Year: 1896

page_text: I, WILLIAM ARTHUR LLOYD Managing Director of W. A. Lloyd and Company,
Limited, of Lionel Street in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to attachments for securing ladies dress guards to cycles,
technically known as crescents and usually consisting of a crescent shaped piece of
metal, pierced with a series of holes through which the lacings of a dress guard
are passed or to which they are hooked or otherwise connected, and having an eyed
plate proceeding from its lower edge for taking over the end of the back wheel
spindle of a machine, one of which attachments being secured on either end of
said spindle.
My invention has for its object an adjustable attachment which admits of the
dress guard being tensioned or tightened up as may be required, and which is
accomplished by making each attachment up of two parts, one of which is a
fixture on the spindle end, whilst the other part to or through which the cords of
the guard are secured or threaded, is adjustable upon the fixed part, as hereinafter
described.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I take a crescent or similar shaped
plate, pierced with holes as usual and having depending from the middle of its
lower edge, a tongue, which, together with the plate, has a vertically disposed
shallow depression, recess, or sinking formed upon the inside of it, terminated near
the bottom of the tongue, in a cross slit, through which the shank or extension of the
fixed part of the attachment passes and lies and is capable of sliding within the
recess first passing over that part of the tongue below the cross slit lying in the
same plane as the cresent plate. The said fixed part consists of an eyed plate
which passes over the spindle end and has an upward extension or shank as afore-
said, pierced near its top end with a hole to receive a bolt which is also directed
through a vertical slot in the depression of the adjustable part, and by the screwing
up of a nut on the end of which, the segments are secured together in their
adjusted positions.
The tongue may be depressed throughout its full length and the shank may
slide under bent over ears or the like instead of passing through a slit or the
crescent and tongue need not be sunken at all, in which case ears or nibs would be
turned over the edges of the shank to keep it in place. Or the crescent may
carry a socket of any section into which the corresponding sectioned shank of the
eyed plate may slide and be adjusted in any way.
Or the one part of the attachment may carry a screwed stem taking into a
rotating nut or screw box in the other part and by the rotation of which the
adissement is affected

page_text: My invention is also applicable to dress guard attachments of the pattern in
which the cords are threaded through two or other number of rings.
Dated this 14th day of December 1896.
WILLIAM ARTHUR LLOYD.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Ladies Dress Guard Attachments for Cycles.
I, WILLIAM ARTHUR LLOYD Managing Director of W. A. Lloyd and Company,
Limited, of Lionel Street in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, 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 attachments for securing ladies dress guards to cycles,
technically known as quadrants and usually consisting of a quadrant or crescent
shaped piece of metal, pierced with a series of holes through which the lacings
of a dress guard are passed or to which they are hooked or otherwise connected,
and having an eyed plate proceeding from its lower edge for taking over the end
of the back wheel spindle of a machine, one of such attachments being secured
on either end of said spindle.
My invention has for its object an adjustable attachment which admits of the
dress guard being tensioned or tightened up as may be required, and which is
accomplished by making each attachment up of two parts or segments one of
which is a fixture on the spindle end, whilst the other part, to or through which
the cords of the guard are secured or threaded, is adjustable upon the fixed part,
as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents the back wheel of a ladies
safety bicycle, fitted with an adjustable quadrant or dress guard attachment
constructed according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of said quadrant or attachment, shown separately
and upon an enlarged scale.
Figure 3 is a back elevation of the same.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal vertical section upon the dotted line z Figure 2 and
Figure 5 is a cross section thereof upon the dotted line a¹.
Figure 6 represents, in edge view and front elevation, the adjustable part of the
attachment, whilst Figure 7 represents like views of the fixed or carrying part,
which is mounted upon the end of the back wheel spindle.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
Thus the said attachment a, consists of a quadrant, crescent or similar shaped
metal plate a¹, pierced with a series of holes a³, as usual, and having depending
from the middle of its lower edge, a tongue as, which, together with the plate, has
a vertically disposed shallow depression, recess, or sinking a, formed upon the
inside of it, terminated near the bottom of the tongue, in a cross slit a', through
which the shank or extension 6', of the fixed part 6, of the attachment passes and
lies, and is capable of sliding within the recess, first passing over that part a³, of
the tongue coming below the cross slit a, and lying in a plane set down slightly
below the body of the plate. The said fixed part or segment consists of an eyed
plate which passes over the end of a wheel spindle and has an upward extension

page_text: or shank 6 as aforesaid, pierced near its top and with a bossed eye or hole o to
receive a bolt or screw pin e, which is also directed through a vertical slot a' in
the depression of the adjustable part, and by the screwing up of a nut el, on the end
of which, the segments are secured together in their adjusted positions.
The tongue may be depressed throughout its full length and the shank may
slide under bent over attached or integrally formed ears or the like instead of
passing through a slit as described, or the quadrant and tongue need not be
sunken at all, in which case ears or nibs would be turned over the edges of the
shank to keep it in place. Or, as a further form, the quadrant plate may carry a
socket of any suitable section which may take over a correspondingly sectioned
shank of the fixed part of the attachment and slide and be adjusted thereon in any
way.
Or the one part of the attachment may carry a screwed stem taking into a
rotating nut or screw box in the other part and by the rotation of which the
adjustment is effected and instead of the fixed part consisting of an eyed plate
taking over the ends of a spindle it may comprise a shank or plate carrying a clip
adapted to embrace a back stay or other frame member of a machine.
My invention is also applicable to dress guard attachments of the pattern in
which the cords are threaded through two or other number of rings.
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 two-part or segmental dress-guard attachments for cycles, making
that part to or through which the dress-guard or cords is or are connected or laced,
adjustable upon a relative fixed part, so as to admit of the said guard or cords
being tensioned or brought up taut.
Secondly:-In adjustable dress guard attachments for cycles, making the same
of two parts, and with that part to which the dress guard or cords are connected,
sliding or being vertically adjustable upon the other part, which is a fixture upon
the spindle end or framing of a cycle, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly: The improvements in adjustable dress guard holding and tensioning
attachments, substantially as described and set forth.
WILLIAM ARTHUR LLOYD.
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.