An Improved Looking Device for the Wheels of Cyoles and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Looking Device for the Wheels of Cyoles and
the like.
I, SIMON HARTOOH, of 17 Bolkerstrasse, Dusseldorf, in the German Empire,
Merchant, 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 relates to a locking device for cycles and the like to prevent the
illicit removal of the same.
This invention consists essentially of a bolt which is passed through the members
of the fork, which hold the wheel and also through an eye in or on the rim.
A lock arranged in any convenient manner in connection with bolt serves to
prevent the unauthorised withdrawal of the bolt. As the bolt passes through the
two divided members of the fork and also through an eye on the rim of the wheel,
it is impossible to rotate the wheel and to ride away on the cycle.
In order that this invention may be tho better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings and to the latters
and figures marked thereon. Like letters refer to like parts in the various figures.
Figure 1 is a part sectional view, showing my invention attached to a cycle.
Figures 2 and
are detail views.
a b, Figure 1, are the prongs of the fork and o is the rim of the wheel. The
rim c is provided with an eye or lug d, Figures 1 and 2, and the prongs a 6 have
corresponding holes e.
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In order to lock the cycle the driving or driven wheel thereof which is provided
with the eye d is rotated so that the latter is in juxta-position to the holes e in the
prongs a b. The bolt is then passed through the prong b, lug d, and prong a and
secured in position, so as to prevent the unauthorised withdrawal thereof, by a
locking device, arranged to co-act with the bolt in any convenient manner.
The locking device may be conveniently arranged on one of the pronga, as shown
in the drawings, g, Figure 1. his the bolt of the lock and is operated in any
known manner by means of a key, so as to engage behind two projections of
the bolt f.
The bolt may be attached to the cycle by means of a chain to prevent its
being lost.
In order to avoid the weakening of the prongs by the holes e lugs may be
arranged on the prongs, see Figure 4, and the bolt passed therethrough. In this
case the lock g may bo arranged ou one of these lugs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
lat. A locking device for the wheels of cycles and tho like consisting of a bolt
passing through holes in the prongs a b, or through lugs thereon, and through a
hule or eyed on the rim of the wheel, and secured against unauthorised withdrawal
by means of a lock arranged on the cycle in any convenient manner, substantially
as described.

page_text: 2nd. In the locking device for cycles, and the like as claimed in Claim 1, the
arrangement of the device g, h, in or on ouc of the prongs of the fork to prevent
the unauthorised withdrawal of the bolt, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of February 1897.
FELL & JAMES,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.