Improved Apparatus or Means for Locking Cycles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left. 6th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improved Apparatus or Means for Locking Cycles.
We JABEZ STAFFORD of 5 Seymour Street Denton in the County of Lancaster,
Under Manager, and JOSEPH ANDREW of 7 Clarendon Place, Hyde in the County
of Chester, Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows.-
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The object of this invention is to provide simple means or apparatus for locking
bicycles of similar machines to prevent them being stolen when left by the rider,
and is designed to enable the crank to be readily locked to the frame of the
machine.
The invention consists of a short metal strap or chip, provided with a loop
at each end, one of which loops 18 of such a size as to embrace the seat pillar tube,
of the frame or the tube from the bottom bracket to the steering pillar, and the
other of such a size as to embrace the crank arm so as to lock the latter to
the frame.
The chip is split longitudinally through the shank into two parts each of which
comprises one half of each loop connected by a strap or bar. The two halves are
secured together by a staple or other projection from one strap passing through or
into a coresponding slot in the other strap, and fixed by means of a padlock
or other similar device, or a hole may be made in each slank and secured by a
padlock.
The loops may be lined with washleather felt or other suitable material to
prevent injury to the enamelling of the machine, and one of the straps may be
mado with flanges or lips at the edges overlapping the other to prevent the
introduction between the two straps of any instrument for foreing or rending the
saine asunder
Dated this 6th dox of illav 1905
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
Improved Apparatus or Means for Looking Cycles.
We JABEZ STAFFORD of 5 Seymour Street Denton, in the County of Lancaster,
Under Manager, and JOSEPH ANDREW of 7 Clarendon Place, Hyde, in the County
of Chester, Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same 18 to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide simple means on apparatus for looking
bicycles or similar machines to prevent then being stolen when left by the rider,
and the apparatus is designed to enable the crank to be readily locked to the frame
of the machine
The nature of our invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed
or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the sheet
of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.

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1 on the drawinge is a side view of our improved cycle lock closed, and
Fig. 2 15 a similar view of the same open. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the
same secured by a padlock and Fig. 4 illustrates the application of the same to
locking the crank of a bicycle.
The invention consists of a short metal strap o chip provided with a loop at each
eud, one of which loops a is of such a size as to embrace the seat pillar tube b of
the frame (see Fig. 4) or the tube from the bottom bracket to the steering pillar,
and the other c of such a size as to embrace the crank aim d so as to lock the latter
to the frame.
The clip is split longitudinally through the shank into two parts, each of
which comprises one half of each loop a and c connected by a strap or bar. The
two balves are secured together by a staple or other projection on one strap
passing through or into a corresponding slot in the other strap, and fixed by means
of a padlock (as shown at Fig. 3) or other sunilai device, or a hole may be made
in each shank and secured by a padlock.
The two parts of the clip may be made separate as shown at Fig. 1, or hinged
together at one end as shown at Fig. 2.
The loops a and c may be lined with washleather, felt or other suitable material
to prevent injury to the enamelling or plating of the machine, and one or both of
the straps may be made with flauges of lips at the edges overlapping each other
(see Fig. 3) to prevent the introduction between the two straps of any instrument
for forcing or rending the same asunder.
For crank aims of a square or other section the loop c will be made of a
corresponding form.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be perforined we declare that what we
clann 19:
A device for locking cycles composed of two parts, divided horizontally, which when
placed together form a clip having a complete loop at each end united by a shank,
together with a staple and slot or other means whereby the same can be fastened
together, so as to lock one of the cranks of the cycle to the seat pillai or other
convenient part of the frame, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 5th day of February 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.