Improvements in Cycle Dress Guard Fittings.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Dress Guard Fittings.
I, WILLIAM SHIRLEY, of Camden House, Foleshill Road, Coventry, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this my said invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in cycle dress guard fittings, and its object
primarily is to provide means whereby the said guard may be readily detached from
the machine without the usual trouble of unfastening of screwnuts or clips or the
like. This my invention is more particularly intended to be used in conjunction
with the invention for which I have applied for Letters Patent under No. 20597 dated
September 17th 1896, but which is also applicable to such dress guards with or
without a spring or compensating action.
It consists broadly of a plate, clip or other similar fitting secured either to the
axle or to or upon any suitable part of the frame or fixed attachment to the frame;
to which may be readily hooked or catched, the plate or fitting, which is directly
attached to the dress guard. Or in some cases the fitting upon the dress guard may
be made with a clip or hooklike termination, which shall hook or tightly bind upon,
or into, any suitable fixed part, such as the back stays, or the bottom fork stays, or
the adjustment ends. Such hooklike termination may be made springwise so as to
stretch for the purposes of attachment.
Dated this 18th day of December 1896.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Dress Guard Fittings.
I, WILLIAM SHIRLEY, of Camden House, Foleshill Road, Coventry, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, 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 improvements in cycle dress guard fittings, and its object
primarily is to provide means whereby the said guard may be readily detached from
the machine without the usual trouble of unfastening of screw nuts or clips or the
like. This my invention is more particularly intended to be used in conjunction
with the invention for which I have applied for Letters Patent under No. 20597 dated
September 17th 1896.
In order to more clearly explain this ny invention, I have appended hereunto

page_text: an illustrative sheet of drawings upon which are figures and numbers, similar
numbers referring throughout the several views to the same thing or part.
Fig. 1, is a view in elevation of this my invention.
Fig. 2, is a view showing the two parts detached.
Fig. 3, is a sectional side view on line A-B of the lower part of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4, is a view of a modification of the hook like or catch part, showing how
it may clip on to the stay or fork of the frame.
Fig. 5, shows a modification in the shape of the wire lacing portion.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2 & 3, it will be seen that 7 is a plate having the spring
boxes 8, in which are enclosed the springs 9. To these springs 9, is secured the
lacing bar 10, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, or as seen at 10 in Fig. 5, which latter shape
seems to answer best. 11, is a second plate which may be secured to the axle, or to
or upon any suitable part, of the frame, of the machine. Means are now provided
by which these two parts may be detachably hooked or secured to each other. This
may be effected in the manner illustrated, that is to say :-Upon the plate 11, is
provided a stud 12, upon which the plate 7 may be made to engage by means of the
slot hole 13 as seen in Fig. 1. The upper part of this slot is enlarged to permit of
the passage of the head of the stud 12, whilst its lower portion is narrowed to suit
the shank or neck of the said stud.
In Fig. 4, I have shown how the lower portion of the device may be modified in
shape as seen at 11, so that it may be springwise slipped over the D shape stay 14
of the frame, in which it will further be seen that any upward pull due to the
springs 9, will tend only to bind it thereon more tightly.
It will be apparent that the particular connecting means as illustrated by the stud
and slot, may be varied but that shown answers very well.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In cycle dress guard fittings the combination with the spring acting attachment for
the silk or other lacings &c. comprising a two part device such two parts being hooked
or catched together, all substantially as set forth and shown upon the drawings.
Dated this 16th day of September 1907
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12 Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.