Improved Means for Securing Lamps, Horns, Bells, and other Cycle Accessories to Velocipedes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Lamps, Horns, Bells, and other Cycle
Accessories to Velocipedes.
We, CHARLES ALBERT MILLER and FREDERICK JOHN MILLER trading as
H. Miller and Company of Miller Street, Aston, near the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved fastening appliance for securing lamps,
horns, bells, and other cycle accessories to velocipedes, and has reference in a.
lamp, to the carrying socket, which has, according to our improvements, an attach-.
ment, consisting of a locking or securing device, by which means a lamp is locked
or secured to its supporting bracket, of a velocipede, thereby preventing the said
lamp from being removed when unattended.
This locking or securing means, consists essentially in providing the socket, or
the clip which surrounds the bracket of a machine, with a combined clamping
and locking device, having a keyhole shaped outer end, wherein a separate piece,
in the form of a key or thumb lever, with a key end, takes, for passing home the
combined clamping and locking device as aforesaid, in securing a lamp to which it
is attached, to its carrying bracket, or bracket arm.
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According to one form of our invention, in respect to lamps, the middle of the.
back of the socket, is provided with a hollow clamping screw, having a pressure
disc at its inner end, which comes within the inside of the socket, or upon the
outside of the rubber lining of the socket, adjacent to the middle of the back of
the said inside. This said hollow clamping screw, takes and screws within an all
through screw box, secured to the socket back, while directed up its middle, and
coming within a short distance of its outer end is a square or angular peg or
stalk, upon which, the key end of a thumb lever, takes, for screwing home the.
clamping device, and then leaving the same locked or fastened by the removal of
the said combined key and thumb lever.
To secure a lamp to its carrying bracket, insert the key end of the thumb
lever, in the key hole device of the clamping screw, then rotate the said thumb
lever, when the lamp becomes clamped to its bracket, by the passing home of the
end of the disc of the clamping screw against its bearing, when, by the removal
of the loose thumb-lever, locking or securing is effected.
In carrying out our invention in connection with lamp sockets, as described in
Letters Patent No. 14079 year 1884, of which we are the assignees, we provide
the outer end of the stem of the drawing-to, or clamping device, with a key-hole,
or the counter part of a key end, wherein or upon which the key end of a
thumb lever takes, for rotating and adjusting the same.
After adjustment, the combined thumb lever and key is removed, thus locking
or securing the lamp to the bracket.
As a modification, we make the clamping device as usual, that is to say, the
socket is secured upon the bracket, by a transversely directed screw pin, with a
head at its inner end, and a thumb lever at its outer end. The stem of the
clamping device has an annular groove sunk within it, or a collar formed upon
it, wherein the bolt or shoot of an ordinary lock, takes, by the turning of the
key. Thus, to lock or fasten a lamp to a machine, after adjustment, with respect,
to the bracket, turn the key of a lock attached to the back of the socket, when
its bolt is shot into the groove, or at the back of the collar as aforesaid..
As a modification of this locking means, the bolt of the lock may be made to
pass into a recess in the supporting brackets, instead of into the clamping device.

page_text: The removal of the key from the lock, makes the lamp safe from being
removed.
The socket of the lamp, may be made from sheet metal, and from a single
blank. Thus, in making a socket, I cut out from sheet metal, a cruciform shaped
blank, with lobe shaped protruberances at its lower middle part, to form ears or
bearings for the spring. sleeve.
The opposite sides or wings of, .the blank, are first, folded backwards parallel to
the middle part, into an elongated shaped sockets, and with the meeting edges,
bent one over the other, into a rib.
The top wing or part, is folded backwards into a tube or sleeve, whilst the lobe
shaped lower parts, are turned at right angles into depending brackets for carrying
the spring sleeve.
Thus it is, that the bracket, its arms, and bearings, as aforesaid,, are made from
a single blank, cut out from sheet metal.
In carrying out our invention in connection with bells, horns, & other cycle
accessories, the same differs in no essential respect from its application to a lamp,
as described, other than we substitute a bracket or claw for the socket part..
Dated this 17th day of October 1890.
CHARLES ALBERT MILLER.
FREDERICK JOHN MILLER.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
Improved Means for Securing Lamps, Horns, Bells, and other Cycle
Accessories to Velocipedes.
We CHARLES ALBERT MILLER and FREDERICK JOHN MILLER, trading as
H. Miller and Company of Miller Street in the City of Birmingham, Manu-
facturers, 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 has for its object, a lock-up socket, or a means for securing lamps,
horns, bells and other like cycle accessories, to cycles, so that the said accessories,
are unable to be stolen, or removed, other than by the owner, or a person possessing
the means of unfastening.
