Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 26th Oct., 1888
RESERVE
I, WALTER PHILLIPS, of No. 34, Spon Street, Coventry, in the county of Warwick,
Manager of Messrs. Rudge and Company Limited, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in what are known as front steering double
driving tricycles. Hitherto in constructing machines of the above type the driving
wheels have not been provided with mud guards.
I now propose to arrange mud guards, of the form ordinarily employed in
connection with velocipedes, outside of the required portion of the circumference
of the wheel. Each mud guard is held in position by stays which radiate from, and
are attached to, the upper half or cap of a split socket or clamp.
Fixed or clamped on to the tube, within which the axle of the driving wheels is
situated and close to the inner side of each of the latter, is a small arm extending
upwards, and at the upper part of such arm is fixed the lower half of the clamp or
socket hereinbefore referred to, a tube extending across the machine in a position
parallel with, and in close proximity to, the before mentioned axle, has its ends
clamped or enclosed by the said clamps or sockets when the caps, or those halves of
the clamps or sockets to which the before mentioned stays are attached, are secured
to the lower halves by nuts and bolts or pins passed through the flanges at the
respective ends of the two portions of the sockets or clamps, in the well known
manner. When it is desired to remove the mud guards, the pins are unscrewed from
the cross tube and the caps, clamps, or sockets, and with them the stays and mud
guards, are thus removeable.
D
hide of November 1887
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, WALTER PHILLIPS, of No. 34, Spon Street, Coventry, in the county of Warwick,
Manager of The Rudge Cycle Company, Limited, 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:-
Hitherto, in machines known as front steering double driving tricycles, as
ordinarily constructed, the driving wheels have not been provided with mud guards,
and this invention relates to the arrangement of mud guards in connection with
such wheels.
I now propose to arrange mud guards, of the ordinary form, in connection with the
driving wheels of velocipedes of the nature above referred to, outside of the required
portions of the circumferences of the said wheels. Each mud guard is held in
position by stays or arms which radiate from, and are attached to, the upper half or
cap of a split clamp or socket.
Fixed or clamped on to the tube, within which the axle of the driving wheels is
situated and close to the inner side of each of the latter, is a small arm extending
upwards, and at the upper part of such arm is fixed the lower half of the clamp or
socket herein before referred to; a tube extending across the machine in a position
parallel with, and in close proximity to, the before mentioned axle, has its ends
clamped or enclosed by the said clamps or sockets, when the caps, or those halves of
the latter to which the before mentioned stays or arms are attached, are secured to
the lower halves, which is effected by nuts and bolts or pins passed through the
flanges at the respective ends of the two portions of the sockets or clamps, in the
well known manner, or, the halves of the clamps or sockets may be secured together
in any other suitable way. When it is desired to remove the mud guards, the upper
halves of the clamps or sockets are disconnected and they may then be removed
together with the stays or arms and mud guards.
I will now proceed to refer to the accompanying drawings from which the nature
of my said invention will be more clearly understood. Figure 1. is a side view of
the before mentioned arm and clamps or sockets and the inner ends of three stays or
arms, which carry the mud guard, and which are fixed in the upper half or cap of the
top socket or clamp, Figure 2. is a front view of the same, and Figure 3. is a similar
view, reduced in size, of one of the driving wheels provided with a mud guard
arranged in accordance with this invention.
The same letters of reference indicate like parts in all the Figures. A. is the tube
of the driving axle, B. is the arm which is clamped thereon and at the upper end of
which is the clamp or socket c. c¹, in the part c¹ of the latter are secured the arms

page_text: or stays d, the mud guard e. being carried by the opposite ends thereof. F. is the
cross tube the respective ends of which are held by clamps or sockets c. c¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
claim is :-
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
In velocipedes of the nature hereinbefore referred to, providing the driving wheels
with mud guards by the means and in the manner substantially hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Twenty second day of Sentember 1888.
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.