Improvements in Attachment Bracket-clips for Parts of Cycles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1894-Accepted, 12th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachment Bracket-clips for Parts of Cycles.
I, HENRY BROCKAS, of Stoke Row, Stoke, in the County of Warwick, Machinist,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to clips or bracket clips and their accessories for certain
attached parts of cycles, such for example as brake-lever bracket-clips, lamp bracket-
clips and foot-rest clips.
By my invention, the said articles admit of being made from thin sheet metal,
whereby the articles produced are light in weight whilst acquiring a maximum of
strength.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a brake-lever attachment
bracket-clip, I take a strip of thin sheet metal, and bend the same into nearly a
cylindrical figure, and of about the girth of a handle bar, and with the terminal
ends of the said strip turned into outwardly directed lobe-shaped loops, constituting,
when closed by inserted plates or pieces, boxed ends, through lateral and coincident
holes in which, a hollow coupling screw-pin or sleeve passes, and which said
screw-pin or sleeve constitutes the tightening or drawing-to means of the clip.
One of the holes in the box ends is plain and the other is screwed, whilst a
portion of the said coupling pin is screwed, and the other part plain, for taking into
the screwed and plain holes as aforesaid, respectively.
This hollow pin or sleeve has an hexagonal or faceted end for turning the same,
whilst passing axially through it is a supplementary pin, screwed at its extreme
outer end, and adapted to form the centre for the lever to turn upon.
This axially-directed pin has a head upon one end and is wormed at the other,
and upon the said wormed end a nut takes, whilst proceeding horizontally from the
left-hand side of the outer box end of the clip is a limb member of two members of
a long and horizontally directed loop or bow-shaped spring, and with the other and
free member lying within a cross slot or groove sunken within the lower portion of
a depending or hanging swell of the lever below the bearing hole or bearing of it.
When the nut is screwed home, the said free end of the spring is kept in position,
and is allowed to slide to a very limited extent within the said groove, consequent
upon the angular movement made by the lever.
This said spring is adapted to bring the lever back to its normal or non-acting
position.
A stay-pin or bar crosses transversely between the lower presented portions of
the box ends, so as to counteract any tendency of the clip to twist or become
irregular.
The walls of the box ends may be increased in thickness by wrapping the metal
two, three or more times round upon itself.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a lamp bracket I take a length
of sheet metal and bend the same into about a three-quarter loop, of an inside
diameter about equal to the girth of a post, pillar or other part of a machine to be
embraced.
I then shape the terminal ends of the said strip into socket loops, made by
wrapping the thin metal round once, twice or three times upon itself, hence
thickened walls, which are united together by brazing or otherwise.
These socket loops are crosswise pierced with holes coincident with holes in the
legs (taking into the said sockets) of a wire lamp bracket. Passing.collectively
through the coincident holes, and transversely from socket to socket is a headed

page_text: screw pin, whose outer end is screwed, and upon which a screw nut takes, which, on
being screwed home, tightens up or draws to the clip.
Thus the same pin which fastens the bracket to the clip, also fastens the clip to
the framing or part of a machine.
Instead of the screw pin passing directly through holes in the legs of the
bracket, it may pass through or engage with front or back sinkings formed within
them.
Diated this 1st day of 1000
HENRY BROCKAS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachment Bracket-clips for Parts of Cycles.
1, HENRY BROCKAS, of Stoke Row, Stoke, in the County of Warwick,
Machinist, 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 clips or bracket clips and their accessories for certain
attached parts of cycles, such for example as brake-lever bracket-clips, lamp
bracket-clips and foot-rest clips.
By my invention, the said articles admit of being made from thin sheet metal,
whereby the articles produced are light in weight whilst acquiring a maximum of
strength.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a brake-lever attachment
bracket-clip, I take a strip of thin sheet metal, and bend the same into nearly a
cylindrical figure, and of about the girth of a handle bar, and with the terminal
ends of the said strip turned into outwardly directed sleeves constituting, when
closed by inserted swivelling blocks or pieces, boxed ends, through lateral and
coincident holes in which, a coupling screw-pin or sleeve passes, and which said
screw-pin or sleeve constitutes the tightening or drawing-to means of the clip.
One of the holes in the box ends is plain and the other is screwed, whilst a
portion of the said coupling pin is screwed, and the other part plain, for taking into
the screwed and plain holes as aforesaid, respectively.
