A New or Improved Steering Lock for Safety Bicycles and other Front Steering Velocipedes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th May, 1895-Accepted, 22nd June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Steering Lock for Safety Bicycles and other
Front Steering Velocipedes.
I, ROBERT WALKER SMITH, of The Eadie Manufacturing Company, Limited,
of Hunt End, Redditch, Worcestershire, Cycle Manufacturer's Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the hercindescribed new or improved steering lock
which is more particularly designed for use on safety bicycles to lock the steering
pillar and steering wheel in a line with or at any desired angle to the other wheel so
that when thus locked the safety bicycle can readily be supported leaning against
a wall or other support.
My invention can also be similarly applied to other front steering velocipedes.
I will describe my invention as applied to a safety bicycle.
In carrying out my invention I provide a light spring steel or other metal
gripping band which encircles the collar part of the usual clip which is fixed on
the steering pillar which latter turns in the steering post the said steering pillar
having as usual the wheel fork at its lower end carrying the steering wheel axle
and steering wheel. One end of the said gripping band is fixed to or engages with
a boss formed on the top lug of the steering post and the other end of the said
gripping band passes transversely through an eye which may form a portion of this
boss this end of the gripping band being screw threaded and being provided with a
milled nut or other nut which bears against the said eye and by which the gripping
band can either be tightened up so as to grip the said collar part of the steering
pillar and thus lock the steering pillar to the steering post in any desired position,
or by turning the said nut in the opposite direction the gripping band can be
loosened so as to allow of the steering pillar turning freely in the steering post
when the machine is being ridden. There is or may be a groove turned in the
collar of the steering pillar in which groove the gripping band engages and is
thereby prevented from getting out of place on the collar.
Instead of my invention being applied to the top lug of the steering post
to grip the upper collar of the steering pillar, my invention may be similarly
applied to the bottom lug of the steering post to grip the lower collar of the steering
pillar.
The said gripping band can conveniently be made from a piece of round steel or
other metal wire which is filed or otherwise formed into a half round section where
it passes round the said collar, and in order to secure the end of the gripping band
to the said boss this end of the gripping band may be headed and the gripping
band threaded through a hole in the said boss or otherwise fixed thereto.
said gripping band may be made in any other convenient way.
Or the
In a modification of my invention instead of the gripping band being carried by
a boss on the top lug or on the bottom lug to surround and grip the collar on the
steering pillar, this arrangement may be reversed, that is to say, the gripping band
may be carried by a boss formed with the top clip or other part of the steering
pillar and arranged to surround and grip the collar of the top lug or bottom lug
of the steering post in which collar there will then be turned a groove in which
the said gripping band fits.
Dated this 2nd day of August 1894
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: A New or Improved Steering Lock for Safety Bicycles and other
Front Steering Velocipedes.
I, ROBERT WALKER SMITH, of The Eadie Manufacturing Company, Limited,
of Hunt End, Redditch, Worcestershire, Cycle Manufacturer's 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 consists of the hereindescribed new or improved steering lock
which is more particularly designed for use on safety bicycles to lock the steering
pillar and steering wheel in a line with or at any desired angle to the other wheel
so that when thus locked the safety bicycle can readily be supported leaning
against a wall or other support.
My invention can also be similarly applied to other front steering velocipedes.
