Improvements in Inflator and like Carrier Attachments for Cycles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1899
Improvements in Inflator and like Carrier Attachments for Cycles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, the Younger, a Director of J. B. Brooks and Company
Limited, of Criterion Works, Great Charles Street, in the City of Birmingham, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to carrier attachments for securing inflators and like
articles to cycles, and has for its objects, to provide an attachment which admits
of being easily adjusted up without slack, and which is self-accommodating to
different sized framing tubes and inflators or articles, these objects being princi-
pally accomplished by fitting the attachment with a spring or yielding divisional
bearing or seating, intervening between the frame tube of a machine and the
article to be carried, and through an eye in which, the carrier strap is threaded.
The said divisional bearing consists of a metal, vulcanite or like fitting, some-
what of the figure of an inverted letter U, with the one side formed into a heel
member, slightly raking outwards, whilst the other side is prolonged into a yielding
or spring tongue which terminates in a catch or fastening, adapted to engage in
one or other of a series of holes or eyelets, formed within the free end of the
carrier strap, one end or part of which is made fast to the fitting, whilst the inward
part passes through an eye or piercing in the extended or plate-like bottom of the
same, and forms the tube-encircling loop on the one side of the said plate or
intervening bearing and the article-embracing loop on the other side thereof.
The free end is capable of running through the eye of the bearing and of being
drawn up tight around the member to be embraced, after the inflator or the like
has been placed in position between the branches of the seating, which yields in
obedience to the pressure exerted by the running-up of the strap, and when the
article has been drawn up tight or snug, the strap is secured by engaging the
prong catch (which may have an enlarged or rolled end) of its fitting with one or
other of the series of holes in the free end thereof.
The fitting of the strap may be provided with turned back ears or have an
attached "tidy" loop, into which the free end of the said strap is tucked.
It is understood that the herein described attachments are usually employed in
pairs for securing an inflator or like article to a bicycle.
Improvements in Inflator and like Carrier Attachments for Cycles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, the Younger, a Director of J. B. Brooks and Company
Limited, of Criterion Works, Great Charles Street, in the City of Birmingham, do
Price 8d.1

page_text: 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 carrier attachments for securing inflators and like
articles to cycles. With ordinary carrier attachments in which leather or like
non-elastic straps are employed, having a series of holes at one end adapted to be
engaged by a fastening at the other end, it frequently happens, after the strap
has been drawn up and fastened in one hole, that it still has a certain amount of
slack, whilst the size of the pump or article carried may not admit of the fastening
being taken into the next hole, so that the connection, when made, is somewhat
loose and rattling may occur.
The present invention has for its objects, to provide an attachment which shall
be self-adjusting to the extent of taking up slack in the securing straps and self-
accommodating (within certain limits) to different sized framing tubes and inflators
or other articles and these objects I propose to attain principally by employing or
fitting in connection with an attachment strap, a spring or yielding bearing or
seating for the reception of the article, interposed between the frame tube and the
suspended inflator or the like, and preferably having an eye or clearance through
which the said carrier strap is threaded or passed in forming the loop for encircling
the tube, whilst the end parts thereof are taken around the article to be carried
and connected together by a suitable fastening.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of a pair of
inflator carrier straps, fitted or provided with a spring or flexible bearing in
accordance with one form of my invention, said strap attachments being shown
as securing the inflator to the horizontal member of a cycle frame.
Figure 2 is an elevation showing the opposite sides of the attachments to those
represented in Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a cross section of Figure 1 upon the dotted line, with the strap
tightened to the utmost by engaging the fastener with the last hole therein.
Figure 3 is a section showing how the slack of the strap is taken up by my seating
attachment when the fastener is engaged with an intermediate hole.
Figure 4 is a plan of one of the straps with its improved pump seating attach-
ment, separately, showing the outer side thereof.
Figure 5 is another plan similar to Figure 4, but showing the inner side.
Figure 6 is a longitudinal section of Figure 4, upon the dotted line ³.
Figure 7 is an edge view of the carrier strap and seating attachment.
Figure 8 is a separate edge view and Figure 9 an elevation, of the seating
attachment, which, according to this arrangement has combined with it, a fastener
for securing the loose end of the strap.
Figures 10 and 11 represent two views of the seating from the opposite ends
respectively.
Figure 12 represents a section of the same upon the dotted line 3, Figure 9, and
Figure 13 is a like view as Figure 9 but showing the other side.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
The said yielding seating or bearing a, consists of a metal, vulcanite or like
fitting, somewhat of the figure of an inverted letter U, with the arms a¹, a³, ou
the opposite sides, slightly raking outwards. In the arrangement shown, the one
side or arm a¹, is prolonged into a yielding or spring tongue b, which terminates
in a catch end or fastening e, adapted to engage in one or other of a series of holes
or eyelets d', formed within the free end d², of the carrier strap d, the other end
or part d³, of which is made fast to the fitting, whilst the inward part d, approxi
mate to the middle, is passed or threaded through an eye or piercing a³, in the
extended or plate-like bottom a', of the seating, and forms a loop e, encircling
the frame member f, on the one side of the intervening bearing, whilst the free
end parts of the said strap coming upon the other side of the bearing, are adapted

