Improved Means of Applying Advertisements to Bicycle and other Wheels.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1894
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Complete, Specification, Left, 18th Sept., 1895 Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Applying Advertisements to Bicycle and other
Wheels.
I, FRANK JOSEPH MEASURES, of St. Augustine's Road, Camden Square;
London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improved means of applying gravity advertisement discs
to bicycle or other cycle or carriage wheels formed with opposite concaved series
of spokes which branch from opposite sides of the hub and meet in alignment at
the rim the objects of the invention being to facilitate the application and
fixation of the disc and its removal as may be required, without requiring the
wheel to be taken apart or interfering with its construction or with its existing
means of lubrication, and to facilitate the application of such disc to hubs of
different widths and of different diameters, and to afford a steadier bearing for the
gravity disc, which, by preventing lateral oscillation of the disc, will permit of a
larger disc than is usually applied being applied in any given wheel without
liability of its periphery clattering against the opposite series of spokes of the
wheel between which it is located.
To this end, the invention consists in applying the gravity disc to the hub
of the cycle or other wheel of the nature aforesaid by means of concaved semi-
hubs, one of which is applied on each side of the disc around the rim of an
enlarged central aperture made therein, the disc being thus located between suck
semi-hubs, and secured by means of screw bolts or the like to which easy access
can be got between the spokes of the wheel.
Each of said semi-hubs is made of sectoral parts to permit of the introduction
thereof between the spokes of the wheel to between the opposite series of such
spokes, and of the location thereof about the hub of the wheel and against the
opposite sides of the disc, the sectoral parts of each semi-hub being pinned,
cottered or otherwise in any convenient manner connected together to ensure the
necessary rigidity.
The semi-hubs are made with peripheral flanges at their base ends adapted for
connection as aforesaid to the inner rim of the disc, and are also made with flanger
at their apex ends to serve as bearings on the hub which they loosely fit, and may,
if required, be fitted with ball bearings to minimize the frictional contact with the
wheel hub.
Should the wheel hub be of any smaller diameter than the apex flanges of the
disc hub, sectoral packing rings may be fitted between the parts, and should the
wheel hub be of any unusual width, packing may be inserted between each of
the semi-hubs and the disc.
The sides of the disc are pierced with holes which lighten the structure
and add to its ornamental appearance, & are also of utility in permitting of
access to the ordinary means of lubricating the wheel being readily obtained.
The disc is preferably applied in half parts which are inserted between the
spokes of the wheel and are pinned or cottered together, or are formed with inter-
locking edges requiring but a slight motion to lock them together, or they may be
otherwise secured together, after which the disc is located relatively to the wheel
as aforesaid.

page_text: The disc may be weighted in any suitable manner so as to prevent its rotation as
the wheel revolves and progresses, and may bear any required advertisement on its
opposite sides.
Dated this 17th day of December 1894.
Improved Means of Applying Advertisements to Bicycle and other
. Wheels.
I, FRANK JOSEPH MEASURES, of St. Augustine's Road, Camden Square,
London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 improved means of applying gravity advertisement discs
to bicycle or other cycle or carriage wheels formed with opposite concaved series of
spokes which branch from opposite ends of the hub and meet in alignment at the
rim; the objects of the invention being to facilitate the application and fixation of
the disc and its removal, as may be required, without requiring the wheel to be
taken apart or interfering with its construction or with its existing means of
lubrication, and to facilitate the application of such discs to hubs of different widths
and of different diameters, and to afford a steadier bearing for the gravity disc,
which, by preventing lateral oscillation of the disc, will permit of a larger disc than
is usually applied being applied in any given wheel without liability of its periphery
clattering against the opposite series of spokes, of the wheel between which it is
located.
The accompanying drawings represent the application of the invention to a cycle
wheel. Fig. 1, being a side view, with the near side of the wheel removed;
and Fig. 2, being a sectional elevation through A, B Fig. 1.
a, represents the gravity advertisement disc, and b, represents the hub of the
cycle or other wheel of the nature aforesaid.
In carrying out the invention, I apply the disc a, to the hub b, by means of
concaved semi-hubs c, one of which is applied on each side of the disc around the
rim of an enlarged central aperture a', made therein, the disc being thus located
between two such semi-hubs, and secured thereto by means of screw bolts d, or the
like, to which easy access can be got between the spokes 6', of the wheel.
Each semi-hub is made of sectoral parts (Fig. 1.) to permit of the introduction
thereof between the spokes of the wheel to between the opposite series of such
spokes, and of the location thereof about the wheel hub b, and against the opposite
sides of the disc. The sectoral parts of each semi-hub may be pinned, cottered or
otherwise in any convenient mauner connected together in addition to being secured
as aforesaid to and by the disc.
The semi-hubs are made with peripheral flanges c', at their base ends adapted for
connection, as aforesaid, to the inner rim of the disc, and are also made with
flanges, at their apex ends adapted to serve as bearings on the cylindrical part of
the wheel-bub and against the flanged parts 2, thereof, on and against which
respectively they loosely fit, and may, if required, be fitted with ball bearings to
minimise the frictional contact with the wheel-hub.
Should the wheel-hub be of any smaller diameter than the apex flanges of the
disc-hub, semi-cylindrical or other sectoral packing (not represented) may be
interposed between the parts, and should the wheel-hub be of any unusual width,

page_text: any suitable packing (not represented) may be inserted between each of the semi-
hubs and the disc.
The semi-hubs are pierced with holes c, which lighten the structure and add to
its ornamental appearance, and are also of utility in permitting of access to the
ordinary means of lubricating the wheel-hub being readily obtained.
The disc a, is preferably applied in half parts (Fig. 1,) which are inserted
between the spokes of the wheel, and are secured together by clips a², or in any
other convenient manner, after which the disc is located relatively to the wheel as
aforesaid.
The disc may be weighted in any suitable manner so as to prevent its rotation as
the wheel revolves and progresses and may bear any required advertisement on its
opposite sides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The hereinbefore described improved means of applying gravity advertisement
discs to bicycle or other cycle wheels of the nature aforesaid, the same consisting in
applying the disc in sectoral parts and securing the same together and in the desired
relation to the wheel hub by and between concaved semi-hubs applied to the
wheel-hub and to the disc in sectoral parts and secured to the disc and in the
desired relation to each other in manner aforesaid.
Dated this 17th day of September 1895.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.