and Improved Combined Luggage Carriers and Lamp Brackets for Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1899 -Accepted, 28th Oct., 1899
PROVIDIUNALDIAN
New and Improved Combined Luggage Carriers and Lamp Brackets
for Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes, and other Vehicles.
WILLIAM HENRY READ, 92, Mott Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Brush Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:
My said invention has for its object to permit of parcels handbags and the
like commonly classified under the head of cyclists and passengers luggage being
carried at the lead or front of bicycles tricycles velocipedes and other parts of
vehicles without concealing or obstructing the light of the cycle lamp usually
carried at the head or front of the luggage and lamp bracket or other parts of
vehicles in the way hereinafter described.
I take a piece or length of wire (preferably steel) sufficient to form the combined
luggage carrier and lamp bracket and I bend the said wire upon itself at its
middle for a short distance so as to form a projecting arm like a loop on to
which the cycle or vehicle lamp may be fitted the other part of each arm or
branch of the wire being bent so as to form a skeleton trough or hooks for the
reception of a bag handle parcels or the like but I do not limit myself to the
shape of that part of the wire which constitutes the luggage carrier. The
extreme ends of the wire are bent at right angles with the luggage carrier so
as to be attached or detached in sockets formed on a clip with one screw only
to the head tube or steering column or handle bar of the cycle or other vehicles.
In combining the lamp bracket with an ordinary luggage carrier I may take a
short length of wire sufficient when doubled to form the lamp bracket and I
provide the the ordinary luggage carrier with sockets to receive the ends of the
wire.
It will be understood from the description hereinbefore given that the lamp
bracket is formed in one piece with or attached to the luggage carrier and is
situated at the front thereof so that any luggage carried by the cyclist may be
arranged between the lamp and the head tube or handle bar and does not conceal
or obstruct the light of the said lamp.
Dated this Thirty-first day of October 1898
WILLIAM HENRY READ.
92, Mott Street, Birmingham.
New and Improved Combined Luggage Carriers and Lamp Brackets
for Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes, and other Vehicles.
I. WILLIAM HENRY READ, of No. 92, Mott Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Brush Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: 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 new or improved combined luggage carriers and
lamp brackets for bicycles, tricycles and other velocipedes and which permits
parcels, hand bags and the like, commonly classified under the head of cyclists
and passengers luggage being carried at the head or front of bicycles and veloci-
pedes without concealing or obstructing the light of the cycle lamp usually carried
at the head or front of the cycle and this object I effect by combining the luggage
carrier and lamp bracket in the ways hereinafter described. My invention is
easily fixed and can be manufactured at a small cost while the existing lamp
bracket or brake in no way interferes with the fixing of the article.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
fully illustrated the nature of my said invention as applied to a cycle and from
which its application to other vehicles will be readily understood.
Figure 1 is a view of the head part of a bicycle shewing my carrier fixed thereto
with a lamp and bag attached.
Figure 2 is a similar view to Figure 1 but shewing the lamp and bag
detached.
Figure 3 is a section of Figure 2 on the line 1-2.
In carrying my invention into effect I take a piece or length of wire preferably
steel of a size sufficient to form the combined luggage carrier and lamp bracket
and I bend the said wire upon itself at its middle for a short distance so as to
form a projecting arm like a loop as shown by A upon which the cycle or vehicle
lamp may be fitted. The other part of each arm or branch of the wire being
bent so as to form a skeleton trough or hooks B for the reception of the handle
of the bag H or the like but I do not confine myself to the shape of that part of
the wire which constitutes the luggage carrier. The extreme ends C of the wire
are bent at right angles with the luggage carrier so as to be attached or detached
in sockets formed on a clip E attached to the head tube or steering column F
on handle bar of the cycle or other vehicle the carrier being shaped so that the
lamp bracket A and hooks B are in front of the ordinary lamp bracket J.
In combining the lamp bracket with an ordinary luggage carrier I may take
a short length of wire sufficient when doubled to form the lamn bracket and I
provide the ordinary luggage carrier with sockets to receive the ends of the
wire.
It will be understood from the description herein before given that the lamp
bracket is formed in one piece, with or attached to the luggage carrier and is
situated at the front thereof so that any luggage carried by the cyclist may
be arranged between the lamp and the head tube or handle bar and does not
conceal or obstruct the light of the said lamp as shewn by Figure 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my sa'd
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1st. The combination of the lamp bracket A and luggage carrier B substantially
as and for the purpose herein set forth and illustrated.
2ond. The combination lamp bracket A luggage carrier B and attachment
device C and D substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and
illustrated.
LEWIS WM. GOOLD,
Agent for Applicant, 5, Corporation Street, Birmingham.