A New or Improved Device for Supporting Bicycles when at Rest.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1895-Accepted, 27th July, 1895
A New or Improved Device for Supporting Bicycles when at Rest.
1, ALBERT LUCAS, of Kaufmann, Magdeburg, Empire of Germany, Merchant,
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 is designed with a view to supply a quick and easy means by which
a bicycle rider, upon alighting from his machine, may support the same in a vertical
position, during his absence, without the hitherto experienced inconvenience of
having to find a curb stone or other rise in the road upon which one of his pedals
may rest, which I attain by providing of wood, thin metal tubing or other material
of light weight, a prop or stay capable of being easily fixed upon, and carried
with, the frame of the machine when travelling, and quickly placed in position for
supporting the machine when at rest.
In order that my invention and the manner of its application may be fully
understood I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings, in which :-
Figs. 1 and 2 are two views of my invention according to one method of
arranging the universal joint thereof.
Fig. 3 is a view of same, similar to Fig. 2 in which an alternative form of joint
is employed.
Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged views of two forms of clips or hooks I may employ
for carrying the free end of my invention when not in use.
Fig. 6 is an elevation of so much of a bicycle as will serve to illustrate the
application of my invention thereto.
For the purposes of my invention I provide of wood or metal, tubing or both,
or other substance not likely to materially add to the weight of the machine, a
prop or stay A, which may be in one piece, or in two lengths capable of telescoping
one within the other, in order that its length may be adjustable. One end of A
is connected by a ball and socket B (Figs. 1 and 2) or double knee or other
universal joint C (Fig. 3), to a spring clip D, by which A may be connected to
The opposite
any part of the frame or other convenient portion of the machine.
or free end of A may be fitted with a bifurcated clip E (Figs. 1 and 2) or a
spring clip F such as Fig. 4, or a spring book G such as Fig. 5, or any other
device by which this end of A may be suspended and held, when not in use, in
connection with the frame or other convenient part of the machine, as illustrated
by the full lines in the view Fig. 6; or the said clip, hook or the like may be
fixed to the frame or other part of the machine, that the end of A may engage
therewith.
Upon alighting from the machine the rider would simply disconnect A from the
clip or the like, E, F, or G, if this be fixed upon the machine, or from the machine
if this be fixed upon A, when by lowering A to the ground (as shewn by the
dotted outline in Fig. 6) the machine by being slightly tilted towards the same
would be supported thereby without further aid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the game is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In an improved device for supporting in a vertical position a bicycle when not
the application thereto of a solid. hollow or telescopic prop or stay A,
in use

page_text: connected by a ball and socket joint such as C, to a spring clip such as D, and by
the latter to any portion of the frame or other part of the machine, the opposite
end of A, when not in use, being suspended by a clip such as E, F or G, to any
convenient part of the machine substantially as and for the purpose herein
described and shewn.
Dated this 27th day of June 1895.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.