Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
1, HENRY FREDERIC COTTERELL, of 11, Clare Street, Bristol, Paper-haugers'
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to bicycles and consists in improved means for holding them
up when stationary.
According to this invention, an arm is hinged or coupled at one end to the
machine frame, or other suitable part, and is adapted to be swung, when required,
to either side. The arm is so shaped, that when sufficiently extended to either
side, its free end is brought into contact with the ground and thus the arm
constitutes a prop whereby the machine is propped up. In this position the arm
holds the machine propped up while stationary.
When it is desired to put the prop out of operation, as such, it is swung back
out of contact with the ground and is held stationary on the machine by a spring
catch or other suitable holding device.
The prop may be provided at the free end with a wheel or anti-friction
roller.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1896.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.
1, HENRY FREDERIC COTTERELL, of 11, Clare Street, Bristol, Paper-hangers'
Merchant, 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 bicycles, and consists in improved means for holding them
up when stationary.
According to this invention, an arm is hinged or coupled at one end to the
bicycle frame, or other suitable part of the machine, and is adapted to be swung,
when required, to either side. The arın normally lies over and behind the rear
wheel and is clear of the ground. When it is desired to use the arm as a prop, it
is swung round to either side of the cycle which latter is then inclined so as to
bring the free end of the arm into contact with the ground. In this position the
arm holds the machine propped up while stationary..
When it is desired to put the prop out of operation, as such, it is raised from
contact with the ground and is swung back to the rear where it is held stationary
on the machine by a spring catch, or other suitable holding device.
The prop is preferably fitted at the free end' with a wheel or anti-friction
roller

page_text: Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
Fig. 1 illustrates, in side elevation, one method of carrying my invention into
practical effect.
Clamped to the seat pillar tube a of the frame of the bicycle is a bar b bent
upwards as a spindle c about which is clamped, by a bolt e and nut f, au arm g
which constitutes the prop for supporting the cycle when stationary. This arm g
normally rests in the position shown at Fig. 1 of the drawings, that is to say,
extended over and behind the rear wheel h of the bicycle. At its free end the arm g
carries, in the example illustrated at Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, a
wheel i free to rotate in the fork j. It is, however, not necessary that such wheel
be carried by the arm.
The arm, when not in use as a prop, is maintained in the position shown at
Fig. 1 of the drawings by means of the square part of the spindle c which square
part extends upwards from the flange e to the line c, see Fig. 2, which is a
detached view, partly sectional, drawn to an enlarged scale. The square part of
the spindle c fits a corresponding square socket provided for it in the arm g.
Above the line c² the spindle c is round. A spring k coiled around the spindle c
and bearing on the arm tends constantly to keep the socket of the arm down over
the square of the spindle.
Fig. 3 is a plan showing, at an enlarged scale, the method of clamping the arm g
on the spindle c by the bolt e and nut f.
When it is desired to use the aria g as a prop for the bicycle, the rider exerts an
upward pull by hand on the arm 9 and overcomes the resistance of the spring k.
The square socket of the arm y having been thus raised clear of the square
shoulder of the spindle c, the arm g is then swung round forward to either side
according to the side at which it is required to prop up the machine, and when the
arm has been brought round to a right angle, it drops under the influence of its
weight and the action of the spring k. The square shoulder of the spindle c passes
over the square part of the arm g which is thus rigidly held. The bicycle is tilted
towards the extended arm until the wheel i, now brought alongside the wheel h,
comes into contact with and rests upon the ground and props up the machine.
When it is desired to put the arm g out of operation as a prop, it is returned to
the position shown at Fig. 1 of the drawings in like manner to that above described
for bringing it into use as a prop.
Other means may be adopted for holding the prop steady when in or out of
action as a prop. For instance, a pair of discs with undulated faces and free to
rotate in contact may be used; a spring such as k be ring on the uppermost disc
and the projection of one being made to engage in the recesses of the other, the
discs being adapted to be put in and out of gear at will.
Or a pawl and toothed quadrant may be used or any equivalent locking
device.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
In combination with a bicycle, a prop consisting of an arm such as g, or the like,
pivotally connected to the cycle and so arranged as normally to lie over and
behind the rear wheel and to be capable of being swung round to either side of the
machine, to act as a prop thereto, and returned to its normal position, at will; the
prop being fitted either without a roller or wheel at its free end, or with such
roller or wheel, substantially as hereinabove described with reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 27th day of Anril 1897
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.