Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application. 29th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left. 28th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
I, WILLIAM VERNON MITCHELL, of Fern Lea, Gillott Road, Edgbaston, in the City
of Birmingham, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in supports or stands by which cycles may
be prevented from falling and also in some cases by which they shall be securely
locked from theft.
I provide a plate or base which may be screwed, bolted or otherwise secured to the
wall or other fixture. Upon this plate is formed a hinge like joint to which is attached
the one end of a forked arm, so that it may be turned downwards out of the way when
not in use. The forked portion of the arm may be longer or shorter as may be desired.
The contrivance is secured to the wall &c. at a height suitable to permit the front
wheel of the machine to pass beneath it and to allow of the steering post (or ball
head) passing into the said forked portion. At the end of one of the forks, is now
hinged a locking bar which passes behind the ball head and is locked to the opposite
fork end, preferably by an automatic spring lock. Thus the machine is securely
supported from falling and also prevented from being stolen. With a suitable key
the lock is unfastened and the machine may be removed, the arm then falling down
out of the way.
If desired the forked portion may be made to grip the ball head or the latter may
loosely lie therein. In some cases instead of the hinged locking bar, I may make a
cheaper bar by making suitable slot holes in both ends of the fork so that a bar having
its front end turned or hooked at right angles so that when passed through the slot
holes it may be turned down to prevent accidental removal, but will prevent the
withdrawal of the machine until the bar is again taken out.
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CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
WILLIAM VERNON MITCHELL, Fern Lea, Gillott Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham,
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 :-
Bicycle stands or supports by which, bicycles are prevented from falling, and in
some cases, securely locked in from theft, by the frame or part of the frame of the
bicycle.

page_text: I provide a plate or base "A" Fig. 1 which may be screwed, bolted, or otherwise
secured to a wall or any other fixture, on this plate, is formed a hinge-like joint B to
which is attached the one end of a rod C (longer or shorter) and to the other end of
the rod.C isi attached a fork.d, this fork may be longer or shorter as desired:*
This said fork d has a hinged or jointed arm. E this arin when turned round,
completes the circle of the fork d, inside this fork the ball head or steering rod of the
bicycle rests, or any back part of the bicycle frame, which enters the fork D by the
hinged arm E will also rest. This hinged árm E; attached one end to the fork D bas
an eye drilled through F, which falls over another eye F, so that a padlock, or pin G
or any substitute, may be passed through the two eyes F, thereby locking the bicycle
in by the frame, also instead of these two eyes-F, I may substitute an automatic 3
lever spring lock H (Fig. 2) this lock being attached by the two tails I to the one
end of the fork D,this lock H (Fig. 3) consisting of a "box J containing 3 levers or
shoots K, which are pressed down by three springs L at various heights, the hook M
attached to the one end of the arm E enters the mouth of the box J lifting the three
levers K; the hook M is then secured by the 3'springs L'pressing the 3 levers K into
the slot of the book M; this hook being withdrawn by a suitable key N.
The whole contrivance is fixed to the wall at a.height suitable for the front wheel
of a bicycle to pass beneath it when the arm is extended; in the centre of the arm.
or thereabouts, is attached a swinging guide O which rests on the front wheel of the
bicycle preventing this front wheel turning round, and at the same time, holding the
weight of the entire arm and fork, this swinging guide O is not intended to, and does
not clip the wheel as a spring clip, the wheel lying loosely therein.. The entire arm
and fork; being hinged to the plate A at the joint B, falls out of the way when not
in use.
The fork D may be made shorter to grip the frame of the bicycle if desired.*
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim. is:
An improved bicycle stand or support, by which bicycles are prevented from falling;
and in some cases, from being stolen, the bicycle being locked in by the frame of the
machine,, and the said stand.: or: support falling, out of the way when not in
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