Improvements in the Manufacture of Detachable Adjusting Lugs or Clips for Cycles, applicable to other purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1897-Accepted, 8th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Detachable Adjusting Lugs or
Clips for Cycles, applicable to other purposes.
I JOHN EDWARD MEREDITH of 7 Spencer Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of detachable
adjusting lugs or clips for cycles applicable to other purposes and is a further
improvement on my Patent No. 2 096 A.D. 1894 by which I simplify the manu-
facture of the metallic detachable adjusting lug or clip which is mainly used in the
connection of the brake rod of cycles and which is applicable to various other
purposes.
In the manufacture of my lug or clip I take a thin sheet of any suitable metal or
material from which I cut a blank of oblong form which is cut away at each end
to form projections of less width than the centre hand. I then stamp or otherwise
form these ends into half round section the end of the centre part of band being
bent so that the half round ends die into the centre part of band and stand out
almost at right angles to it. I then bend the centre of the band round a mandrel
in a press or by any suitable means until the two half ends meet and form a
tubular shank running at right angles to the axis of the socket or tube formed
by the centre of the band and upon this shank 1 place an open ended cap or
ferrule which is brazed on so as to firmly secure the two half round ends
together. The inside of the tubular shank is then tapped for receiving the set
screw for biting on the break or other rod which passes through the central
socket. Of course toughen the socket in the course of manufacture as often
as necessary and I may belly or otherwise shape the band in the direction of its
axis if so desired.
Dated this Lot do 1000
Improvements in the Manufacture of Detachable Adjusting Lugs or
Clips for Cycles, applicable to other purposes.
1 JOHN EDWARD MEREDITH of 7 Spencer Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer 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 :-
My invention has for its object "improvements in the manufacture of detachable
adjusting lugs or clips for cycles applicable to other purposes and is a further
improvement on my Patent No. 20096 A.D. 1894 by which I simplify the manu-
facture of the metallic detachable adjusting lug or clip which is mainly used in the
connection of the brake rod of cycles and which is applicable to various other
purposes.

page_text: In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings illustrating my improved
mode of manufacture.
Figure 1 shews plan & elevation of the blank for forming the lug.
Figure 2 is a plan of same after the first process of stamping.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of Figure 2.
Figures 4 & 5 are side and front elevations shewing the clip after being bent
.over.
Figure 6 is a plan of the blank for ferrule.
Figure 7 is a view of ferrule after first process.
Figure 8 is a view of ferrule pierced complete.
Figure 9 is a view of the lug complete.
In the manufacture of my lug or clip I take a thin sheet of any suitable metal or
material from which I cut a blank A of oblong form which is cut away at each end
to form projections a' and a³ of less width than the centre band. I then stamp or
otherwise form these ends into half round section as shewn by Figures 2 & 3 the
ends a & a of the centre part of the band A being bent so that the half round
ends die into the centre part of baud and stand out almost at right angles to it.
I then hend the centre A of the band round a mandrel in a press or by any
suitable means until the two half round ends a¹ and a meet and form a tubular
shank running at right angles to the axis of the socket or tube formed by the centre
of the band as shewn by Figures 4 & 5 and upon this shank I place an open ended
cap or ferrule B which is formed as shewn by Figures 67 & 8 and which is brazed
on so as to firmly secure the two half round ends together. The inside a of the
tubular shank is then tapped for receiving the set screw C for biting on the brake
or other rod E which passes through the central socket. Of course I toughen the
socket in the course of manufacture as often as necessary and I may belly or other-
wise shape the band in the direction of its axis as shewn by dotted lines D if so
desired.
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
The improvements in the manufacture of detachable adjusting lugs or clips for
cycles applicable to other purposes substantially as herein set forth and shewn upon
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of April 1897
JOHN EDWARD MEREDITH.