An Improved Clamp for Velocipede Bells and for other purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1851
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clamp for Velocipede Bells and for other purposes.
We, GEORGE SOUTHALL and WILLIAM BURGESS, trading together as Southall
and Burgess, of 71, Buckingham Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Brass-
founders, and WILLIAM HICKIN, of Buckingham Street, aforesaid, Brassfounder,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention consists in the improved clamp herein described for securing bells
to the handle bars or other part of velocipedes and for other useful purposes such
as where any other article is required to be removably secured to a tube or rod.
The said improved clamp is of that class which consists of a pair of gripping jaws
hinged together and adapted for closing upon a tube or bar and furnished with a
screw or bolt by which the jaws can be forced together so as to clamp the tube or
bar between them and thus be secured thereto. When applied to a velocipede
bell one of the said jaws forms a part of the stem or bracket of the bell.
Heretofore it has been customary for the screw or bolt which binds the jaws on
to the tube or rod to be placed at that side where the jaws open which is incon-
venient as the screw or bolt has to be removed or turned back before the clamp can
be detached.
This defect we overcome as follows:-
Each of the jaws of the clamp is continued beyond the hinge and there formed
as a boss or projection to take the binding screw which is screwed through one of
the said bosses or projecting parts and bears against the other so that when the
screw is turned in one direction the jaws will be closed and when the screw is
turned in the opposite direction the jaws will be free to open. The mouth of the
clamp is thus unobstructed which enables the same to be attached or detached very
quickly.
Dated this 15th day of August 1890.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clamp for Velocipede Bells and for other purposes.
We, GEORGE SOUTILALI. and WILLIAM BURGESS, trading together as Southall
and Burgess, of 71, Buckingham Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Brass-
founders, and WILLIAM HICKIN of Buckingham Street, aforesaid, Brassfounder,
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 consists in the improved clamp herein described for securing bells
to the handle bars or other part of velocipedes and for other useful purposes such
as where any other article is required to be removably secured to a tube or rod.
The said improved clamp is of that class which consists of a pair of gripping jaws
hinged together and adapted for closing upon a tube or bar and furnished with a
screw or bolt by which the jaws can be forced together so as to clamp the tube or
bar between them and thus be secured thereto. When applied to a velocipede bell
one of the said jaws forms a part of the stem or bracket of the bell.
Heretofore it has been customary for the screw or bolt which binds the jaws
on to the tube or rod to be placed at that side where the jaws open which is

page_text: inconvenient as the screw or bolt has to be removed or turned back before the
clamp can be detached.
This defect we overcome as follows, reference being had to the accompanying
drawing on which Fig. 1 is a side view and Fig. 2 a front view of a bicycle bell
with its clamp constructed according to this invention, Fig. 3 represents the clamp
part open Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate a slightly modified form of the same; Fig. 6 is
an elevation and Fig. 7 a plan of an adjustable bracket for shop windows with its
clamp part constructed according to this invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawing.
The jaws of the clamp are marked respectively A and B, and they are hinged
together at C. Each of the said jaws A and B is continued beyond the hinge C
and there formed as a boss or projection marked respectively a¹ to take the
binding screw E which is screwed through the projection and bears against the
projecting part a of the jaw A so that when the screw E is turned in one direction
the jaws will be closed together and when the screw E is turned in the opposite
direction the jaws will be free to open. The mouth of the clamp is thus
unobstructed by the binding screw and can therefore be attached or detached
very quickly.
We prefer for the projecting part of the jaw B to form the stem (see Figs. 1,
2 and 3) to which the bell is fixed, or as shewn by Figs. 6 and 7 to form the base of
the window bracket, as the jaws are then more easily accessible.
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 improved clamp for securing a bell to the handle bar and other part of a
velocipede or for other purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawing, that is to say the combination of the gripping jaws A, B,
hinged together and adapted for closing upon a tube or bar each of the said jaws
being continued beyond the joint and the said continued part of one of the jaws
having a binding screw arranged to act upon the continuation of the other jaw to
close the jaws together or allow them to open, substantially as hereinbefore set
forth and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
2. The combination with a velocipede hell of the fixing clamp as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawing.
3. The combination with a shop window bracket of the fixing clamp as herein-
before described and illustrated by Figs. 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 15th day of May 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.