Improvements in Guard Attachments for Cycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 25th Feb., 1898-Accepted. 30th Apr.. 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Guard Attachments for Cycles.
We, CHARLES ALVEY and WALTER GRAINGER, both of 32, Parade, in the City
of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
This invention relates to the manner in which we construct and arrange a
simple attachment for a cycle mud-guard which can be readily removed from the
machine when the guard is not required, and also to the combination of such a
mud-guard attachment with the dress guard quadrant or like attachment of ladies'
cycles.
We make our improved mud-guard attachment from a fork like arm preferably
of steel wire, which we so shape at the forked end that it can be readily sprung
into keeps or retaining grooves formed by lateral projections from the plate like
stem which we mount upon the extremity of the rear wheel spindle. The upper
ends of the forked arms are preferably flattened to form an eye boss for attachment
by means of screws or bolts to the side of the mud-guard.
We employ one such attachment on each end of the spindle, on opposite sides of
the rear or driving wheel. The forked arm can be readily detached from its stem
by withdrawing it from the keeps or grooves against the resistance offered by its
elasticity due to the peculiar shape which we impart to the forked end.
When constructing a mud-guard attachment for a lady's machine we arrange
the upper part of the stem to a quadrant or such other suitable configuration as
will permit of the attachment of the lower ends of the dress guard, holes being
formed through the plate to permit of the insertion of such ends.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.
We, CHARLES ALVEY and WALTER GRAINGER, both of 32, Parade, 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 the manner in which we construct and arrange a
simple attachment for a cycle mud-guard which can be readily removed, from the

page_text: machine when the guard is not required, and also to the combination of such a
mud-guard attachment with the dress guard quadrant or like attachment of ladies
cycles.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to.-
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a plan representing our improved
mud-guard attachment.
Figure 3 is an elevation of our combined mud-guard and dress guard for ladies'
cycles.
Figure 4 represents our improved mud-guard attachment with a dress guard
quadrant which is detachable therefrom.
Figure 5 represents the quadrant, whilst Figure 6 is a view of the mud-guard
attachment with the quadrant detached.
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The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
We make our improved mud-guard attachment from a double arm A preferably
of steel wire, which we so shape at its forked end that it can be readily sprung into
keeps or retaining grooves formed by lateral projections from the plate like stem B
which we mount upon the extremity of the rear wheel spindle. The upper ends
of the forked arms are preferably flattened to form an eye boss for attachment by
means of screws or bolts to the side of the mud-guard.
We employ one such attachment on each end of the spindle, on opposite
sides of the rear or driving wheel. The forked arm A can be readily detached
from its stem B by withdrawing it from the keeps or grooves against the resistance
offered by its elasticity due to the peculiar shape which we impart to the forked end.
When constructing a mud-guard attachment for a lady's machine we arrange
the upper part of the stem to a quadrant form as shown at Figure 3 or to such
other suitable configuration as will permit of the attachment of the lower ends of
the dress guard, holes being formed through the plate to permit of the insertion of
such ends. In the modification shown at Figure 4 the quadrant (shown separately
at Figure 5) is formed independently of the stem (shown separately at Figure 6),
the parts being connected by the spring like clips C on the quadrants which enter
the slots D in the stem or in any other suitable manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The improved mud-guard attachment for cycles consisting of the double
arm A and the stem B secured together by the spring clip like action of the forked
end of the arm upon the keeps or retaining grooves of the stem, substantially as
described and as illustrated.
2. The combination of a detachable mud-guard for cycles with a dress guard,
substantially as described and as illustrated.
D
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., &
13, Temple, Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.