Improvements in Bicycle Holders or Stands, and their Combination with Electrical Contact Makers.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 12th July, 1898-Accepted 13th Oct. 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bicycle Holders or Stands, and their Combination
with Electrical Contact Makers.
FRANCIS ELLIOTT STUART and ARTHUR PILCHER FORD-MOORE, Electrical
Engineers, Victoria Electrical Works, Ealing, W., do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
A bicycle holder to fix to a wall, or in the ground, consisting of two checks
attached to a back or a support; the whole to hold the wheel of a bicycle in an
upright position when wheeled into it; in combination with an electrical contact
maker, so arranged as to make contact when the wheel is in the holder, and break-
ing contact when the wheel is removed.
In conjunction with the contact maker, an ordinary electric bell circuit, with
or without a switch can be used;
The holder can also be arranged to break contact when the wheel is in the holder
and to make contact when it is removed.
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Extension wires in conjunction with an on and "off" switch can be fixed
from an ordinary electric bell circuit of a house to the contacts of the holder; the
holder being placed outside the front door; the switch being inside; so that after
putting the bicycle in the holder, and putting the switch on; the bell will ring
immediately anyone removes the bicycle; and continue to ring until the switch
is moved off.
The holder may be made of iron or other suitable material; and the contact
maker so placed that it is inaccessible when the holder holds a bicycle wheel.
Dated this Eleventh day of October 1897.
FRANK E. STUART.
A. P. FORD-MOORE.
Improvements in Bicycle Holders or Stands, and their Combination
with Electrical Contact Makers.
FRANCIS ELLIOTT STUART, ARTHUR PILCHER FORD-MOORE, trading as Stuart &
Moore, Electrical Engineers & Contractors, Victoria Electrical Works, South
Ealing, London, W., 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:-
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According to our invention we combine a holder for retaining a bicycle in an
upright position with an electrical signal circuit, preferably an electric bell circuit,

page_text: Any sort of holder made of iron wood, or other suitable material that will hold
a bicycle in an upright position may be used.
The holder has no locking device of any kind, and any person can place a bicycle
in the holder and remove it at will.
The apparatus is capable of being made in either of two ways; firstly to make
an electrical contact on the insertion of a wheel; the normal position being with
the contact broken; or secondly, the normal position being with the contact closed,
and the contact being then broken by inserting the bicycle wheel.
In either case our invention provides that an electrical alarm signal, preferably
the ringing of an electric bell, is given immediately anyone removes the bicycle
from the holder without first breaking the electrical circuit by means of the switch.
For general use the latter system used in conjunction with a switch would be
preferable; but where it would be possible to get at and cut the electrical con-
necting wires, the first or closed circuit system may be used with advantage.
The holder itself consists simply of the bicycle holder, and a pair of electrical
contacts insulated from one another, with a moveable piece to operate the contacts.
In the case of the insertion of the wheel making the contact, a relay would be
used in the electrical circuit with a battery, the arni of the relay breaking an
ordinary electric bell circuit when the relay circuit was closed by the insertion of
the bicycle; the switch then being in the electric bell circuit, and used to dis-
connect the bell when the bicycle holder is not in use; as soon as the bicycle is
placed in the holder, the switch in the bell circuit would be placed at " on.'
In the case of the insertion of the bicycle wheel breaking the contact, an ordinary
electric bell circuit only is necessary a switch being provided in the circuit, and
placed at "on"When the wheel or other part of the bicycle is placed in the
holder. On removing the bicycle the circuit is completed by, the contacts in the
holder, the battery, switch and bell; the bell then immediately ringing and thus
giving an alarm.
Or the switch may if required be fixed in the holder, and its contact arm moved
into the required position by, the insertion of the bicycle wheel, it would then
reniain in that position until released by a suitable key, although meanwhile the
bicycle may
have been removed from the holder.
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"For this purpose any suitable switch requiring a key to release the arm from
the locked position, may be used.
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The apparatus may be used fixed on the wall or railings, or on the ground
outside a building, or in a shed outside a house, with the connecting wires to a
bell and switch inside a house.
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The apparatus is designed to prevent bicycles being stolen, when left out of sight
without giving an alarm, and it is so arranged that when a bicycle is in the holder,
it is impossible to tamper, with the electrical contacts.
We will now proceed to describe the invention with reference to the accompany-
ing slieet of drawings, the same letter denotes the same part in all the figures.
Fig. 1 shows the vertical section of the holder, with the working parts exposed.
Fig. 2 is the transverse section through the line F G.
A A A A is the frame of the holder.
B B is a plunger or moveable piece.
CC is a spring.
Dis a contact spring insulated at H.
E E are the cheeks between which the bicycle wheel is inserted.
The working of the apparatus may be thus briefly described.
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The holder may be fixed against a wall, or other suitable support, at a suitable
distance from the ground to engage with cycle wheels or parts.
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On pushing a cycle wheel into the holder between the cheeks EE, the moving
piece B,B normally kept out by the spring CC is pressed back carrying with it
the spring CC, which breaks contact with the insulated spring D; the switch in
the electric bell circuit is then closed; on anyone removing the bicycle from the
holder, the
e spring C pushing out the moving piece B B, no longer kept back by

page_text: the bicycle wheel, makes contact with the insulated spring D, and so closes the
electric circuit causing the bell to ring and thus signalling the removal of the
bicycle.
The cheeks E E of the holder are made of sufficient size to hold the bicycle
wheel in an upright position.
The apparatus can be so arranged, as to operate by other parts of a bicycle than
the wheel.
The apparatus may be also arranged with a number of cycle holders grouped in
a frame or pedestal, having an electric signal common to all, or by using an
electrical indicator to show from which holder a bicycle has been removed.
If it is required to make the electrical contact on the insertion of a bicycle, the
spring CC is arranged in its normal position to break contact with the spring D,
and to make contact when the moving piece is pressed in by the bicycle wheel.
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
claim is:-
1. The combination of a cycle holder and an electric signal circuit (preferably
an electric bell) in which the removal of the bicycle gives an electrical signal.
2. The combination of a cycle holder an electric signal circuit, and a switch,
in which the switch is used to allow the bicycle on removal to give an electric
signal, and to disconnect the signal circuit when not in use.
3. The combination of a cycle holder, an electric signal circuit, and a switch,
in which the switch is operated automatically by the insertion of a wheel into the
holder.
4. The combination with each other of the various mechanical and electrical
parts, as herein described, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this Sixth day of July 1898.
FRANCIS ELLIOTT STUART.
ARTHUR PILCHER FORD-MOORE.