Improvements in Cycle Lamp-bracket Attachment Clips.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1897-Accepted 24th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Lamp-bracket Attachment Clips.
I, CHARLES THOMAS BROCK SANGSTER, Works Manager to the Cycle Components
Manufacturing Company, Limited, of Bournbrook, near the City of Birmingham, do
hereby declare the nature of the invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an attachment clip for cycle lamp brackets, and has for
its object a light and cheap article, easily made and readily applied, and with the
bracket or support made separately from the thin sheet steel or other metal band
clip, and secured thereto by rivetting or otherwise.
The bracket is preferably cut out from sheet metal, the blank comprising a shank,
a body and a tongue. The tongue and body are both middle pierced so as to resemble
a joined together frame, whilst the tongue is inclined at an angle to the body, which
is horizontal, or nearly so, whilst the shank hangs downwards nearly at a right angle
with the body. This tongue lies in a forced out seating in the middle of the back of
a narrow flexible band and is there rivetted or otherwise affixed, so that the shank
which is slightly curved, becomes flush with the inside of the encircling band, whose
ends are longitudinally gapped or slotted and turned knuckle-wise around end-
shouldered studs or blocks, forming joints wherethrough a drawing up and headed
screw pin passes. The hole in the block near the head of the screw is plain, whilst
the hole in the other block is screwed, so that these blocks rotate according as the
angle of the pull exercised by the band changes on the screw being more or less
tightened up.
Thus the narrow straps of metal at the two opposite sides of the gapped ends of
the band, when folded loopwise or circularly, take circumferentially around the
reduced ends of the blocks or studs, whilst the extreme terminal ends are turned back
and secured to the body of the band by rivetting.
A lamp bracket made from wire, with the shank flattened, may be fixed to the
band clip in the same way.
Dated this 10th day of Novembar 1906

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates to an attachment clip for cycle lamp brackets, and has for
its object a light and cheap article, easily made and readily applied, and in which
the bracket or support is made separately from the thin sheet steel or other metal
band clip, and is secured thereto by rivetting or otherwise.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents the head part of the framing of
a safety bicycle, with the stem of the handle bars encircled by a lamp-bracket
attachment clip made according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a perspective view, upon an enlarged scale, of the said clip with the
lamp bracket attached thereto, separately.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the said clip and bracket applied to a handle bar
stem.
Figure 4 is a front elevation of the same.
Figure 5 is a plan of the bracket and clip separately.
Figure 6 is a vertical section of Figure 4, upon the dotted line X.
Figure 7 is a transverse section of Figure 6 upon the dotted line X'.
Figure 8 is a side elevation of another pattern of clip and bracket, applied to the
onter sleeve of a cycle ball head.
Figure 9 is a plan of the bracket and clip separately, the band in this case being
of larger diameter to take the correspondingly larger tube or member which the same
is to encircle.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
The bracket a, is preferably cut out from sheet metal, the blank comprising a
shank, a' a body a² and a tongue a³. The tongue and body are respectively middle
pierced or gapped at a, a, so as to resemble a joined together frame, whilst the
tongue is inclined at a suitable angle to the body, whilst the shank hangs down-
wards nearly at right angle with the body. This shank lies in a forced out
seating b', in the middle of the front of the narrow flexible band b, of the attach-
ment clip b, and is there secured by a rivet 63, or otherwise, so that the shank,
whose inside surface is slightly curved, to follow the convexity of the handle bar
stem or other member embraced by the clip, becomes flush with the inside
periphery of the said encircling band, whose ends b are longitudinally gapped or
slotted at 6, and turned knuckle-wise around end-shouldered studs or blocks, c', c²,
forming joints wherethrough a drawing up and headed screw pin d, passes.
hole c³, in the block c³, is screwed, whilst the hole c' in the other block c', is plain,
so that these blocks rotate according as the handle of the pull exercised by the
band changes on the screw being more or less tightened up.
The
Thus the narrow straps 67, of metal at the two opposite sides of the gapped ends 66
of the band, when folded loop-wise or circularly into open ended knuckles, take
circumferentially around the reduced ends c³, of the blocks or studs, whilst the
extreme terminal ends are turned back and secured to the body of the band by
rivetting at co
A lamp bracket made from wire, with the shank flattened, may be fixed to the
band clip in the same way.
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 :-
First. In cycle lamp bracket attachment clip, providing the band with a cavity
or recess to receive the shank end of the bracket, so as to admit of the said
shank lying flush with the inside periphery of the said band, substantially
as described and set forth.

page_text: Secondly. The improved combined lamp bracket and attachment clip, substantially
as described and set forth.
Dated this 17th day of June 1897.