Improvements in or relating to Dress, Chain, or like Guards for Cycles or other Road Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 116th Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Dress, Chain, or like Guards for
Cycles or other Road Vehicles.
We, JOHN MCMATH WILSON, of 5, Middle Pavement, Lace Manufacturer, and
ARTHUR BURTON, of 12, Bottle Lane, Lace Designer, both in the Borough of
Nottingham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in dress, chain or like guards for bicycles,
tricycles, and other road vehicles, and it has for its object to provide a light and
ornamental dress chain, or like guard that may be readily applied and more effective
than those as constructed heretofore.
For example our invention is described in connection with dress and chain
guards for bicycles but the form in which they are made may be modified to suit all
classes of road vehicles for which dress chain or like guards may be required.
According to our invention we form a dress chain or like guard of openwork fabric
such as ornamental lace, lace or other net, ornamental openwork woven knitted or
other like fabric.
When the ornamentation or design is produced in the guards in the process of
manufacture such for example as when they are made of lace, they are manufactured
of the desired shape and preferably with an ornamental border enclosing a suitable
ornamental design.
When the guards are made of plain lace or other net we preferably embroider an
crnamental border of the requisite size and shape on a piece of net, and if desired
an ornamental design within the border. The surplus material outside the border
is removed.
The guards may also be made of plain or ornamental openwork woven knitted
or other fabrics, the former of which may be ornamented by embroidering or other
means whilst the latter may be manufactured with a suitable ornamental design
and border.
Guards manufactured in the manner described may be strengthened at the edges
by manufacturing them with a strengthened border or binding them with tape,
cord, or other suitable material means may be employed for strengthening them.
The edges of the guards for bicycles may be secured partly to the usual parts of
the framing of the vehicle and partly to the mud guard by lacing, cords, hooks or
other suitable means.
Chain or like guards may in like manner be secured to a suitably shaped skeleton
framing, which is secured to the framing of the vehicle.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Dress, Chain, or like Guards for
Cycles or other Road Vehicles.
We, JOHN MCMATH WILSON, of 5, Middle Pavement, Lace Manufacturer, and
ARTHUR BURTON, of 12, Bottle Lane, Lace Designer, both in the City of Nottingham,
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 improvements in dress chain, or like guards for bicycles,
tricycles and other road vehicles and it has. for. its object to provide a light and
efficient dress chain or like guard which will be ornamental in appearance, and be
more effective than dress guards as manufactured heretofore.
This invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying draw-
ings, in which,
Figure 1 is a side view showing a dress guard manufactured according to our
invention applied to a bicycle, parts only of the latter being shown.
As an example our invention is described and shown in connection with a dress
guard for a bicycle, but the form or configuration of the guards may be modified
to suit different requirements, or adapted to suit all classes of road vehicles for
which dress chain or like guards may be required.
.
According to our invention we manufacture for example say a dress guard such
as that shown in the drawing either of ornamental lace, lace net, or of plain
ornamental textile, knitted or like fabrics.
The ornamental design may be either produced in the process of manufacture, or
a piece of plain net or fabric of a suitable mesh may be ornamented by a subsequent
process such as embroidery.
When the ornamentation or design is produced in the guard in the process of
manufacture such for example as in the face guard A shown in the drawing, the
said guard A is manufactured of the required shape as shown, with a plain or
ornamental border B surrounding it, and a preferably ornamental design C within
the border.
When the guard A is made of plain lace net or fabric, the border B is embroidered
on the net or fabric, and if desired an ornamental design is embroidered within the
border; the surplus material outside the border is then removed.
Guards manufactured in the manner described may be strengthened at their edges
by manufacturing them with a strong border B or binding or overlaying said edges
with tape cord or other suitable material.
The dress guard A may be secured to the mud-guard D, mud-guard stay E, and a
quadrant For other device secured preferably to the axle of the road driving wheel,
by elastic loops G which are passed through holes in the guard A, mud-guard D,
and quadrant F, and round the mud guard stay E, as shown.
A button G¹ is secured to one end of each elastic loop G, and the opposite ends of
said loop are placed over the button after they have been passed through the holes
in the dress guard and through the holes in or round the parts to which it is
attached.
Chain or other guards may be secured in like manner to parts of the framing of
the vehicle or to a suitably shaped skeleton framing which may be secured to the
framing of the vehicle.
Guards manufactured in the manner described besides being ornamental are more
efficient than thread guards as manufactured heretofore, owing to the closeness of

page_text: the mesh which prevents any possibility of a part of a dress or garment becoming
entangled in the wheel.
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:-
1. A dress chain or like guard for a cycle or other road vehicle made of lace
knitted or textile fabric with a plain or ornamental border such as B of the required
shape formed by the disposition of the threads substantially as described.
2. A dress chain or like guard for a cycle or other road vehicle made of lace
knitted or textile fabric with a plain or ornamental border such as B of the
required shape and an ornamental design within the border formed by the disposi-
tion of the threads, substantially as described.
3. A dress chain or like guard for a cycle or other road vehicle made of lace
knitted or textile fabric with a plain or ornamental border such as B of the
required shape embroidered thereon substantially as described.
4. A dress chain or like guard for a cycle or other road vehicle made of lace
knitted or textile fabric with a plain or ornamental border such as B of the
required shape and a design within the border embroidered thereon, substantially
as described.
5. A dress chain or like guard for a cycle or other road vehicle substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Doted this 26th far of T1000