An Improved Portable Safety Bicycle Stand.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
An Improved Portable Safety Bicycle Stand.
I, JAMES MILLS, of 40 Oxford Street, in the City of Gloucester, Nailmaker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
To consist of an improved portabie safety bicycle stand which will occupy a
space of twenty five inches in length, a breadth of eighteen inches & a greatest.
height of ten inches or thereabouts and will weigh about six pounds. Such stand
will consist of three pieces of wrought iron brass or other material. Two of such
pieces form the bases or legs and are placed parallel to each other at a varying
distance of from one foot to fifteen inches. These two bases or legs are pieces of
wrought iron or other material of a length of twenty inches or thereabouts and a
breadth of about one inch and three eighths of an inch in thickness and are bent to,
raise the major portion thereof a height of about two inches from the floor and also
bent in the centre in the opposite direction to give room for the tire of a bicycle.
wheel. Across the centre of such two bases or legs and at right angles thereto is
fastened by means of iron rivets or otherwise a shaped cross-piece consisting of
about five feet of wrought iron brass or other material about an inch broad and
five sixteenths of an inch thick bent and welded together at the two ends and formed
into an ellipse shape having parallel sides an inch and three quarters from each
other or thereabouts and rounded at the two ends. This cross-piece on being.
placed flat upon the bases or legs appears bent again in three places firstly for a.
distance of about eleven inches from the one base or leg and at an angle of about
60 degrees from the floor outwards secondly rising for about four inches from the.
other base or leg in an outward direction and at an angle of about seventy five
degrees from the floor and thirdly at right angles to the last mentioned bend for a.
distance of about two inches. The whole forms a slot into which the front or back
wheel of a safety-bicycle may be placed without such wheel touching the floor and
the machine is held thereby in a tight grip and is held up and prevented from.
moving either sideways, backward or forward.
Dated this Eighth day of April 1896
I JAMES MILLS of 40 Oxford Street in the City of Gloucester, Nail Manu-.
facturer, 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 :-
fathinale stand
I JAMES MILLS of 40 Oxford Street in the City of Gloucester, Nail Manu-
facturer, 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 :-
To consist of a light portable and breakable safety bicycle stand
The stand is made in three parts A. B and C.
A. consists of a piece of iron, brass, or any other suitable material, turned, and

page_text: welded or joined at both ends, so as to form a rim with the two sides straight and
parallel to each other and semi-circular ends. This rim is bent in an obtusangular
shape with rounded angles, to the form of a semicircle, the ends thereof D and E
being bent so as to be nearly horizontal, when such rim is placed upon the
legs B and C, and such rim is made to closely fit the wheel of a safety bicycle.
B and C consist of two pieces of iron, brass, or any other suitable material,
bent at two places at each end, so as to form legs or feet upon which the greater
portion of such pieces rest at an elevation. The centre of B and C is bent to form
a slot into which the wheel of a safety bicycle will fit. The ends of B and C being
rounded or otherwise.
B and C are placed at a distance parallel to each other, and the aforesaid rim A
is placed upon them at right angles, and is held thereto by means of rivets F. F.
F. F. The whole forms a stand into which the wheel of a safety bicycle is
received.
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.) That it is a light portable and unbreakable safety bicycle stand.
(2.) That when either front or back wheel of a safety bicycle is placed in the
aforesaid stand the said safety bicycle is firmly held in a perpendicular position,
and will not fall, except by the application of very considerable and violent force.
(3.) That the rim A closely fitting the wheel of a safety bicycle, and the legs B
and C extending for some distance from the centre of the stand, gives to such
stand the stability necessary to safely hold a safety bicycle in a perpendicular
position.
(4.) That such stand can be used for cleaning a safety bicycle when such safety
bicycle is turned upside down, and the handles thereof placed in the stand.
Dated this Eighteenth day of November 1896.
JAMES MILLS,
40 Oxford Street, Gloucester, Nail Manufacturer.