The locking or securing means, in connection with a lamp, consists of a
traversing screw axis, working within, and carried by, a bearing, carried within a
sleeve, or upon the front of the socket, which has a movable lining carrier, or
semi-clip, fitted within its interior, and to which carrier, a screw box is connected,
through which the fore part of the traversing screw, takes, so that when the said
screw is rotated, by an attachable and detachable turn or thumb lever, with a
socketed or keyed end, the lining is contracted, or opened out.
The turn, when removed, makes the lamp safe from surreptitious removal.
The application of our invention, to the locking of bells, horns, or other
accessories to cycles, or the frames of them, differs in no essential respect from its
application to a lamp, as herein described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in side elevation, a velocipede.
lamp, having a socket, provided with locking or securing means with a detachable
turn or thumb lever, constructed and arranged according to our invention.
The turn, which is separatable from the post-end, of the traversing, screw,
and which adjusts a semi-clip on the inside of the socket,. is shown in position
for use.
Figure 2 represents a horizontal section of the socket part, and locking and
adjusting means, upon the dotted lines A B Figure 1, and with the turn in position

page_text: upon the square end, or post of the traversing screw, which when rotated contracts,
or enlarges the inside area of the socket.
Figure 3 represents a side elevation, of the said lock-up socket, with the turn
removed, hence the locking or securing of a lamp, to a machine.
Figure 4 shows a horizontal section of the said socket, and accessory_locking
parts alike unto Figure 2, but with the turn or thumb lever, removed, which
prevents a lamp being stolen or otherwise interfered with, other than by the owner,
or a person possessing the separable turn.
Figure 5 shows a plan and end view of the turn separately.
The same letters of reference, indicate the like parts, in the several figures of the
drawing.
a is the lamp, are suspension arms, c is a socket, and d a bracket-arm,
carried by a machine, and upon which the said socket is adjustably secured, by a
lining carrier, or semi-clip e, through the intervention of which, the rubber lining f
is contracted or gathered in upon it.
Situated at the inwardly directed side of the socket, which is alike unto a flat
tube, open at top and bottom, is a laterally directed traversing-screw or screw
pin g, with its neck or fore part g2, resting and turning within a plain bearing h,
secured to, or carried within a sleeve 2, and with the extreme fore part 1, of the
said traversing screw, made angular, or post like, upon which the key, or socket
end, of a separate turn i takes, when a lamp is required to be affixed to its
bracket or carrying arm.
The fore part of the screw pin g, takes within a traversing screw box j, which
slides within the sleeve 2, which is connected as aforesaid, to the inner side of the
socket.
This screw box which is propelled and repelled by the rotation of the screw
pin, has a web, which passes through a slot c¹, in the socket, and is then connected
to the lining carrier, or semi-clip e, which carries the lining f, as aforesaid.
After the socket has been secured upon the bracket arm, by the rotation of the
screw pin g, through the intervention of the turn h, from left to right, the said turn
is then removed, hence a lock-up socket.
The lamp thus secured by its socket to the bracket arm, cannot be stolen or
removed, other than by the person possessing the turn or thumb lever.
Instead of making the extreme fore part of the said screw with a post, it may
be made recessed, wherein a post or peg end on the turn, takes, and further, the
said extreme end g', is preferably semi-enclosed by a covering bush g³, open at its
end; and further, we wish to be understood, that we do not limit ourselves to the
clamping and affixing means, so long as an attachable and detachable turn or thumb
lever is employed.
Figure 6 represents our lock-up means, as applied to a cycle bell.
a is a bell, carried upon a bracket or stem b, having at its lower end, a half-hoop
clip c, terminated by a screw box j, wherein the stem of a screw pin g, passes,
while the other end is directed through a hole c³, of a recessed bracket part e, of
a jointed half-clip c², connected to the stem b, at c'.
The said screw pin g, has a head or angular post part g', upon which, the keyed
or socketed end of a turn or thumb lever i, takes, for the rotation of the said
screw pin, which draws or closes the clip upon the handle bar or framing of a
machine.
When the turn is removed, the bell is locked in position upon the handle bar or
the like.
Figure 7 represents our invention, as applied to a cycle horn.
a is the horn, with pneumatic blower a², supported by a bracket b, having a fixed
side
C, terminated by a screw box j.
c² is the movable side of the clip, having a recessed bracket part c, through a
hole c, of which, a screw pin g, g', passes, with the stem taking into a screw
box j.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First A lock-up, or locking socket, for cycle lamps, as described and set
forth.
· Secondly-In a lock up, or locking socket, for cycle lamps, employing in con-
nection with a traversing axis, screw or other means, for affixing the socket to the
bracket arm or framing of a machine, of an attachable and detachable turn, thumb
lever or like device, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly The combination with a bell, horn or other like cycle accessory, of a
locking device, substantially as described and set forth, with an attachable and
detachable turn or thumb lever.
1001
CHARLES ALBERT MILLER.
FREDERICK JOHN MILLER.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.