Improvements in Horse and like Velocipedes.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse and like Velocipedes.
MAYFIELD ARCHIBALD LILLY Drug Stores and Medical Botanist 35 Colston
Street Saint Augustine's Bristol do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
An improved cycle to have two, three or four wheels.
The propelling power will be by a spring portable seat, cog wheels, chain, and
crank. The seat to rise and fall, and by the aid of a crank, cog wheels, chain, and the
motion of the rider, by placing his feet on a bar rest each side of the cycle to rise up
and down as (a horseman) causing the crank, to work the cog wheels, and chain
thus propelling the cycle.
Also the cycle to be covered with a frame work made of wire or wicker
(basket) work to fix on cycle and covered with hair skin to form shape of a horse or
any other animal, two electric (incandescent) lights, to form the eyes.
Dated this 17th day of December 1895
MAYFIELD A. LILLY.
Improvements in Horse and like Velocipedes.
I MAYFIELD AROhibald Lilly of 35 Colston Street, Saint Augustine's, Bristol,
in the County of Gloucester, Medical Botanist, 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 relates to an improved cycle or velocipede, having two or more
wheels, arranged to be propelled by the means of a vertical rack, suspended upon the
back of the seat of the rider, and engaging with a toothed wheel upon the shaft of
the back or driven wheel or wheels of the machine, vertical motion being imparted to
the said rack, and rotary motion to the said back wheel or wheels of the machine by
an up and down movement of the saddle, occasioned by a movement of the rider after
the manner of a person on horse-back, and a suitable spring or springs.
In order that my invention, and the manner of its operation may be fully under-
stood reference is hereinafter made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, of
which
Figs. 1 and 2 are side and back elevation respectively, of so much of a safety
bicycle as will suffice to make my invention clear and understood.
Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged views of details hereinafter explained.
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a safety bicycle, as I prefer to arrange the same, to
impart, for stage and other effects, (in combination with the particular motions of
the rider) that the rider is mounted on horseback.
In the following description of my invention, I have assumed and illustrated its
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page_text: application in connection with a safety bicycle, but I wish it understood that, by
a very slight modification of the details given (which will be easily appreciated by
those skilled in the manufacture of such machines,) the same principle may be
adaped to tricycles and other velocipedes having more than two wheels, and it is
my intention to employ the same in the construction of such machines.
In carrying my invention into effect, I dispense with the usual pedal spindle in
the bottom bracket A of the machine, and so arrange the back end of the back-
fork B, as to carry a pair of vertical solid or tubular rods C and C, these being
connected at their upper ends to one end of a pair of rods, or a bifarcated rod D,
the opposite ends or end of which, are or is connected to a junction piece E,
forming a tie for this, and a solid or tubular rod F, (the latter usually constituting
the seat pillar in this class of machine) and a solid or tubular rod G, the latter,
and a solid or hollow rod H, extending from the bottom bracket A, being both
connected to the tube of the front fork (not shown) in the usual way.
The spindle of the back or driven wheel J, carries a small sprocket wheel K,
which gears by the means of a suitable chain L, with a larger sprocket wheel M,
mounted upon a spindle N, carried by the elbows forming the junction of the
rods C and D, the said sprocket wheel M being connected to, or formed integrally
with, a wheel Ó, having ratchet teeth O', and provided with a broad flange P.
The junction piece E has brazed or otherwise connected thereto, at a suitable
angle, a standard R, to the upper end of which is pivotally connected the front end
of the frame S, of any type of seat S₁, suitable for the purpose, the back end of
the said seat frame S being pivotally connected to a suitably curved arm T, which
depends therefrom, and finds a place between the sprocket wheel M, and the
flange P, the said arms having upon its back face ratchet teeth a, similar to those
upon the wheel 0, and may be kept in gear with O by the means of a suitable
spring or springs, such for instance as that shewn by dotted outline at b, connected
to the seat frame S, or that shewn by dotted outline at c connected to the rod or
rods D, or both these or like springs may be employed, but preferably the latter,
if only one be used, as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4.
Upon the rods or bifarcated rod D is pivotally mounted a short tube V, closed
at its lower end, and provided, internally, with a spiral spring d, the tension of
which operates to push outwardly a plunger e having at its upper end a head f
pivotally connected in a suitable position to the saddle frame S, the tension of the
said spring serving to keep the seat S₁ in its highest and normal position, as
shewn in full lines in Fig. 1. The manner of operating the propulsion of the
machine is as follows.
