New or Improved Cover or Casing for Cycles and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Cover or Casing for Cycles and the like.
I, Doctor ALEXANDER REYMANN, of 71, Tauentzienstrasse, Breslau, in the
German Empire, Dentist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a cover or casing for cycles and the like, which serves
not only as a protection for the cycle after it has been cleaned, and during its
transport by rail and so forth, but also as a covering for the cycle while it is being
ridden.
The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrates one method of carrying the
invention into effect.
Figure 1 shows the cover or case in position on a cycle when the latter is not
being ridden.
Figure 2 shows the same cover or case in position on a cycle when the latter is
in a condition to be ridden.
:
The cover is of a shape corresponding generally to that of the cycle. It is open
at the lower part throughout its entire length, and for about half its height at the
sides near the pedals, likewise at its upper front part from the button a to the
point b.
care buttons for closing up the lower parts. The buttons f serve for
fastening the flaps in the positions shown in Figure 2 when the cycle is to be
ridden with the cover in place on it. The edges of the cover are stiffened to the
shape of the road wheels, and the hinder part is held up to the saddle piece by a
cord z.
7 and m are pieces of steel or other suitable material intended to stiffen the
front part of the cover, and is a similar piece for stiffening the hinder part. The
pieces and m are either hinged together as at n in Figure 1, or are connected
together by a suitable socket arrangement such as that shown at n¹ in Figure 2
for example. The buttons a, a¹ and b₁ serve for connecting together the upper
parts of the cover. is a band for closing the lower opening when the cycle is
not in use. s are the covers or cases for the steering handles. These covers or
cases can be likewise connected by buttons. The buckler and strap r¹ are for
drawing up the cover and holding it in the drawn up position when the cycle is
being ridden, a complete closing up of the cover can be effected by another button
placed between a¹ and b¹.
When the cycle is to be covered up after use, or during its transport by train
or the like, the cover is placed over it, and closed at the bottom by means of the
buttons c and the band p, at the top by the buttons a a¹ and b¹, by the buckle r
and the button between a¹ and b¹. When the cycle is to be ridden with the cover
upon it, the band p is unfastened and the flaps h turned up and attached to the
buttons f, as shown in Figure 3; the pedals being thereby left free for action.
To facilitate folding the cover into a convenient shape and size for packing the
stiffening parts 1 and m can be easily disconnected.
The cover may also be so made that the parts lying over the front and hind
wheels and extending from the parts 1, 1 to the buttons c are not fastened together

page_text: permanently, but are left open and may be closed or fastened by buttons. Instead
of the flaps h separate pieces of suitable breadth may be inserted at the sides of the
cover either extending the whole length or a part thereof, such separate pieces
being fixed at the top by buttons or other suitable fastening devices. The parts
of the cover most exposed to friction from the wheels may be strengthened in any
suitable way. It is obvious that instead of the buttons, other suitable fastening
devices may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
First. A cover or casing for cycles and the like, provided with an opening at
the bottom extending the whole length of the cover cr casing, openings at the sides
extending to about half the height thereof and an opening at the top in front,
such openings being adapted to be closed and fastened by means of buttons c, a, a¹,
or other suitable fastening devices, and the flaps or corners of the side openings
to be either buttoned together as shown in Figure 1, or turned up sidewise and
buttoned in an open position as shown in Figure 2, substantially as described.
Second. In a cover or casing of the kind forming the subject matter of the
first claiming clause hereof, hanging the front part of the cover or casing by means
of a buckler and strap r to the steering bar, and over the front wheel by means of
pieces of steel or other suitable material and m connected together by a hinge n
or by means of a socket arrangement n¹ and hanging the hinder part of the cover
z, the
or casing over the hind wheel by means of a curved piece and a cord
latter being fastened to the saddle piece, substantially as described.
Third. In a cover or casing of the kind forming the subject matter of the first
claiming clause hereof, making the parts of the cover or casing over the wheels
extending from the curved pieces and to the lower buttons a separate from one
another, but adapted to be connected together by buttons or similar devices, sub-
stantially as described.
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