Improved Mud (and Weather Guards or Screens for Use with Cycles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec.,
1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mud (and Weather Guards or Screens for Use
with Cycles.
I, RAYMOND HENRI DELOR, of 3 Rue Bardineau, Bordeaux, France, Gentleman,
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
atement :-
My invention relates to an improved mud guard for velocipedes.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mud and Weather Guards or Screens for Use
with Cycles.
I, RAYMOND HENRI DELOR, of 3 Rue Bardineau, Bordeaux, France, Gentleman,
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 :-
My invention relates to an improved mud guard for velocipedes.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a view of the whole apparatus.
Fig. 2, plan of the whole apparatus looking from above on to the ground.
Fig. 3, view from front of apron and screens opened.
Fig. 4, view from front of apron and screens shut.
Fig. 5, stern apron on larger scale.
Fig. 6, detailed sketch of movable screens.
Fig. 7, cheek of the carrying wheel.
Fig. 8, metallic mounting of carrying wheel.
Fig. 9, metallic mounting of directing wheel.
Fig. 10, cheek of directing wheel.
Fig. 11, cheek of directing wheel.
Fig. 12, circumference of carrying wheel spread out.
Fig. 13, circumference of directing wheel spread out.
Fig. 14, circumference of directing wheel spread out.
Fig. 15, plan of the mounting of carrying wheel.
Fig. 16, plan of the mounting of directing wheel.
The apparatus is supported on rests of metallic wire (steel, copper, or aluminium),
Figs. 8 and 15 for the carrying wheel; Figs. 9 and 16 for the directing wheel;
ABA' Fig. 2, for the stern apron. These supports are fixed on the guiding or
steering bar and on the tubes of the machine by the aid of loops or curbs a a¹ Fig. 2,
for the guiding or steering bar; JK, J' K¹ for the directing wheels; bde, b¹ de¹ Z
for the carrying wheels.
These loops or curbs furnished with screw bolts with heads having six sides
carrying a slit can be rapidly taken off by the aid of a key or a screw driver, and
allow of the taking off or fixing in place of the metallic mountings with the greatest
facility, and also, which is a capital point, without touching the screw nuts of the
axis of the wheels of the machine. The mountings are formed of two symmetrical
parts united together by binders SS' V V₁ Figures 8 and 15 for the carrying
wheel; FF, hh, HH, mm' Figs. 9 and 16 for the directing wheel. The
mounting of the directing wheel is slipped in its place by lifting up the front of the
machine and by passing the wheel between the binders hm; the distance, according
to the line h m (Fig. 9) being arranged as longer than the diameter of the wheel.
The mounting of the carrying wheel, Figs. 8 and 15, effects itself by passing simply
over the wheel.
The stern apron :-The apron, Fig. 5, in the form of a stern, the lines of which
are so calculated as to offer a minimum resistance to the wind, is fixed by means
of spring hooks-
Firstly, in D D¹, Figs. 1 and 9, to rings carried by the metallic mounting.
Secondly, by means of spring hooks to rings sliding on the triangle A B A' Fig. 2
allowing the apron to take up the positions shown in Figs. 3 and 4, according as it

page_text: is desired to keep it open or shut. On the Figure 4 the apron is kept folded by
the aid of light straps ff. It is to be noticed that, thanks to the spring hooks
adopted as a means of attaching, the apron can be instantaneously, taken off the
machine or put back in position. The object of this apron is to preserve the
cyclist against the rain, and to allow of the water, which trickles down from
the waterproof cape, when it has passed above the guard and the apron, to arrive
to the ground without wetting the thighs, knees, or legs of the cyclist. To take
up the position of the Fig. 4 in B', the support A B A makes a hinge or joint by
flexion on itself around the axis A A', and returns to the position A. BA' by its
own elasticity when the apron is opened afresh. The apron can be made of any
waterproof and supple material. The parts DE W, D₁E W apply themselves to
each side against the checks (Fig. 5 and Fig. 10).
The coverings or casings of the wheels: The coverings or casings of the wheels
are taken to pieces in three parts, the circumference and the two cheeks. The
circumference of the carrying wheel Fig. 12, is formed of one band of strong
leather, fixed on the metallic mounting Fig. 8, by means of spring hooks. For the
directing wheel the circumference is in two parts, Figs. 13 and 14, joining
together around the directing tube in G Fig. 1. The checks Figs. 9, 10, and 11,
are fixed on the mountings and the circumferences by the aid of rings and
spring hooks. The cheeks and the circumferences can, the same as the apron, be
instantaneously taken off or put in place without the aid of any tool which allows
of the cyclist assuring himself at all times, during his journey, of the good state of
the several parts of his machine, and renders very easy the greasing and complete
cleaning of the different parts of the machine and of the mud guard.
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Movable screens against splashing:-These screens, of which there are two
(Fig. 6); adapt themselves to the right and left of the directing wheel as indicated
by Figs. 2 and 3. They are each composed of two planes M L F, MNPF,
movable around the axis M F, and joined together, following the axis, by the aid
of hinges or joints. They are of waterproof material, mounted on very light and
very rigid frames, (Fig. 6) and made of metallic wires. These screens clutch by
their sides FL, FL (Fig. 6) the bearer of the directing wheel in FL, FL,
Figs. 1 and 9 and are movable around the axis FL, FL. Pliant lifts of suitable
length, fixed in on the metallic supports and in on the screens (Fig. 3)
allow of the planes FL M, F L M taking up a position forming an angle of 90°
with the planes of the cheeks. They are kept in this position by the springs Rs
(Fig. 1). The planes MNPF, M'N'P'F' urged by a spring take up the
position indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, and then rest themselves on the inferior
extremity of the circumference in FR (Fig. 1). One understands that when the
screens are in the position indicated by the Figs. 3 and 2, the feet and the legs of
the cyclist are absolutely preserved against the splashings of water and mud which,
whilst he journeys spirt to the right and left of the directing wheel at its point of
contact with the ground, which splashings and spirtings can only be stopped by
screens placed in the position of my drawing. The mobility of the screens around
the axis FL and MF as well as the flexibility to the rear of the extremity P
of the circumference, and the angle of inclination of the lines FL, F'L' on (or to)
the horizontal, allow of the whole system lifting itself automatically when the
cyclist meets on his journey an accidental obstacle up to a height of one foot above
the ground, and that without any deformation or breaking of the apparatus, which
resumes automatically its first position as soon as the obstacle has been passed.
When the cyclist desires that the screens should take up the position of the Fig. 4,
be folds the plane M N P F on the plane M L F to bring it to the position M F up
(Fig. 6) by turning it on a pivot above and around the axis M F and lays the
whole system (by making it turn on a pivot around the axis FL) on the cheek
where it is kept by a spring hook placed in g (Fig. 1). By doing the same on the
other side one obtains the positions indicated in Fig. 4 by Fg, Fig. The cheeks
and screens can be made of any light waterproof material, and also of celluloid.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a mud guard for velocipedes, the combination of the cheeks, apron and
screens, substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying
drawing.
2. In a mud guard for velocipedes, the cheeks, substantially as herein described
and according to the accompanying drawing.
3. In a mud guard for velocipedes, the apron and screens with the frame and
clips or holders, substantially as herein described and according to the accom-
panying drawing.
4. A mud guard for velocipedes, the combination of the various parts as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 27th day of October 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.