An Improved Method of Constructing and Fixing a Detachable Dress Guard and Chain Guard for Cycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 30th May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Constructing and Fixing a Detachable Dress
Guard and Chain Guard for Cycles.
EDWIN HALL, Artist, 20 Stanton Street Coventry, and HARRY EDMUND
EABORN HALL, Artist, 31 Crown Street Leicester 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 :-
A great objection to the dress guards and chain guards now in use is their weight
and complicated manner of construction and fixing. This objection by our inven-
tion we overcome by constructing the guard as follows, viz. of wire or other suitable
material and which may be woven or twisted into any suitable design the ends of
guards being fitted with either hooks, loops, eyes or lugs; the hooks, loops, eyes or
lugs on one end of guard, in case of dress guard, on lower part is connected on to
the axle of hub or other convenient part of frame by means of a lug having looped
or hooked ends, the other ends of guard being hooked or looped into mudguard or
similar contrivance to cover wheel. Or instead of top side of guard being hooked
into mud or other guard, the woven guard may be hooked or looped on one side to
lug in centre of wheel or frame and carried over mud or other guard and looped or
hooked to similar lug on other side of wheel or frame. The chain guard is
constructed with frame of metal or other suitable material and covered on outside
with wire or other suitable material woven, and attached to same by similar method
to that described above for fixing dress guard. The dress and chain guard may be
either constructed in conjunction with each other, or may be constructed and fixed
independently.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings
Fig. 1 Sheet 1 shows a sectional side view of back portion of frame of cycle &
wheel with dress guard fixed.
Fig. 2 Sheet 1 shows lug to be fixed either on axle or other convenient portion
of frame to attach loops, hooks lugs or eyes of one portion of dress guard to. This
may either be made as shown in drawing or with loops or eyes instead of hooks
or lugs.
Fig. 3 Sheet 1 shows one method of constructing part of guard, with double end
which may be with either hooks, lugs, eyes, or loops and other end single with
either loop, eye, lug or hook.
Fig. 4 Sheet 1 is similar in construction but in single form to Fig. 3 and may be
attached at either end by hooks, loops, eyes or lugs.
Fig. 5 Sheet 2 shows a different design but with same method of attachment viz.
by hooks, loops, lugs, or eyes.
Fig. 6 Sheet 2 shows the chain guard fixed on machine, the design or pattern of
which may be varied as described in dress guard, and attached as herein before.
described, to a metal guard, or guard of other suitable material and fixed as before
described either by hooks, loops, lugs, or eyes.
Fig. 7 Sheet 2 shows complete chain guard removed from machine.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is
An improved method of constructing and fixing dress and chain guards to
cycles.
Dated this 14th day of February 1896.
EDWIN HALL.
HARRY EDMUND EABORN HALL.