A Combined Back-rest and Mud-guard for Bicycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th June, 1896-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Back-rest and Mud-guard for Bicycles.
I, JAMES CASEY of 10 Philpot Lane, London in the County of Middlesex,
Consulting 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 :-
My improvements in bicycles consist in applying a back piece to them, which
can be used as a rest for the riders, as a fulcrum against which they can push when
desiring to bring extra power to bear on the treadles of their machines, and as a
mud-guard, and in providing means for adjusting the position of the back-piece and
in attaching it to the bicycle.
The back-piece is made of metal and may be of any suitable section. The width
of the back-piece is to be equal to or somewhat wider than the tyre of the back
wheel of the machine to which the back-piece is applied.
Figure 1 of the drawing shows an elevation of the back-piece, and the means
for adjusting it. The back-piece is shown in the position when it is used as a
back-rest, and the dotted lines show it, when in position for use as a mud-
guard.
Figure 2 is a back view of the device.
Figures 3, 4, and 5 are details of Figures 1 and 2 to an enlarged scale.
Figures 67 and 8 show a second method of attaching the apparatus to a

page_text: bolt is provided with a handle (h), and is kept in position by a flat spring attached
to its back, or by a coiled spring tending to press it in a downward direction and
keep it from shaking loose."
A second method of securing the attachment of the back-piece (a) to a bicycle,
is shown by Figs. 6, 7, and 8. The saddle carrier (b), in this arrangement, is
prolonged backwards and has its rear end turned up, flattened out, and pierced;
on this flattened end (c) is placed the back-piece holder (d') constructed of a plate
which is bent so as to form a tube of box-like section with a curved tail, which has
holes (f) formed in it to take the bolt (g), by means of which the back-piece (a) is
adjusted in position by the rider of the machine to which the apparatus is attached.
The back-piece holder (d') is slotted to allow of the flattened eud (c) to fit into it,
and to project sufficiently above its upper surface to allow of a catch (j), being
inserted into the hole in the flattened end (c) with the object of preventing the
back-piece holder (d) being displaced.
Back-rests for bicycles are well known, but back-pieces attached to bicycles as
herein described that are capable of being used either as back rests or as mud-
guards at the will of the riders of the machines to which they are attached are
novel, as are also the devices herein described for attaching them to such
machines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A back-piece (a) that is capable of adjustment so as to enable it to be used
for either a back-rest, or a mud guard substantially as herein described and shown
in the drawings.
2. The combination of the back-piece (a), the back-piece holder (d), and the
locking bolt (g), as shown in the drawings by Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, used for
the purposes of a moveable back-rest and mud-guard for bicycles.
3. The combination of the back-piece (a), the back-piece holder (d') with tail,
and saddle holder with flattened end (c), and the catch (1), shown in Figures 6, 7, 8
of the drawings.
Dated this 12th day of June 1896.
E. H. G. BREWSTER,
Agent for Applicant.