Improvements in Mud Wheel or other Guards for Cycles, Cabs, and other Vehicles and Machinery.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1899
Improvements in Mud Wheel or other Guards for Cycles, Cabs, and
other Vehicles and Machinery.
JAMES PEARSON, 103, Shaw Street, Liverpool, Commission Agent, and EDWARD
MOUNSEY, 256, Whitefield Road, Liverpool, Mineral Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:--
Improvement, consists of a barrel or barrels and fixings, and shall apply to cycles,
moter cars, cabs, hansom cabs, coaches, and all vehicles, to which mud guards are
applicable. The same may be applied to machinery for prevention of accidents
under the Factory and Workshops Acts.
Inside of such barrel or barrels, is a band or bands, such bands may be round, flat,
oval, or bevel, and worked by a spring or springs, and draw out and close up
instantaneous, and may be made of steel, brass, aluminum, leather, rubber canvas,
or other suitable material, affixed also to the barrel or barrels. Outside is a scraper
or brush, for keeping the guards clean.
The barrels may be made single or double.
The brackets which, are fixed on the frame or side of the machines, contains, a
spring or springs, such spring or springs, to hold a wire peg or pegs, or tube or tubes,
which is fitted into such bracket or brackets, to hold the guard in its proper
place, such peg or pegs or tube or tubes may work up or down, sideways, or
lengthways.
Improvements in Mud Wheel or other Guards for Cycles, Cabs, and
other Vehicles and Machinery.
We, JAMES PEARSON, 103, Shaw Street, Liverpool, Commission Agent, and
EDWARD MOUNSEY, 256, Whitefield Road, Liverpool, Mineral Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what mauner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to mud, wheel; or other guards, for cycles, cabs, and other
vehicles, and machinery, and consists of a flexible band or ribbon which is sup- .

page_text: ported around the wheel to be guarded, bý stays, which are capable of folding into
a small space, said guard being adapted to be wound upon a spring actuated bobbin
when not in use.
In the drawing hereto annexed Figure 1 is an outside view, Figures 2 and 3 are
cross-sections, and Figure 4 is a longitudinal section, of the barrel which contains
the guard and bobbin. Figures 5 to 7 are detail views of means for swivelling
and locking the supporting stays. Figure 8 shews the improved guard applied as a
mud-guard upon the front wheel of a bicycle.
Within the barrel a is journalled the bobbin b upon which the guard d is wound. The
bobbin is actuated by a volute spring e and is controlled by the pawl f taking into a
ratchet wheel g. The guard passes through the slot.c and over the brush h, and
is thus cleaned by the latter before it is wound in. The barrel a is attached to the
crown of the front fork, as shewn in Figure 8. The guard is extended by the
stays and, which are forked and swivelled at each side of the wheel to be guarded.
The stay i is hinged in the bracket (Figures 5 and 7) and may move through one
quarter of a circle, being locked in its extreme positions by the spring actuated pin m.
Figure 5 shews the position assumed by the stays when outstretched, and Figure 7
shews the position of the stay i when folded against the fork of the bicycle. It will be
seen that the pin m locks the stay in the two positions shewn. To release the stay
the pin is withdrawn against its spring. Both stays are attached to the guard by
clips or hooks upon the latter. The stay kis hinged to the stay i much in the same
way as umbrella stays are hinged. A projection n upon the hinge of the stay k
limits the movement of such stay towards the wheel fork, whilst the clips or hooks
upon the guard, or the tension of the guard, prevents the stay from closing down
upon the stay i. When the guard is wound into the barrel a the stays i and k lie
close against the front fork of the bicycle.
The
Although we have described our invention as applied to a bicycle wheel, it must
be understood that the invention is equally applicable to other wheels.
invention is also adaptable for guarding machinery in motion as prescribed by the
Factory and Workshop Acts."
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The herein described collapsible guard, comprising a flexible guard, a spring actuated
bobbin controlled by pawl and ratchet, a brush upon the barrel of said guard, and
folding stays for extending said guard, said stays being locked in the extreme
positions by a spring actuated pin, all combined and adapted to operate, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein set forth with reference to the drawings
hereto annexed.