Improvements in Bloyole Supports.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897
Improvements in Bloyole Supports.
A communication by GEORGE E. BIERBACH, Carriage Manufacturer, of
Milwaukee, in the County of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, and
JOHN KELLY, Tailor, of 527, Murray Avenue, Milwaukee, aforesaid,
United States of America.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 :-
The invention relates to improvements in bicycle supports.
The object of the invention is, 1st. To provide a neat and durable form of stand
which will hold a bicycle rigidly, and which can be constructed with very little
expense. 2nd. To provide a form of stand adapted to hold a bicycle in either
an upright or inverted position, and either suspended or supported from the
floor.
In the following description, reference is had to the necompanying drawings, in
which―
Figure 1 is a side elevation, showing a portion of the bicycle frame as it is
held therein.
Figure 2 is a top view of the curved holding arm.
Figure 3 is a side view of the holding arm, with the holding plates removed to
show the stop luga.
Figure 4 is a side view of the invention, showing the supporting bar suspended
from the ceiling.
Figure 5 is a top view of the inclined or bent portion of the form of bar shown
in Figure 4.
Like parts are identified by the same reference letters throughout the several
views.
In Figure 1, the curved or sickle shaped malleable arm or bar A is supported
from a cast tripod base B, by a standard C, the latter being preferably formed
of gas pipe. The end of the arm A is inserted in or over the top of the pipe C,
and held thereto by a thumb screw D. EE are V shaped holding plates
pivotally supported by bolts on one side of the upper portion A¹ of the
arm A, and adapted to engage the diverging frame rod of a bicycle, and permit
the latter to wedge itself firmly between them. G G are lugs or stops adapted to
prevent the holding plates from swinging out of position to engage the frame rods.
His a wheel holding fork, regulated by a thumb screw h.
It is obvious that the holding plates may be reversed in position in this form of
stand, so as to take the bicycle in the same manner as is shown in the hanging
bar of Figure 4.
la Figure 4 is shown an equivalent form of support consisting in a hanger
bar C¹ provided with a flat plate B' at its upper end, the latter having bolt or
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page_text: screw holes for attaching the bar at any suitable point in the ceiling or roof..
is a strengthening rib on the rear side of the bar.
The lower end a of the bar is bent or inclined, and provided with raised bosses a¹
having bolt holes there-through for the attachment of the V-shaped holding
plates EE". Each of the holding plates is provided with a tubular thimble
bearing F¹, preferably of a conical form on its exterior surface, and with the base
The holding
of the cone conforming to the circular periphery of the bosses a¹.
plates are pivotally secured to the bar by bolts H' passing through the thimbles Fi
and the holes in the bosses a¹.
I is a spiral spring secured at each end in eyes J projecting from the thimbles Fl
for that purpose, and so arranged as to hold the plates in a position to engage the
inner sides of the rods of the bicycle frame, which diverge from the orauk bearings,
the bicycle being inverted as shown in Figure 4. The spiral coil of the spring is
located near the lower holding plate Et, so that it will not be in the way of a double
frame rod.
A third holding plate e is supported pivotally upon the bar B' at a point above
the plate E, and is beld substantially in a position for engaging the frame rod by
a lug K which projects outwardly from the bosses a' into a recess L in the base of
the thimble bearing F'. This recess is sufficiently large to permit of the adjust-
ment of the plate e upon its pivot, it being desired to use the plate only for
facilitating the hanging of ladies' wheels, or wheels of unusual or autiquated styles,
the rods of which do not form an angle adapted to fit between the plates E
and E".
The suspended form of the support is generally used in baggage and
freight cars.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A bicycle support, consisting in the curved arm located upon a suitable
supporting bar, and baving on one side thereof two pivotally attached holding
plates adapted to engage the frame rods of a bicycle, and permit the latter to
become wedged in between them, substantially as described.
2. A bicycle support, consisting in the combination with a suitable supporting
bar, of the sickle shaped arm attached at one end to the bar, and provided with
pivotally attached V shaped holding plates adapted to engage the frame rods of a
bicycle, and permit the latter to become wedged in between them, together with
lugs or stops formed on the side of the arm and adapted to prevent said holding
plates from swinging out of a position to engage the frame rods, substantially, as
described.
3. A bicycle support, consisting in the combination of a suitable supporting bar,
of the arm attached to the bar, and provided with pivotally attached reversible
holding plates, and a lug or stop attached to said arm, and adapted to hold said
plates in a position for engaging the frame rods in either an upright or reversed
position, substantially as described.
4. A bicycle support, consisting in the combination of a supporting bar, two
or more holding plates pivotally supported upon the bar, and adapted to engage
the diverging frame rods of a bicycle, and a spring connected with each of said
holding plates and adapted to retain them in position for engagement with said
roda, substantially as described.
5. A bicycle support, consisting in the combination of a supporting bar, two or
more holding plates pivotally supported upon the bar, a spring connecting said
holding plates, and arranged to hold the plates in a position for engaging the
diverging frame rods of a bicycle, the coils of said spring being located near one of
said holding plates, substantially as described.
6. A bicycle support, consisting in the combination of a hanger bar provided
with an angularly bent portion, with the pivotally supported holding plates located

page_text: upon said bar, and arranged to engage in the angle of the frame rods diverging
from the crank bearings of a bicycle, when the latter is in an inverted position,.
substantially as described.
7. A bicycle support, consisting in the combination of a hanger bar, provided
with an angularly bent portion, a pair of pivotally supported holding plates, and
a spring connecting the same and adapted to hold them in a position for engaging
the bicycle frame rods, together with a third holding plate for engaging frame rods.
having unusual angles, substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.