A NEW OR IMPROVED STAND FOR SUPPORTING BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELO- CIPEDES DURING STATIONARY PRACTICE OR EXERCISE ON THE SAID BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES AND FOR OTHER USES AND NEW OR IMPROVED DISTANCE REGISTERING APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH THE SAID STAND
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Edward Vaughan of West Bromwich in the
County of Stafford Mechanical Engineer and Josiah Walton of West
Bromwich aforesaid Mechanical Engineer for an Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED STAND FOR SUPPORTING BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELO-
CIPEDES DURING STATIONARY PRACTICE OR EXERCISE ON THE SAID BICYCLES
TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES AND FOR OTHER USES AND NEW OR
IMPROVED DISTANCE REGISTERING APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH THE SAID
STAND
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Edward Vaughan
and Josiah Walton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
3rd October 1882.
GEORGE EDWARD VAUGHAN of West Bromwich in the County of Stafford
Mechanical Engineer and JOSIAH WALTON of West Bromwich aforesaid Mechanical
Engineer "A NEW OR IMPROVED STAND FOR SUPPORTING BICYCLES TRICYCLES
AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES DURING STATIONARY PRACTICE OR EXERCISE ON THE
SAID BICYCLES, TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES AND FOR OTHER USES; AND
NEW OR IMPROVED DISTANCE REGISTERING APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH THE SAID
STAND
We will describe a bicycle stand constructed according to our invention.
The said stand consists of a strong metallic or wooden horizontal base one end
of which carries two cross arms or pieces provided with feet to give steadiness to
the stand the said base having in plan the general figure of the letter T. In the
said base two or more rollers or pulleys are mounted. We prefer to employ three
rollers one at each end of the base and a third at the middle, the middle roller
being made adjustable for the purpose hereinafter explained. To the end of each
of the cross arms or pieces of the base a nearly upright steel or iron rod is fixed,
the said rods inclining towards each other. These rods are capable of vertical

page_text: adjustment by means of screw nuts. To the tops of these rods a forked or slotted
cap is fixed the said cap having an internal configuration proper for receiving and
holding firmly in a vertical position the head of the bicycle. The middle adjustable
roller in the base is of smaller diameter than the end rollers and is carried on the
end of a lever which can be raised or lowered so as to raise or lower the middle
roller for the purpose of fitting the stand to support bicycles having driving wheels
of different diameters. The said middle roller is adjusted and maintained in its
adjusted position by an eccentric on a cross axis, the said axis being fixed by a
screw. nut. A brake is arranged to bear upon the rear roller of the stand to
increase the resistance to the motion of the driving wheel of the bicycle. This
brake consists of a lever the acting arm of which is provided with a wood block
which is pressed against the rear roller with the required pressure by the action of
a screw bearing against the tail of the lever.
In using the stand the driving wheel of the bicycle is first passed onto the hind
roller, being guided thereto by a trough shaped inclined guide at the rear of the
base and afterwards onto the middle and front rollers the head of the bicycle
fitting in the forked or slotted cap at the tops of the upright rods described. The
bicycle is thus firmly supported in the stand the driving wheel resting on the
rollers at the base of the stand. When the rider operates upon the pedals, as if he
were travelling upon the bicycle the driving wheel is rotated its motion being
communicated by frictional contact to the rollers on the base the resistance offered
to the motion of the driving wheel being regulated as required by the brake
described.
In addition to the stationary practice or exercise of the bicycle, which the use
of the stand affords the said stand may also be used for supporting the bicycle
while a rider is being taught to mount upon and dismount from the bicycle as well
as for cleaning the bicycle.
The parts of the stand described are somewhat modified in order to fit them to
support tricycles and other velocipedes.
For the purpose of registering the number of rotations made by the driving
wheel of the bicycle or velocipede and thereby to indicate the distance to which the
said rotations would be equivalent if the velocipede were travelling we combine
with the stand the following registering apparatus
On the axis of one of the rollers in the base of the stand is a worm driving a
tangent or worm wheel having say eighty teeth. The motion of this tangent
wheel is transmitted through a train of toothed wheels to a wheel having fifty five
teeth which wheel makes one revolution to three thousand five hundred and
twenty revolutions of the worm, each revolution of the last named wheel indicating
a mile supposed to have been travelled by the vehicle, the circumference of the
roller from which the motion is taken being eighteen inches. A pointer or finger
is attached to the spindle of the wheel having fifty five teeth which pointer
traverses a fixed register or index plate and indicates thereon the supposed distance
travelled by the bicycle or velocipede. The pointer or finger is made to ring a
bell at the end of each indicated mile

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said George Edward Vaughan
and Josiah Walton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th May 1883.
