An Improved Rack or Shelf for Storing Bicycles in Narrow Passages, Railway Carriages, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Rack or Shelf for Storing Bicycles in Narrow Passages,
Railway Carriages, and the like.
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ALBERT EDWARD JACKSON, Journalist, and PERCY JOHNSON BRITTEN, Brewer's
Assistant, both of 45, Burma Road, Stoke Newington, London, N., do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
On a suitable frame are hinged two brackets fitted with slots or hooks to allow of a
cross bar engaging in the same. The bar may be made to fold if necessary. At the
bottom of the frame is a folding ledge in which the wheels of the bicycle are lodged,
the brackets being set at right angles. The bicycle is placed between the brackets
and on the folding ledge and held in.a slanting or vertical position by means of the
cross bar.
Another form consists of a bracket secured to a suitable frame, which by preference
is in the form of an inverted cross. The bracket is fitted with a spur to go in
between the stays adjoining the bottom bracket of the bicycle. Above this are two
pivotted arins which can be fitted with any suitable spring attachment if required
and so constructed that when the frame of the bicycle is placed between them they
will expand and hold the bicycle firmly in position, when the stays of the bicycle
engage on the fixed bracket before mentioned or the arms may hook on to the top
bar of the machine.
Another design consists of a frame with an upright centre piece. At each extremity
of the bottom of the frame are fitted grooved wheel-rests which are connected by rods
with spring attachment to a hook fitted to the top of the centre-piece in such a
manner that when the bicycle is put into the grooved rests the hook attachment
comes down and engages with the cross bar of the bicycle and holds the machine in
a slanting position firmly to the frame. In this form it would be necessary to use a
bar fitted with two clips to fix to a lady's machine to take the place of the top bar in
the ordinary bicycle.
In each and all these designs we propose if necessary to use a shield made of any
suitable material to cover the outer pedal.
These shelves or racks will be so constructed that the whole of the weight or nearly
the whole of the weight will be thrown on to the lowest portion of the rack thereby
making a much slighter fastening necessary to the wall or ceiling or roof as the case
may be.
Dated thic 23rd day of February 1897

page_text: An Improved Rack or Shelf for Storing Bicycles in Narrow Passages,
Railway Carriages, and the like.
We, ALBERT EDWARD JACKSON, Journalist, and PERCY JOHNSON BRITTEN, Brewer's
Assistant, both of 45, Burna Road, Stoke Newington, in the County of London, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to he
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to a novel bicycle support adapted to be suspended or fixed
to a wall, ceiling or the like so that the bicycle supported therein can be conveniently
stored in places where otherwise there would be no room to receive it, such for
instance as in halls, narrow passages and the like.
According to the invention we provide a suitable frame adapted to be suspended
and to lie against the wall or to be suspended from a ceiling and horizontal arms or
supports projecting from the said frame and adapted to support the bicycle at the
top and bottom.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a bicycle support made according to our invention:
Figure 2 is an end elevation thereof shewing a bicycle in position therein:
Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 of a modified construction of our bicycle
support shewing a bicycle in position therein:
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Figure 4 is an end elevation of the same; and,
Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 are views of details drawn to a larger scale.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2 a is the vertical frame, in this case shewn made of
wood, which is adapted to be suspended to a wall by suitable means and to lie against
the said wall and b is a horizontal ledge or support fixed to the lower end of the
frame a and adapted to support the bicycle at the bottom thereof as shewn clearly
in Figure 2. c, c are horizontal arms fixed to and extending outwardly from the
frame a, the said arms being bent at their outer ends to form hooks d, d designed
to support a cross-bar e as shewn clearly in the figures.
With this construction it will be obvious that to place the bicycle in position it
is only necessary to remove the bar e from the hooks d on the arms c, c to place
the bicycle upon the ledge band to then replace the bar e upon the arins c, c so that
the bicycle rests with its upper part, supported against the said bar e as shewn in
Figure 2.
The arms c, c and the ledge or support can be hinged to the frame a so that
when the apparatus is not in use they can be folded back against the frame.
In the modified construction of our support shewn in Figures 3 and 4 the frame a,
instead of being made of wood, is made of an upright bar a of metal bent at its upper
end to form the hook a' by which it can be suspended to the wall, ceiling or the
like, the said bar being at its lower end outwardly bent to form the lower arm b for
supporting the bicycle. This arm b is bent at its outer end downwardly and laterally
so as to form the hook b¹ at right angles to the plane of the arm b as shewn.
an upper horizontal arm which is of metal suitably secured to the upright bar a and
provided at its outer end with a clamp by means of which adjustable bars e, e can be
rigidly secured in any position so as to support the bicycle as hereinafter described.
c is
The clamp and the bars e, e are shewn to a larger scale in Figures 5 and 6 which
are respectively a plan of the device and a vertical section on the line 6-6 Figure 5.
The clamp here shewn and which we have found to answer well in practice consists
of two plates f, g grooved to receive the bars e, e and adapted to be gripped upon the
said bars by means of the thumb or wing nut h which works on the bolt i the head

