Improvements in Lamp Brackets for Velocipedes and other Vehicles
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct., 1897.
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 5th Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lamp Brackets for Velocipedes and other Vehicles
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I, EDWARD ARTHUR BAINES, of 28, North Street, Gainsborough, in the County
of Lincoln, Works Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-.
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This invention relates to an improved lamp bracket for carrying, lamps on
velocipedes and other vehicles which is capable of adjustment in any direction
will fit any size of velocipede fork and can be easily adjusted fixed or removed
by operating one screw.
The improved bracket consists of a Y-shaped body part made of two pieces
of sheet metal kept apart at the fork by suitable distance pieces. The bracket
part adapted to receive the lamp is made out of sheet metal either of single or
double thickness and has an eye adapted to fit over the end of the Y-shaped
body part and to bear against shoulders thereon. In the outer end of the eye
of the bracket part fits a flanged or shouldered washer having a central hole
through which the operating screw passes. In the Y-shaped body part is the
gripping part which consists of a V-shaped spring the upper ends of which are
bent over to form a gripping jaw. In the base of this. V-shaped spring is a
hole for the operating screw to pass through and engage with a shaped nut fitting
in or fixed to the base of the spring gripping jaw.
It will be seen that owing to the shape of the gripping and body parts the
jaw of the gripper will be contracted as it is drawn down into the body part and
vice versa, and that the whole of the parts are locked together and to the frame
of the velocipede or other vehicle by the action of one screw.
Improvements in Lamp Brackets for Velocipedes and other Vehicles.
I, EDWARD ARTHUR BAINES, of 28, North Street, Gainsborough, in the County
of Lincoln, Works Manager, 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 an improved bracket for carrying lamps on
velocipedes and other vehicles, which is capable of adjustment in any direction,

page_text: bracket for attachment to one of the members of the fork of the steering wheel
of a cycle:-
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation.
Figure 2 is a view in front elevation.
Figure 3 is a view in plan, and
Figure 4 is a view in sectional plan.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The improved bracket consists of a Y-shaped body part A which is conveniently
formed of a piece of sheet metal bent on itself and having its extremities kept
apart by two pins a a or other convenient distance pieces. The bracket part B
adapted to receive the lamp is also made out of sheet metal either of single or
double thickness and it has an eye b adapted to fit over the end of the Y-shaped
body part A and bear against shoulders a¹ thereon. In the outer end of the eye b
of the bracket part B fits a flanged or shouldered washer C having a central
hole c through which a locking screw I passes. In the Y-shaped body part A
lies the gripping part E which consists of a V-shaped spring piece the upper ends
of which are bent over to form a gripping jaw F. In the base of this spring
piece is a hole for the locking screw D to pass through to enable it to engage with
a shaped nut e fitting in or fixed to the base of the spring piece E.
It will be seen that owing to the shape of the spring piece E and of the body
part A the gripping jaw F will be constricted as it is drawn down into the
body part A, and vice versa, and that the whole of the parts are locked together
and to the frame of the velocipede or other vehicle by the action of the onc
screw D.
If the bracket is to be applied to the steering head of a cycle the jaw F would
be shaped accordingly, and the bracket part B would be arranged so that that
part adapted to receive the lamp would lie at right angles to the axis of the
eye part b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The combination of parts herein described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing forming an improved lamp bracket for velocipedes and other vehicles.
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ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.