GEORGE EDWARD VAUGHAN of West Bromwich in the County of Stafford
Mechanical Engineer and JOSIAH WALTON of West Bromwich aforesaid Mechanical
Engineer "A NEW OR IMPROVED STAND FOR SUPPORTING BICYCLES TRICYCLES
AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES DURING STATIONARY PRACTICE OR EXERCISE ON THE
SAID BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES AND FOR OTHER USES AND
NEW OR IMPROVED DISTANCE REGISTERING APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH THE SAID
STAND
"
We will describe a bicycle stand constructed according to our Invention.
The said stand consists of a strong metallic or wooden horizontal base one end
of which carries two cross arms or pieces provided with feet to give steadiness to
the stand, the said base having in plan the general figure of the letter T. In the
said base two or more rollers or pulleys are mounted. We prefer to employ three
rollers one at each end of the base and a third at the middle, the middle roller
being made adjustable for the purpose hereinafter explained. To the end of each
of the cross arms or pieces of the base a nearly upright steel or iron rod is fixed
the said rods inclining towards each other. These rods are capable of vertical
adjustment by means of screw nuts. To the tops of these rods a forked or slotted
cap is fixed the said cap having an internal configuration proper for receiving and
holding firmly in a vertical position the head of the bicycle. The middle adjustable
roller in the base is of smaller diameter than the end rollers and is carried on the
end of a lever which can be raised or lowered so as to raise or lower the middle
roller for the purpose of fitting the stand to support bicycles having driving wheels
of different diameters. The said middle roller is adjusted and maintained in its
adjusted position by an eccentric on a cross axis the said axis being fixed by a
screw nut. A brake is arranged to bear upon the rear roller of the stand to
increase the resistance to the motion of the driving wheel of the bicycle. This
brake consists of a lever the acting arm of which is provided with a wood block
which is pressed against the rear roller with the required pressure by the action
of a screw bearing against the tail of the lever. In using the stand the driving
wheel of the bicycle is first passed onto the hind roller being guided thereto by
a trough shaped inclined guide at the rear of the base and afterwards onto the
middle and front rollers the head of the bicycle fitting in the forked or slotted
cap at the tops of the upright rods described. The bicycle is thus firmly supported
in the stand the driving wheel resting on the rollers at the base of the stand
When the rider operates upon the pedals as if he were travelling upon the
bicycle the driving wheel is rotated, its motion being communicated by frictional
contact to the rollers on the base the resistance offered to the motion of the driving
wheel being regulated as required by the brake described.
In addition to the stationary practice or exercise of the bicycle which the use
of the stand affords, the said stand may also be used for supporting the bicycle
while a rider is being taught to mound upon and dismount from the bicycle as
well as for cleaning the bicycle.
The parts of the stand described are somewhat modified in order to fit them to
support tricycles and other velocipedes.
For the purpose of registering the number of rotations made by the driving
wheel of the bicycle or velocipede and thereby to indicate the distance to which the
said rotations would be equivalent if the velocipede were travelling, we combine
with the stand the following registering apparatus.

page_text: On the axis of one of the rollers in the base of the stand is a worm driving
a tangent or worm wheel having say eighty teeth. The motion of this tangent
wheel is transmitted through a train of toothed wheels to a wheel having fifty
five teeth which wheel makes one revolution to three thousand five hundred and
twenty revolutions of the worm, each revolution of the last named wheel indicating
a mile supposed to have been travelled by the vehicle, the circumference of the
roller from which the motion is taken being eighteen inches. A pointer or finger
is attached to the spindle of the wheel having fifty five teeth which pointer
traverses a fixed register or index plate and indicates thereon the supposed distance
travelled by the bicycle or velocipede. The apparatus is made to ring a bell at
the end of each indicated mile. Or instead of making the pointer rotate and
the dial or index plate fixed the latter may rotate and the pointer be fixed.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings
the manner in which our invention is to be performed
Figure 1 represents in side elevation our new or improved stand supporting a
bicycle; Figure 2 represents in plan and Figure 3 in end elevation, partly in
section (with portions of the rods broken away) the said stand drawn to a larger
scale than Figure 1 the said stand being represented in combination with the
brake and distance registering apparatus; Figure 4 represents a side elevation
of the base of the stand together with a part of the inclined rods; Figure 5
represents a side elevation of the slotted cap at the tops of the inclined rods for
receiving and holding the head of the bicycle; Figure 6 represents in side elevation
(partly in longitudinal section) and Figure 7 in end elevation (partly in cross
section) a portion of the stand drawn of the full size.
