Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan., 1895
I, CHARLTON JAMES WOLLASTON of 31 Notting Hill Terrace in the County of
London Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide velocipedes with convenient and
compact arrangements whereby the bells can be operated by electricity.
According to my invention the bell itself may be of any suitable description
capable of being operated by electricity and it may be secured to any suitable part
of the velocipede but preferably upon the head through which the steering handle
passes. The battery is preferably a small tubular battery of the kind in which
chloride of silver forms one of the elements with a non-liquid excitant and it may
be secured in any suitable part of the machine for instance under the bell dome or
in its base or it may be placed within a hollow or hollows in one or both of the
steering handles and in double velocipedes it may be placed in the handles (or one
of them) grasped by the non steerer.
The circuits between the battery and the bell operating device are preferably
led through hollow portions of the machine and, if desired, portions of the metal of
the machine itself may be utilized to form part of the circuit. In the circuit there
is provided a contact making device or contact making devices provided with a
push button or buttons or the equivalents thereof the said device or devices being
arranged so as to protrude from the steering handles (or one of them) or other
convenient parts so that the hell can be operated by the rider or riders with
facility.
Dated the 11th day of Januar-1904
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn. Fields, London, Agents.
I CHARLTON JAMES WOLLASTON of 31 Notting Hill Terrace in the County of
London, Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention has for its object to provide velocipedes with convenient and
compact arrangements whereby the bells can be operated by electricity.
According to my invention the bell itself may be of any suitable description
capable of being operated by electricity and it may be secured to any suitable part
of the velocipede but preferably upon the head through which the steering handle
passes. The battery is preferably a small tubular battery of the kind in which
chloride of silver forms one of the elements with a non-liquid excitant and it may
be secured in any suitable part of the machine for instance under the bell dome or
in its base or it may be placed within a hollow or hollows in one or both of the
steering handles and in tandem or double velocipedes it may be placed in the

page_text: handles (or one of them) grasped by the non-steerer. The circuits between
the battery and the bell operating device are preferably led through hollow
portions of the machine and if desired, portions of the metal of the machine itself
may be utilised to form part of the circuit. In the circuit there is provided a
contact making device or contact making devices provided with a push button or
buttons or the equivalents thereof the said device or devices being arranged so as
to protrude from the steering handles (or one of them) or other convenient parts s0
that the bell can be operated by the rider or riders with facility.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in both figures.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation a tandem
bicycle shewing a mode of applying my invention thereto and
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of one of the steering handles and head, the handle
being shewn partly in section.
.
A is an ordinary electric bell secured by a saddle piece B to the head C of the
bicycle but which bell may be attached to the bicycle in any other suitable manner
and in any desired position on the frame D of the machine. E is the battery which
is shewn as being screwed into the hollow end of the steering handle F but which
may be fitted in any other suitable part of the machine.
The case a of the battery constitutes one of its poles and the silver wire b is the
other pole. The pole a is in electrical connection with the bell A through the
metal handle bar and an insulated wire a passing through the handle bar and
head C to the bell the other pole 6 of the battery being connected to the bell by
an insulated wire 6' also passing through. the hollow handle bar and head C. G is
a metal push button or contact maker fitted to slide in an insulated block c screwed
into the handle bar in a convenient position to be operated by the rider the stem c³
of this push button being connected to the wire a' so that when the push button G
is depressed so as to come into contact with the metal handle bar F an electric
circuit is completed through the coils of the bell which cause the bell to ring so
long as the push button is continued to be depressed.
When pressure is removed from the button G a spring d interposed between the
insulated block and the button & will force the said button out of contact with the
handle bar and so break the circuit through the bell which will then cease to ring.
Any desired number of push buttons or contact makers may be provided on various
parts of a velocipede the wire a being extended through the hollow frame of the
velocipede and connected in the manner described to the stems of all the push
buttons so that by depressing either of the said push buttous the bell A may be
en used to ring. In Figure 1 the wire a is shewn by dotted lines as passing
through the top hollow bar D' of the frame of the tandem bicycle and thence
through the handle bar C' for the rear rider, on which handle bar is provided a
push button G which may be operated by the rear rider to sound the bell. Thus
it will be understood that the bell may be sounded by either rider as occasion may
require. Any desired number of push buttons may be provided and the conducting
wires passed through the hollow frame in any suitable direction according to the
construction of the velocipede.
The contact maker shewn in the drawing is cup shaped and the stem thereof
passes into the interior of the hollow part to which it is attached but I do not
restrict myself to this particular arrangement as any other suitable arrangement
may be employed to be operated by the rider to make contact which will complète
the circuit through the bell.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :—
1. In a velocipede, in combination with an electric bell and a battery the use of

page_text: the metallic framing of the velocipede as a conductor of the electric current for
operating the bell substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In a velocipede the combination with an electric bell and a battery of two or
more contact makers arranged on different parts of the velocipede and each being
capable of being brought into operation to sound the bell substantially as herein-
before described.
3. In a velocipede, an electric bell and a battery one pole of which battery is
electrically connected with the bell by the metal frame or handle bar of the
velocipede and the other pole of the battery is connected to the bell by an insulated
wire passing through the hollow frame or handle bar or both the frame and the
handle bar substantially as hereinbefore described.
4. In a velocipede the combination of an electric bell fixed on any convenient
part of the velocipede, a battery or batteries fitted in the hollow handle bar or
hollow handle bars or in any other convenient hollow part of the velocipede, and a
contact maker or contact makers conveniently arranged to be operated by the rider
or riders to complete an electric circuit through the bell substantially as herein-
before described.
Dated this 12th day of November 1894.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
Agents.