An Improved Device or Rack for Holding Cycles during Transport in Railway Vans, or under other Circumstances.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 14th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 21st Jan.,
1899
An Improved Device or Rack for Holding Cycles during Transport in
Railway Vans, or under other Circumstances.
I, EDWIN HAMBROOK, of Arpinge, Newington, Hythe, in the County of Kent,
Yeoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows;-
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This invention relates to an improved device or rack for holding cycles during
transport in railway vans, or under other circumstances, and has for object to
provide means for supporting cycles in the ordinary upright or other position, in
railway vans, cycle sheds or the like places, whereby such cycles will occupy a
minimum amount of room, be easily secured and as readily removed, whilst at the
same time the liability to receive damage will be greatly minimised.
In carrying my invention into practice, I provide upon the floor of the railway
van, for instance any suitable number of guides, which may conveniently be
formed by raised parallel fillets of wood or metal placed at suitable intervals apart.
Situated at, or near the terminations of each of these guides, is a support, com-
prised by two parallel legs approaching each other at right angles at the top and
provided with a central semi-circular arm adapted to partially encircle the tyre of
a cycle wheel.
The lower ends of the legs of this support are bent toward one another at right
angles to the said legs, and fit into sockets on the outside of the raised fillets afore-
said, being thus hinged thereto.
Between each guide aforesaid, is hinged a plate having on its under side, a suit-
able transverse rack, the forward portion of which plate rests upon a cross-bar of
a lever comprised by two parallel side bars connected to the top by a horizontal
piece. In section, the cross-bar aforesaid is chisel edged, to constitute a pawl to
engage the rack upon the underside of the hinged plate.
In operation, the cycle is backed into the guide and the support raised until
the arm aforesaid embraces the tyre, the desired tension being obtained by raising
the hinged plate by means of its lever, the rack beforementioned maintaining such
hinged plate at the desired angle.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1898
An Improved Device or Rack for Holding Cycles during Transport in
Railway Vans, or under other Circumstances.
I, EDWIN HAMBROOK, of Arpinge, Newington, Hythe, in the County of Kent,
Yeoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
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page_text: same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention relates to an improved device or rack for holding cycles during
transport in railway vans, or under other circumstances, and has for object to
provide means for supporting cycles in the ordinary upright or other position, in
railway vans, cycle sheds or the like places, whereby such cycles will occupy a
minimum amount of room, be easily secured and as readily removed, while at the
same time the liability to receive damage will be greatly minimised.
In accordance with this invention I provide upon the floor of the railway van,
shed, or other place, suitable parallel guides between which the wheels of the cycles
are placed and held in position by means of a suitably shaped hinged or pivotted
support carried underneath the parallel guides aforesaid or on the floor and clasp-
ing or partially encircling the tyre of the wheel.
Any tension required or desired to enable or ensure the pivotted support clasping
the wheel may be obtained by means of a hinged tongue provided with a rack upon
its underside in which a suitably arranged pawl engages, which rack is hinged
to the inner sides of a pair of the guides aforesaid or preferably to the floor
within such guides in such manner as to permit of its being raised (and then
kept in position by the pawl) so as to bear against the lower part of the wheel
tyre and force the wheel against the hinged or pivotted support clasping the
ɛame aforesaid; and in order that this my invention may be fully understood and
readily carried into effect I will describe same particularly and with reference
to the accompanying drawings of which Fig. 1 represents the device in plan view
the position it assumes when turned back being partly indicated by dotted lines.
Fig. 2 shews the device in side elevation as when supporting a cycle, and
Fig. 3 shews the same in end elevation.
Fig. 4 represents a portion of the floor of a railway luggage van to which my
device is fitted.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the device and
Fig. 6 shews in perspective view the pivotted pawl of the tension device.
Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in each of the figures.
a a are the guides beforementioned placed upon the floor 6 of the railway van,
shed, or other place, which guides may conveniently be formed by raised parallel
fillets of wood or metal as shewn, and are placed at suitable intervals apart to
permit of the cycle wheel c being received between same.
d d' indicate the pivoted or hinged support for clasping the wheel of the cycle
to be held. This support is composed of two parallel legs d d approaching each
other at right angles at the top and provided with a central arch d' adapted to
partially encircle the upper part of the tyre of a cycle wheel.
The lower ends of the legs d are pivotted or hinged to the outside of the raised
fillets or guides a. This permits of the support being raised as shewn in Figs. 2,
3, and 5 when required to hold a cycle; and of its being folded down so as to be
out of the way when not in use, as shewn in the plan views Figs. 1 and 4 and
in dotted lines Fig. 2.
Between each pair of guides a is hinged a tongue e having teeth f upon its
under side, thus forming a rack. This rests upon the cross bar g of a lever con-
veniently comprised of two parallel side bars hh connected at the top by the
horizontal piece g¹ and pivotted or hinged at their bottom ends between the
guides a. The cross bar is formed with a chisel edge, and constitutes a pawl
which engages the rack f upon the underside of the hinged plate or tongue e
and holds it in any desired position. The rack and pawl being hinged as afore-
said fold down out of the way when not in use.
In operation the cycle is backed into the groove formed between the guides a,
and the support d d is raised until the arch d' embraces the tyre of the wheel c;
and any desired tension is obtained by raising the hinged plate e and fixing the
pawl
g hinto the required notch or tooth of the rack f and thus may such hinged
tongue e be maintained at the desired angle.

page_text: 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 improved device or rack for holding cycles during transport in railway
vans, or under other circumstances, consisting of the guides a fixed upon the
flooring band carrying the pivotted arched support d d in combination with
the racks e f and pawl h both suitably hinged within or between the guides a
and all constructed, arranged and operating, substantially as herein before
described and shewn.
1411
1900
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
For the Applicant.