Improvements in or relating to Houses or Stores for Cycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1897--Accepted, 9th Oct., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Houses or Stores for Cycles.
I, GOTTLIEB EHRENBERG, of 2, Bankplatz Brunswick, in the Empire of Germany,
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 has for its object the construction of a cycle-house in which a
large number of cycles can be securely stored and from which they can be easily
taken out, the least possible amount of space being required.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a view showing in vertical central section two halves of cycle houses
constructed according to this invention one half on each side of the vertical centre
Line.
Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of one of the improved cycle houses.
Fig. 3 is a half elevation of the same.
Fig. 4 is a vertical central section of as much of an alternative construction of
house according to this invention as is necessary to illustrate the arrangement of
its several floors and means for hydraulically raising and lowering them.
Figure 5 is a diagram indicating a rack and pinion device for raising and lower-
ing the floors.
Figure 6 shows in plan a detail of Figure 4, and
Figure 7 shows diagrammatically a house with movable floors suspended by a
chain.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
With reference first to Figs. 2 and 3 a is a house of round or angular shape
in plan, divided by radial partitions 6 6 into as many compartments d d as is allowed
by the width of the cycles. On the floor are arranged guide bars cc enabling the
cycles to be introduced in a sure manner between the partitions: cross bars on
the latter provided with locking devices support the cycles in vertical position and
prevent unauthorised persons from removing them. The house may be fixed or
pivotted to turn about its vertical axis.
Figure 1 shows the half A¹ of a rotatable house and the half A2 of a fixed house.
The separate compartments may be closed by means of doors e e or arranged open
as shown in Figures 2, and 3 at f f. In case the house be a fixed one it may be
provided with a rotatable concentric wall g (Figure 2), in one piece or in several
parts which can be moved in front of or behind one another this wall being provided
if it is made in one piece with an opening h for the removal of any individual
cycle: or vice versa if the house be rotatable it would have a fixed wall with a
gap in it. It may also contain not only one but several superposed compart-
ments B B see Figure 4 for receiving the cycles, in which case any suitable
hoisting device is provided such for instance as the hydraulic one shown in Figure 4
in vertical section. The floors 1 supporting the cycles may also be arranged so
as to be rotatable about the central axis 2 the wall 3 remaining fixed.
For the purpose of hoisting and lowering the floors 1 the central shaft 2 may be

page_text: connected with a hydraulic piston 4 (Figure 4) or formed with a toothed rack 5
engaging with a pinion 7 (Figure 5) suitably connected with a winch 6. The
floors 1 may also be arranged to hang in the air from a chain connected to a
winch 19 (Figure 7). For the purpose of vertically guiding the floors 1 along the
fixed wall 3 the latter is provided with T or angle irons 8 with which engage the
beams 10 of the floors I provided with claws or like parts 9 as illustrated in
Figure 6.
by means of
The supporting beams 10 of the floors 1 are secured to the shaft
sleeves 11. On the sleeves 11 are arranged balls 12 and on these are supported
sockets 14 arranged about the central shaft 2 and supporting the floors 1 correspond-
ingly wide flanges 13 being provided on said socket for receiving the floors.
The floors 1 are provided on their lower surfaces near the wall 3 with guide
rollers 15 resting on rails 16 on the supporting beams 10.
Sleeves 17 are arranged loosely on the central shaft 2 and connected with the
sockets 14 by means of tubes 18 for the purpose of better guidance.
It is thus easy at any moment to bring the floors 1 supporting the cycles to any
level and to turn them as desired.
As the handle-bars and handles of the cycles to be stored vary in height according
to the make of the machine whereby it would be difficult sometimes to arrange them
there may be introduced between the guide bars e e suitably shaped blocks
on which the cycles are placed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A cycle house consisting of a house fixed or rotatable about its central axis
and of round or angular shape with one or several spaces arranged one above another
in which there is formed by radial partitions any desired number of open compart-
ments or compartments that can be closed for receiving cycles the proper introduc-
tion of cycles being secured by guides cc and the vertical position as well as their
protection against unauthorised removal being ensured by suitable cross-bars v
provided with locking devices.
2. A cycle house according to claim 1 with several places B1 B2 arranged one
above another and serving for receiving cycles and rising and falling floors for
the purpose of facilitating the introduction and removal of cycles.
3. In fixed cycle houses of the kind characterised in claim 1 the use of a rotatable
concentric wall in one piece with an opening h or in several parts which can be
pushed in front of or behind one another.
4. In rotatable cycle houses of the kind characterised in claim 1 the use of a
fixed concentric wall 9 provided with one or several openings h.
5. In a fixed cycle house of the kind characterised in claim 1 the arrangement
of floors 1 which are capable of being raised and lowered and of rotating about the
central shaft 2.
6. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting a store for cycles
substantially as described and illustrated in either half of Figure 1 or in Figure
of Figure 4 of the accompanying drawings.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.