Improvements in and relating to Mudguards for the Wheels of Velocipedes and like Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Mudguards for the Wheels of
Velocipedes and like Vehicles.
I, GEORGE TOWNSEND, of Aston Cantlow Mills, Alcester, Redditch, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This invention relates to the stays or supports of mudguards for the wheels of
velocipedes and like vehicles.
According to this invention the stays are made of a tubular form preferably
of a triangular shape in cross section. These stays are connected to the bridge
piece carrying the guard and to the cheek pieces forming the attachments for
mounting them on the axle of the wheel by forming lips or flanges on the said
pieces adapted to be pressed over the ends of the stays.
As this method of attachment-which is not new and forms no part of this in-
vention requires that the cheek plates.be made of thin sheet metal the said cheek
pieces often lack the necessary stiffness. This I overcome by using auxiliary
check plates having extensions adapted to fit within the hollow stays.
When double stays are used I prefer to use but one auxiliary cheek plate on each
side, and in order that the stays may stand at the proper angle to one another I
cup the face of the cheek plate on one stay and adapt the auxiliary cheek plate
of the other stay to lie within the cupped recess cutting away the flange of the
cupped plate at the proper position to receive the extension of the auxiliary cheek
plate to allow the stays to stand at the desired angle to the other.
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Improvements in and relating to Mudguards for the Wheels of
Velocipedes and like Vehicles.
I, GEORGE TOWNSEND, of Aston Cantlow Mills, Alcester, Redditch, in the County
f Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
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page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the stays or supports of mudguards for the wheels of
velocipedes and like vehicles, and it consists in making the stays of tubes of a
triangular shape in cross section and in employing auxiliary cheek pieces for the
attachments to the axle of the wheel. When double stays are employed but one
auxiliary cheek piece is used on each side, and in order that the stays may mutually
support each other at the proper angle the cheek pieces of one stay are cupped to
adapt them to receive the auxiliary cheek pieces which form part of the other
stay, the flanges of the cupped pieces being cut away to receive the extensions
of the auxiliary cheek pieces.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates this invention:-
Figure 1 is a broken view in side elevation of a mudguard stay embodying this
invention.
Figure 2 is a broken view in plan thereof, and
Figure 3 is a broken view in side elevation showing the application of this in-
vention to double stays.
Figure 4 is a view in section on line x x Figure 3, and
Figures 5 and 6 are broken views in section showing modifications.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The stays cach consist of a bridge piece A, two arms B and B and two cheek
pieces C, C. The arms B are made of tubes triangular in cross section. The
bridge-piece A is fashioned out of a piece of sheet metal and it is attached to the
arms B, B, by having its ends a, a, pressed over them as shown by Figures 1 and 2.
The cheek pieces which take the form of eyes with tongue extensions care
attached to the arms B, B, by having their tongue extensions pressed over them
as shown in the accompanying drawing.
As this method of attaching the cheek pieces to the arms of the stay requires
that the said pieces be made of thin sheet metal they lack the necessary stiffness
to support a heavy guard. To overcome this I employ auxiliary cheek pieces C¹
to stiffen the cheek pieces C, the tongue extensions c¹ of the said auxiliary check
pieces being adapted to either rest on the inner faces of the triangular arms as
shown by Figures 1 and 2, or within the ends of the hollow arms B as shown by
Figure 5.
When double stays are employed only one auxiliary cheek piece C¹ is used, and
the eves of the cheek plates of one of the stays are made cup shaped by having
small flanges pressed up around them so that the eyes of the auxiliary cheek
plates Cattached to the arms of the other stay lie within them as shown by
Figures 3 and 4. A portion of the flange ca of each cupped eye is cut away so as
to form a shoulder which engages with a shoulder on the periphery of the
eve of the auxiliary cheek piece C¹ whereby the two stays mutually engage one with
the other and so become self-supporting.
These auxiliary cheek pieces can be used in built up stays having arms other
than tubular. Figure 6 shows the use of such auxiliary pieces in conjunction
with arms of a channel or gutter section.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
(1) An improved mudguard stay consisting of a sheet metal bridge piece, of
tubular arms of a triangular shape in cross section, and of cheek pieces, all com-
bined, arranged and adapted to operate substantially as set forth.
(2) In a mudguard stay consisting of a bridge piece, two cheek pieces, and two
arms, the employment of auxiliary cheek pieces adapted to engage the arms and
stiffen and reinforce the main cheek pieces, as set forth.
(3) Double stays for supporting mudguards and the like consisting of bridge

page_text: pieces, tubular arms, and cheek pieces, the eyes of the cheek pieces of one stay
being cupped or recessed to receive the auxiliary check pieces, as and for the pur-
pose set forth.
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1000
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech. E.,
Chartered Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.