An Improved Adjustable Support or Rest for Bicycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1896-Accer ted, 14th Nov., 1896
An Improved Adjustable Support or Rest for Bicycles.
I GEORGE WOOLLEY, of Citizen Street, Goulburn, in the Colony of New South
Wales, Traveller, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved adjustable support or rest for bicycles by
means of which the difficulty experienced in finding a suitable position for the
inachine after dismounting therefrom will be entirely obviated and in some cases the
danger of other persons using the machine during its owners temporary absence will
be wholly prevented.
This invention consists principally of an improved adjustable support or rest
or standard or leg attached to the front fork of the bicycle and adapted to be
carried clear of the ground and of the wheels when the machine is in motion
and to be lengthened and rest upon the ground and against the tyre of the front
wheel to support said machine uprightly when it is at rest.
This invention consists secondly in the combination and arrangement with the
improved adjustable support or rest hereinbefore mentioned of devices for retaining
said support or rest in its pre-arranged position and of locks for said devices and
this invention further consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts
hereinafter described and specifically claimed.
But in order that this invention may be clearly understood reference will now be
made to the drawing herewith in which Figure is a side elevation of a bicycle
fitted with my improved adjustable support or rest. Figures 2 and 3 are similar
views to Figure 1 of the front portion of the same having attached thereto
modified constructions of the said support or rest. Figure 4 is a side elevation
of the support or rest or telescopic standard or leg as shown in Figure 2. Figure 4*
is a front view of the standard or leg with its lower part telescopically withdrawn
into its upper part. Figure 4B is a plan of said leg. Figure 4 is a plan of the
attaching clip of said leg and Figure 4" a section of said leg. Figure 5 is a back
elevation of stop or retaining pin as used in the arrangement as shown in Figure 2
and Figure 5A is a plan of same. Figure 6 is a sectional view of part of the
attaching clip when the arrangement as shown in Figure 3 is used. Figure 7 is
an edge view of the holding clip for the bottom end of the socket of the telescopic
standard. Figure 8 is a side elevation of the modified construction of adjustable
standard or leg attachment shown in Figure 1 and Figure 84 is a plan of same.
Figure 8 is similar view to Figure 8 with the adjustable standard or leg
removed therefrom and Figure 8c is a plan of the guard arm or sector
bar of the same. Figures 9 and 94 are elevation and plan of the holding
spring for the top of adjustable standard or leg in the arrangement shown in
Figure 1.
The adjustable standard or leg or rest or support consists of lower end A
(Figure 4) fitting telescopically within casing A' hinge or pivot part A2 and upper
end A, the casing A' having a slot A throughout its length from which there is a
top off-set A' and two or more lower off-sets A each off-set being adapted to take
the shank of the thumb piece A' when the lower end A of the standard or leg is
artially revolved taking in the upper off-set A to retain the lower part A within
the casing A' and in one or other of the lower off-sets A when said lower end A
extends outwardly at the one of its various lengths. The hinge or pivot part A³

page_text: is bored to take upon tail piece B' of knuckle piece B upon the end C of spring
clip C adapted to take around the fork a of the bicycle front wheel b and to have
motion thereon, Spur washer D with teeth or spurs D' is adapted to slide on said
clip end C¹ but not to revolve thereon and it moves as the position of the knuckle
piece B is adjusted thereon to requirements. The spurs or teeth D' are adapted to
receive the hook E of spring E so that said spring passing over said teeth or spurs
as the standard or leg is moved outwardly at the lower end will catch on one of
them and thus hold said standard or leg in the position given to it. A pin E' slides
in socket E³ of clip E which is bolted or rivetted around the lower frame bar d of
the bicycle and said pin E is adjustably fixed in any predetermined position by
means of set screw in socket E3 or is immovably fixed so that it will just bend or
force downwardly the end of spring Es (on the top of head A³) of the adjustable
support or rest or standard or leg as the lower end of said leg is moved outwardly
and will thus drop into the hole provided in the end of said spring E³ for its reception
and will so retain the standard or leg in its arranged position and will prevent the
front wheel from swerving or turning by reason of the leverage exerted from said
lower har d. When said pin E is immovably fixed in its socket E³ it is allowel to
drop so far through said spring Eas to reveal a hole E' in the said pin, through
which a suitable padlock may be passed so as to lock the leg in position and so
prevent movement of the front wheel and of the bicycle upon its wheels.