This pin or sleeve passes axially through a supplementary sleeve adapted to form
the centre for the brake lever to turn upon.
The walls of the box ends may be increased in thickness by wrapping the metal
two, three or more times round upon itself.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a lamp bracket, I take a length of
sheet metal and bend the same into about a three-quarter loop, of an inside diameter
about equal to the girth of a post, pillar or other part of a machine to be embraced.
I then shape the terminal ends of the said strip into socket loops, made by
wrapping the thin metal round once, twice or three times upon itself, hence thickened
walls, which are united together by brazing or otherwise."
These socket loops are crosswise pierced with holes coincident with holes in the
legs of a wire lamp bracket, which legs take into the said sockets. Passing
collectively through the coincident holes, and transversely from socket to socket is
a headed screw-pin, whose outer end is screwed, and upon which a screw nut takes,
which, on being screwed home, tightens up or draws to the clip.
Thus the same pin which fastens the bracket to the clip, also fastens the clip to
the framing or part of a machine.
Instead of the screw pin passing directly through holes in the legs of the bracket,
it may pass through or engage with front or back sinkings formed within them.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents the fore part of a safety

page_text: bicycle with the handle bar fitted with an attachable and detachable brake lever clip
constructed and arranged according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a topside plan of a portion of a handle with my new or
improved attachable and detachable clip upon an enlarged scale.
Figure 3 represents a section of the said Figure 2 upon the dotted lines A B,
whilst
Figure 4 represents a horizontal section upon the dotted lines C D Figure 2.
Figure 5 is an underside plan of Figure 4.
Figure 6 is a transverse section of Figure 4 upon the dotted lines E F.
Figure 7 is a horizontal section of the clip separately, whilst
Figure 8 is a vertical section of Figure 7 upon the dotted lines G H.
In Figures 1 to 8, a is a thin sheet metal band clip, adapted to embrace and
clip, and be attached to, the handle bar member b, and having the metal at the
outer ends of the same fashioned into tubular loops or barrel-shaped sleeves a¹, a³,
which are gapped about their middles at ad, whilst fitted within the interiors of
the said tubular loops or sleeves, are shouldered blocks or pieces c, c³, having
reduced ends ', and enlarged middles e². The ends c', take into the tubular
sleeves or loops a', whilst the middle parts c of each of them take into the
gaps a
Now the block c, in the right hand sleeve a', has a screwed hole c', through it,
whilst the left hand block c³, has a like coincident but plain hole c', through it.
d is a screw pin with its screwed end d² taking into the screwed hole e, in the
swivelling block c. The plain part d, of the screw pin passes through the plain
hole c, of the swivelling block e³, and has surrounding it, a supplementary necked
and loose sleeve e, e¹, upon the part e¹, of which, the brake lever f, takes and
turns as a centre, whilst the inner face of this sleeve has a concaved bearing 1,
which fits up snugly to the convexed face of the sleeve a¹ and is thereby kept
from rotating. g is a washer coming upon the inner side of the head d. of the
screw pin d.
By the blocks c, c³, turning within the sleeves a', (the metal of the returned ends
of which may be attached to the clip by brazing, rivetting or otherwise) the axes
of the screwed and plain holes c, c, through them, always fall lignable or
coincident, as more or less of the band clip is drawn around the handle bar.
Such a band clip can be applied to varying sized handle bars within certain
limits, and can be readily attached or detached when a cyclist desires to use or
dispense with his brake.
Instead of the sleeves being made of a single wrapping of metal, they may be
made of two or more wrappings, evolved helically and then brazed.
Figure 9 represents the fore part of a safety bicycle fitted with an attachable
and detachable lamp bracket clip constructed and arranged according to my
invention.
Figure 10 represents upon an enlarged scale, the said clip and the upper part of
the post of the machine.
Figure 11 represents a perspective view of the bracket with its clip, whilst
Figure 12 represents perspective views of the parts separated.
Figure 13 represents upon an enlarged scale, a horizontal section of the said
bracket upon the dotted lines I J Figure 10.
Figure 14 represents the parts shown in Figure 13 separated.
