A Simple Carrier for Rigidly Holding in Front of Cycles (Without Straps, Springs, or Fastenings) Hand-bags, Solicitors' Brief** Bags, or Parcels required to be Fre Rid, or.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application; 16th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 16th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Simple Carrier for Rigidly Holding in Front of Cycles (Without
Straps, Springs, or Fastenings) Hand-bags, Solicitors' Brief**
Bags, or Parcels required to be Frequently Removed in Town
Riding, whereby the same may be Instantaneously Removed or
Attached.
I JAMES THOMAS ELLIS of No. 8 North Frederick Street, Dublin, Public
Record Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To provide a simple, inexpensive and easily detachable device for carrying
parcels, hand-bags, solicitors' bags and such like in front of cycles in a rigid
manner so that they cannot swing about when riding, and still be instantaneously
removable or attachable. Such carrier taking the form of a clamp or socket,
(screwed or otherwise) for pushing on to the lamp bracket. To the front of said
clamp is affixed by suitable means, a short bar or rod, which may be solid or
tubular and bent or twisted if necessary, and if two or more such rods or bars be
used same may be slotted and be suitably supported and run on and be tightened
or loosened by screws, bolts, or other means, or may run, slide, or screw into or
upon each or the other of them, or other suitable means be used whereby they
may be adjusted to any length required for easily detaching any bag or parcel.
Such rods or bars may also be hinged for folding up, so that the entire carrier may
be easily put away in a small pocket, or the tool bag.
In a more expensive form of said carrier the socket or clamp may have attached
in front thereto means whereby a lamp may be carried and the carrier rods or bars.
may be so affixed as to be adjustable so as to carry a bag or parcel clear of the
lamp, under, above or in front thereof.
Dated this 15th day of March 1894.
JAMES THOMAS ELLIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Simple Carrier for. Rigidly Holding in Front of Cycles (Without
Straps, Springs, or Fastenings) Hand-bags, Solicitors' Brief
Bags, or. Parcels required to be Frequently Removed in Town
Riding, whereby the same may be Instantaneously Removed or
Attached.
1, JAMES THOMAS ELLIS of No. 8 North Frederick Street Dublin, Public
Record Agent, do hereby déclare 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple and easily detachable device
for carrying parcels and bags in front of a cycle without the use of straps, springs
and such like fastenings as are usually attached to or combined with cyclé

page_text: carriers for retaining parcels, and as such carrier is to be attached to the bracket
on which the lamp is usually carried I also provide my carrier with means for
carrying a lamp in lieu of the ordinary bracket.
Practically the carrier is a piece of wire bent at its centre to attach to a lamp
socket and carried on the lamp bracket, (instead of a lamp), the two ends or arms
of the wire are crinkled or serrated. Articles carried hang from the carrier ;
not lying upon it as is usually the case. Bags are attached to the carrier by
passing the arm ends through the ring at each end of the bag handle, the twists
or crinkles at each end keeping them from slipping off, and parcels are secured
thereto by the twine usually tied around them being entwined over one or more
of the crinkles at each end of the carrier arms.
Other carriers are bolted or firmly attached to the machine and cannot be put
on or taken off without trouble, parcels having usually to be secured to them by
straps or other troublesome means, but my carrier has merely to be lifted on or
off the lamp bracket without tightening or loosening of screws, and parcels just
as easily put on or taken off.
In carrying my invention into effect I take a piece of steel or other suitable
material shaped as in Fig. 1 and bend it to the same shape as the clamp or
socket such as is attached to the back of a cycle lamp for pushing on the lamp
bracket, the bottom flap A is bent so as to form a hollow lug, the flaps B are
bent as in Fig. 2 and have a hole or slot in each about the middle; through such
holes I pass a rod which projects a little on each side of the socket, this rod is
partly threaded to receive a lug and to tighten up the flaps B; or I may shape
such socket as in Figures 3 and 4 attaching a short projecting rod C through the
lugs D, or as a further alternative I may have a loose lug E (Fig. 5) within the
socket Fig. 2 having a lug or collar thereto E slotted, toothed or threaded,
adapted to engage with the rod C so that when the rod is screwed up the lug E.
is tightened up against the bracket. The hollow lugs A at the back of the
socket may be placed in the front instead and may be partly or entirely open.
To the front of such sockets I attach the carriers shown in Figs. 6 to 21.
In forming these curriers I take a strip of solid or tubular. round or flat wire or
spring steel or other suitable material of suitable dimensions and shape same as shown
in Fig. 6 or in alternatives 7 and 8. Figs. 9 to 18 show various modifications
designed to carry a lamp. Of the above mentioned those shown in Figs. 6 to 16
are affixed to the socket by placing the back arm F in the flap A which is bent
over sufficiently, or entirely closed over the arm so that the latter cannot slip
therefrom with jolting or weight on the carrier front, the two side arms G then
rest upon and are supported by the ends of the bar C. Those shown in modifi-
cations Figs. 17 and 18 are attached to the socket by a bolt one end of which
carries a nut this bolt is passed through one arm hole "I" into the socket
flap "A" and out through the further arm hole "I" and then tightened up by
the nut. The side arms rest upon the ends of the rod C.
Further modifications are shaped as in Figs. 19, 20 and 21, two rods being
used to form the carrier front Fig. 19 being bent at J to form a collar within
which the other rod slides. To attach these to the sockets I shape a piece of
wire or flat steel as in Fig. 22 the back arın F whereof lies within the socket
flap A, the side arms lying upon the bar C. The carrier rods lie loosely within
the loops K and are tightened up that they cannot slide by a wing bolt passed
through the slots M and hole L.
In a further modification I bend a piece of wire or other suitable material as
in Figs. 23 and 24 so as to form the carrier and socket, or carrier, socket and
lamp-holder in one continuous piece.
So that a lamp may be carried with my carrier (Fig. 6) I form a piece of
spring steel as shewn in Fig. 25 the lower end "Q"whereof being to push into
the carrier socket, the lamp being pushed on to the upper end.
The carrier either wholly or in part may be covered with rubber, leather, felt
or other material capable of minimising rattling or vibration.

page_text: Various other modifications may be adopted without departing from the spirit.
of my invention.
Fig. 26 is an illustration of carrier and socket combined.
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. The improved carrier herein before mentioned and described and illustrated
in accompanying drawings or the like substantially.
2. The improved carrier with the means for carrying a lamp either separately
or in combination therewith substantially as hereinbefore mentioned or described
and illustrated in accompanying drawings or some of them.
3. The improved carrier and modifications thereof and means for carrying a
lamp either separately cr in combination therewith substantially as hereinbefore
mentioned or described and illustrated in accompanying drawings or some of them.
4. The form, design and construction of carrier lamp-bracket sockets having
lengthened bars C and flaps A and D or either or any of them for the purpose
of attaching or supporting the carrier hereinbefore mentioned, as herein before
described and illustrated in accompanying drawings or some of them, or the
like substantially.
5. For a cycle carrier the means herein before described for the affixing and
Becuring of the carrier frame to the sockets hereinbefore referred to and illustrated.
in accompanying drawings or some of them or the like substantially.
6. In a cycle carrier the means herein before described and set forth in accom-
panying drawings or some of them of attaching such carrier to the lamp-bracket
and of carrying same on a cycle or the like substantially.
7. The particular, form, design and construction of parcel and bag carrier for
cycles substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated which can be instantly
put on the machine and easily detached.
Dated this 14th day of December 1894.
JAMES THOMAS ELLIS.