Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 9th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Aug., 1887.
I EDWARD REDMAN of 17 Devonshire Street in the City of London Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
A great inconvenience is at present usually experienced in fitting or using bells on
velocipedes in that any one bracket by which the bell is supported is not capable of
being used in various positions but that a special bracket must be made for a special
position or for a particular use. The object of this invention is to provide bells with
supporting brackets that may be used in any position and for any use.
To carry out this object the usual central post is fitted to the bell but does not reach
very far outside of the same and inside or over the end of this post slides a bar or
tube and the two parts can be clamped in any desired position by a set screw. This
bar or tube can very conveniently be made of an L shape and over or inside the other
end thereof may slide the part that is attached to the clamping apparatus also fitted
with a set screw or the bar or tube itself may be attached to the clamping apparatus.
The clamping apparatus consists of two bars or plates so curved as to pass round
the desired part of the velocipede when they are secured in such position by one or
more screws or bolts and nuts or other appliances through their flanges.

page_text: I, EDWARD REDMAN, of 17, Devonshire Street, Liverpool Street, in the City or
London, Engineer, 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 velocipede-bells of any suitable known construction, and
its object is to provide means whereby a bell when attached to a machine may be
caused to assume any desired position with relation to its supporting bracket.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents partly in elevation and partly
in section a bell to which the present improvements have been applied, Figure 2
being an elevation of a detail hereinafter more particularly referred to.
The central post a, to which the striker bis hinged in the usual manner, is secured
to the bell c by the nut d in the ordinary way. The post a is hollow and adapted to
receive one end e¹ of a bar e; the latter is held in place by means of a set-screw or a
thumb-screw a passing through a shoulder a² on the side of the bar a. The other
end
of the bar e passes through a clamping device f, to which it is secured by means
of a set-screw or a thumb-screw ; the clamping device itself may be secured to
any convenient part of the machine by means of a set-screw f, as will be readily
understood.
By the means above described, the bell may be adjusted in any direction, it being
merely necessary to disengage one or more of the screws a¹, f, f2, and to raise, lower,
turn, push back, or withdraw the bell, as the case may be, until the desired position is
attained, when the disengaged screw or screws may be retightened.
I prefer to use the L-shaped bar e, shewn in Figure 2, though the particular form
of this bar may easily be modified. Although I have shewn a solid bar e and a hollow
post a,
I wish it to be understood that, if preferred, a tube may be substituted for the
bar, the post a being under such circumstances solid and working within one extremity
of the said tube. The particular construction of the clamping device f may likewise
be varied. The post a and the bar or tube may be screw-threaded without departing
from the principle of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a velocipede-bell, the means for enabling the position of the bell with respect
to its supporting bracket to be varied, substantially as set forth; such means consisting
in the employment of a post or bar and socket or sockets and one or more screws
for retaining the parts in position after adjustment.
2. In a velocipede-bell, the modification of the apparatus claimed in the preceding
claiming clause in which the socket or sockets and the bar or post are respectively
screw-threaded.

page_text: 3. In a velocipede-bell, the combination of the central post a with the bar e,
substantially as set forth.
4. In a velocipede-bell, the combination of a bar e secured to the bell with a
clamping device, such as f.
5. In a velocipede-bell, the combination of the central post a with the bar e and the
bracket f, substantially as set forth.
6. The modification of the device claimed in the preceding claiming clause in which
a tube is substituted for the bar e and the central post is solid and adapted to slide
within the said tube, substantially as described.
7. The improved manufacture of velocipede-bell, substantially as described and
illustrated.