Improvements in or relating to Velocipedes and other Road Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Velocipedes and other Road Vehicles.
GEORGE ALDERMAN, Storekeeper, Selby Park, Pershore Road, Birmingham,
and JAMES WILLIAM SAVILLE, Patternmaker, Selby Park, Pershore Road,
Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A small mirror is placed at will on the top of a telescopic slide, lazy tongs, or
similar arrangement, so fitted to the handle-bar of a velocipede (or suitable place
on other vehicles) as to enable the rider or driver to adjust it right or left; and
further to use a lever attached to the handle-bar, or other convenient place, &
worked by the hand, to raise the slide and obtain a Back-sight, by reflection, of all
behind him, without looking round, and so to guide his vehicle accordingly: the
slide or lazy-tongs can also be extended higher than the rider's head to show a disk
or mirror as a signal to others in rear that he is about to stop or turn. The small
mirror can also be used as a toilet glass.
Dated this 9th day of July 1896.
GEORGE ALDERMAN,
JAMES WILLIAM SAVILLE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Velocipedes and other Road Vehicles.
GEORGE ALDERMAN, Storekeeper, Selby Park, Pershore Road, Birmingham,
and JAMES WILLIAM SAVILLE, Patternmaker 1 Selby Terrace, Selby Park, Pershore
Road, Birmingham 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:—
The object of our invention is to facilitate the method of signaling to those in the
rear, & also to obtain readily a backsight. In carrying out our improvements a
small mirror of any description, for reflection, we place at will on the top of a
telescopic slide lazy-tongs, or a similar, or other arrangements made as to fit, the
mirror to the handle bar, of a bicycle, or velocipede, to be worked with lever by
the hand, or left stationary on the handle bar, or the concaved, or convexed or other
formed mirror, we place in any suitable position on a vehicle, or the telescopic
slide, lazy-tongs carrying the mirror or signal-may be fixed to the dash board-
so as to enable the rider, or driver, to adjust it, right or left hand, and further to
use a lever, attached to the dashboard or other convenient place, & worked by the
han or foot, to raise the slide, & obtain a back sight, by reflection of all behind
him, without looking round and so to guide his vehicle accordingly.
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page_text: The mirror can be used as a toilet glass.
In order that our Invention may be fully understood, we will more particularly
describe it, with the aid of the accompanying drawings in, which similar parts are
marked with like letter of reference Fig. 1. Represents a mirror & lazy tongs
on velocipède handle bar. Fig. 2. Represents a mirror fixed on handle bar of
cycle. Fig. 3 represents an elevation of telescopic slide lazy tongs carrying a
mirror or signal on dash board of a vehicle. a mirror. signal or sign notice.
c lazy tongs. d cycle handle bar.. e dash board of a vehicle. f connected arrange-
ment for fitting mirror to handle bar. g connected arrangement for fitting lazy
tons to a vehicle: h hand lever for working lazy tons & signal. lever to be
worked by foot. j to work lazy-tongs on cycle. k to fit disk on lazy-tongs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that, what we
cläimis
1st. "Upon a velocipede a mirror fixed, on the handle bar, to obtain a backsight
ad illustrated in Figure 2 & described..
2nd: A mirror worked with lazy tons; upon a velocipede as 'described and
illustrated in Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings.....
3rd A signal or other notice, worked upon a lazy tong upon a velocipede,
4th: A mirror fixed upon a vehicle to obtain a backsight..
..
5th. A mirror, or signal worked with lazy tons upon a vehicle by hand or foot
as illustrated and described-in Figure 3..
Dated this 10th day of April 1897.
Au!
J. T. B. BENNETT,"
4 Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants,