A New or Improved Luggage-carrier for Bicycles, Tricycles, and other Velocipedes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 28th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Luggage-carrier for Bicycles, Tricycles, and
other Velocipedes.
We WALTER JOHN LLOYD and WILLIAM PRIEST trading as The Quadrant Tricycle
Company of Sheepcote Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Velocipede
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object to effect the carrying of articles on bicycles tricycles
and other velocipedes while protecting them in a great measure from the tremulous
motion of the vehicle and consists of a carrier to be attached to bicycles tricycles and
other velocipedes constructed in the manner hereinafter described. Our invention is
especially applicable to the carrying of camera obscuras and other articles which it
is desirable to protect from the tremulous motion of the vehicle yet our said invention
may also be used for carrying ordinary luggage.
We will describe our invention in connection with a tricycle.
To the seat pillar or saddle support of the tricycle we connect a horizontal bar
capable of adjustment to a higher or lower level on the said pillar or support. This
horizontal bar extends backwards beyond the axis of the main wheels and carries at
its end a vertical rod. Connected with this vertical rod is a second vertical parallel
rod jointed to the first named vertical rod by jointed links at top and bottom. The
said second vertical rod can rise and fall vertically by means of the jointed links the
two rods being preserved parallel by the said links. The second or movable 'vertical
rod terminates at bottom in a horizontal bar carrying cross arms or supports to which
a camera obscura or other article can be attached by straps or otherwise. A vertical
helical or coiled spring situated between the fixed and movable vertical rods is
connected at bottom to the lower part of the movable rod and at top to a pin inserted
in one or other of a series of holes made in a flat bar surmounting the fixed vertical
rod. By fixing the pin connected with the top of the coiled spring in one of the
higher holes the spring may be put into a state of greater tension and by fixing the
said pin in one of the lower holes the spring may be put into a state of less tension.
By adjusting the tension of the spring to the weight of the camera obscura or other
article to be carried the weight may be so balanced that the movable vertical rod by
which the weight is borne is approximately in its middle position the links connecting
it with the fixed rod being approximately horizontal. In the travelling of the tricycle
the tremulous motion communicated to the tricycle by the inequalities of the road, is
taken up and neutralised by the elasticity of the spring and the movable rod carrying
the camera obscura or other article is unaffected or but slightly affected by the
tremulous motion of the tricycle.
We do not limit ourselves to any particular method of attaching the carrier to the
bicycle tricycle or other velocipede.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Luggage-carrier for Bicycles, Tricycles, and
other Velocipedes.
We WALTER JOHN LLOYD and WILLIAM PRIEST trading as The Quadrant Tricycle
Company of Sheepcote Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Velocipede
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
Our invention has for its object to effect the carrying of articles on bicycles tricycles

page_text: and other velocipedes while protecting them in a great measure from the tremulous
motion of the vehicle and consists of a carrier to be attached to bicycles tricycles and
other velocipedes constructed in the manner hereinafter described. Our invention is
especially applicable to the carrying of camera' obscuras and other articles which it is
desirable to protect from the tremulous motion of the vehicle yet our said invention
may also be used for carrying ordinary luggage.
We will describe our invention in connection with a tricycle.
To the seat pillar or saddle support of the tricycle we connect a horizontal bar
capable of adjustment to a higher or lower level on the said pillar or support. This
horizontal bar extends backwards beyond the axis of the main wheels and carries at
its end a vertical rod. Connected with this vertical rod is a second vertical parallel rod
jointed to the first named vertical rod by jointed links at top and bottom.. The said
second vertical rod can rise and fall vertically by means of the jointed links, the two
rods being preserved parallel by the said links. The second or movable vertical
rod terminates at bottom in a horizontal bar carrying cross arms or supports to which
a camera obscura or other article can be attached by straps or otherwise. A vertical
helical or coiled spring situated between the fixed and movable vertical rods is
connected at bottom to the lower part of the movable rod and at top to a pin inserted
in one or other of a series of holes made in a flat bar surmounting the fixed vertical
rod. By fixing the pin connected with the top of the coiled spring in one of the
higher holes the spring may be put into a state of greater tension and by fixing the
said pin in one of the lower holes the spring may be put into a state of less tension.
Instead of adjusting the tension of the spring at top in the manner described it may
be adjusted at bottom by a screw and screw nut. By adjusting the tension of the
spring to the weight of the camera obscura or other article to be carried. the weight
may be so balanced that the movable vertical rod by which the weight is borne is
approximately in its middle position the links connecting it with the fixed rod being
approximately horizontal. In the travelling of the tricycle the tremulous motion
communicated to the tricycle by the inequalities of the road is taken up and neutral-
ised by the elasticity of the spring and the movable rod carrying the camera obscura
or other articles is unaffected or but slightly affected by the tremulous motion of the
tricycle.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which our invention is to be performed. Figure 1 represents in side
elevation a tricycle to which a luggage carrier constructed according to our invention
is applied; Figure 2 represents in side elevation and Figure 3 in end elevation the
luggage carrier drawn to a larger scale detached from the tricycle. In the said
Figures 1, 2 and 3 the tension of the supporting spring is adjusted at bottom.
