An Improved Carrier or Support for Bloyoles and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 24th Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Carrier or Support for Bloyoles and the like.
I, JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, of Lexden, Bath Road, Reading, Berkshire,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a carrier or support particularly applicable for holding
bicycles in such a manner as to take the weight of the machine off the tyres and to
leave both hands free to clean or repair the machine.
My improved carrier or eupport consists of a pair of brackets fixed to a wall or
other support at a convenient height from the ground and distance apart according
to the length and size of the machine frame. Each bracket has a movable arm
binged or otherwise suitably connected to it so as to be capable of being moved in
a horizontal plane and locked in any desired position. Each arm may be hollow
to receive interchangeable fittings, viz., for a man's bicycle a broad hook or rest
adapted to engage the cross bar or stay and, for a ladies' bicycle or similar
machine without a cross bar the shank of a bobbin or barrel shaped stem adapted
to go under the loop at either end of the frame, or as an alternative the hooks or
rests or bobbins could be pivoted to the arms. The broad hooks in the one case
and the bobbins in the other case hold the machine securely, relieve the tyres of
all weight, and enable the machine to be cleaned or ropnired with great facility.
When not in use the horizontal arms can be turned back against the wall or
other support so as to be out of the way.
Dated this 25th day of August 1896.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Carrier or Support for Bicycles and the like.
I, JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, of Lexden, Bath Road, Reading, in the County of
Berks, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and uscertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a carrier or support particularly applicable for holding
bicycles in such a inanuer as to take the weight of the machine off the tyres so
that the wheels can he turned round freely as require I and without having to raise
the machine and further the attendant has both hands at liberty to clean, adjust or
repair the machine.
In the accompanying three sheets of drawings-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of my improved carrier or support
for a bicycle, closed or folded back out of the way.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the carrier opened out into its working position.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 2.

page_text: Fig. 4 is a view of a modified form of carrier.
Figs. 5 and 6 represent a side elevation and plan view respectively of another
form of carrier, and
Fig. 7 is a side elevation of another modification.
Fig. 8 shows two bicycles, a lady's and a man's, both supported on three of the
single brackets.
In the drawings,-Figs. 1 to 4,-a a are two open castings forming brackets
which can be secured to a wall or other support by means of screws or bolts and
are each provided with two holes, one above the other, to receive an adjustable
tube b bent at a right angle where it passes through the holes and is supported by
the upper part of a when in the position shown in Fig. 1. In each adjustable tube b
is fitted the end of an arm c of which the collar the hook and intermedinte
portion are covered with rubber or other suitable material so as not to scratch the
enainel of a bicycle when supported on the carrier.
In order to bring the adjustable tubes b into the position shown in Figs. 2, 3
and 4, they are raised and moved outward until over the recessed portions a
of the brackets a into which they are allowed to drop and by which they aro
Jocked.
Fig. 4 shows a bracket a made with a projecting hook a which clips over a rail
fixed to the wall. of a workshop or other room, or to the side of a railway luggage
vau, or other structure so that the brackets a, tubes and cycle or cycles can be
readily moved if desired, into different positions on the bar.
In Figs. 5 and 6,-a is the bracket to be bolted or otherwise secured to a wall
or other support and to this bracket is pivoted an arm c on a vertical stud; the
arine has a projecting piece c' which limits the horizontal movement of the arm to
a line at right angles with the wall by coming into contact with a portion of the
bracket a, see Fig. 6. The arm can be locked by a screw or pin g in the position
shown in full lines and when not in use can be turned back out of the way against
the wall.
In Fig. 7 the arme is pivoted to a bracket a upon a horizontal stud f and when
the arm is brought down into a horizontal position as shown, a projection c¹ comes
into contact with the bracket and maintains the arm in such position; the arm
when out of use, is turned up out of the way against the wall or other support as
indicated by dotted lines..
It is obvious that a pair of the arms shown in Figs. 5 and 7 would he required
to hold a cycle.
Fig. 8 represents three of the brackets a with their accessories, all arranged to
carry two bicycles,--a lady's nud a man's-placed in opposite directions so that the
bandle bars do not touch or interfere with one another. To support two men's
bicycles a single pair of brackets is sufficient, the machines being placed in opposite
directions; in both cases the two bicycle frames are supported, one on the rubber
covered portion of c, and the other say, in the hooks c.
For cleaning or repairing one bicycle only would be supportel on a pair of
brackets so that all portions of the machine could be readily got at for cleaning
and making repairs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Rid
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
elain is-
1. Au improved carrier or support for bicycles, said carrier consisting in its
essential features of the wall brackets a and the parts forming arms capable of
being turned back out of the way and of being moved into and held securely in a
horizontal position to receive aud support a bicycle or bicycles in such a manner as
to relieve the tyres of all weight substantially as herein set forth.
2. The improved carrier or support for bicycles consisting of the brackets a and
parts b and c forming arms substantially as and for the purposes herein described
with reference to Figs. 1 to 3.

page_text: 3. The improved carrier or support for bicycles arranged to clip over a fixe.l
bar substantially as described and as illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings annexed.
4. The improved carrier or support for bicycles consisting of the brackets a and
arms c arranged to move horizontally as illustrated by Figs, 5 and 6 or vertically
as illustrated by Fig. 7.
Dated this 17th day of February 1897.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.