Year: 1896

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or relating to
I, HUGH CRAWFORD- PINKERTON, of Auchencraig, Largs, Ayrshire, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to provide a simple and conveniently operated
support for maintaining a bicye upright when the rider wishes to rest on the
road.
The improved support, which is preferably connected to the rear wheel of the
bicycle but which by suitable modification may be applied to the front or steering
wheel, is composed of a rod or bar having a pulley at the end, and secured on each
side of the wheel upon the axle or on a disc thereon so as to be adapted to swing
upon the axis as a centre from a position of rest in which the rod lies alongside
the back stay of the cycle frame to an approximately vertical position in which the
ends of the rods or bars rest on the ground on each side of the wheel in order to
maintain the cycle in the upright position. This swinging of the supporting rods
or bars is effected by means of a lever or levers which may resemble in arrange-
ment an ordinary brake lever of a cycle but having the operating handle placed by
preference under the saddle or in proximity to it.
In order that the rods or bars may be spread out laterally and provide a steadier
support, they are jointed at the top and each has attached to it a link which is
adapted to slide in a guide in a second or idle rod or bar swinging with the support-
ing rod or bar, the link acting as a toggle lever to move outwards the supporting
bar as it is brought from the horizontal to the vertical position.
The toggle link is operated by a chain or wire attached to it and to the operating
lever and passing round a guide pulley, a spring being provided to act in. the
reverse direction upon the release of the operating lever.
Dated this 1st day of December 1896.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This Invention has for its object to provide a simple and conveniently operated
support for maintaining a bicycle upright when the rider wishes to rest on the
road.
As illustrated by the accompanying drawing, the improved support which is
preferably connected to the rear wheel A of the bicycle but which by suitable
modification may be applied to the front or steering wheel, is composed of a rod or
bar B having a wheel C.at the end and secured on each side of the wheel A upon
the axle or on à disc E thereon so as to be adapted to swing upon the axis D as a
centre from a position of rest in which the rod B lies alongside the back stay of
the cycle frame where it is held by a spring b to an approximately vertical position
in which the ends of the rods or bars B rest on the ground on each side of the
wheel A in order to maintain the cycle in an upright position. This swinging of
the supporting rods or bars B is effected by means of a lever F or levers which may
resemble in arrangement an ordinary brake lever of a cycle but having the opera-
ting handle G placed by preference under the saddle or in proximity to it, a spring
piece G¹ being carried alongside the handle G which enters notches G2, G3, in a
sleeve G surrounding the wheel fork in order to lock the supporting rods in their
highest and lowest positions.
In order that the rods or bars B may be spread out laterally and provide a
steadier support, they are jointed at the top to the disc E and each has attached
to it a jointed link H to which a second or idle rod or bar I swinging with the
supporting rod or bar B is connected, the link H acting as a toggle lever to move
outwards the supporting bar B as it is brought from the horizontal to the vertical
position shewn in dotted lines.
The toggle link H may, as an alternative, be operated by a chain or wire
attached to it and to the operating lever and passing round guide pulleys secured
in the frame a spring being provided to act in the reverse direction upon the
release of the operating lever.
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 :-
The combination with a bicycle of supporting legs attached one on each side of
the hub of the rear or front wheel and adapted to be swung from a horizontal to
a vertical position and spread to support the bicycle by levers or like devices
cperated by hand substantially as described.
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WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.