Figure 4 represents a side elevation of the luggage carrier in which the tension of
the supporting spring is adjusted at top.
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The luggage carrier represented is specially fitted for carrying a camera obscura.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings.
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a is a horizontal bar fitted on and carried by the vertical seat post b (Figure 1) of
the tricycle. The said horizontal bar a has an oye ć on its end' which is fitted on the
seat post so that it can be adjusted bigher or lower on the said seat post and fixed by
the set screw d passing through the said eye c. The horizontal bar a extends beyond
the axis of the main wheels of the tricycle as seen in Figure 1 and carries at its end
the vertical rod e; is a second vertical rod parallel to the rode the said second.rod/
being connected
to the top and bottom of the rod e by, the jointed links g g and h, h.
By means of the jointed links gg and hh the vertical rod f can rise and fall vertically
its parallelisin with the fixed rode being preserved by the said links as indicated by
the lowered dotted line position of the carrier in Figure 2. The bottom of the second'
or movable rod teriinates in the horizontal bar i carrying the cross. pieces' or
arinsk kon which the camera (or other article) is supported. Each cross arm. k
has loops on its underside by means of which the camera may be strapped in its
place. The said second or movable rod has also a cross' armi pfixed to it against

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which the side of the camera may rest and to which cross arm it may be strapped
by means of loops q similar to the loops on the bottom crossing arms kk: ris a
vertical helical or coiled spring situated between the two rods e and f. By means of
the said spring r the movable part of the luggage carrier and the article upon it are
supported. The spring is secured at its top by the pin t to the top of the fixed bar e
and the lower end of the spring is hooked to the hooked end n³ of the adjustable
screw passing through the bracket or arm 2 on the bottom of the second
or movable bar. On the said screw n and bearing against the underside of
the bracket or arm u an internally screwed disc or screw nut m, milled on its
edge, works for putting the spring into the required state of tension for supporting
the luggage carrier and the luggage carried by it. By adjusting the tension of the
spring to the weight of the camera or the article carried the weight may be so
balanced that the movable vertical rod is approximately in its middle position as
indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2, the links gg and hh connecting it with the fixed
rod e being nearly horizontal. Instead of adjusting the spring at the bottom of
the luggage carrier as represented in Figures 1, 2 and 3, the adjusting parts may be
inverted that is, the spring may be secured to the bottom of the rod f and the
screw pass through a bracket at the top of the fixed rod e. Or the arrangement repre-
sented in Figure 4 for adjusting the tension of the coiled spring may be employed.
In this arrangement the bottom of the long spring r is fixed to the bracket u on the
bottom of the movable rod fand the top of the spring is looped to the pin which is
engaged in one of a series of holes y, y made in a flat bar e surmounting the fixed
vertical rod e.
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By fixing the pin in one of the higher holes y of the bar e the tension of the
Spring may be increased to the desired degree according to the weight on the carrier
to be balanced as before described. But we do not limit ourselves to any particular
arrangement for putting the desired tension on the supporting spring of the carrier
nor do we limit ourselves to the use of coiled springs as india rubber springs made of
strong cylindrical pieces or cords, hollow or solid, may be employed.
It will be understood that on the travelling of the tricycle the tremulous motion
communicated to it by the inequalities of the road is taken up and neutralized by the
supporting spring and the movable rod carrying the camera or other article is not
affected or but slightly affected by the tremulous motion of the tricycle.
In attaching the luggage carrier to a safety bicycle it is preferred to so arrange
it with respect to the rod a that when connected to the seat post it is situated above
the driving wheel of the bicycle but we do not limit ourselves to any particular
method of attaching the luggage carrier to the bicycle tricycle or other velocipede.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
on and the manner in which the same is to be performed we wish it to be under-
stood that we claim as our invention :-
The new or improved luggage carrier for bicycles tricycles and other velocipedes
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings; that is to say,
luggage carrier consisting essentially of two parallel rods one fixed and the other
movable, the latter carrying the luggage and being supported and balanced by an
djustable coiled or other spring or springs, the movable rod of the carrier being
ointed by links to the top and bottom of the other or fixed rod so that it can rise
nd fall and its parallelism with the fixed rod be preserved, the several parts of the
uggage carrier being arranged and combined substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the 26th day of November 1889.
WALTER JOHN LLOYD.
WILLIAM PRIEST.