An Improved Framework for Bicycles, Tricycles, and other Velocipedes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb, 1890-Accepted, 8th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Framework for Bicycles, Tricycles, and other
Velocipedes.
FRANK ARCHER of Pheonix Brewery Dorset Road South Lambeth in the County
of Surrey Brewer and ARTHUR SYDNEY BOWLEY of Balham Grove Balham in the
County of Surrey Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to Bicycles Tricycles and other Velocipedes, and has for
its object, the improvement of that part of the machines known as the Frame Work,
and the making of the same in such a manner or way as shall be very light and
strong and of novel and elegant appearance.
We will describe this our invention as applied to a rear driving Safety Bicycle.
According to one form we mount on, or attach or affix to, the axle end of the
driving wheel on one or both sides thereof a ring or rings of any convenient size
or shape or section and which according to this form of our invention projects or
project forward towards that part of the machine known as the Head or Neck, or
steering part and to which it or they may be attached or connected in any suitable
manner or form-And to make this unique Frame Work very strong and practicably
unbreakable, and to entirely prevent it from collapsing we may attach or affix a
number of spokes, lengths of wire or tube or other material and which may be the
same as, or similar to, the spokes used in the making of bicycle wheels, of any
pattern or design, to the periphery or peripheries of the said ring or rings and
screw into a smaller ring or rings disk or disks, preferably concentric thereto
we may do without the disks or rings aforesaid and stretch across from side to
side, or affix, the spokes or wire, tube or other material in any convenient manner
shape or form.
Or
A. S. BOWLEY.
FRANK ARCHER.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Framework for Bicycles, Tricycles, and other
Velocipedes.
We FRANK ARCHER of Phoenix Brewery Dorset Road South Lambeth in the
county of Surrey Brewer and ARTHUR SYDNEY BOWLEY of Balham Grove Balham
in the county of Surrey Engineer 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 .-
The object of this our invention is so to construct and fit and arrange what is called
and known as the frame work or frame for and of a bicycle or a tricycle or other
velocipede that the same shall be extremely light but quite as strong and rigid and
firm as is necessary or desirable for this part of the velocipede while at the same
time this frame shall be very easy and comfortable in use and can be very elegant
in appearance.
In order the more clearly to explain this our invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed we refer to the accompanying drawing wherein we have
shown our invention as applied to and with a bicycle in and according to two
methods or styles or forms of construction and fitment.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rear-driving dwarf or safety bicycle shewing one
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page_text: form of this our invention and Figure 2 is also a side elevation of a rear-driving
dwarf or safety bicycle shewing another form of this our invention.
We make a very light ring A of any suitable material such for example as metal the
periphery or rim whereof in cross section may be of any desired style and shape such
for example as tubular or tubulous or crescental or otherwise or it may be only a strip
or ribbon or it may be otherwise created in manner as may be desired in each
particular case and in side elevation the ring A may be of a circular shape as is shewn
in Figure 1 or may be of an oval or elliptical shape as is shewn in Figure 2 or may
be of any shape so long as the necessary curvature of the periphery or rim of this
ring or the greater part thereof or that is to say the ring itself is maintained.
As is hereinbefore stated this ring A is very light in construction and is not
capable unassisted of performing its functions as will hereinafter be described and
to support the same and to prevent it collapsing when any strain is put upon it
we fit the ring as follows.
When the ring A is circular as is shown in Figure 1 we may provide the same
with a suitable central hub like the hubs of ordinary wheels and connect this hub with
the periphery of the ring in the ordinary manner by and through the usual spokes or
preferably as is shewn in the drawing in this case we dispense with the hub and
connect the opposing or other parts of the periphery of the ring by and through
diametrical or other rods or wires B or other appliances in tension which may be
arranged as shewn in pairs and are secured to the periphery of the ring in any usual
or convenient manner.
When the ring A' is oval or elliptical as is shewn in Figure 2 or is of other shape
as aforesaid we may in a similar manner fit diametrical or other rods or appliances
but preferably as is shewn in the drawing in this case we provide an hub C and
connect this hub (with the rim of the ring by and through radial or other rods or
wires D or other appliances in tension which are secured and connected to and with
the rim of the ring and the hub in any usual or convenient manner
The rods or wires B and D or other appliances may be either plane and straight or
corrugated as may be desired.
