Year: 1898

page_text: We, HARRY LUCAS, Managing Director, and AUGUSTINE CAMPBELL DAVISON,
Engineer, both of the Firm of Joseph Lucas Limited, of "Tom Bowling Lamp
Works," Little King Street, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in clips for the attachment of a cycle
air pump or inflator, when not in service, to some part of a cycle frame, and for
other like purposes
The object of our invention is to construct an efficient and convenient clip that
can be readily adjusted to suit frame tubes of varying diameters.
In the construction of a cycle inflator attachment clip in accordance with our
invention, we form the main or body part from a pair of strips of steel plate
suitably bent to embrace the cycle frame tube and also the inflator to be attached
thereto. Such pair of strips are detachably connected at the ends which embrace
the frame tube, by means of a claw or hook piece formed on the extremity of
one part which engages with one of two or more slots or apertures in the adjacent
end of the other part. The opposite ends of the strips are left free or uncon-
nected for the reception of the inflator.
The clip after being hooked together round the frame tube is drawn tightly on
this tube and on the inflator by means of a thumb nut on the screwed end of a
bolt passing through the central portion of the clip, between the tube and the
inflator gripping surfaces. By sufficiently loosening the thumb nut but without
detaching the same from its bolt the herein before described connected ends can
be detached and the strips passed over the tube from opposite sides of the same;
the ends are then again connected and the thumb nut tightened to effectually
secure the clip to the tube. By causing the claw or hook to engage with a slot
or aperture nearer or more remote to the extremity of the strip, the clip can be
readily adjusted to suit the diameter of the particular tube to which it is to be
attached.
The interior surface of the clip we preferably line with leather or other suitable
material to prevent marking of the tube to which it is attached.
1 1000
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We, HARRY LUCAS, Managing Director, and AUGUSTINE CAMPBELL DAVISON,
Engineer, both of the Firm of Joseph Lucas Limited, of "Tom Bowling Lamp
Works," Little King Street, in the City of Birmingham, 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 consists of improvements in clips for the attachment of a cycle
air pump or inflator, when not in service, to some part of a cycle frame, and for
other like purposes.
The object of our invention is to construct an efficient and convenient clip that
can be readily adjusted to suit frame tubes of varying diameters.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to;―
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 an end elevation of a clip constructed
in accordance with our invention, the clip with an air pump or inflator being
shown in attachment with the tube of a cycle frame.
Figure 3 is a sectional end view of the clip as adjusted to suit a larger cycle
frame tube than is shown at Figure 1 and 2.
Figure 4 is a plan of the clip showing the adjustment slots.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In the construction of a cycle inflator attachment clip in accordance with our
invention, we form the main or body part A from a pair of strips of steel or other
plate suitable bent to embrace the cycle frame tube B and also the inflator C to
be attached thereto. Such pair of strips are detachably connected at the ends
which embrace the frame tube B, by means of a claw or hook piece formed on
the extremity of one part which engages with one of two or more slots or aper-
tures as a and a¹ in the adjacent end of the other part. The opposite ends of the
strips are left free or unconnected for the reception of the inflator.
The clip after being hooped together round the frame tube B is drawn tightly
on this tube and on the inflator C by means of a thumb nut 1) on the screw end
of a bolt E passing through the central portion of the clip, between the tube and
the inflator gripping surfaces. By sufficiently loosening the thumb nut D but
without detaching the same from its bolt the herein before described connected
ends can be detached and the strips passed over the tube B from opposite sides
of the same; the ends are then again connected and the thumb nut tightened
to effectually secure the clip to the tube. By causing the claw or hook to engage
with a slot or aperture nearer or more remote to the extremity of the strip, the
clip can be readily adjusted to suit the diameter of the particular tube to which
it is to be attached. As shown at Figure 3 the claw or hook is in engagement
with the nearer slot «, but at Figure 2 it is in engagement with the more remote
slot or aperture a¹ to suit a tube of smaller diameter.
The internal surfaces of the clip we preferably line with strips F of leather or
other suitable material to prevent marking of the tube and of the inflator.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
Inflator and like attachment clips for cycles having a main or body part con-

page_text: structed and arranged for adjustment, substantially
illustrated.
Dated this 16th day of November 1898.
as described and as
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.