Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Carrying Articles on Velocipedes and the like
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1896-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Carrying Articles on
Velocipedes and the like
1, JOSEPH GEORGE GROSE ot No 63 Gold Street Northampton in the County
of Northampton, Leather Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus such as bags and clips for carrying articles
such as tools and inflators on velocipedes and the like. Hitherto such bags have
commonly been provided with two straps fitted to the back thereof whereby the
bag may be attached to the back of the saddle by being fastened through eyelets
formed in the leather of the saddle or attached to the frame thereof.
The said cyclets are usually inconveniently arranged and the operations of
attaching and detaching the bag are awkward and slow. Further-being
suspended from the back the bag is carried in a slanting position and is liable
to discharge its contents when opened.
The chips for carrying the inflator are separate from the bag and if it be
desired to attach the inflator, with or without its clips, to or detach it from the
machine, these operations must be performed in addition to those connected with
the bag. The objects of my invention ate, to make the bag and inflator instantly
attachable to and detachable froin the machine at the same time allowing of the
inflator being removed or replaced without affecting the bag, and to carry the
bag in such a position that it will normally hang in a vertical position, so as to
diminish the risk of the contents being thrown out when the bag is opened.
To attam my objects I provide the bag with spring band hooks constructed on
the punciple well known in the cycle inde in connection with inflator clips and
mudguard clips and I combine these hooks with clips for carrying the inflator, and
look the bag and inflator to the handlebar, upper backbone or other suitable part
of the machine.
According to one method of carrying out my invention, I take a strip of steel
or other suitable material and form one end into a narrow necked hook and twist
the other straight end at right angles thereto. I rivet or otherwise suitably attach
the strip to the upper part of the end of the bag so that the hook lies in the
vertical plane of the bag higher than the top thereof Instead of using a straight
stup and twisting it, I may use a strip of L or other suitable form, forming the
longer arm into the hook and bending the other at right angles for attachment to
the end of the bag. I attach a similar hook to the other end of the bag and to
the top of each hook livet or otherwise suitably attach a narrow necked clip
adapted to receive the inflator. The hooks and inflator both being in the vertical
plane of the bag, the risk of the bag discharging its contents when opened 13
reduced to a minimum
According to another method I employ longer strips of metal and form both
ends of each into hooks, the points of the two books on each strip lying directly
opposite to each other but at a suitable distance apart. The hooks are attached to
the back of the bag. The upper pair of hooks is for attaching the bag to the
machine and the lower pair of hooks forms chips for carrying the inflatoi. The
weight of the inflator tends to balance the contents of the bag and so maintains
the latter in a vertical position.

page_text: According to both methods, the hooks are adapted to grip the handlebar, the
upper backbone or some other suitable part of the machine, and by these means
the bag and inflator may be simultaneously and instantaneously attached to and
detached from the machine when required, and the inflator may be attached and
detached separately without disturbing the bag.
The hooks and clips are preferably lined with leather or other suitable material
to prevent scratching. The lining may be attached at the ends by small sleeves
tightly embracing both lining and hook or clip, and it may be secured in the
middle on at other convenient points by cement or otherwise so that the Iming
shall not be detached by the movement of the hook or clip.
I do not confine myself to the above mentioned methods of carrying out my
invention, as combinations and modifications of the parts may obviously be made
without departing from the nature of my invention.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1895.
W. BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Carrying Articles on
Velocipedes and the like.
I, JOSEPH GEORGE GROSE of No 63 Gold Street, Northampton, in the
County of Northampton, Leather 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 :-
My invention relates to apparatus, such as bags and chips, for carrying articles,
such as tools and inflators, on velocipedes and the like. Ilitherto such bags have
commonly been provided with two straps fitted to the back thereof whereby the
bag may be attached to the back of the saddle by being fastened through eyelets
formed in the leather of the saddle or attached to the frame thereof. The said
eyelets are usually inconveniently arranged and the operations of attaching and
detaching the bag are awkward and slow. Further, being suspended from the
back, the bag is carried in a slanting position and is liable to discharge its contents
when opened The chips for cauying the inflator are separate from the bag and
if it be deemed to attach the inflator with or without its chips to, or detach it from,
the machine, these operatious must be performed in addition to those connected
with the bag. The objects of my invention are, to make the bag and inflator
instantly attachable to and detachable from the machine, at the same time allowing
of the inflator being removed or replaced without affecting the bag, and to cany
the bag so that it will normally hang in a vertical position, so diminishing the risk
of the contents being thrown out when the bag is opened.
To attain my objects, I provide the bag with spring band hooks constructed on
the principle well known in the cycle trade in connection with inflator clips aud
mudguard clips, and I combine these hooks with clips for carrying the inflator and
hook the bag aud inflator to the handlebar, upper bach bone or other suitable part
of the machine. A further part of my invention relates to the anti-scratching
lining of the hooks and clips. And in order that my invention may be properly
understood and readily carried into effect I have hereunto appended an explanatory
sheet of diawings showing several adaptions thereof, but I do not coufive myself
to the details shown therein.
Figues I and II are a front and end view respectively of a bag attached to
part of a rear driving safety bicycle and carrying an inflator according to my
invention
Figmes III and IV are similar views of a modification.

