An Improved Mud-guard for Bicycles Tricycles, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: JOHN WORTHINGTON, Brick Maker (late Plumber), Beach Avenue, Blackpool,
in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
I arrange and attach or suspend a revolving brush to the outer edge of any tyre
of any bicycles tricycles or other vehicles running or being driven on the public
highway for cleaning the tyres of such wheels or tyres as they revolve coming into
contact with the revolving brush which is driven round by the revolution of the
tyre. By which means the tyre is kept clean, the revolving brush leaning
against the tyre when driven round makes a greater number of revolutions owing
to being of less diameter than the tyre that drives it in opposite direction brushing
off any mud that may accumulate on the tyre throwing it away from the vehicle,
keeping the upper part clean without ordinary mud guard, what I claim to be
novel and original is the using of the power to be obtained from the revolution of
any wheel or tyre of any bicycle tricycle or vehicle, that travel on the public high-
way for an attachment of a circular brush resting on or against any tyre for the
purpose of cleaning off mud and being driven by the wheel or tyre being cleaned
substantially as hereinbefore described while in motion.
Dated this Eleventh day of June 1897.
An Improved Mud-guard for Bicycles, Tricycles, and other Vehicles.
I, JOHN WORTHINGTON, of Beach Avenue, Blackpool, in the County of Lan-
caster, Retired Plumber, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement: —
According to my said invention I arrange and attach or suspend a revolving
brush to the outer edge of the tyre of bicycle tricycle or other vehicle wheels the
said revolving brush receiving its rotary motion by being in touching contact
with the tyre and as it revolves removing or brushing off any dirt or mud adher-
ing to the tyre:
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a side view and
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page_text: Fig. 3 a plan view of my improved mud guard as applied to a carriage or road
vehicle wheel.
a is the revolving brush carried on a pin a¹ on the outer end of an arm b and c
is the wheel tyre.
It may be in some cases desirable to make the arm b in two parts connected by
a tubular slide and enclosing a spiral spring for the purpose of keeping the revolv
ing brush up to its work and to compensate for the unevenness of the tyre whilst
running.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
The application to the outer edge of the tyre of a bicycle, tricycle, or other
road vehicle of a revolving brush which receives rotary motion by being placed
or arranged in touching contact with the tyre and so causing dirt or mud to be
removed therefrom substantially as herein described and shown in the drawings.
1000
Dated CHIS 1401
day of March
1000
1050
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.