Improvements in Mud-guards for Bicycles and Tricycles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mud-guards for Bicycles and Tricycles.
I, WILLIAM ERNEST YATES, of 56, Kirkmanshulme Lane, Longsight, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
To provide mud-guards in a form neat, and convenient to carry with the
machines, when not required in use, and when occasion requires capable of being
attached to, or detached quickly from the machines, by the following method
namely:-On to and between the machine fork metals, near to the tyres of the
wheels, I fix small sockets, of a form suited to convenience for inserting therein
the ends of straight spring rods, which are extended to the required length over
the wheel tyres; on the other ends of the rods, cords are fixed for the purpose of
pulling and holding them down to the contour of the tyres, and in position, the
other or loose end of the cord being hooked on to a lower part of the machine forks;
over the spring rods the cloth or fabric required to form the mud-guard is fixed
by loops passing under the rods to keep the cloth or fabric in position; the mud-
guard fabric over the back wheel is extended forward and hooked on to the down
or standard tube and continued down to the gear frame, or chain stays, to which it
is also hooked. The front wheel guard is of the same description, except as to
the extending of the guard fabric forward. To take off the guards all the hooks
must be unfastened, (the spring rods then return to their normal or straight form)
and the ends of the rods withdrawn from the sockets; then the fabric that forms
the mudguard can be neatly folded round the rods, and clipped to the frame of
the machine.
The application of the spring rods above referred to is the principal feature of
this invention.
Improvements in Mud-guards for Bicycles and Tricycles.
I, WILLIAM ERNEST YATES, of No. 56, Kirkmanshulme Lane, Longsight,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Clerk, 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:—
To provide mud-guards in a form neat and convenient to carry with the
machines when not required in use, and when occasion requires capable of being
attached to, or detached quickly from the machines.
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page_text: In order to enable it to be clearly understood the means by which the same
may be performed, I annex hereto a sheet of drawings, illustrative thereof, and
have marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with
those in the following explanation thereof:-
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Fig. 1 shows the horizontal section through the fork metals (a) with socket
plates (e) in position, and clips (b) attached to the same passing round each of the
fork metals, and secured thereto with set screws (c); and also the top view of the
spring rods (f) as inserted in the sockets.
Fig. 2 shows vertical view of Fig. 1 with the edge of the plate (e) the ends of
the socket holes (d) and the clips (b).
Fig. 3 shows transverse section through the sockets (d) with the ends of spring
rods (finserted in position.
Fig. 4, shows transverse section of plates at (e) Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. shows the frame of a bicycle with all the positions of attachment thereto.
The invention consists in providing sockets (d) Figs. 1, 2 and 3, with clips (b)
Figs. 1, and 2, for fixing the same to the machine fork metals (a) Figs. 1, and 2,
which sockets are for the purpose of having inserted therein, the ends of straight
spring rods (f) Fig. 3; these rods (f) Fig. 5 are extended back the required length
over the tyres of the wheels; fabric to form the mudguard () Fig. 5 is fixed to the
said rods; and the other or loose ends of the rods are pulled and held down in
position following the contour of the wheel, as at (9) Fig. 5, by cords (h) Fig. 5,
hooked or fastened to a lower part of the fork metals as at (i, i,) Fig. 5. The
fabric forming the mudguard of the back wheel is continued forward and hooked
to the frame of the machine as at (A) and (7) Fig. 5.
When the guards are not required in use, all the hooks can be unfastened; the
rods (f) Fig. 5, returning to their normal or straight form, can then be withdrawn
from the sockets, the mudguard fabric folded round the rods, and the whole
fastened or strapped to a convenient part of the frame of the machine; the sockets
remaining fixed to the forks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The sockets as shown at (d) in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, as applied for the purpose
of inserting therein the ends of spring rods (f).
2. The spring rods as shown at (f) in Figs. 1, 3, and 5, as applied for the
purpose of fixing in the sockets and being drawn down and held to the contour
of the wheel or wheels by cords (h, h) Fig. 5.
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