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The rider on mounting the machine would place his feet upon a suitable bar or rest
at each side of the machine, which may conveniently take the form of loops or
stirrups, such as W, pivotally mounted upon the frame of the machine, in front of,
and near to, the bottom bracket A, as shewn in Fig. 1, or in any other position most
suitable for the rider, and upon the weight of the rider being deposited upon the
seat S¹, the back end of this would descend, to a greater or lesser extent, according as
the rider may seat himself near to, or farther from, the standard R, the said descent
of the seat carrying with it the arm T, and consequently imparting motion to the
toothed wheel O, and sprocket wheel M, the latter of which, by the means of the
chain L, would impart motion at a greater speed to the smaller sprocket wheel K and
consequently the driven wheel J, and so propel the machine for a given distance,
before the expiration of which the rider would rise from the saddle, and so transfer
his weight to the rests or stirrups W, when the seat S¹, would again rise by the tension
of the spring d, carrying with it the arm T, the ratchet teeth a of which would pass
idly over the teeth Of of the wheel O, but would be still kept in contact therewith by
the tension of the spring or springs b, or c, or both, (guided by the sprocket
wheel M on the one side, and the flange P on the other,) ready for again
operating by its descent the rotation of the wheel O directly the rider again
transfers his weight from the rests or stirrups W to the seat S¹, and by this

page_text: means the machine would be propelled by a motion of the rider similar to that
of riding on horse-back.
A suitable brake may be provided upon the machine operating upon the front
or steering wheel in the usual way, and while this is being applied, the rider may
rest his weight upon the seat, or upon the rest or stirrups W, or both, as may be
desired, as teeth of the wheel would pass idly over the teeth of the arm T,
notwithstanding that the latter may be stationery.
Upon the rod C would be mounted and bolted or otherwise fixed, a tapered or
curved stop-piece g, and in a general way, when propelling the machine, the lower
end of the arm T would stop short of this, but when the machine is travelling
down hill, the rider may, by sitting further back upon the seat, or by pressing
more firmly upon the rests or stirrups W, or both, lower the said seat until the
stopf rests upon the upper end of the tube V, the position of the saddle then
being that shown by dotted outline in Fig. 1, or thereabouts, and this position of
the seat would lower the arm T sufficient for its lower end to collide with, and
pass over, the stop piece g, which would place the teeth a of T out of gear with
the teeth of the wheel O, as shewn by the diagram Fig. 4, thus permitting the
machine to glide along freely by the aid of gravity alone.
I may provide for the said machine a frame of wire or wicker (basket) work,
in the form of the body, head, and neck of a horse or other animal, and cover
the same with a natural or other hair skin, as at Fig. 5, provision being made
in this for the protrusion of the handle bar h, seat S₁, and the rests or stirrups W,
so that the rider may appear as if riding on horseback, and I may arrange in
place of the said dummy-animal's eyes, a pair of incandescent electric lamps, and
arrange for the lighting of these by a primary or secondary battery, concealed
within the said wire or other frame, and such an arrangement will be fully under-
stood by reference to Fig. 5.
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
1st. A velocipede constructed and arranged to be propelled by the rider or
riders exercising a motion similar to that of riding on horseback, in combination
with suitable mechanism for conveying such motion to the driven track-wheel or
wheels of the machine, and with or without a frame or cover for such machine
representing a horse or other animal, and with or without the employment of
electric lamps occupying a place in lieu of the eyes of same, substantially as herein
described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
2nd. In an improved velocipede, the combination with the back fork B, of a
pair of rods or tubes C and C connected by rods or tubes or a bifarcated rod D,
to the remainder of the frame of the machine, the said rods or tubes C and Ci
supporting a spindle N, carrying a ratchet wheel O, with flange P, and connected
to a sprocket wheel M, geared by a suitable chain L, with a sprocket whee! K,
mounted upon the spindle of the hind wheel or wheels J of the machine, with
standard R mounted upon the frame of the machine, and pivotally connected to
the front end of the saddle S¹, supported upon a spring plunger such as e d, V,
the said saddle being pivotally connected at its back end to a depending arm T,
having ratchet teeth a, in gear with the wheel O, by the tension of a spring or
springs such as b, or c or both, the said frame carrying suitable foot rests or stirrups
such as W, the whole connected, combined, and operating substantially as herein
described and shewn.
3rd. In combination with a velocipede as set forth in the preceding claim the
employment of a frame of wire or wicker (basket) work, shaped and suitably covered
to represent a horse or other animal, and arranged to be fixed upon and carried by the
said machine, and the employment of any form of electric generator, or storage, for
lighting a pair of incandescent lamps, occupying the position of the eyes of the said

page_text: representation of a horse or the like, substantially as herein described and shewn,
more particularly by Fig. 5 of the drawings.
Dated this 18th day of September 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for Applicant.