An Improved Safety-lock for Cycles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 25th June. 1896
IKUVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by CARL PETER FREDERIK LANGE, of No. 96 Store
Kongensgade, Copenhagen X, in the Kingdom of Denmark, Saddler.]
An Improved Safety-lock for Cycles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows
This invention relates to an improved safety lock for cycles the application of
which renders stealing or removing of such vehicles practically impossible, the lock
being arranged in such a manner as to be undetachable from the vehicle and so that
the front wheel of the machine when locked is placed transversely with regard to
the rear wheel, so that any person intending to remove the vehicle in locked
condition, would be compelled to carry the same, which will in any case be at once
noticed by the public and cause in all probability the person to be arrested.
The lock is arranged in a cross piece of the top-part of the framing. This cross
piece is connected by means of a sleeve to the tube which encases a part of the
steering device. In the said sleeve a suitable lock is arranged, the bolt of which
when locked engages a recess or bore which passes through the tubular part encasing
the steering device and into the latter. This recess or bore is so arranged that the
front wheel will take up a transverse position with regard to the rear wheel, when
the recess or bore in the steering device lies opposite the bolt of the lock and the
respective hole in the tube encasing the said steering device.
The lock is fixed to the sleeve by soldering or screwing or in any other suitable
manner and in the said sleeve a key hole affording access to the lock is provided.
Dated this 25th day of April 1895.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Safety-lock for Cycles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 an improved safety lock for cycles the application of
which renders the stealing or removal of such vehicles practically impossible, the
look being arranged in such a manner as to be undetachable from the vehicle and
so that the front wheel of the machine when locked is placed transversely with
regard to the rear wheel, so that any person intending to remove the vehicle in its
locked condition, would be compelled to carry the same, which would in any case
be at once noticed by the public and cause in all probability the person to be
arrested.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section and
Figure 2 an horizontal section through the upper tube of the frame.
The upper tube a of the frame is connected by means of a sleeve b to the head d
arranged above the crown of the front fork which head encases a part of the steering
device. In the said sleeve 6 a suitable lock c is arranged, the bolt h of which when
locked engages with an inwardly projecting recess e in the tube e¹ forming a hollow
rib or projection which engages a correspondingly shaped recess in the steering
bar f¹.
The said recesses e and fare so arranged that the front wheel A will
take up a transverse position with regard to the rear wheel, as shown in the drawing,
when such recesses lie opposite the bolt of the lock.
The lock is fixed to the sleeve b by soldering or screwing or in any other
suitable manner and in the said sleeve b a key hole affording access to the lock
is provided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
A safety lock for velocipedes having the characteristic feature that the bolt of a
lock arranged in or upon the frame engages the steering bar of the front wheel-
when the lock is in its closed position and holds the said steering bar and conse-
quently the front wheel of the velocipede in an oblique or transverse position
relatively to the machine.
Dated this 24th day of January 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.