An Improved Mud Guard for Cycles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mud Guard for Cycles.
We, MAX BEYERMANN, Merchant, of 1E, Katzhutte, Thuringia, Germany, and
ADOLF THYM, Innkepper, 1D, Katzhutte, Thuringia, Germany, 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:
Hitherto the mud guards in use for cycles required suitable fastening rods or
stays to hold them and they could not be folded up into a small compass so as to
be carried in the pocket or pouch.
The mud-guard forming the subject-matter of the present invention possesses
this advantage, while dispensing with fastening rods or stays.
This novel mud-guard for cycles consists in a band like strip of suitable width
and arranged so that it can be lengthened or shortened at will, and made of some
flexible material which when in a state of tension is, nevertheless, possessed of
sufficient stiffness, such as for instance, oilcloth, india rubber cloth and the like,
and which can be fastened to the cycle so as to be readily detachable, by means
of suitable bows or clasps, terminating in hooks and eyes as well as hooks.
In the annexed drawing,
Fig. 1, shows the new mud-guard fitted to a cycle.
Fig. 2, shows the mud-guard unfolded, before being fixed to the machine.
Fig. 3 shows it in the folded state, in which it can be conveniently carried in
the pouch. The arrangement is as follows:-
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The band-like strip a is provided at one end with an air tube which when
inflated through the valve i will impart the requisite stiffness to this part of the
mud-guard so as to keep it freely suspended above the back wheel of the machine,
as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Immediately in front of the valve a hook g is
arranged on the strip by means of which hook the mud-guard can be suspended
on the stay connecting the back fork 7.
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Strip a will then occupy a position behind the stay 'm of the lower branches of
the back-wheel fork n lying close against the lower part of the bottom bracket o
and extending to the front-wheel fork-head where it is attached by means of
the bows or clasps and f which are clasped so that they can be readily detached.
The foremost end r of the strip a will be passed round the bow or clasp f and
thence back again, so that the strip a can be tightened up, or shortened or
lengthened at will, by means of a clip buckles similar to those used for men's
braces. The mud-guard strip a is likewise fixed to the saddle pillar tube
means of the bows or strips d and f. terminating in hooks and eyes b and and
which fasten so that they can be easily detached, see Fig. 1.
e,
by
The removal of the mud-guard can be effected just as quickly as fixing it to the
machine, by simply undoing the bows or clasps on the front wheel fork-head p
and those on the saddle-pillar tube, and removing the strip a.
After having
discharged the air from the air tube h by opening the valve i, the mud-guard
can be folded up into the form shown in Fig. 3, and carried in the pouch. In
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page_text: doing so the bows which should again be hooked into the bows f are wrapped
up in the mud-guard.
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:-
A mud-guard for cycles, capable of attachment without stays, and which can
be folded up, and carried in the pouch or pocket, consisting of a band-like strip a
of suitable width held in suspension by means of an air tube sewn into it and
which can be inflated, the strip a to be made of some flexible material, possessing
sufficient stiffness when in a state of tension, and which can be lengthened or
shortened at will by means of a clip buckle or similar arrangements, and can be
fastened to the machine so as to be readily detachable, by means of bows or
clasps d and f-formed in the shape of hooks b and eyes c, and hooks g.
Dated this 19th day of May 1899.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.