Improvements in connection with Velocipedes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Velocipedes.
We WILLIAM BOWN LIMITED, 308 Summer Lane, Birmingham in the County
of Warwick, Engineers and General Manufacturers and GEORGE EDWARD
ASTON, 203 Clifton Road, Aston juxta Birmingham aforesaid, Machinist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved clip for securing the brake-work of
a velocipede in position so that it can easily be attached or detached without the
necessity of having to take out the front wheel. According to our invention we
take a piece of sheet steel or other suitable metal of the required size and form a
slot in the centre and a hole at either end by suitable press tools. We then bend
the said piece of sheet steel in half 30 that the holes at either end come opposite
to one another, leaving the two halves the required distance apart, to enable
a pin or bolt to pass between. A small piece of sheet steel or other suitable
metal of the required shape is also cut by suitable press tools with a hole
at either end and afterwards bent over so as to bring the two holes opposite to one
another, the centre portion thereof being so formed as to enable the pin or bolt,
which passes between the two halves of the larger piece of sheet steel, to pass
between such centre portion. It will easily he understood that when the larger
piece of sheet steel is bent in half the slot in the centre will form a U shape which
fits around the centre portion of the"" double plate crown" of a velocipede. The
smaller piece of sheet steel which also fits between the said U shaped portion of
the larger piece is then placed in position and the pin or bolt passed between the
two, by which means they are firmly clipped around the centre portion of the said
double plate crown. The two holes which come opposite one another in the larger
piece of sheet steel form a socket for the plunger of the brake to slide up and down
in, and the two holes in the smaller piece are utilized for securing the top end of a
front mud-guard in position.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1896.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Velocipedes.
We. WILLIAM BOWN LTD., of 308 Summer Lane, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Engineers and General Manufacturers, and GEORGE EDWARD
ASTON, of 203 Clifton Road, Aston juxta Birmingham, aforesaid Machinist, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has reference to an improved clip for securing the brake-work of
a veloripede in position so that it can be easily attached or detached without the
necessity of having to take out the front wheel. According to our invention we

page_text: take a piece of sheet steel or other suitable metal of the required size and form a
slot in the centre and a hole at either end by suitable press tools. We then bend
the said piece of sheet steel in half so that the holes ab either end come opposite to
one another leaving the two halves the required distance apart to enable a pin or
bolt to pass between. A smaller piece of sheet steel or other suitable metal of the
required shape is also cut by suitable press tools with a hole at either end and
afterwards bent over so as to bring the two holes opposite to one another the
centre portion thereof being so formed as to enable the pin or bolt, which passes
between the two halves of the larger piece of sheet steel to pass between such
centre portion. It will be easily understood that when the larger piece of sheet
steel is bent in half the slot in the centre will form a U shape which fits around
the centre portion of the "double plate crown" of a velocipede. The smaller piece
of sheet steel which also fits between the said U shaped portion of the larger piece
is then placed in position and the pin or bolt passed between the two by which
means they are firmly clipped around the centre portion of the said "double plate
crown." The two holes which come opposite one another in the larger piece of
sheet steel form a socket for the plunger of the brake to slide up and down in, and
the two halves in the smaller piece are utilized for securing the top end of a front
mudguard in position.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and inore easily carried
into practical effect we have appended hereunto a double-sized sheet of drawings
upon which we have illustrated an example of our brake clip.
Figure 1 is a plan view of a strip A of sheet metal after passing through the
first process or processes from which we form our brake clip.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the strip A after it has been bent or doubled in half
and a bush a fitted between the ends.
Figure 3 is an edge view of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a similar view to Figure 1 of another portion B of our brake clip.
Figure 5 is a plan view of the part B doubled in half.
Figure 6 is an edge view of Figure 5.
Figure 7 shews the pin and nut for securing the clip in position.
Figures 8 and 9 are plan and elevation respectively of the bush a'.
Figure 10 is a view of a "safety" frame with our brake clip attached.
In carrying our invention into practice we take a piece A of sheet steel or other
metal and form it by suitable tools as shewu at Fig. 1 with a slot a' in the centre
and two holes a³ and a³ at either end, we then bend it in half bringing the
holes a and a opposite one another as shewn at Figures 2 and 3, leaving them the
required distance apart so as to insert the bush a between, the slot a assuming
a U shape. We now take another piece B of sheet steel or other metal and
form is as shewn at Figure 4 by suitable tools. It is then beut as shewn at
Figures 5 and 6 bringing the ends 6', opposite one another and forming the
centre portion & round so as to allow the pin or bolt D (see Fig. 7) to pass
between. To fix the brake to the "safety" as shewn at Figure 10 the plunger
rod E is passed through the bush a and the U shaped part passed around the
centre portion of the "double plate crown" the part B is then fitted between the
ends a, a and the pin or bolt D'inserted between the said ends a, a and the round
part by which means it will be easily understood that the part A is firmly clipped
around the centre portion of the "double plate crown" the bush a forming a
soeket for the plunger rode to slide up and down in. The part formed at the
end of the mudguard K fits between the ends , and is held in position by the
pin or bolt the other end of the mudguard being fastened to the spindle of
the front hub by the stays in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
First. In a velocipede a clip for securing the plunger red of a brake cousisting

page_text: essentially of a such like part as A with its ends a, a brought together with or
without the bush a and secured in the manner as and for the purpose substantially
herein described and shewn on the accompanying drawings.
Second. In a velocipede a clip for securing the top end of a front mudguard such
as K consisting essentially of the part such as B with its ends bb brought
together the centre portion 63 being formed and secured by a pin D to the part A
in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein before described and
shewn on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of September 1896.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.