Improvements in Means or Stands for Holding Cycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL
Improvements in Means or Stands for Holding Cycles.
I, ROBERT HACKING, of 44 Crocus Street, in the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham, Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to means or stands for holding cycles in railway vans, halls,
shops, and other places, and designed to fold up so as to occupy the smallest possible
space when not in use.
According to one arrangement, the stand comprises an arm, either solid or tubular,
having a coiled or other spring at one end, and a curved portion or hook at the
other. The spring is secured to the wall, or to a wall plate, by screws, or otherwise,
and causes the arm to normally lie flat against the wall, or wall plate. At a suitable
distance from the spring, a short stay rod or bar is hinged or pivotted on the arm,
and is of such length that when its free end is engaged in one of a series of teeth
or notches in the wall, or wall plate, the hooked arm may be fixed at a right angle,
or at any desired angle, to the wall, whilst it will be returned to its position flat
against the wall by the action of its spring on disengaging the stay from the teeth or
notches.
When the stand is to be used for holding a cycle, the latter is wheeled near to it
and the book or curved end of the spring arm caused to press upon the handle bar, or
some part of the cycle frame, said arm being adjusted in position by placing the
pivotted stay rod in a notch on the wall, or wall plate. The arm may be telescopic,
and provided with two or more hooks, so as to be capable of holding cycles at different
distances from the wall.
For exhibiting cycles in shops, and for similar purposes, I arrange several arms, as
above described, upon an upright pillar or tubular stand, said arms being carried
upon collars or short tubes sliding on the upright pillar or tube, and capable of being
adjusted to any desired position, and fixed by means of set screws, or the like.
In some cases, I may form a stand of two or more arins having springs which tend
to hold them upright or at right angles to the floor, or flat upon the floor, these arms
being arranged at such a distance apart that, when pressed downward against the action
of their springs, they form a cross. The cycle is run over this cross, and the arms on
being released hold it firmly in position. In this and similar arrangements the
the stay rod or bar can be dispensed with.

page_text: Improvements in means of Standing by
I, ROBERT HACKING, of 44 Crocus Street, in the City of Nottingham, Joiner, 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and
figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My invention relates to means or stands for holding cycles in railway vans, halls,
shops, and other places, and designed to fold up so as to occupy the smallest possible
space when not in use.
According to one arrangement, the stand comprises an arm, either solid or tubular,
having a coiled or other spring at one end, and a curved portion or hook at the other
end. The spring is secured to the wall, or to a wall plate, by screws, or otherwise, and
causes the arm to normally lie flat against the wall, or wall plate. At a suitable
distance from the spring, a short stay rod or bar is hinged or pivotted on the arm,
and is of such a length that when its free end is engaged in one of a series of teeth
or notches in the wall, or wall plate, the hooked arm may be fixed at a right angle, or
at any other desired angle to the wall, whilst it will be returned to its position, flat
against the wall, by the action of its spring, on disengaging the stay from the teeth
or notches.
And in order that my invention may be readily understood I will describe the same
fully with reference to the annexed drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 is a front and Fig. 2 a side elevation of a device or support constructed
according to my Invention.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same with the arm adjusted at right angles to the
wall plate.
Fig. 4 shows a modified arrangement for use in shops, exhibitions, halls, and like
places.
Figs. 5 and 6 show modifications for a similar purpose.
a is the arm, which may be either solid, tubular, or telescopic, having a spring b
carried between end disc c attached to one end of said arm, and a hook d formed at
the other end. The end discs c are part of, or are attached to, a plate e screwed to
the wall plate f. At about the middle of the arm a, is a joint or hinge g carrying a
stay or struth adapted to engage in notches or grooves in the wall plate f, to
maintain the arm in any desired position, as for instance at a right angle to the wall,
as shewn in Fig. 3, and thus enable the hook d to engage with a suitable part of the
cycle, or cycle frame, and so retain the cycle in an upright position.
The hook may be arranged as shewn in full lines, Figs. 1 to 3, to press upon the
handle bar, or other suitable part of the frame of the cycle which it is intended to
hold, or it may be reversed, as shewn in dotted lines, Figs. 2 and 3, so as to support
the cycle. When the device is to be used, the cycle is run close up to it and the
hook is then lifted and placed, say over the handle bar or some other part or under
the same, and so hold the cycle upright.
In Fig. 4, which shews a modified arrangement for use in shops and like places,
the stand is a portable one, and comprises several arms a which are adjustably secured
to an upright rod j by means of sleeves k fixed in position by set screws 1, or other
suitable means. In this arrangement, the arm shewn is formed of a wire bent into
two helical springs b¹, b at the base and terminating in a duplex hook d¹ at the
free end, and said arm is adapted to exert a downward pressure on any suitable
part of the cycle frame and so hold the cycle in an upright position. One or more
stays may be used and may be arranged above or below the arm.

page_text: Fig. 5 shews a further modification or alternative arrangement, in which the
stay his dispensed with, and the stand consists of two separate arms a', a¹, having
springs 62, 62, attached to the floor by screws, or otherwise. The arms a¹ are
pressed down against the action of their springs until they cross, and on a cycle
being then run over them they are caused to grip the frame x of such cycle in the
manner represented in the drawings.
Fig. 6 shows a modification in which a pad of india rubber, cork, or like material i¹,
is used in place of the notches or teeth to receive the end of the stay or strut h.
The hook d can be made to exert any desired amount of downward pressure on the
cycle frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same may be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The improved means or device for holding cycles in railway vans, halls, shops,
and the like, substantially as described and shewn with reference to Figs. 1, 2 & 3
of the drawings, or modified as described and shewn with reference to Fig. 4, or still
further modified as described and shewn with reference to Figs. 5 and 6 of the
drawings.
Dated this 20th day of July 1897.
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 5A Market Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.