An Improved Adjustable Mudguard Bridge for Cycles and other similar Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improved Adjustable Mudguard Bridge for Cycles and other
similar Vehicles.
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 improvements in the means of attaching mudguards to
cycles and other similar vehicles, and has reference to an improved means by which
said mudguards may be easily adjusted, and likewise may be easily and con-
veniently detached.
The mudguards at present in use, are generally fixed to the cycle frames, by
converging rods, which are fixed to the shaft or spindle of the cycle wheel.
This plan is inconvenient, as the vehicle has to be partly dismantled when it is
required to move the said guard.
In order to overcome this inconvenience we provide two clips, one for each leg
of the forked stay tube of the cycle wheel and frame. These clips are fixed to the
said tubes by a long screw and nut to each for closing the ends together, when the
clip is firmly fixed to and grips the tube. On the back or rounded part of each
clip we form a loop by cutting two parallel slits crossways to the circumference of
the clip and bending the portion, between said slits out from the surface of the
clip.
We provide a bridge strip which may be either bent to the shape of the mud-
guard of the cycle, or straight in form as may be convenient to suit various shapes
of mudguards. The ends or tongues of said bridge strip are each prolonged to a
distance equal to or in excess of the width of the legs of the forked stay tubes
aforesaid, and are bent at right angles to the central part of the bridge strip. These
ends are threaded through the loops, one end to each clip, so that the under surface
of each tongue or end is next to and bears upon the surface of the leg of the forked
stay tube aforesaid, and so long as the clips are loose on the tubes, the bridge
strip and mudguard attached can be made to slide freely either way, and can be
adjusted accordingly.
When however, the clips are tightened by the aforesaid screws, the action of
tightening each clip round the stay or tube at once pulls that portion or tongue
of the bridge which passes through the top against the tube or stay, and thus holds
it in position.

page_text: An Improved Adjustable Mudguard Bridge for Cycles and other
similar Vehicles.
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 improvements in the means of attaching mudguards to
cycles and other similar vehicles, and has reference to an improved means by which
said mudguards may be easily adjusted, and likewise may be easily and con-
veniently detached.
The mudguards at present in use, are generally fixed to the cycle frames, by
converging rods, which are fixed to the shaft or spindle of the cycle wheel.
This plan is inconvenient, as the vehicle has to be partly dismantled when it is
required to move the said guard.
In order to overcome this inconvenience we provide two clips, one for each leg
of the forked stay tube of the cycle wheel and frame. These clips are fixed to the
said tubes by a long screw and nut to each for closing the ends together, when the
clip is firmly fixed to and grips the tube. On the back or rounded part of each
clip we form a loop by cutting two parallel slits crossways to the circumference of
the clip and bending the portion, between said slits out from the surface of the
clip.
We provide a bridge strip which may be either bent to the shape of the mud-
guard of the cycle, or straight in form as may be convenient to suit various shapes
of mudguards. The ends or tongues of said bridge strip are each prolonged to a
distance equal to or in excess of the width of the legs of the forked stay tubes
aforesaid, and are bent at right angles to the central part of the bridge strip. These
ends are threaded through the loops, one end to each clip, so that the under surface
of each tongue or end is next to and bears upon the surface of the leg of the forked
stay tube aforesaid, and so long as the clips are loose on the tubes, the bridge
strip and mudguard attached can be made to slide freely either way, and can be
adjusted accordingly.
When however, the clips are tightened by the aforesaid screws, the action of
tightening each clip round the stay or tube at once pulls that portion or tongue
of the bridge which passes through the top against the tube or stay, and thus holds
it in position.
In order that this invention may be readily understood, reference is made to the
accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 represents the improved adjustable mud-
guard in position, threaded through the loops attached to the legs of the forked
stay tubes of the cycle, the bridge strip in this view being bent to the shape of
the mudguard of the cycle, and Fig. represents the same device having the
bridge strip straight instead of curved or bent. In these views A A are the clips
fixed to the legs of the forked stay tubes or other supports, (shown by dotted lines
at BB), and which are fixed to the said tubes or supports by the long screws and
nuts CC. DD are the loops formed on the back or rounded part of the said
clips as herein before described. E is the bridge strip, having either a bent imiddle
portion as shewn in Fig. 1 or straight as shewn in Fig. 2, the mudguard (shown by
dotted lines at F) being secured or fixed to the bridge strip aforesaid by means of
the screw and nut G. HH are the ends or tongues of bridge strip bent at right
angles to the central portion of the said bridge strip, and made of such a width and

page_text: length as to thread into the loops DD, and admit of sliding through said loops
for the purpose of adjusting the mudguard. When the necessary adjustment is
obtained, the screws and nuts CC are tightened and the ends H H of the tongues
are firmly clamped or fixed in position.
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:
1. In cycles and other similar vehicles the provision of an adjustable and
detachable mudguard bridge, 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 other
similar vehicle substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
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Ր T 1 1000
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicants' Agent, 56, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.