An Improved Mud Guard for Oyoles and other Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 6th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mud Guard for Oyoles and other Vehicles.
I, GEORGE BROUGHAM HUBERT AUSTIN, of "Fairmont" Essex Road,
Surrey Hills near Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria Architect do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Hitherto mud guards for cycles and other vehicles have usually been made semi-
circular in cross section and have been arranged with their concave aides towards
the wheel the effect being that they offered considerable resistance to the wind and
thus retarded the travel of the cycle or other vehicle and were moreover difficult
to keep clean.
Now according to this invention I make the mud guards of cycles and other
vehicles of a V shape in cross section and arrange the apex of the V so that it
faces in the direction of travol of the cycle or other vehicle.
With this construction the mud is not liable to choke up the guard and at the
same time it allows such guard to be readily cleaned whilst ensuring it offering
but very slight resistance to the wind.
When the vehicle is travelling with the wind the arrangement of mud guards
above described will be an advantage because the wind can act upon them from
behind and will thus assist the progress of such vehicle.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of January One thousand eight hundred and
G. B. H. AUSTIN.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mud Guard for Cycles and other Vehicles.
I. GEORGE BROUGHAM HUBERT AUSTIN, of "Fairmont," Essex Road,
Surrey Hills, near Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Architect, 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:-
Hitherto mud guards for cycles and other vehicles have usually been made semi-
circular in cross section and have been arranged with their concave sides towards
the wheel the effect being that they offered considerable resistance to the wind and
thus retarded the travel of the cycle or other vehicle and were moreover difficult
to keep clean.
Now according to this invention I make the mud guards of cycles and other
vehicles of a V shape in cross section and arrange the apex of the V so that it
faces in the direction of travel of the cycle or other vehicle, as indicated in the
accompanying drawings wherein,
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bicycle fitted with mud guards constructed
according to this invention,
Figure 2 is a horizontal section through said bicycle on line 2—2 Figure 1.

page_text: Figure 3 is a horizontal section through the mud guards and rims of the hind
and front wheels of a cycle,
Figure 4 is a view illustrating the application of my improved mud guard to
the wheel of a road vehicle.
Figure 5 is a horizontal section through the hind wheel of a oycle illustrating
a modification in the arrangement of the mud guard.
Figure 6 is a similar view illustrating another slight modification thereof.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
A, B, represent the mud guards of the back and front wheels respectively of a
cycle.
They are as hereinbefore mentioned made V shaped in cross section as clearly
illustrated in Figure 3 and are fixed so that the apex of the V faces in the
direction of travel of the vehicle.
They can be secured in many different ways as will be readily understood by
manufacturers.
represents the beading which is formed down each side of the guard and
which prevents water being thrown back on to the rider and at the same time
conducts such water down on to the ground.
By constructing the mud guards in a V shape in cross section and by arranging
them as above described they will not be liable to be choked up with mud and
moreover the cleaning of the guard is facilitated, especially in the case of the front
mud guard where the sides flare outwardly from the wheel and thus enable their
forward surfaces to be easily washed and at the same time offer a very slight
resistance to the wind when the vehicle is travelling with the wind.
If preferred the mud guard on the hinder wheel can be arranged with its apex
towards the wheel as illustrated in Figure 6 and its front portion can be closed
iu or covered over if preferred as illustrated at G in Figure 6 this lessoning
the resistance which it will offer against the wind.
The arrangement of mud guards above described will be of advantage because
the wind can act upon them from behind and will thus assist the progress of the
vehicle, and owing to the sides of the guard extending outwardly at an angle to
each other they will throw the mud or dust to oither side and will thus prevent it
being thrown on to the rider's apparel, and at the same time they will prevent the
mud jambing behind the front forks as they act as a cutter for the mud on the
front wheel, stripping it from samo and throwing it immediately to either side.
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. A mud guard for cycles and other vehicles made V shaped in cross section
and having the apex of the V arranged to face the direction of travel of the
vehicle.
2. A mud guard for cycles and other vehicles made V shaped in cross section
with the apex of the V arranged in the direction of travel of the vehicle and
having a beading down each edge of said guard substantially as and for the
purposes specified and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Third day of December One thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.