Improvements in the Frames, Gear Cases, Saddles, Seats, and other parts of Velocipedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1897
Complete Specificational aft 02-10
1005
Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1897-Accepted, 22nd Jan.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Frames, Gear Cases, Saddles, Seats, and other
parts of Velocipedes.
I, ELIZABETH ANN WILLIAMS (Mrs.), of No. 21, John Street, Rhyl, in the
County of Flint, North Wales, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the application of a material hereinafter described
for use in the manufacture of frames, gear cases, saddles, seats, and other parts
of velocipedes. It has been usual to make or cover such articles with leather,
plush woven horsehair, fabric and the like. By my invention I make such
articles which will stand greater strain and wear than heretofore. My invention
consists in the application of a material made by plaiting or braiding strands
or strips of cord corded or woven wire, horsehair hide, leather, skin, gut, gutta-
percha rubber yarn hemp, cotton, silk, strips of metal, whalebone, marloid or
other material or materials whether in combination with one or the other or in
one material. In carrying my invention into practice I provide a suitably con-
structed braiding or plaiting machine and take strips or strands of any of the
aforesaid materials either separately or in combination one with the other and
plait or braid the said strips by aid of the machine into the required form such
for example as the sides or edges of a gear case for cycles or for the pannel of a
saddle or for an ordinary seat the said plaiting or braiding material may be
made up by any suitable means as circumstances may require to adapt it to
the required article, or I may shape it by aid of the machine into tubes for the
frames of velocipedes the said tubes being fastened together and strengthened
by any suitable means. Or I may shape the aforesaid material into handles for
velocipedes or into hubs for wheels. I may in some cases coat or cover the said
material with a film or coating of rubber or other caoutchoucine substance or
with fabric.
I do not confine myself to any particular method of applying the aforesaid
material. I may modify the same in any detail as may be necessary to carry
the same into effect without departing from the nature thereof.
Dated this 18th day of Tanum 1007

page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and. by the following statement:
This invention relates to the application of a material hereinafter described
for use in the manufacture of frames, gear-cases, saddles, seats, and other parts
of velocipedes, such material being made by plaiting or braiding strands or strips
of cord, wire, horsehair, hide, leather, skin, gut, gutta-percha, yarn, hemp, cotton,
silk, strips of metal, whalebone, marloid, and the like whether in combination
with one or the other or in one material. The plaiting or braiding may be
performed either by hand or by aid of a suitable machine. My invention will
be more clearly understood from the accompanying drawings the same letters
of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Figure 1 represents a portion of material plaited or braided according to my
invention the strands or plaits being double and may be any of the flat or strip
materials hereinbefore mentioned or they may be composed of lengths or strands
of wire.
Figure 2 illustrates another method of making the said material by forming
single plaits preferably of one of the flat or strip materials viz. strips of leather.
Figure 3 shows the manner in which the said material may be applied to the
construction of velocipede frames. A length of tubing is formed by plaiting
thin strips of steel or other metal which is cut into lengths suitable for the con-
struction of the said frames the ends being connected to the joints by any
suitable means.
Figure 4 illustrates the manner in which the said material is employed for
the manufacture of gear-cases for cycles. I may use either the double plaiting
shown at Figure 1 or the single in Figure 2.
Figure 5 shows the method of applying the said material to cycle saddles
(which may in like manner be applied to seats) have only thought it necessary
to show the single plait but the double may be used.
Figure 6 illustrates the manner in which the single plaited material Figure 2
is applied to a cycle handle or grip. I do not confine myself to single plaiting
and may use double. Figs. 7 & 8 show the manner in which my invention is
applied to Tyre Covers. I may apply my improved material to the tread part of
pedals in a like manner to that of a cycle handle by placing it over a wood,
metal, or other core or foundation, or I may when desired dispense with the
In Figs. 7 and 8 the plaiting is done in an endless band by double
wood boss.
and single plaits.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
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The Improvements in the frames and gear-cases, saddles, seats, and other parts
of velocipedes made from plaited or braided material substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of October 1897.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.