The arrangement shown in Figure 3 differs only from that shown in Figure 2 by
reason of the hinged part A of the support or rest or standard or leg (which is
reinforced by stay or diagonal A*) taking upon a screw end of the clip (instead
of on the tail B' of the knuckle piece B which piece is dispensed with and instead of
having the drop stop pin E arrangement with spring E, it has a sliding spring
collar with a feather in a groove on the end of said clip having a pin on its
face to take into one or other of the orifices in the face of the boss of the standard to
hold it in or out of use, the said collar being slid along the end C against spring C
to release said standard or leg for use or for carriage, in which latter position it hangs
straight down. The operations of the two arrangements and their other parts are
otherwise identical.
The adjustable support or rest A in the arrangement shown in Figure 1 is
the same so far as telescoping is concerned as those previously described, and.
it has a hinged knuckle A, which joints with the knuckle_end F of swinging
piece F, said swinging piece F being pivotted by pin or pivot F2 to the fork a of the
bicycle and working in or on the segment or guide-piece G fixed to said fork. The
upper part of casing A¹ of adjustable standard or leg has a cross slot therein in which
slot the sector piece F3 works which sector piece has holes F for the reception of a
stop or a padlock when the standard leg is in its outward or supporting position.
The top end A3 has protruding therefrom a pin E which pin on the movement of
the swinging piece takes under spring piece E7 clipped or otherwise fixed on to
standard of the bicycle so that the support or rest is held in position and
the leverage exerted by spring E prevents the front wheel from swerving or
turning.
In use when a bicycle fitted with an adjustable support or rest as hereinbefore
described is in motion the lower end A of the telescopic casing A¹ (containing the
indrawn lower end A) is forced between the jaws H' of spring clip H which takes
around the lower end of the fork a of the bicycle and is thus securely carried free of
the ground and of the wheels. When the rider dismounts all he has to do to support
his bicycle is to move (Figures 2 and 3) thumb piece A' draw the lower end A of the
standard or leg from out of the telescopic casing A' move the lower end of said
standard or leg outwardly so that the upper end A³ will press upon the tyre of the
front wheel and its spring E will receive pin E' and the bicycle will be supported
firmly and prevented from self-movement. When pin E is a fixed pin the leg may
be locked in this position and so secure the machine from being removed on its wheels.
On dismounting from the bicycle (Figure 1) and withdrawing the lower end of the
standard or leg from casing A' the rider swings plate F until it takes position shown

page_text: in Figure 1 in or on the guide G and then moves the lower end of the support or rest
outwardly on the hinge or pivot A8 and upon sector F and may lock the mechanism
and the bicycle in this position by a padlock through one of the holes in said sector F*
and thus secure the support or rest in position and the bicycle from being removed on
its wheels.
It is to be understood that though I have described and illustrated what I now
deem to be the most suitable and most efficacious manner of carrying my invention
into practical effect that many other methods as would easily suggest themselves to
the ordinary mechanic might be used without departing from the nature of my
present invention and therefore I do not confine myself to any particular construction
of my improved adjustable support or rest for bicycles and its attachments so long as
the nature thereof be retained.
Having now particularly described and explained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. An improved adjustable support or rest or standard or leg attached or
clipped to the front fork of a bicycle and adapted to be carried clear of the ground
and of the wheels when the machine is in motion and to rest upon the ground and
against the tyre of the front wheel when the machine is at rest substantially as herein
described and explained.
Second. The combination and arrangement with a bicycle of a telescopic standard
or leg pivotted or hinged to a clip on the fork of said bicycle and adapted when
closed up to be supported by a second clip on said fork substantially as herein
described and explained.
Third. The combination and arrangement with a bicycle of a telescopic standard
or leg pivotted or hinged to a clip on the fork of said bicycle and having an upward
extension adapted to press against the tyre of the front wheel and to receive
a stop pin to prevent said wheel from swerving and turning substantially as herein
described and explained.
Fourth. The combination and arrangement with a bicycle of a telescopic standard
or leg hinged to a plate swinging upon a pivot pin on the fork of said
bicycle and having its upper end adapted to press upon the tyre of the
front wheel and to catch a holding spring substantially as herein described and
explained.
Fifth. The combination and arrangement of mechanical parts all together
forming an adjustable telescopic standard or leg and attachments (and modifications
of the same) for a bicycle substantially as herein described and explained and as
illustrated in the drawing.
Dated this First day of April One thousand eight hundred and ninety six.
GEO. WOOLLEY.
D. Young & Co.,
11 and 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.