page_text: Figures V and VI show a modified form of hook, and
Figure VII is an enlarged view showing the method of securing the lining in
the hooks and clips.
Figure VIII is a vertical section on the line - in Figure VII.
Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
Referring to Figui es I and II According to one method of carrying out my
invention I take a strip of steel or other suitable material and form one end into a
Dallow necked hook
and twist the other (straight) end 3 at right angles thereto.
I rivet or other wise suitably attach the strip to the upper part of the end of the
bag 4 so that the hook lies in the vertical plane of the bag higher than the top
thereof. Instead of using a straight strip and twisting it, I may use a strip of Lor
other suitable form as e g. shown in Figure V. I form the longer aim into the
book 2 and bend the other (3) at right angles thereto on the dotted line shewn m
Figure V, thus producing the form shown in Figure VI, the short aim 3 is
attached to the end of the bag. In both cases I attach a similar hook to the other
end of the bag, and to the top of each hook 2 I rivet or otherwise suitably attach
a narrow necked clip 5 adapted to receive the inflator. The hooks and inflator
both being in the vertical plane of the bag the risk of the bag discharging its
contents when opened is reduced to a minimum.
Referring to Figures I and IV. According to another method, I employ
longer strips of metal and form both ends of each into hooks 2, 5 the points of the
two hooks on each strip lying more or less duectly opposite to each other but a
suitable distance apart. The books are attached to the back of the bag by the
intermediate parts 3. The upper pair of hooks 2 is for attaching the bag to the
machine and the lower pair forms clips 5 for carrying the inflator 7.
The weight
of the inflator tends to balance the contents of the bag and so maintain the latter
in a vertical position.
If stitp steel or the like be employed it is preferably hardened and tempered
after being brought to the desired forms.
According to both methods the books are adapted to grip the handle-bar, the
upper backbone 6, or some other suitable part of the machine, and by these means
the bag and inflator may be simultaneously and instantaneously attached to and
detached from the machine when requned, and the inflator may be attached and
detached separately without disturbing the bag.
The hooks and clips are preferably lined with leather or other suitable material
to prevent scratching. The lining 8 may be attached at the ends by small
sleeves 9 tightly embracing both lining and hook or chip 5, as shown in Figures VII
and VIII and it may be secured in the middle or at other convement points by
cement or otherwise so that the lining shall not be detached by the movement of
the book or clip The sleeves 9 are preferably fitted on the returned parts 10 of
the hooks and chips.
I do not confine myself to the above described methods of cariying out my
invention as combinations and modifications of the parts may obviously be made
without departing from the nature of my invention For example, the hooks 2
might be rivetted to the back of the bag as shown in Figures III and IV, but
instead of being continued to form clips for the inflator as shewn therein, separate
inflator clips might be secured to the tops of the hooks as shown in Figures I
and 11. In this case the hooks and clips would preferably be set vertically over
the bag.
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. Constructing a tool- or like bag with spring band hooks whereby it may be
attached to a velocipede or the like, and with spring clips for carrying the inflator,
substantially as set forth.
2. In apparatus for carrying articles on velocipedes and the like, the combination

page_text: of hooks adapted to attach the tool-bag to the velocipede or the like and clips
adapted to carry the inflator, substantially as herein described.
3. The improved apparatus for carrying articles on velocipedes and the like
substantially as herein described with reference to Figures I and II of the accom-
panying drawings.
4. The improved apparatus for carrying articles on velocipedes and the hke
substantially as herein described with reference to Figures III and IV of the
accompanying drawings
5. In the improved apparatus herein described for carrying articles on
velocipedes and the like, the modified form of hook shown in Figures V & VI
of the accompanying drawings.
6. In hooks and clips for carrying articles on velocipedes and the like, securing
the leather or like lining within such books and clips, by sleeves such as 9 with oi
without cement or the like, substantially as herein described and as illustrated by
Figures VII and VIII of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1896
G. DOUGLAS LEECHMAN,
18 Hertford Street, Coventry, Patent Agent,
For the Applicant.
G. DOUGLAS LEECHMAN,
18 Hertford Street, Coventry, Patent Agent,
For the Applicant.