An Improved Means for Attaching, Holding, and Displaying, on Bicycles, Lighting-up Tables and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1897-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Means for Attaching, Holding, and Displaying, on
Bicycles, Lighting-up Tables and the like.
We, THOMAS CHARLES SMITH, Watchmaker, and SAMUEL AUGUSTUS SMITH,
Piano-forte Tuner, both residing at 55, Fisherton Street, Salisbury, Wilts., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention consists of a small, oblong, bottomless box, or frame, stamped out
of sheet metal, and having two spurs or projections (hereinafter termed hooks) on the
long sides.
The box is formed in a manner similar to a picture frame, and contains a piece of
glass, on the underside of which is affixed a paper mask with a suitable opening in it.
Under this are 12 (twelve) sheets of paper, each of the same area as inside of box.
On these sheets of paper are printed tables shewing at what times lamps on bicycles
and similar vehicles and carriages must be lighted on each Saturday in the year.
Each sheet bears a "lighting-up" table for one month, and the printed matter on
it is so arranged as to show through the aforesaid opening in mask when placed in
contact with it.
The sheet for each current month is always to be on top of others and next to mask.
The object of the afore-mentioned hooks on box, or frame, is to attach the two ends
of a flat india-rubber band to, by means of which the box, or frame, and its contents
are secured to a bicycle.
To fix this invention in position on a bicycle, one end of the india-rubber band'
must be detached from one of the hooks; the frame, or box, with its contents laid
longitudinally on the top tube of bicycle-or any other tube or bar that may be
preferred; then the india-rubber band must be stretched under the bicycle tube,
or bar, and hooked on to the opposite hook on frame, or box, which is kept firmly in
position by the contraction of the india-rubber band.
Dated this nineteenth day of January, 1897.
THOMAS CHARLES SMITH.
SAMUEL AUGUSTUS SMITH.
An Improved Means for Attaching, Holding, and Displaying, on
Bicycles, Lighting-up Tables and the like.
We, THOMAS CHARLES SMITH and SAMUEL AUGUSTUS SMITH, both of 55, Fisherton
Street, Salisbury, in the County of Wiltshire, 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, and accompanying
drawing, that is to say :-
This invention has for its object a novel device to be attached to bicycles, and
containing on paper or other material, which can be readily changed as required

page_text: information as to the times-according to the season of the year-at which it is
requisite that the lamp of the bicycle should be lighted up.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of the invention, figure 1 being a
front view of the device, figure 2 a vertical section, figure 3 an end view, figure 4
a view from above, and figure 5 a perspective view of the device. The figures
represent the device upon a somewhat larger scale than we prefer to make it, but it
may be of any desired size.
a is a small rectangular or oblong box or frame stamped up out of sheet metal,
and having side flanges c but no back, and a narrow projecting inner flange b round
the edge of its open front. The top and bottom flanges have curved notches & cut
in them, so that the box or frame formed as described can lie closely and neatly upon
and against one of the cylindrical bars or tubes of the bicycle, against which it is
firmly held by a ring of flat india-rubber e which is fitted into two hooks f, f, cut
or punched out of the side flanges of the frame and bent slightly outward, the free
end of the hook at being provided with a small projection h by which the india-
rubber loop which is slipped over one of the hooks (as shown in figure 5) is retained
in its place. When the box or frame has been fitted in its place upon one of the
tubes of the bicycle, the indiarubber loop is passed round the latter and its other
end fitted over the other hook.
Inside the frame is fitted a piece of glass i (figure 2) which lies against the narrow
flange b, and upon the glass inserted from the back a card or paper having a
circular or other opening through it.
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This card or paper k may be coloured or
decorated, and may have any desired inscription or design upon it.
Behind it are
arranged and fitted twelve corresponding rectangular pieces m of paper or other
material, each corresponding to one of the months of the year, and having printed or
formed upon its face a table shewing at what times the lamps on bicycles or other
cycles, or carriages, should be lighted for a day (preferably Saturday) in each week
of the month to which the table refers.
This printed table shows through the opening , as shown in figure 1, and at the
end of the month the printed papers can be taken out, the front one being removed
and placed at the back, and the set being then replaced in the frame a where they
are held by a thick piece of card or paper fitting into the frame behind them.
entire device is then replaced in its position, where it is retained by the indiarubber
ring e, as already described, which holds it firmly in its place.
The
The improved device is very simple, inexpensive, and light, and by its use cyclists
or others are saved from the risk of not having their lamps lighted at the proper
times.
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 device consisting of a frame a, open at the back and having a narrow
flange b round the front and curved notches d' at the top and bottom, glass plate i,
card having opening , and interchangeable paper tablets m having the times for
lighting lamps for the weeks of each separate month printed upon them, substantially
as described and illustrated.
2. In combination with the parts described and claimed in claim 1, the hooks f
having projections h, to receive an elastic loop e, by which the device attached to
a bar or tube, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 23rd dow of Navambor 1907
EDWARDS AND Co.
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.