Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th 'Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
1 CHARLES ALLEN, of the Mersey Cycle Works, Warrington, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to he
as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction and arrangement of
stands for supporting cycles for purposes of exhibition, cleaning, home use or
repairing &c.
It consists as follows:-I provide a main stay or frame which is preferably of
wood having a longitudinal central groove down its one side, or stops or guides
may be used to answer the purpose of the groove.
At the lower end of this frame
is a transverse piece whose two outer ends form feet, or such ends may be made
to receive rollers or castors. The upper end of this frame has upon its upper
(grooved) surface, a pillow or rest, of wood (or other similar unscratchable
material) in which rests the front lower part of the cycle. At about this part and
upon the said frame is further secured a leather strap or other flexible unscratch-
able material, having at its one end a steel or metal plate with an open slot, and a
screw with running out at its other end, so that when the bar of the cycle frame
rests in the pillow before mentioned the said strap may be passed around it until
the screw is placed in the slotted plate and by means of the running nut, the stand
may be firmly secured to the cycle frame. Working in the groove of the frame
is a slide having at its lower end a hooklike shaped piece which takes under the
bottom bracket of the cycle frame, and having also at its upper end an adjusting
screw and nut so that the hook piece may be adjusted to any desired height upon
the frame. If desired, instead of the aforesaid strap, I may employ a hook or
clip formed upon or attached to the upper end of the frame, which may take hold
of the cycle frame at such part.
Its action is therefore somewhat thus :-The stand is first placed beneath the
cycle frame, in the manner before indicated, and secured thereto by the strap or
other means provided. By now screwing up the nut which is upon the longi-
tudinally sliding screw the hooked end is raised and with it of course the bottom
bracket of the cycle frame, and thus the rear wheel of the machine is raised from
off the ground, the machine now being supported by its own front wheel and the
two feet or rollers of the stand.
Dated this 10th day of December 1894.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Stands.
I CHARLES ALLEN, of the Mersey Cycle Works Warrington, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, 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 improvements in the construction and arrangement of

page_text: stands for supporting cycles for purposes of exhibition, cleaning, home use or
repairing &c.
I will at once proceed to describe my invention by the aid of the accompanying
drawings upon which are figures and numbers of reference, and in which
Fig. 1, is a side elevation of my improved stand.
Fig. 2, is a front view of same.
Fig. 3, is a sectional view of Fig. 2, on line A-B, and
Fig. 4, shows the application of this my improved stand to support a bicycle.
I provide a main stay or frame 1, which is preferably of wood having a longi-
tudinal central groove 2, down its one side, (or stops or guides may be used to
answer the purpose of the groove). At the lower end of this frame is a transverse
piece 3, whose two outer ends form feet, or such ends may be made to receive
rollers or castors 4. The upper end of this frame has upon its upper (grooved)
surface a pillow or rest of wood 5, which is preferably also lined with, a soft
unscratchable material 6, in which rests the front lower part 7, of the cycle, see
Fig. 4. At about this part and upon the said stay or frame 1, is further_secured
a leather (or other flexible unscratchable material) strap 8, having at its one end a
steel or metal plate 9, with an open slot 10. and a screw 11, with running nut 12,
at its other end, so that when the bar 7, of the cycle frame rests in the pillar 5,
before mentioned the said strap 8, may be passed around it until the screw 11, is
placed in the slot 10, of the plate 9, and by means of the running nut 12, the stand
may be firmly secured to the cycle frame. Working in the groove 2, of the
frame 1, is a slide 13, having at its lower end a hook-like shaped piece 14, which
takes under the bottom bracket 15, of the cycle, and having also at its upper end
an adjusting screw 16, and nut 17, so that the hook piece 14, may be adjusted to
any desired height upon the frame.
Its action is therefore somewhat thus :- -The stand is first placed beneath the
cycle frame in the manner before indicated, and secured thereto by the strap 8.
By now screwing up the nut 17, which is upon the longitudinally sliding screw 16,
the hooked end 14 is raised, and with it of course the bottom bracket 15 of the
cycle frame, and thus the rear wheel 18 of the machine is raised from off the
ground, as seen in Fig. 4, the machine now being supported by its own front wheel
the two feet or rollers 4, 4, of the stand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The combination in a cycle stand with the frame 1-with or without rollers 4, 4,—
having the pillow 5, and groove 2, of the slide 13, having the hook 14, and
adjusting screw 16, and of the binding strap 8, and slotted plate 9, constructed
and operating substantially as set forth and shown.
Dated this 11th day of September 1895.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12 Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.