An Improved Quadrant or Attachment for Dress Guards on Bicycles and Velocipedes for Ladies.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1897.
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 29th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Quadrant or Attachment for Dress Guards on Bicycles
and Velocipedes for Ladies.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM BENSON DEAR, of Chase Side, Southgate, in the County
of Middlesex, Ironmonger & Cycle Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to means or appliances for the holding and tension
of the dress guards which are usually made of cord lacing or network and
affixed to Ladies Bicycles for preventing the clothes of the rider from contact
with the wheel of the bicycle; the said appliance taking the place of the wire
loops or quadrants now in use.
The objects of my invention are. to provide for the self adjustment of the above
mentioned dress guards, and also to provide a ready means of attachment &
detachment of the same for the purposes of cleaning or repairing the machine
or its tyres.
For the purposes of holding and tension I provide a metal attachment for fixing
on the top stays or on the axle of the back wheel of a bicycle having a cylinder
or suitable device for the reception of a spiral spring which actuates a piston
having a bar or crosspiece at its outer end; the said bar or crosspiece being
provided with a hook at each of its ends into which a wire ring can be engaged
and the cord lacing or network which forms the dress-guard can be laced or
affixed through the holes in the mudguard and also through the ring in the usual
manner, the action of the said spiral spring on the piston producing the tension
necessary to keep the cord lacing or network tight.
In order to detach the guards, the crossbar of the piston is pressed towards the
cylinder or device mentioned above and the cords becoming slack, the rings can
then be disengaged from their respective hooks, the guards thereby becoming
free.
An Improved Quadrant or Attachment for Dress Guards on Bicycles
and Velocipedes for Ladies.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM BENSON DEAR, of Chase Side, Southgate, in the County
of Middlesex, Ironmonger & Cycle Maker, 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 has reference to means or appliances for the holding and tension
of the dress guards which are usually made of cord lacing or network and
especially those which are made in two separate fan shaped sections and affixed

page_text: to ladies cycles for preventing the clothes of the rider from contact with the
wheel of the cycle; the said appliance taking the place of the wire loops or quad-
rants now in use.
The objects of my invention are to provide for the adjustment of the above
mentioned dress guards, and also to provide a ready means of attachment and
detachment of the same, for the purposes of cleaning or repairing the machine
or its tyres.
In order to clearly explain this my invention I have appended hereunto illus-
trative drawings, upon which are letters; and each similar letter refers to the
same thing or part in the various drawings.
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of this my invention.
Fig. 2 is a detail front view of the attachment and cylinder.
Fig. 3 is a modification of Fig. 2 showing how I may substitute a pressure screw
in place of the spring.
Fig. 4 is a modification of the piston and crosspiece, showing how I may adapt
it to suit the gear case side of a cycle.
The small section is the end of the crosspiece showing the hook; and this I
may modify but it appears to answer very well in this form.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3, it will be seen that A is an attachment for fixing to
the top stays or axle of the back wheel of a cycle, having a cylinder B into
which the piston D will slide: the piston being preferably hollow at its top or
inner end, for the reception of the spring C, as shown in Fig. 1, or for the end
of the pressure screw K which is shown in Fig. 3, the outer end of the piston
having the crosspicce E which is provided with a book F at each of its ends on
which a wire ring G çan be engaged.
The cord lacing or network may be laced or affixed through the holes in the
mudguard, and also through the rings GG Fig. 1, in the usual manner, the
application of the spring C, or the pressure screw K, producing the tension
necessary to keep the cord lacing or network tight.
In order to detach the dress guards, when the spring C is used as a factor to
produce the pressure for adjustment and tension, the crosspiece E must be pressed
upwards towards the cylinder B.: the dress guards will then become slack, and
the rings GG can be disengaged from their respective hooks FF, the dress
guards thereby becoming free.
To detach them, when the pressure screw K is used as the factor to produce
the pressure for adjustment and tension, it is necessary to unscrew the said
screw K a few turns, and then detach the rings GG from the hooks U F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. Constructing quadrants or attachments for cycle dress guards, which having
a means of adjustment, can be fixed to the frame or axle of a cycle, and from
which the dress guard may be entirely detached by the disengaging of two
rings GG as shown in Fig. 1, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In quadrants or attachments for cycle dress guards, the application of a
downward or thrust pressure to the piston D and thence to the crosspiece E
exerted by a factor situate, or acting from, above the bar, or crosspiece E, to
which the dress guard is attached, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 13th day of December 1897.