I will describe my invention as applied to a safety bicycle and refer to the
accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 shews the front fork and the steering post and steering pillar of a safety
bicycle with my invention applied;
Fig. 2 shews the upper part of the same on an enlarged scale;
Fig. 3 is a plan of the same;
Fig. is an elevation of the lower part of the steering pillar clip;
Fig. shews the spring part of my improved steering lock separately;
Fig. 6 shews a slightly different method of applying my said invention; and
Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate a further modification of my invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figs. of the drawing.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5 both inclusive, in carrying
out my invention I provide a light spring steel or other metal gripping band A
which encircles the collar part el of the usual clip E which is fixed on the steering
pillar F which latter turns in the steering post C the steering pillar F having as
usual the wheel fork at its lower end carrying the steering wheel axle and
steering wheel which latter are not shewn on my drawing. The end of the
gripping band A is fixed to or engages with a boss formed on the top lug B of
the steering post C and the other end a² of the gripping band A passes transversely
through an eye which may and by preference does form a portion of the boss ;
this end a of the gripping band A is screw threaded and provided with a milled or
other nut G which bears against the eye 2 and by turning which the gripping
band A can either be tightened up so as to grip the collar part e' of the clip E of
the steering pillar and thus lock the steering pillar F to the steering post C
in any described position, or by turning the nut G in the opposite direction
the gripping band A can be loosened so as to allow of the steering pillar
turning freely in the steering post when the machine is being ridden. There is or
may be a groove e turned in the collar of the steering pillar clip E (see Fig. 4)
in which groove the gripping band A engages and is thereby prevented from
getting out of place on the collar.
The gripping band A can conveniently be made from a piece of round steel or
other metal wire which as shewn in Figs. 3 and 5 is filed or otherwise formed into
a half round section where it passes round the collar e¹ and in order to secure the
end a of the gripping band to the boss 6 this end a' may be headed as shewn and
the gripping band threaded through the hole in the boss b¹ or be otherwise fixed
thereto. Or the gripping band A may be made in any other convenient way.
Instead of the gripping band A being carried by the boss ou the top lug B to
surround and grip the collar e' on the steering pillar clip E as above described and

page_text: shewn by Figs. 1 2 and 3, this arrangement may be reversed, that is to say, the
gripping band A may as shewn in Fig. 6 be similarly carried by a boss e³ formed
with the top clip E or other part of the steering pillar F and arranged to surround
and grip the collar of the top lug B of the steering post C in which collar there
will then be turned a groove in which the said gripping band A. fits.
Instead of the gripping band A being applied to the top lug of the steering post
and the collar e' of the clip of the steering pillar as above described and illustrated
by my drawings it will be evident that without departing from the nature of my
invention I may similarly apply the said gripping band to the bottom lug H and
lower collar of the steering pillar.
Instead of screwing the end a² of the gripping band A and providing the same
with a nut for tightening or loosening the same as above described with reference to
Figs. 1 to 6 both inclusive, I may provide the gripping band A with other equivalent
means for these purposes such for instance as shewn in Figs. 7 and 8 where the
end of the gripping band A which projects through the ear 62 is provided with a
lever cam I jointed thereto by the pin J, the part of the lever cam which bears
on the face of the ear 2 is made eccentric so that when the lever is turned in one
direction the cam will tighten up the gripping band and when the lever is turned
in the opposite direction the gripping band will be free and allow the steering
pillar to turn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what
i claim is :-
1. The combination with the steering pillar and fixed steering post of a safety
bicycle or other front steering velocipede, of a gripping band which encircles the
collar on the steering pillar and at one end is fixed to the top lug or to the bottom
lug of the steering post, the other end of the said gripping band passing through
an ear on said lug and provided with means whereby the gripping band can be
tightened around the said collar or released therefrom, for the purpose and
substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. The combination with the steering pillar and fixed steering post of a safety
bicycle or other front steering velocipede, of a gripping band which encircles the
collar part of the top lug or of the bottom lug of the fixed steering post and at one
end is fixed to a boss formed with the collar on the steering pillar, the other end
of the said gripping band passing through an ear on the said boss and provided
with means whereby the gripping hand can be tightened around the said collar
part of the lug or released therefrom, for the purpose and substantially as set
torth.
3. The combination with the steering pillar and fixed steering post of a safety
bicycle or other front steering velocipede, of the gripping band A and nut G
applied thereto in any of the several ways substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
4. As a means for locking the steering pillar in the steering post of a safety
bicycle or other front steering velocipede, the gripping band A provided with
nut G the said gripping band A being constructed substantially as hereinbefore
described and shewn by Fig. 5 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 4th day of April 1895.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.