This ring A therefore when constructed as herein before described can and will be
extremely light but quite as strong and rigid and firm when in a vertical position as
is necessary or desirable.
To one the proper part of this ring A is fitted and attached any usual bearing E
which can receive the end of the axle of the rear driving wheel F constructed and
fitted in any ordinary manner and to another the proper corresponding or relative
part of this ring A is fitted and attached any usual bearing H which can receive the
axle of the cranks or pedals K constructed and fitted in any ordinary manner and
from and by another the proper corresponding or relative part of this ring A is supported
the saddle or seat L through any usual brackets or springs or other appliances M
which preferably are as is shewn in the drawing attached to the ring A in two or it
may be more places so as to spread the weight of the rider and prevent the whole of
the strain being concentrated at one point.
To another the proper corresponding or relative part of this ring A is connected the
fork or head or neck N of the front steering wheel P in such manner as may be
necessary or convenient having regard to the particular method or arrangement of the
steering apparatus and of steering thereby.
When the ring A is circular as is shewn in Figure 1 in order to maintain the
desired distance between the two wheels F and P and yet prevent any undue and
unsightly and inconvenient too great an enlargement of this ring A we preferably
interpose between this ring A and the fork N two rigid rods or bars R the one ends
whereof can be attached to the ring A as far apart as may be possible or convenient
while the other ends thereof are connected in the proper manner to the fork N.
When however the ring A¹ is oval or elliptical as is shewn in Figure 2 or 1s of other
shape as aforesaid it may not be and generally is not requisite to interpose these rigid
rods or bars and we can connect the ring A¹ directly in the proper manner to the
fork N by preferably two suitable clamps or bands T.

page_text: This ring A so constructed and fitted and arranged as hereinbefore described and as
shewn in the drawing constitutes the frame work of the bicycle according to this our
invention and will be very easy and comfortable in use and can be very elegant in
appearance as is desired.
Whenever it may be necessary or desirable so to do we can fit one of these rings in
a similar manner to each end of the axle of the rear driving wheel both of which
rings would be connected in a similar manner to the fork of the front steering wheel
and it might be convenient to connect the peripheries or rims of these rings together
by cross bars and the axle of the cranks or pedals would preferably be common to
and mounted on both rings and the hub also if any would preferably be common to
both rings being made of any usual or convenient form and style.
According to another style of construction the periphery or rim of the ring may
be split or divided at its rear part and be so separated as to form a kind of fork for
the reception of the rear driving wheel and thus a single ring could be fitted to both
ends of the axle of the rear driving wheel.
It may also sometimes be desirable to stiffen the periphery or rim of the ring in
certain parts or places as for example between the bearings of the axle of the rear
driving wheel and of the axle of the cranks or pedals and this can be effected either
by strengthening the periphery or rim itself or by fitting a bar or rod as a chord
thereto
It may again sometimes be convenient and especially when the ring 15 oval or
elliptical as is shewn in Figure 2 to omit or excise that part thereof that lies between
the two points of connection with the fork of the front steering wheel and this can be
effected as is shewn in this Figure 2 wherein the clamps or bands T are formed and
fitted to receive and retain the ends of the rim of the ring A¹.
We have thus described and we have shewn in the accompanying drawing this
our invention as applied to and with a rear-driving dwarf or safety bicycle but it
is sufficiently obvious that it can be applied in a similar manner to and with many
or even most other kinds of velocipedes in all cases the axles of the driving wheels
whether the ends or the middles or other parts thereof being mounted on the rings
in one position the axles of the cranks or pedals being mounted on the rings in
a second position the saddles or seats being mounted on the rings in a third
position and the forks of the steering wheels being connected to the rings in a
fourth position and no further description or explanation is or can be needed.
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
1 For a velocipede the frame work consisting of a collapsible ring or collapsible
rings supported by tensional appliances substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. In a velocipede the combination in and between and with the fork of the
steering wheel or wheels and the axle of the driving wheel or wheels of the ring
or rings A provided with tensional appliances B and the rods R substantially as
hereinbefore described
3. In a velocipede the combination in and between and with the fork of the
steering wheel or wheels and the axle of the driving wheel or wheels of the ring
or rings A¹ provided with an hub or hubs C and tensional appliances D and the
clamps T substantially as herein before described
4. The frame work of a velocipele constructed and fitted substantially as herein-
before described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
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