page_text: of which is formed as an eye j for receiving the outer end of the horizontal arm c.
The said eye enters a recess in the plate g so that by turning the thumb nut h in
order to tighten the plates f, g upon the bars e the said clamp is also rigidly secured
to the horizontal arm c.
The bars e, e are bent at their outer ends to form hooks el, e¹ which are adapted to
pass around the tubes of the bicycle frame as shewn in Figure 3 and at the inner end
each of the said bars is bent round so as to form an eye or guide in which the other
bar slides. Instead of bending the ends of the bars e, e as shewn we can employ any
other suitable eye, guide or the like. When the said bars have been adjusted so that
they grip the frame of the bicycle, after the bottom bracket thereof has been placed
upon the hook b¹ of the arm 6 the thumb or wing nut h is tightened so as to fix the
bars e, e securely together.
k is a hook secured by an elastic cord (or its equivalent) to the arm b and designed
to hold the steering wheel of the bicycle against rotation when the machine is fixed
in the support. m is a cap also secured by a cord to the arm b, the said cap being
designed to cover the outer pedal when the machine is in position and n is a rubber
pad to prevent injury to the wall from the frame a and also to prevent the frame
hanging out of the vertical should the weight of the bicycle not be disposed equally
on each side thereof.
Figure 7 illustrates a modified construction of clamp arrangement for the bars e, e.
In this case the said bars are screw-threaded at their inner ends and are screwed into
the ends of a socket c¹ formed upon the outer end of the horizontal arm c at right
angles thereto. The bars e, e are adjusted in the socket c' to the required position
and are then secured to this position by nuts o, o which are tightened against the
ends of the socket c¹.
In Figure 8 we have shewn a construction of clamp consisting of two plates f, g
grooved to receive the bars e, e and having a central hole through which the screw-
threaded outer end of the horizontal arm c is passed, the said plates being secured in
position upon the said arm c and being caused to grip the bars e, e by nuts h', h¹
working upon the screw-threaded end of the arm c.
The hooks b¹, e¹, e¹ and k are covered with suitable material such as rubber to
prevent injury to the machine.
It will be obvious by our invention that bicycles can be stored upon walls, ceilings,
and the like in narrow or small places at such a height that they do not interfere with
traffic underneath them.
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 :-
1. In a bicycle support the combination with a vertical frame of horizontal arms
for supporting the bicycle and with means for suspending the said frame to a wall,
ceiling or the like, substantially as described.
2. In a bicycle support the combination with a vertical frame adapted to be
suspended to a wall, ceiling or the like, of a lower ledge or support and of upper
horizontal arms having hooks to receive a bar, substantially as described and
illustrated.
3. In a bicycle support the combination with a vertical bar of a lower horizontal
arm having a hook at its outer end, of an upper horizontal arm, of a clamp in
connection with the said upper arm and of adjustable horizontal bars supported in the
clamp, substantially as described and illustrated.
4. In a bicycle support the combination with a vertical bar adapted to be suspended
to a wall, ceiling or the like, of a lower horizontal arm having a hook at its outer end,
of an upper horizontal arm, of adjustable bars adapted to hold the bicycle frame and
of a clamp adapted to grip the arms and consisting of two grooved plates held together
by a thumb nut working on a screw the head of which is formed as an eye to receive
the outer end of the upper horizontal arm, substantially as described and illustrated.
5. In a bicycle support the combination with a vertical bar adapted to be suspended

page_text: to a wall or the like, of a lower horizontal arm provided with a hook at its outer
end, of an upper horizontal arm the outer end of which is screw-threaded, of
adjustable bars for holding the bicycle frame and of a clamp for gripping the said
bars, such clamp consisting of two plates, grooved to receive the bars and having
central holes through which the screw-threaded end of the horizontal arm passes, and
of nuts working on the said screw-threaded arm, substantially as described and
illustrated.
6. In a bicycle support the combination with a vertical bar adapted to be suspended
to a wall, ceiling or the like, of a lower horizontal arm having a hook at its outer end,
of an upper horizontal arm provided at its outer end with an internally screw-threaded
socket and of bars for holding the bicycle frame, such bars being screw-threaded to
enter the socket to which they can be screwed by nuts, substantially as described and
illustrated.
7. In a bicycle support the combination with a vertical bar of a lower horizontal
arm having a hook at its outer end, of an upper horizontal arm to which are clamped
bars for holding the bicycle frame, of a device for holding the steering wheel of the
bicycle from swinging when the latter is in position in the support and of a cap for
covering the outer pedai of the bicycle, substantially as described and illustrated.
8. The bicycle supports hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 18th day of November 1897.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.