Improvements in or relating to Dress Guards for Cycles,
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Dress Guards for Cycles,
We, FREDERICK HENRY WILLIAM BREININGER, of Sunny Side, Wychall Lane,
Kings Norton, Birmingham, Engineer, and WHITE & PIKE, LIMITED, of Long-
bridge Works, Northfield, near Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved dress guard clip for cycles, and has for
its object the provision of a guard for ladies' dresses and the like, which is detach-
able, easily fixed, and also effectually protects the dress from catching on to the
screw or nut of the hub spindle or clip projections.
Hitherto the clip of the mudguard of a cycle has been fixed below the part
which holds the dress guard, but in this invention we place it above and attach
the arc or quadrant of the dress guard to a special clip, in a position below the
said clip in such a manner as that the arc or quadrant aforesaid covers the nut
or screw end of the hub spindle.
This said arc or quadrant is provided with holes for fastening the ends of the
cords of the dress guard as hitherto adopted.
The clip of this dress guard is made of sheet metal of any convenient kind, and
is bent round to clip the tube of the cycle frame in the usual manner, the two
ends of the said clip however, are provided with circular disc pieces, fixed on solid
to the ends of the clip, one of which is screwed, and forms the nut of the screw for
tightening the clip on to the frame of the cycle, so that by this arrangement the
necessity for a loose nut is dispensed with.
The clip is made so that the ends thereof, together with the screw and nut are
on the inside, the arc or quadrant being opposite or on the outside.
Dated this 30th day of Decemben 100×
Improvements in or relating to Dress Guards for Cycles.
We, FREDERICK HENRY WILLIAM BREININGER, of Sunny Side, Wychall Lane,
Kings Norton, Birmingham, Engineer, and WHITE & PIKE, LIMITED, of Long-
bridge Works, Northfield, near 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 an improved dress guard clip for cycles, and has for
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page_text: its object the provision of a guard for ladies' dresses and the like, which is detach-
able, easily fixed, and also effectually protects the dress from catching on to the
screw or nut of the hub spindle or clip projections.
Hitherto the clip of the mudguard of a cycle has been fixed below the part
which holds the dress guard, but in this invention we place it above and attach
the arc or quadrant of the dress guard to a special clip, in a position below the
said clip in such a manner as that the are or quadrant aforesaid covers the nut
or screw end of the hub spindle.
This said arc or quadrant is provided with holes for fastening the ends of the
cords of the dress guard as hitherto adopted.
The clip of this dress guard is made of sheet metal of any convenient kind, and
is bent round to clip the tube of the cycle frame in the usual manner, the two
ends of the said clip however, are provided with circular disc pieces, fixed on solid
to the ends of the clip, one of which is screwed, and forms the nut of the screw for
tightening the clip on to the frame of the cycle, so that by this arrangement the
_necessity for a loose nut is dispensed with.
The clip is made so that the ends thereof, together with the screw and nut are
on the inside, the arc or quadrant being opposite or on the outside.
In order that this invention may be readily understood, reference is made to
the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1, represents a perspective side view
of the guard clip, Fig. 2, a flat side view of the same, Fig. 3, and end view and Fig. 4,
a plan of the guard. In these several illustrations the same letters refer to the
same parts in the several views, A, being the clip of the guard, bent round to
clip the cycle tube B, and fixed tight thereto by the screw C, working in the nut D,
on one of the ends of the clip A. The stem or strip of metal E is rivetted or
otherwise fixed solid on to the clip A, the bottom of which is bent over and shaped
to the form of a quadrant F, with perforated holes G, for fastening the ends of
the cords of the dress guard.
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. An improved dress guard clip for cycles, substantially as and for the purpose
herein set forth and described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The application of this invention to any form or kind of cycle, or similar
machine or vehicle, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1898.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicants' Agent, 56, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.