Improvements in the Construction of the Frames of Cycles and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left. 11th July, 1896-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of the Frames of Cycles
and the like.
A communication from abroad by DUNCAN SUBERBIE & CIE., a
"Société en
Commandite," of 16 Rue Halévy, Paris, in the French Republic, Manufacturers
of Cycles and Automobiles.
I PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane in the County
f Middlesex Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents do hereby
eclare the nature of this invention to be as follows
―:
This invention relates to the construction of the frames of cycles and the like,
nd consists in an improved means of securing the tubes of which the frame or the
ike is composed, in the sockets or castings in which said tubes are held.
To this end the ferrules or short lengths of tubes used for strengthening the
oint between the socket and the tube are placed outside of the tube instead of
nside of same, such ferrule being then between the tube and the socket, and
butting at one end with the end of the tube upon a shoulder in the socket. The
dge of the ferrule which is exposed to view outside of the tube may be curved
ndulated or fashioned in any suitable manner if desired to increase the amount of
upport it affords to the tube.
With this construction the ferrule is more easily brazed to the tube and secured
n the socket, and there is less danger of weakening the tube when finishing the
oint with a file.
Dated the 30th day of October 1895
PHILIP M. JUSTICE.
Improvements in the Construction of the Frames of Cycles
and the like.
A communication from abroad by DUNCAN SUBERBIE & CIE., a
"Société en
Commandite," of 16 Rue Halévy, Paris, in the French Republic, Manufacturers
of Cycles and Automobiles.
I, PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane in the County
of Middlesex, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, 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 the construction of the frames of cycles and the like,
and consists in an improved means of securing the tubes of which the frame or the
like is composed, in the sockets or castings in which said tubes are held.
To this end the ferrules or short lengths of tubes used for strengthening the
joint between the socket and the tube are placed outside of the tube instead of
inside of same, such ferrule being then between the tube and the socket, and
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page_text: abutting at one end with the end of the tube upon a shoulder in the socket. The
edge of the ferrule which is exposed to view outside of the tube may be curved
undulated or fashioned in any suitable manner if desired to increase the amount of
support it affords to the tube.
With this construction the ferrule is more easily brazed to the tube and secured
in the socket, and there is less danger of weakening the tube when finishing the
joint with a file.
To clearly explain the invention reference is made to the accompanying drawings
in which,
Figure 1 is an elevation of a socket carrying three tubes having differently
fashioned ferrules.
Figure 2 is a section of a part of a socket with the ferrule aud tube.
The tube marked a is shown as fitting in the ferrule 6 and the two are carried by
one of the branches of the socket e both ferrule and tube abutting against a
shoulder e formed in the socket. In the right hand tube the edge b' of the ferrule
is straight, in the middle tube the edge 2 of the ferrule is shown as undulated and
in the extreme left tube the edge is also undulated but somewhat differently.
Various forms may however be given to the edges to increase the support to
the tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me from
abroad by my foreign correspondents I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The improvemen in the construction of the frames of cycles and the like
consisting in surrounding the tube ends where they enter the sockets with a ferrule
substantially as and for the purposes described..
2. In the construction of the frames of cycles and the like the employment of a
ferrule placed outside of the tube and between it and the socket said ferrule having
a curved undulated or fashioned edge substantially as and for the purposes set
forth.
Dated the 11th day of July 1896
PHILIP M. JUSTICE.