Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 18th Dec.,
1897
(A communication from JOHN SWIFT of Goulburn in the colony of New South
Wales, Commercial Traveller.)
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111 Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and, ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:
This invention has been specially devised for the purpose of enabling a bicycle
to stand upright without the necessity of laying it against a wall, a post, the curb-
stone of the footpath or other extraneous aid. The appliance consists of a short
stem or rod of suitable thickness and length, the upper end of which is provided
with an eye which should be threaded on to or surround the back forked stay
of the bicycle, and when allowed to fall over so that its free end shall touch the
ground, the rod will stand at an angle of about 60 with the ground, and support the
bicycle or prevent it falling over.
When the stem or rod is not required to act as a support it will 'be rotated upon
the back fork stay and laid up against the back stay or other part of the frame
against which it will be clipped either by a spring clip attached to the stem, or
by a clip attached to itself. The stem or rod which may be made adjustable in
length so as to fit any size of bicycle as will be hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawings;-
-
Fig. 1 shews the rear end of a bicycle in side elevation.
Fig. 2 is a detail on an enlarged scale shewing a style of stem or rod which may
be made adjustable to the height of any bicycle.
Fig. 3 is an end view of the same, shewing the eye attached.
Fig. 4 shews the end of a solid rod with the spring clip shewn attached in dotted
lines.
In Fig. 1, A is the back stay and B the back forked stay, which may be of any
section. The stem or rod C may be constructed of straight wire rod and provided
with a flat shank c to which the eye D may be secured by bolts and nuts d. The
eye D is first threaded on to one arm of the fork B and the rod C is then inserted
into the eye and secured to it by means of the bolts and nuts d. The stem or rod
may then be rotated upon the fork B so that it may either lie up against the
back stay A or other part of the frame, where it will be maintained by the spring
clip a, or it may be instantly released from the grip of the spring clip a, when
it will fall over into the position shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 1, where it will
make an angle of about 60° with the ground. The bicycle may then be slightly
canted, when it will lean up against the support and be maintained in a position
nearly upright.
As bicycles vary in height from the ground, stems or rods of different lengths
will have to be provided to fit the different sizes, and this will be inconvenient;
it is therefore proposed to so construct the stem or rod that it may with very,
little trouble be adapted to any height. To this end the stem C is made of one

page_text: length of hollow tubing and tapped at both ends as shewn in Fig. 2. Into the
upper end the flat shank is screwed. This shank may be of different lengths.
Into the other end, or the end nearest the ground, a ferrule of any suitable length
may be screwed. In the drawing ferrules of three different lengths are shewn in
one.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention as communicated to nie by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is;-
1. As a bicycle support, a straight rod or stem, the upper end of which is pro-
vided with an eye, as and for the purpose herein specified.
2. In bicycle supports, the combination of the back horizontal fork with straight
rod or stem that is provided with an eye, as and for the purpose herein set forth.
as and for the purposes herein set forth.
3, In bicycle supports the combination of the back horizontal fork with a
straight rod or stem that is provided with an eye, and with a spring clip that may
be attached either to a part of the rear frame of the bicycle, or to the rod or steni,
as and for the purposes herein set forth..
4. In bicycle supports a hollow rod or stem to one of which
14
be secured a
flat shank to which an eye must be attached and to the other end ferrules of
may
different lengths, as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 4th day of October. 1897.
BOULT & WADE
Agents for the Applicant.