Improvements in or relating to Cycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cycles.
I, ERNEST CHARLES MARIE CHENARD, of Asnières (Seine), in the Republic of
France, Engineer, do liereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to a simple and inexpensive device enabling a tricycle
or motor tricycle with one seat to be converted into a vehicle with two seats.
At present motor cycles with several seats are comparatively expensive and
however much they may be improved they will always be more expensive than
cycles with one seat; but as the latter can only carry one person, they do not
find favour with many people. The device according to the present invention
removes this drawback, and it is possible to easily and quickly convert a tricycle
or motor-tricycle ordinarily adapted for one person into a vehicle with two seats
retaining at the same time the advantages of the tricycle that is to say, starting
by means of pedals and steering by means of a handle-bar, which is simpler and
more exact than when two steering wheels are employed.
This device consists of two more or less horizontal longitudinal members
attached at their rear-ends to the cycle frame near the hubs of the driving wheels
or at any other suitable point. On these members are secured uprights supporting
a seat placed over the front steering wheel. The device thus constituted is suitably
connected to the front head of the frame, in which is arranged the steering tube.
One person can therefore conveniently sit on the supplementary seat, the other
one being on the ordinary seat and holding the handle-bar in the usual manner.
The seat under which the steering wheel can freely rotate and move may be
provided with a back and the longitudinal members or extensions thereof may
serve as, or be provided with foot-rests for the person on the seat.
The seat may be replaced by a suitable device for receiving the luggage ete of the
rider.
Dated this 29th day of June 19.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant:
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a simple and inexpensive device enabling an ordinary
tricycle or a motor tricycle with one seat to be converted into a vehicle with two
seats.
At present motor cycles with several seats are comparatively expensive and
however much they may be improved they will always be more expensive than
cyoles with one seat; but as the latter can only carry one person, they do not
find favour with many people. The device according to the present invention
removes this drawback, and it is possible to easily and quickly convert a tricycle
or motor-tricycle ordinarily adapted for one person into a vehicle with two seats
rotaining at the same time the advantages of the tricycle that is to say,, starting
by means of pedals and steering by means of a handle-bar which is simpler aud
more exact than when two steering wheels are employed.
In the accompanying drawings
Figuro 1 is a side elevation,
Figure 2 is a front view, and
Figure 3 a plan, showing a motor tricycle fitted according to this invention
with a device for converting it into a vehicle with two seats.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of a modification.
The tricycle has the usual frame members A A' A2 A3 A4 A5 A6, on which the
device aforesaid is carried. In the example illustrated the removable frame com-
prises two longitudinal members B engaging by means of jaws at their rear
ends, or otherwise, with the cycle frame or rear-axle tube near the hubs of the
driving wheels C or at some other points which will give them stable support. Ou
the members B are secured uprights B supporting a seat Ba placed over the front
steering wheel D. The device thus constituted is connected as at B3 (Figure 1) to
the steering head tube, in which is arranged the steering tube.
One person can therefore conveniently sit on the supplementary seat B2, the
other rider being on the ordinary seat and holding and operating the handle-bar
in the usual manner.
The scat B under which the steering wheel can freely rotate and turn laterally,
may be provided with a back B4, and the longitudinal members B or extensions
thereof may serve as or be provided with foot rests or with a platform B5 for the
feet of the front rider. The seat 132 or the foot platform or both may be replaced
by a suitable device to serve as a luggage carrier.
It is to be understood that if desired the front scat 133 may be made sufficiently
broad to accommodate two people.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. In a tricycle a removable extra seat or luggage carrier provided with longi-
tudinal extensions such as B and adapted for connection at B3 and at the rear
ends of the members B to the machine frame.
2. The combination with a tricycle or motor-tricycle of the removable scat
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated in
Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this. 20th day of Anvil 1808
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.