Figures 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 represent separate views of the distance registering
apparatus, drawn of the full size.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the drawings.
a. a². a² is the T shaped base of the stand made by preference of metal and slotted
at a: b and c are the rollers or pulleys turning in bearings on the part a of the
base and working in the slot a³; d d are metal rods fixed at the ends of the cross
pieces or arms a³, a² of the base the said rods inclining towards each other and also
inclining towards the middle of the base a as seen in Figure 2. To the tops of the
rods d, da forked or slotted cap e is fixed by screws and nuts at f. f. for receiving
and firmly holding in a vertical or nearly vertical position the head g of the bicycle.
In Figures 2, 3 and 5 the head g of the bicycle is represented in its place in the
cape the shape of which cap is best seen in the plan Figure 2. The rods d, d
supporting the fixing cap e are capable of vertical adjustment to suit bicycles of
different height by means of the sockets h, h at the ends of the cross arms a², a³ in
which sockets the rods d, d can slide, the fixing of the rods in their adjusted position
being effected by the set screws at i, i. At the rear of the base part a of the bicycle
stand is a guide by which the driving wheel 7 of the bicycle is guided onto the
rear roller b the said driving wheel passing first onto the said rear roller b and
afterwards onto the front roller c, the head g of the bicycle fitting in the forked or
slotted cap e as seen in Figures 1, 3 and 5. The guiding wheel is supported on a
rest at the end of the base a as seen in Figure 1. The bicycle is in this way firmly
supported on the stand and when the rider operates the pedals as if he were
travelling upon the bicycle the driving wheel of the bicycle is rotated, its motion
being communicated by frictional contact to the rollers b, c the resistance offered to
the motion of the said driving wheel Z being regulated as required by the brake
constructed in the manner represented in Figures 6 and 7 acting upon the rear
roller b. The said brake consists of a cranked lever m (see Figure 6) turning on
the centre m³ the acting arm of the lever being provided with a wood block n
which is pressed against the roller b with the required pressure by the screw P
worked by the hand wheel p the said screw 2 being locked in its position by the
locking handle p³ the head of which works upon the said screw as seen in Figure 6.
Combined with the stand is the distance registering apparatus q worked from the

page_text: axis of the roller c. This registering apparatus indicates the number of rotations
made by the driving wheel of the bicycle. The said registering apparatus is
represented drawn of the full size detached from the stand, in Figures 8, 9, 10, 11
and 12 of the drawings.
Figure 8 represents in vertical section the said registering apparatus; Figure 9 in
side elevation and Figure 10 in plan the said registering apparatus, the bell being
removed in Figure 10; Figure il represents in plan one half of the upper side
and one half of the underside of the rotating dial or index plate, the said underside
half also exhibiting the ratchet wheel and its pawl; Figure 12 represents in plan
the gearing mechanism of the apparatus.
The axis of the roller c of the stand is coupled by the tubular coupling &
represented in Figure 7 to the axis t (see Figure 12) of the registering apparatus.
This axis t carries a tangent wheel u which gears with the toothed wheel u³ and
through the train of toothed wheels and pinions represented to the central wheel u³
having fifty five teeth, which wheel u makes one revolution to three thousand five
hundred and twenty revolutions of the worin or tangent wheel u each revolution
of the wheel u³ indicating a mile supposed to have been travelled by the vehicle,
the circumference of the roller c from which the motion is taken being eighteen
inches.
