IMPROVEMENTS IN BICYCLE AND TRICYCLE BELLS AND GONGS
Year: 1885

page_text: We SAMUEL SNELL of 11 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London in the
County of Middlesex, Lamp Maker; and, WILLIAM HICKIN of Buckingham Street,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder, do hereby declare the
nature of our said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BICYCLE AND TRICYCLE BELLS
AND GONGS to be as follows:―
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Our invention consists of a combination of different parts as will afterwards be
herein specified: the object of which is to do away with some of the parts now in
use on Bicycle and Tricycle Bells and Gongs. In the Bells and Gongs now in use
the clapper is fixed by a hinge joint to the frame work and is worked by a coil
spring which is actuated by a lever fixed on to the clapper and projects beyond the
rim or lip of the Bell or Gong thus making two separate levers; that is a clapper
lever and a hand lever. In our invention we combine and make the separate
levers into one which answers the double purpose of a clapper and hand lever, this
we do by lengthening the clapper lever so as to project beyond the rim or lip of
the bell or gong, and shaping it so as to form a finger piece by which it may be
manipulated to sound the bell.
It will be seen that our improved bell or gong has but three main pieces viz;—
the frame work, the gong or bell, and the combined striking clapper lever.
Is 14th day of January 1800.
ROBT. ED. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer & Patent Agent,
Royal Courts Chambers,
70, 71, & 72, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,,
Agent for the Applicants.
1000,
ROBT. ED. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer & Patent Agent,
Royal Courts Chambers,
70, 71, & 72, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We SAMUEL SNELL of 11 Great Eastern Street Shoreditch London in the
County of Middlesex Lamp Maker and WILLIAM HICKIN of Buckingham Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Brassfounder do hereby declare the nature
of our said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN. BICYCLE AND TRICYCLE BELLS AND
GONGS 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 and to the letters and figures marked thereon:-
Our Invention consists of a combination of different parts as will afterwards be
herein specified: the object of which is to, do away with some of the parts now in
use in Bicycle and Tricycle Bells and Gongs. In the bells and gongs now in use
the clapper is fixed by a hinge joint to the frame work and is worked by a coil
spring which is actuated by a lever fixed onto the clapper and projects beyond the
rim or lip of the bell or gong thus making two separate levers, that is a clapper
lever and a hand lever. In our invention we combine and make the separate levers
into one which answers the double purpose of a clapper and hand lever, this we do
by lengthening the clapper lever so as to project beyond the rim or lip of the Bell
or Gong and shaping it so as to form a finger piece by which it may be manipulated
to sound the bell.
It will be seen that our improved bell or Gong has but three main pieces viz ;-
the frame work, the Gong or bell and the combined striking and clapper lever.
Referring to the drawings Fig. 1. is a section through a Gong or bell and Fig. 2.
is a plan of the inside shewing the arrangement of the several parts (a) is the
combined clapper and hand lever, formed of a single arm projecting beyond the
rim or lip (b) of the Gong or bell shaped at this projecting end so as to form a
striker (c) and a finger piece (d).
When it is required to sound the bell the combined clapper and lever (a) is
manipulated by means of the finger-piece (d) thereon the lever being caused to fly
back and strike the Gong by reason of the spring (e):
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We do not confine ourselves to any particular description or arrangement of
spring to actuate the combined clapper and band lever.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
The improvements in Bicycle and Tricycle bells and Gongs by forming the striker
and hand lever or manipulator of such bells and Gongs as one single arm or lever
substantially as herein set forth and specified.
Dated this 12th day
1005
PAYNE & TALBOT,
4 & 5, Arcade Chambers, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.