page_text: to encircle and hold the inflator g, and be connected together by engaging the
fastener c, with one or other of the eyelets d¹.
It will be understood that after the inflator has been placed in position between
the inclined spring sides or arms of the seating, the tightening or running up of
the strap, prior to fastening, forces the pump inwards and the arms yield in
obedience to the pressure exerted. Then after the fastening has been effected and
the tightening-up pull has been relieved, the spring sides, by tending to close
together or resume their normal positions, force the pump outwards against the
encircling strap, and thus take up whatever slack there may be in the latter, and
render the connection both secure and noiseless; and keep the suspended article
away from the tubular member of the frame to which it is connected.
The seating fitting illustrated in the drawings is secured to one end of the strap
either by an eyelet such as h, or by any other suitable means, and the one arm
may also have turned back ears such as a, to serve as a "tidy" loop into which
the loose end of the strap is tucked, but I wish it to be understood that the inter-
vening seating fitting may be loosely threaded or otherwise used in connection
with the strap instead of being rivetted or eyeletted thereto. It may also be used
independent of the fastening means and may have spring arms in double sets upon
the opposite sides so as to form spring sided seatings for both an inflator or the
like and a frame tube.
Figure 14 represents a section of such a modification as last referred to in use and
Figure 15 is a view of the same separately. In this arrangement, the yielding
bearing a, is loose from the strap d, and has two sets of arms a', a¹, a², a², respec-
tively on the opposite sides of the bottom plate at, to form seatings for both the
tube f, and an inflator g, or the like. The strap may have an independent fasten-
ing such as c, engaging with one or other of the series of holes d¹.
Figure 16 represents, in use, a section of another modification of interposed
bearing fitting.
Figures 17 and 18 show plans of the opposite sides thereof and Figure 19 a
cross section.
This fitting consists of a concaved plate a, with resilient sides a¹, and rolled over
bearing edges a², upon which the inflator comes when in position. The drawing
of the inflator home by the running up of the strap d, (which is separate or loose
from the fitting) tends to flatten the resilient or yielding seating, whilst on the
pull being relieved after the fastening of the strap, the tendency of the seating
to resume its normal position forces the pump outwardly against the strap and
so takes up the slack in the strap and also keeps the pump clear away from the
carrier member.
Figure 20 is a section of another modification, providing spring seatings for
both the tube and pump and consists of a pair of concaved plates a, such as in
Figures 16 to 19 placed back to back and which may either be secured together
by suitable means or threaded loose upon the strap. After the pulling up of the
strap the resiliency of the sides tends to force apart or separate the pump and
tube and so take up the slack.
Figure 21 is a modification of this last arrangement in which the two curved
spring plates comprising the resilient seat are placed with their concavities opposed
and are flattened out on the pulling up of the strap and afterwards by tending to
resume their normal figure, force the pump or the like from the tube and take up
the slack from the said strap.
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; The employment in connection with an attachment strap for securing
inflators and other articles to a cycle frame, of a spring-organized seating or bear-
ing, interposed between the frame tube and the article to be attached so as to
normally re-act and separate the said article from the tube, and give taut to the

page_text: said strap for taking up slack in the same when fastened, substantially as herein
described and set forth.
Secondly A carrier attachment for securing inflators and other articles to
cycles, consisting of a strap made into a double loop and provided with a spring
tightening bearing or seating adapted to be interposed between a frame tube and
the article to be connected, and having means for fastening the free end or ends
of the strap, which is passed through the said bearing, substantially as herein
described,and set forth in Figures 1 to 13.
1000
BALCIT
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JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, JUNIOR.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.