Upon a square shoulder on the arbor of the central toothed wheel u³, a ratchet
wheel u' is fitted and upon a cylindrical cellar on the said ratchet wheel the dial
or index plate u is fitted. The ratchet wheel u turns with the toothed wheel u³
and the dial plate u is geared to the ratchet wheel u by the pawl ue on the
underside of the said dial plate engaging with the teeth of the ratchet wheel, the
said dial plate being capable of rotating upon the ratchet wheel so as to perinit of
the setting of the said dial plate by the pawl u sliding over the teeth of the
ratchet wheel; w is a fixed pointer under which the rotating dial plate u³
traverses; is the bell supported on the central rod of the apparatus and y is the
striker of the said bell pressed into its striking position by the coiled spring
represented. The said striker is actuated by the stud on the rotating dial plate
bearing against the arm y2 on the said striker. The rotating dial plate is
graduated into divisions which indicate a mile and portions of a mile. When the
driving wheel of the bicycle is rotated by the rider a slow rotation is given
through the axis of the roller c, the axis t of the registering apparatus and gearing
represented to the dial or index plate us and at the end of each rotation of the
wheel u³ (which indicates a mile supposed to have been travelled by the vehicle)
the pin on the rotating dial plate strikes against and pushes aside the arm y² of
the striker and on the escaping of the pin z from the said arın y³ the spring causes
the liberated striker to strike the bell . Thus, the bell is struck at the end of
each indicated mile.
Figure 13 represents in side elevation and Figure 14 in plan, a bicycle stand
made according to our invention provided with a middle adjustable roller;
Figure 15 represents the said middle roller and its adjusting parts drawn of the
full size; 6 is the middle roller carried on one arm of the lever b³, b' which can be
raised or lowered to fit the stand to support bicycles having driving wheels of
different diameters. The middle roller 62 is adjusted and held in its adjusted
position by the eccentric 6 on the cross axis 66 the said eccentric bearing on the
arm 6 of the lever. By means of the locking screw nut b' taking onto the
screwed end of the axis the eccentric and middle roller may be fixed in their
adjusted positions.
We make a stand for supporting a tricycle of two of the base parts a of the
bicycle stand but we dispense with the cross pieces or arms a³, a², the rods d d and
the forked or slotted cap e. The two driving wheels of the tricycle are supported
on the rollers bo of the two parts of the stand the steering wheel being supported
on a rest beyond the end of the stand as represented in Figure 1 with respect to
a bicycle stand. For supporting a tricycle consisting of a large driving wheel at
one side and two steering wheels on the other side, the driving wheel is supported

page_text: on the rollers on one part of the stand and the steering wheels on the rollers on the
other parallel part of the stand.
For supporting a velocipede consisting of four driving wheels, such as a sociable
velocipede, each part of the stand is provided with two pairs of rollers, one pair for
each driving wheel.
The two parts of the stand may either be separable parts so as to be capable of
being arranged at different distances apart; or the two parts of the stand may be
permanently connected together by end pieces or by end and middle pieces.
Having now described the nature of our invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed we wish it to be understood that We claim as our
invention ;-
First The new or improved stand for supporting bicycles tricycles and other
velocipedes during stationary practice or exercise on the said bicycles, tricycles and
other velocipedes and for other uses herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings; that is to say, a stand for the purposes described consisting
essentially of a horizontal base carrying two (or more) rollers upon which the
driving wheel of the bicycle rests and a forked or slotted cap supported by rods on
the said base for receiving and holding in a vertical or nearly vertical position the
head of the bicycle, the several parts of the stand being constructed and arranged
substantially as described and illustrated; also the modification of the said stand
hereinbefore described by which modification it is fitted to the supporting of
tricycles and other velocipedes.
Secondly The combination with one of the rollers of the said stand of the
brake described and represented for increasing the resistance to the motion of the
driving wheel or wheels of the velocipede.
Thirdly The new or improved apparatus herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings for registering the number of rotations made by
the driving wheel of the velocipede supported on the stand and thereby indicating
the distance supposed to have been travelled by the velocipede.
In witness whereof we the said George Edward Vaughan and Josiah Walton
have hereunto set our hands and seals this Twenty-first day of April in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
Witness,
CORNELIUS WALTERS
West Bromwich
GEORGE EDWARD VAUGHAN (L.S.)
JOSIAH WALTON
(L.S.)