as before mentioned.
To the under surface of the mud-guard we secure by means of rivets r or the
like a sufficient number of metal plates each end of which is so curved or shaped
and furnished with a recessed portion as to form clips e, c, as shown, while each
panel of the dress-guard has rivetted to it a corresponding number of fastening
lugs as shown, the end d of which is shaped in such a manner as to fit closely
into the clip and by this means firmly secure the panels p to the said
mud-guard m.
P
Where the mud-guard m is made of metal or other suitable stiff material the
ends d of the lugs I may be pressed closely up against same by the clip e as shown,
where however, the mud-guard is constructed of celluloid, xylonite, or other flexible
material, m may represent a top plate of metal or the like to the clip which
would be rivetted to the mud-guard indicated in dotted lines (Fig. 3).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1. The new or improved dress-guard for velocipedes comprising side panels ?
of any suitable material, and furnished with attaching lugs / designed to he secured
by clips arranged upon the under-surface of the mud-guard, substantially as
herein described and shown, and for the purposes specified.
2. In dress-guards for velocipedes, comprising side panels designed to be secured
te the mud-guard, the attaching clips each comprising a metal plate the ends of
which are bent into clips c, c, as shown in combination with attaching lugs 7 the
projecting ends d of which are correspondingly shaped to engage with same,
substantially as herein described and shown, and for the purposes specified.
3. The new or improved dress-guard for velocipedes substantially as herein
described, and shown, and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 3rd day of June. 1897.
F. G. CASSELL,
Of Cassell & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicants.