A Detachable Front Fork Strengthener for Cycles, but Principally for Multicycles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Detachable Front Fork Strengthener for Cycles, but Principally
for Multicycles.
I, HENRY Moss GENESE Cycle Engineer of 120 Great Russell Street
London W.C. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A tube coming out at or nearly at right angles from the centre of the fork
crown meets two tubes coming out at an angle from the top of the head until they
reach the, or nearly the vertical plane to the centre of the front wheel where the
three tubes are joined by brazing or other means and the two tubes drop vertically
or nearly so to the bottom of the forks the whole being bolted nutted or clipped
to the main forks thereby preventing the forks from breaking in any part, the
strain being distributed to every part.
Dated this 26th day of November 1895.
A Detachable Front Fork Strengthener for Cycles, but Principally
for Multicycles.
I, HENRY Moss GENESE, Cycle Engineer, of 120 Great Russell Street,
London, W.C. 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 has for its object to provide detachable means of bracing or
strengthening the forepart of a cycle particularly cycles of the character known as
tandem bicycles or tricycles or multicycles and my said invention consists essentially
of the following parts, viz.: a tube or rod (or tubes or rods) extending forwardly
from the fork crown, and at or about right angles to the fork and head, the
foremost end of which meets and is joined to a brace or support (consisting
advantageously of two tubes) which latter at its uppermost end is secured in any
suitable manner to the head or handle-bars or handle-bar stem while the other end
of said brace or support drops vertically or thereabouts (advantageously two tubes
in the form of an auxiliary fork i.e. one tube on each side of the front wheel which
tubes may either be continuations of the aforesaid diagonal brace or may be
separate tubes fixed to the latter in any suitable manner) and the lowermost
ends of said fork are secured in any suitable manner either to the front main fork
(at or near the bottom thereof) or to the front wheel spindle or axle or bearing-
the whole with the main forks and head forming as it were two right angle
triangles and secured together in any suitable manner to thus afford a rigid
bracing or strengthener which will turn with and be turned by the head and
front forks when the latter are turned by the handles in steering the machine.

page_text: Referring to the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, and
Fig. 2 a front end view of a tandem bicycle showing my present invention applied
thereto.
a is a single tube extending forwardly from the fork crown-the rear end of
which is rigidly keyed or bolted to the fork crown.
b is a T-piece or cross-head formed or fixed rigidly on the foremost end of
tube a-advantageously by brazing.
ce are two tubes clipped or otherwise suitably and rigidly secured to the
steering head-in the case illustrated each said tube is flattened at its end and
the handle-bar stem clip or top ball head clip is turned half round and the bolt
securing said clip is passed through said flatteued ends of said tubes c c¹.to
thus rigidly secure all these parts together while the said tubes c c¹ extend
forwardly and downwardly to the point cx where the aforesaid T-piece b on the
foremost end of tube a is brazed or otherwise suitably but rigidly fixed to said
tubes c c¹.
dd' are respectively extensions of said tubes c c which descend nearly vertically
and at the lowermost end thereof same are flattened and a hole provided in each
through which the spindle of the front wheel is passed or said tubes d d may be
otherwise detachably secured in any suitable manner.
a is lamp bracket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination with the forepart of a cycle of a detachable bracing or
strengthener substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before set
forth.
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2. The combination with the forepart of a cycle of a detachable bracing or
strengthener consisting of a forwardly extending tube such as a the rear end of
which is detachably secured to the fork crown, two tubes such as e c¹ the upper
end of same being detachably secured to or near the handle bar stem clip such
tubes c c' extending forwardly and downwardly until they meet the foremost end
of the said tube a to which they are rigidly secured and downwardly extending
ends d d¹ on said tubes e c¹ detachably connected to the front wheel spindle the
whole forming a bracing or strengthener constructed and arranged to act sub-
stantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 26th day of August 1896.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.