New or Improved Combination Tools for the use of Cyclists and others.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 22nd Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Combination Tools for the use of Cyclists
and others.
We, SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE, of the Firm of Hinks, Wells and Company, of
Buckingham Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, and
ROBERT TAAFFE BYRNE, of the Birmingham India Rubber Company, No. 124, New
Street, Birmingham, aforesaid, India Rubber Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of the new or improved combination tools hereinafter
described for the use of cyclists and others, by the use of which combination tools
one or more of the ordinary tools which it is necessary or desirable that a cyclist
should carry may be dispensed with.
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Our invention relates principally to tools of the kind commonly called tyre levers,
that is, tools which are used to lift one of the wired edges of a pneumatic tyre
cover so as to facilitate the removal of the said cover from the cycle or other
wheel rim and consists in forming a series of hexagonal holes of varying sizes in
the flat handle of the said tyre lever, or a series of angular notches in the said
flat handle whereby the said lever may be used as a spanner or screw wrench as
well as tyre cover lifter.
When it is desired to have a spanner suitable for many different sizes of screw.
nuts we fit on to one or both sides of the flat handle of the tyre lever additional
slotted sliding plates notched at their ends, the said sliding side plates having the
same or nearly the same configuration as the flat handle of the tyre lever. One
or other of the sliding plates may be moved on the handle of the tyre lever so as
to bring its notches into position for use. Or the said plates may be moved into
such a position with respect to the handle of the lever as to leave the holes or
notches in the edge of the lever handle free for use. One or other of the sliding
plates may be formed so as to fit it for use as a screw driver or other tool instead of
a spanner.
We wish it to be understood that the compound tool last described may be used
apart from the tyre lever or it and the first described spanner may be combined
with tools other than tyre levers.
Dated the Twenty-second day of March 1897.

page_text: ROBERT TAAFFE BYRNE, of the Birmingham India Rubber Company, No. 124, New
Street, Birmingham, aforesaid, India kubber Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention consists of the new or improved combination tools hereinafter
described for the use of cyclists and others, by the use of which combination tools
one or more of the ordinary tools which it is necessary or desirable that a cyclist
should carry may be dispensed with.
Our invention relates principally to tools of the kind commonly called tyre
levers, that is, tools which are used to lift one of the wired edges of a pneumatic
tyre cover so as to facilitate the removal of the said cover from the cycle or other
wheel rim; and consists in forming a series of hexagonal holes of various sizes
in the flat handle of the said tyre lever or a series of angular notches in the said
flat handle whereby the said lever may be used as a spanner or screw wrench as well
as a tyre cover lifter.
When it is desired to have a spanner suitable for many different sizes of screw
nuts we fit onto one or both sides of the flat handle of the tyre lever additional
slotted sliding plates notched at their ends, the said sliding side plates
having the same or nearly the same configuration as the flat handle
of the tyre lever. One or other of the sliding plates may be moved on the handle
of the tyre lever so as to bring its notches into position for use. Or the
said plates may be moved into such a position with respect to the handle of the
lever as to leave the holes or notches in the edge of the lever handle free for use.
One or other of the sliding plates may be formed so as to fit it for use as a screw
driver or other tool instead of a spanner.
We wish it to be understood that the compound tool last described may be
used apart from the tyre lever, or it and the first described spanner may be com-
bined with tools other than tyre levers.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing represent in plan and longitudinal
section a tyre lever the handle part a of which is pierced with notches and a hole
to fit the tool for use as a spanner.
Figures 3 and 4 represent plans of opposite sides and Figure 5 a longitudinal
section of a similar tyre lever with which are combined sliding plates b, c provided
with notches of sizes different from that in the handle a of the tyre lever.
Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9 are views of a compound tool constructed according to our.
invention apart from a tyre lever, Figures 6 and 7 representing plans at opposite
sides of the tool, Figure 8 an edge view of the same and Figure 9 a section on
the line x, x Figure 7.
In order to permit the side plates b, c sliding on the tyre lever Figures 3, 4.
and 5 or sliding on one another in the tool Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9, the said side
plates b, c are slotted and the said slots are occupied by a guiding block d as in
Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9, or by a pair of pins d', d¹ as in Figures 3, 4 and 5, on the
opposite ends of which washers e, e of a width greater than the slots are fixed.
It will thus be understood that the sliding side plates b, c are secured to the
middle plate or tyre lever a or to one another so as to be capable of an independent
sliding motion for bringing one or other into position for use. On independently.
moving the sliding plates b, c the block d or its equivalent d¹, d¹ is stationary.
In Figures 3, 4 and 5 the middle plate or tyre lever a is shown in position for use
but in the combination spanner Figures 6, 7; 8 and 9 the sliding plates b, c are
shown in their neutral or non-operating position.
One of the ends of one of the sliding plates may be shaped to fit it for use as
a tool other than a spanner, such for example as a screw driver.
We wish it to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the use of two
sliding plates in combination with the tyre lever a Figures 3, 4 and 5, as one
sliding plate only may be employed; or where thought necessary or desirable more
than two sliding plates may be combined with the tyre lever or connected together"
in the way shown in Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as
our invention:
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First: A combination tool for the use of cyclists and others consisting essen-
tially of a tyre lever in the handle part of which a series of notches or holes or
notches and holes are made for the turning of screw nuts and screw pins
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the
accompanying drawing.
Secondly: A combination tool for the use of cyclists and others consisting
essentially of a tyre lever the handle part of which is preferably notched and the
combination therewith of a notched sliding plate or plates for the turning of screw
nuts and screws substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 3, 4
and 5 of the accompanying drawing.
Thirdly: A combination tool for the use of cyclists and others consisting essen-
tially of parallel notched plates so connected together that the said plates are
capable of sliding independent of one another for the bringing of the operating end
of one or other of the plates into position for use substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the Sixth day of December 1897
SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE.
ROBERT TAAFFE BYRNE.