New or Improved Support for Velocipedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Loft 11th July 1898 Accented 11th Oct. 1898
New or Improved Support for Velocipedes.
I, LUCIEN MATHIEU JEROME, of 27, Rue du Ciel, Antwerp, Belgium, Clerk, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The apparatus which forms the object of the present invention is a support
for bicycles, intended to suspend the machines in railway luggage vans as well
as in rooms or any other convenient place.
This support offers the following advantages: it is very simple, strong, not
expensive and does not damage the machine: moreover, it is easily conveyed
owing to its small dimensions and its reduced weight.
The support is composed of a metallic crosspiece having a ring at each end
and at the middle a hook covered with a rubber tube. The rings of the cross-
bar bear two hooks, covered with rubber, and are connected, by two small rods,
with a rod which is also connected with another rod terminating. with a hook
covered with a rubber tube; moreover at the junction of the rods a hook or ring
is fixed serving to suspend the apparatus. The object of the rubber tubes which
cover the hooks is to suppress all direct contact between the metal of the apparatus
and the machine in order to avoid the deterioration of the latter.
The middle hook of the cross-bar holds the handle bar stem, the two end hooks
retain the handle-bar itself and the hook at the extremity of the end of rod seizes the
tube of the frame into which the saddle stem is introduced; but to connect this
latter hook with the cross-bar, we may substitute the rods by a chain or strap;
moreover, to avoid all tossing about of the machine we may fix to the tringles,
chain or strap, two suspension rings or hooks instead of one.
In the same support, to facilitate the placing of the bicycle, we can substitute
the middle hook of the cross-bar by a fork whose two points which are covered
with rubber, are slightly bent towards the top to prevent the machine from
slipping; moreover, to give greater rigidness to the apparatus, the cross-bar can
be provided opposite to its fork, with a rigid rod terminating in a ring and con-
nected with the saddle hook by a chain; strap or tringles supplied with two sus-
pension hooks or rings as previously explained.
To suspend a bicycle by means of my support, it suffices to introduce the handle-
bar stem into the fork or the middle hook of the cross-bar and to hold the two
arms of the handle-bar by means of the other two hooks of the cross-bar, then the
hook fixed at the end of the tringle, strap, or chain is fixed behind the tube into
which the stem of the saddle is fitted, thus holding the back part of the frame.
The machine can then be suspended by hooking the suspension rings or hooks
to hooks or rings fixed to the top of the van or on a frame applied to the sides of
the van.
This movable frame is specially intended to bear a second row of machines
underneath the one suspended to the top of the van; it is composed of two lateral
pieces of wood joined by two longitudinal wooden bars, upon the lower face of
which are fixed the suspension rings or hooks; moreover, the lateral bars are

page_text: supplied with trunnions fixed to their free ends and turning in sockets fixed to
the sides or ends of the van. When the sockets are fixed to one of the ends of
the van the frame is kept horizontally by means of bolts fixed into the outside
longitudinal cross-bar and penetrating into the sides of the van; when, on the
contrary, the frame is arranged along the sides of the van, the sockets are fixed
on one of the lateral sides and one of the lateral cross-bars is applied against the
end of the van where it is held by a bolt; moreover, the second cross-bar is
supplied with a movable pedestal which can be lowered on the floor and holding
the frame horizontally by means of the bolt.
By unfixing the bolt and placing the movable pedestal along the frame, this
latter can be placed against the side of the van, and thus occupy but very little
space.
D
L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.
LUCIEN MATHIEU JEROME, of 27, Rue du Ciel, Antwerp, Belgium, Clerk, 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:
This invention relates to a new or improved support for velocipedes said support
being especially adapted to be used in railway or other luggage vans or similar
places.
Some of the advantages appertaining to my invention are simplicity, and cheap-
ness of construction of the improved support which support further is not so
liable to injure the velocipede as supports hitherto employed and said support is
light in weight and of small dimensions and consequently easily portable.
In the accompanying drawing several forms of my improved support are shown
and also a frame on which. the support may be suspended. In carrying out my
invention and referring to Fig. 11 employ a metal bar having a ring H at each
end & formed or provided also with a hook J which latter is preferably covered
by a rubber or other tube or material to prevent injury to the velocipede. The
rings H carry hooks F also covered by suitable material and said rings H are
connected by means of rods L to a common rod G which latter is connected to a
rod K having a hook i which is also covered with suitable material, and at the
junction of the rods G & K I provide a hook E by means of which the support
may be suspended.
Instead of the rods L, G & K I may employ a leather strap or chain or equiva-
lent M shown in Fig. 2 and in place of the hook J I may provide a fork or equiva-
lent C, C, suitably protected & slightly bent in an upward direction so as to
prevent the velocipede or cycle slipping. The strap M may also be provided with
links or equivalents A by means of which the whole device may be suspended and
the velocipede prevented from shaking about when suspended.
As already stated the object of the rubber tube or other protecting material
on the hooks and the fork referred to is to prevent injury to any part of the cycle
when suspended.
Fig. 3 shows my improved support in which the bar H, H, is formed with an
arm or equivalent B by means of which it is connected to the rod G. This con-
struction is intended to attain greater rigidity of the whole apparatus.

page_text: A further alternative construction is shown in Fig. 4 in which the rod B is
connected direct to the rod K and said rod having connected to it a hook E¹ which
hook may be slid to any required position along the rod B. I also provide
hooks A3 A3 so that the cycle may be suspended by the hooks E, E¹, or by the
hooks E and A³ A³.
In suspending a cycle it is only necessary to place the steering rod into the
fork C, C or the hook J and to place the handles into the hooks F F, the hook i
is next engaged with the saddle bar or other suitable part of the frame and the
whole suspended by means of the rings A or hooks E on to hooks or equivalents
in the roof or other suitable part of the luggage van or on a movable frame.
A frame adapted to be used for supporting a series of cycles is shown in
Figs. 5 and 6, and said frame is especially useful for supporting a second series of
cycles under a first series which first series is supported by the roof of the van
as already hereinbefore described.
Said frame consists of two horizontally disposed bars or the like O, P, one end
of each of which bars is provided with a pin or the like T which is supported by
bearings U on the side or end of the van." Said bars O, P, are connected together
or provided with bars Q, R, having on their undersides rings or hooks X to which
the supports herein before described are attached; and to support the outer end
of the frame I provide the bar R with a movable leg or rest S and I prefer to
attach or fix the bar R and also the bar Q to the bars O, P, by means of bolts or
the like V so that the whole frame may be readily taken to pieces and stowed
away if not required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
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1. An improved support for velocipedes consisting of linked rods and hooks
all constructed and arranged for the purposes and substantially as described and
illustrated.
2. An improved frame for carrying the support herein described said frame
being constructed substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 11th day of July 1898.
By his Agents,
L. M. JEROME,
Horn, Son & Co.,
151, Strand (next to Somerset House), London.