Figure 15 shows the pulling-up pin.
a is a sheet metal band clip, with sockets a¹, made out of the metal of the terminal
and free ends of the said band, having transversely directed-clearance holes at, a³,
wherethrough the screw pin d, as hereinafter described passes, and within which
sockets a', the legs, of the lamp bracket f, take. These legs have transversely
directed holes, through them. The hole, is screwed, whilst the hole f*, is
plain, for respectively receiving the plain shank and screwed parts of the pin d,
which when passed home, as in Figures 9, 10 and 13, secures the lamp bracket to
the clip and the clip to the machine.

page_text: Figure 16 represents an attachable ladies' foot-rest clip as applied to a safety
bicycle.
Figure 17 represents an end elevation of the said foot rest and clip upon an
enlarged scale shown attached to a member of the framing.
Figure 18 is a topside plan of Figure 17 and
Figure 19 is a cross section upon the dotted lines K L Figure 17.
a is a band clip, having its free ends terminated by rolled sleeves a', fitted with
solid blocks c, c, having plain and screwed holes e, co, through them coincident
with holes a, a, in the sleeves a', wherethrough the drawing-up screw pin d, passes,
and which when screwed home draws the ends c, c¹, together and secures the foot
rest f, which is carried by the band a, to the framing member b, of a machine.
Figure 20 represents in horizontal section my invention applied to a foot-rest for
a machine for male-riders.
Figures 21 and 22 represent side elevations of the separate parts upon a reduced
scale, whilst
Figure 23 represents an end elevation of Figure 21.
a is the band clip, with terminal and preferably cone-socketed ends a¹, made out
of the metal of the free ends of the same. These coned sockets have front
clearances a adapted to admit of the legs or coned beaded ends f¹, of the foot rest
bracket, passing therein. 2 is a cross stay for preventing the outward extension
of both the side members of the bracket or rest, and also the free ends of the clips,
so that by dropping the coned legs (which have a slight inward taper) into the
sockets, the said bracket is secured to the clip and the clip is drawn tightly around
the framing member b, of a machine.
The bracket is made of thin sheet metal, with ends turned into tubular
legs f¹.
Instead of the tie or cross stay f³, crossing the members of the two-part foot rest,
I may employ a screw pin passing transversely through legs and sockets
respectively, alike as in the preceding clips.
The front clearances of the sockets may be closed at bottom in order to
strengthen or prevent the opening out of the walls of the sockets.
Instead of the legs being hollow they may be made solid by pins, and instead of
the sockets being open at front to the bottom or nearly to the bottom, they may
be only open to a short distance down for receiving the tubular or solid legs.
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-
flexible
First. An attachable and detachable brake-lever clip, having a
embracing band, whose free ends are terminated by tubular barrels or sleeves
fitted with blocks, or turning blocks, having plain and screwed holes through them,
wherethrough a transversely-directed pin passes, for drawing-to the clip and
carrying the brake lever, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1
to 8.
Secondly. In attachable and detachable brake lever clips, the general con-
struction, arrangement, combination and fitting of the parts, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 8.
Thirdly. An attachable and detachable lamp bracket, having a flexible embracing
band clip, whose free ends are terminated by cross-pierced sockets for receiving the
legs of a wire or other lamp bracket, which bracket is secured by cross pins passing
through the legs and through the sockets of the clip respectively, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 10 to 14.
Fourthly. In attachable and detachable lamp brackets, the general construction,
arrangement and combination of the parts, substantially as described and set forth
in Figures 10 to 14.
Fifthly. An attachable and detachable foot-rest clip, having a flexible embracing
band, whose free ends are terminated by tubular barrels or sleeves, fitted with

page_text: blocks, or turning blocks, wherethrough a transversely directed pin passes, ¡for
drawing-to the clip and attaching a foot rest to the framing of a machine, substan-
tially as described and set forth in Figures 16 to 19.
Sixthly. In a two-part and attachable and detachable foot-rest, providing the
terminal ends of the clip part of the same with closed or open-fronted sockets, or
closed or open fronted cone sockets, for receiving taper-shaped or inclined legs
carried at the free terminal ends of the bracket of the foot-rest, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 20 to 23.
Seventhly. In two-part attachable and detachable foot-rests, the general con-
struction, arrangement and combination of the parts, substantially as described and
set forth in Figures 20 to 23.
Dated this
1004
HENRY BROCKAS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.