Improvements in Attachments for Connecting Dress Guards to Cycles
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachments for Connecting Dress Guards to Cycles
I, JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, of Lexden, Bath Road, Reading, in the County of
Berks, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in attachments for connecting dress
guards to cycles and the object of my Invention is to enable dress guards to be more
readily detached from the quadrant or other fixing on the spindle or stationary
portion of the wheel to which the dress guard is hooked or otherwise secured.
Prior to my present Invention dress guards have been connected by hooks or
otherwise to the mud guard and similarly to the quadrant on the spindle of the
wheel; it is customary in order to clean the boss and central portion of the wheel
to which the guard is attached to unhook or nufasten the dress guard from the
quadrant and then remove the quadrant after loosening the screw which secures it
in position.
According to my Invention I propose to form the quadrant in two parts, ono
part of which forms a link to which the dress guard is attached in any convenient
manner; I secure to this link when a non-elastic dress guard is employed, say a
couple of pieces of elastic or wire springs to carry hooks which fit into suitably
shaped notches or slots made to receive them in the quadrant, or vice versa, a spring
hook or hooks could be connected to the quadrant and slots to receive them made
in the link.
By this means the link and dress guard attached to it can be released in an
instant from the quadrant and as the size of the quadrant is considerably reduced
it. is much stiffer and less liable to injury.
As un alternative arrangement in order to adapt my Invention to an existing
quadrant I propose to connect the ends of the dress guard to a link made as
described and slip the spring mounted hook or hooks on the link under any
convenient part of the quadrant.
When dress guards are made combined with elastic or elastic cords the elastic
connections to the hooks or their equivalents may be dispensed with.
Dated this 18th day of November 1806
II. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
II. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
COBIT DELE DICITICATION.
Improvements in Attachments for Connecting Dress Guards to Cycles.
I, JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, of Lexden, Bath Road, Reading, in the County of
Berks, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what
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DIMUI ICATION
Improvements in Attachments for Connecting Dress Guards to Cycles.
I, JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, of Lexden, Bath Road, Reading, in the County of
Berks, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what
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page_text: 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 attachments for connecting dress guards
10 cycles and the object of my Invention is to enable dress guards to be more
readily detached from the quadrant or other fixing on the spindle or stationary
pertion of the machine to which the dress guard is hooked or otherwise secured.
Prior to my present Invention dress guards have been connected by hooks or
otherwise to the mud guard and similarly to the quadrant on the spindle of the
wheel; it is customary in order to clean the boss and central portion of the wheel
to which the guard is attached to unhook or unfasten the dress guard from the
quadrant and then remove the quadrant after loosening the screw which secures
it in position.
According to my Invention I propose to form the quadrant in two parts, one part
of which forms a link to which the dress guard is attached in any convenient
manner; by this means the link and dress guard attached to it can be released in
an iustaut from the quadrant and as the size of the quadrant is considerably
reduced it is much stiffer and less liable to injury.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings-
Figures 1 and 2 illustrate quadrants made in two parts capable of being readily
attached to and detached from one another according to my Invention, and
Figures 3 and 4 are two views of the quadrant Fig. 1 but showing the parts
coupled and with a portion of a dress guard attached to each link in Fig. 3 by
lacing and in Fig. 4 by hooks.
In these views, a desiguates that part of the quadrant or plate which is fixed
upon the wheel spindle as usual, or it might be on the back stay of the machine,
and the other part or link to which the dress guard may be hooked, laced, or
otherwise connected or secured in any convenient manner.
My improved quadrant attachment is employed preferably in connection with
a dress guard made wholly or in part of elastic materials the hooks or equivalent
parts on the link engaging directly with slots on the quadrant or rice versa.
In Fig. 1 the hooks b' are on the link and the slots a' in the quadrant.
In Fig. 2 the hooks a' are on the quadrant and the slots b' in the link b.
It will be readily understood that the mode of attaching the dress guard to the
link and to the mud guard is quite immaterial as it may be connected in any
convenient manner without affecting the nature of my Invention which consists
essentially in connecting the dress guard to a link or equivalent part which can be
readily attached to and detached from the quadrant or plate secured to the frame
of the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
cla: is:-
1. A quadrant for the dress guard of cycles formed in two parts arranged to be
hooked or otherwise connected together as and for the purposes specified.
2 The combination with the quadrant plate a fixed to the machine, of the link b
connected to the dress guard and adapted to engage the part a substantially as
described with reference to the drawings.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.