Improvements in Supports for Bicycles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supports for Bicycles.
I, FREDERICK GARBENETTA TAYLOR, of Cranston Street, Cranston, in the
County of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, United States of America,
Engraver, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN SUPPORTS FOR BICYCLES," and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
Specification:-
This invention has reference to improvements in supports for bicycles and in
means for securing the same thereto.
The object of this invention is to provide a new and useful device, for
supporting bicycles in an upright position, which can be detachably secured to a
bicycle-frame, or to the axle of the rear wheel, and can be conveniently carried
on the bicycle in a position which will not interfere with the movements of the
rider. To attain these ends my invention consists in certain novel features of
construction and peculiar combination of parts which will hereinafter be more
fully described and pointed out in the claims.
Figure 1 is a side view of a supporting-rod secured in the pivoting device, the
edge of the connecting-link being shown.
Figure 2 represents a portion of a bicycle with the supporting device secured
thereto and in a position to support the bicycle.
Figure 3 is a front view of the link, the pivoting device secured thereto being
shown in section and the supporting-rod being adjustable in its length by sliding
in a tube in which it is secured by a thumb-screw.
Figure 4 is a view of the pivotal connection in which a stop-pin is secured to the
pivot.
Similar numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.
In the drawings 5 indicates a flat metal-link made of suitable size so that the
end of the axle 6 of the bicycle may pass through the same and which may be
secured thereto by the nut 7 screwed on to the axle 6 over the link 5.
To the lower end of the link 5 is secured the perforated sliding-bracket 8 which
is provided with a screw-threaded arm which extends through the link 5 on which
the bracket 8 is secured by the nut 9 screwed on to said screw-threaded arm; this
bracket 8 has a tapering perforation, extending transversely through it, to receive
the tapering pivot 10 which passes part way through said perforation and is
secured therein by the headed-bolt 11 which is adapted to take up any wear of
the pivot and to adjust the fit of the same in the perforation.
The outer end of the pivot 10 is enlarged to form a knob 12 which is provided
with a perforation, transverse to the direction of the pivot 10, through which
the supporting-rod 13, having the head 14, is free to move, but which may be
secured at any point in its length by the thumb-screw 15 working in a threaded
perforation in the knob 12 and binding the supporting-rod 13 against the side of
the perforation in the knob 12.
It is obvious that, without departing from the spirit of my invention, the rod 13
may be screwed into the perforation or into a corresponding socket in the knob 12,
as is shown in Figure 3, and that the adjustment in the length of this supporting-
rod may be accomplished by the use of the tube 16 into which the rod 13 may
slide and in which it may be secured by the thumb-screw 17 carried in the
collar 18 secured to the tube 16, the perforation in this collar being of a cross-
section similar to that of the rod 13, which may be flattened on one side or be of
any suitable shape.

page_text: When the tube 16 is used in connection with my support, I prefer to secure the
threaded-spur 19 to the lower end thereof and to screw the knob 20 on to such
spur; this device may, however. be used when the tube 16 is omitted, the end of
the rod being fashioned into a threaded-spur and the knob 20 screwed thereon, or
the step 21 may be used, whether formed on to the end of the rod or made from a
separate piece and screwed into the tube 16.
Instead of the nut 9 screwing on to an arm with which the bracket 8 is
provided, I sometimes prefer to use a short headed-bolt which passes through the
link 5 and engages with a threaded-socket with which the bracket 8 is provided,
thus securing the bracket 8 to the link 5. The rotation of the pivot 10, in the
perforation of the bracket 8, is regulated by the stop-pin 22 and the shoulders 23,
and I sometimes employ a spring coiled around the pivot 10, one end secured to
the rod 13 and the other end attached to the bracket 8 or to the link 5, this spring
operating to lift the lower end of the rod 13.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
Claim 1. In a bicycle-support, the combination with a pivotally-supported rod,
of a link adjustably secured to the pivotal support and adapted to be secured to
the axle of a bicycle, as described.
2. In a bicycle-support, the combination with the link having the perforated
bracket 8 adjustably secured thereto, of the knob 12 provided with the tapering
pivot 10 and bolt 11, a central perforation adapted to receive the supporting-rod 13
having the head 14, and a thumb-screw 15 adapted to secure the rod 13 at any
point in its length, as and for the purpose described.
3. In a bicycle-support, the combination with a spring-operated pivotal-support
secured to an attaching link, of an extensible rod rigidly secured in the pivotal
support.
4. In a bicycle-support, the combination with a pivotal support adjustably
secured to the link 5, of the rod 13 secured in such pivotal support and sliding in
the tube 16 provided at the lower end with the spur 19 and knob 20 and at the
upper end with the collar 18 and thumb-screw 17, adapted to secure the rod at
any point of its length, as described.
Dated this 16th day of June A.D. 1891.
Signed in presence of :-
HENRY J. MILLER.
FREDERICK GARBENETTA TAYLOR.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.