Improvements in Cycle Stands or Supports.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Stands or Supports.
I, WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSON, Engineer, of 24 St. James' Street, Kings Lynn,
in the County of Norfolk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention for improvements in cycle stands or supports has for its object
to provide a stand of simple construction for supporting bicycles when not in use
and holding same in an upright position, and consists of a base or frame of a
suitable width to ensure stability and provided with a guide or longitudinal open-
ing to receive and steady the lower part of the rim of a bicycle wheel, and of a
fork or stay pivoted at its lower and open end to the base frame so that it can be
passed over the upper portion of the rim of a wheel supported in the guide or
opening in the base plate.
In one way of carrying out this invention the base frame consists of a front
beam of the desired width, and of two rearwardly extending bars secured on the
front beam at their forward ends and connected at their rear ends so as to leave
an opening for the rim of the wheel. An open or splayed V bar is pivoted at its
open end to the ends of the front beam and preferably so that when in a vertical
position the ends raise the front beam and the wheel off the ground. The upper
end of the V bar is shaped to receive and passes over the upper part of the rim
of the wheel; or if applied to the back wheel it may be over the mud guard.
When the stand is not in use the base can be folded up into the wide end of
the bar to which it is pivoted.
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Vmber 1896
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Cycle Stands or Supports.
I, WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSON, Engineer, of 24 St. James' Street, Kings Lynn,
in the County of Norfolk, 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 for improvements in cycle stands or supports has for its object
to provide a stand of simple construction for supporting bicycles when not in use
and holding same in an upright position, and consists of a base or frame of a
suitable width to ensure stability and provided with a guide or longitudinal open-
ing to receive and steady the lower part of the rim of a bicycle wheel, and of a

page_text: fork or stay pivoted at its lower and open end to the base frame so that it can be
passed over the upper portion of the rim of a wheel supported in the guide or
opening in the base.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings: Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 an
end elevation and Fig. 3 a part plan of a cycle stand constructed according to this
invention.
The base frame comprises a cross beam a, two parallel bars 6 secured to the
said beam at right angles to it and a crossbar c secured to the ends of
the bars b, an opening being thus left between the bars b to receive the rim of the
wheel. An open splayed or V-shaped metal fork d is pivoted near its open or
free ends to the ends of the cross beam a, a short pointed length e being left on
each leg so that when the bar is turned over vertically on to the tyre the cross
beam and the tyre also are raised from off the ground, the said projecting ends
serving to ensure perfect stability of the stand when in use. The upper end
of the V-shaped bar is shaped to receive the tyre over which it is passed when in
use. When the stand is not in use it can be folded up flat as indicated in Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A cycle stand or support comprising a base frame having a longitudinal
opening to receive a cycle tyre or wheel rim, and a splayed or V-shaped metal fork
pivoted to a cross beam of the base and having pointed ends projecting beyond the
crossbeam, substantially as described.
2. A cycle stand or support arranged and constructed substantially as described
and shown.
Dated this 5th day of August 1907
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.