An Improved Appliance for Supporting Bicycles when at Rest.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Supporting Bicycles when at Rest.
JOHN HERBERT SUTCLIFFE c/o Reverend R. Hamilton Horsfall, The Vicarage,
Arkholme, Kirkby Lonsdale, Undergraduate of the University of Durham, and
RICHARD HAMILTON HORSFALL The Vicarage, Arkholme, Kirkby Lonsdale,
Clerk in Holy Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This is a contrivance for supporting bicycles when at rest.
The support is obtained by connecting the handle or handle bar of the bicycle with
a wall or other fixture or with anything else of sufficient stability for the purpose,
by means of a spring clip, hinged clasp, leather or other collar, or by means of some
other intervening substance or medium. (All which said spring clip, hinged clasp,
leather or other collar, or other intervening substance or medium are hereinafter
referred to as and included under the term "the holder".) The holder to be so
constructed as to be capable of being affixed to such wall or other fixture or to
anything else of sufficient stability for the purpose, by means of screws or nails or
suction, or by means of some other method of affixing. And the holder to be also
so constructed as to be capable of being affixed to such wall or other fixture or to
anything else of sufficient stability for the purpose, at such a height and in such a
position that when the handle or handle bar of the bicycle is placed within its hold,
the bicycle is supported or upheld in the same position in which it would be
supported or upheld, if, standing in its proper upright position, it were supported or
upheld in that position by means of a human hand grasp on the handle or handle
bar of the bicycle.
The holder is adjustable to the exact angle at which the bicycle handle or handle
bar may be bent, by means of a screw or nail or bolt or some other article inserted
through the back of the holder in such a manner that the holder will revolve on
the said screw or nail or bolt or other article and can thus when desired be turned
to right or left until it reach the exact angle required by the bicycle handle or
handle bar. Or the holder may be made adjustable to the exact angle of the
bicycle handle or handle bar by some method other than the method already
specified.
The bolder can also be adjusted to the exact height of the bicycle bandle
or handle bar. This is effected by the holder being attached to a perpendicular rod
or slotted bar or to some other arrangement, in such a manner that the holder can
be run up or down the perpendicular rod or slotted bar or other arrangement
at will, and thus the holder can be raised or lowered to the exact height required
by the bicycle handle or handle bar. Or the holder may be rendered adjustable to
the exact height of the bicycle handle or handle bar by some method other than
the method already specified.
As the inventor shall from time to time deem desirable, the holder will be issued
with or without any arrangement or other addition rendering it adjustable to the
exact angle of the bicycle handle or handle bar, and also with or without any
arrangement or other addition rendering it adjustable to the exact height of the
bicycle handle or handle bar.
Dated this 14th day of October 1895.

page_text: We, Jous HERBERT SUTCLIFFE, Graduate of the University of Durham, and
RICHARD HAMILTON HORSFALL, Clerk in Holy Orders, both of The Vicarage,
of Arkholme, near Kirkby Lonsdale, 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 provide a simple and efficient device or
contrivance for supporting bicycles when at rest. The support is obtained by
connecting the handle or handle bar of the bicycle with a wall or other fixture or
with anything else of sufficient stability for the purpose by means of a spring clip
hinged clasp, leather, or other collar, or by means of some other intervening device.
The said holder or device is so constructed so as to be capable of being affixed to
such wall or other fixture, or to anything else of sufficient stability for the purpose,
by means of screws or mails or by means of some other method of affixing; and the
holder is also so constructed as to be capable of being affixed to such wall or other
fixture or to anything else of suflicient stability for the purpose, at such a height
and in such a position that when the handle or handle bar of the bicycle is placed
within its hold the bicycle is supported or upheld in the same position in which it
would be supported or upheld if standing in its proper upright position; were
supported or upheld in that position by hand grasp onu handle or handle bar of the
bicycle.
The bolder is adjustable to the exact angle at which the bicycle handle or handle
bar, may be bent by means of a screw or nail or bolt or some other article inserted
through the back of the holder in such a manner that the holder will revolve on the
said screw, nail or bolt or other article, and can thus, when desired be turned to
right or left until it reaches the exact angle required by the bicycle bandlo
or handle bar. The holder can also be adjusted to the exact height of the bicycle
handle or handle bar. This is effected by the holder being attached to a
perpendicular rod or slotted bar or some other arrangement in such a manuer that
the holder can be run up or down the perpendicular rod or slotted bar or other
arrangement at will, and thus the holder can be raised or lowered to the exact
height required by the bicycle handle or handle bar. Or the holder may be
adjustable to the exact height of the bicyclo handle or handle bar by sumo method
other than the method already specified.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of dovice for carrying out the object of our
invention.

page_text: slot formed therein so as to alter the position of the clip B to suit the position of
the handle or handle bar.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
1. An appliance for supporting bicycles when at rest, consisting of means
capable of gripping or connecting at one part, the handle or handle bar of the
bicycle and at the other part capable of being affixed to a wall or other suitable
position, substantially as set forth.
2. The approved appliance for supporting bicycles when at rest substantially as
set forth.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Boar Lane, Leeds, Patent Agent to the Applicants.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Boar Lane, Leeds, Patent Agent to the Applicants.