Year: 1886

page_text: I, THOMAS B. JEFFERY of Ravenswood, in the County of Cook and State of Illinois,
United States of America, Mechanical Engineer, 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 relates to hangers for suspending lamps or lanterns on bicycles and
similar vehicles; Reference being had to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a perspective of the entire hanger.
Fig. 2 a sectional side elevation of the lantern and hanger..
Fig. 3a front elevation of the lamp and hanger in position on the axle, the hubs of
the wheel also appearing as stops for the hanger.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modified form.
A is a bracket secured fast to the top of the lantern B, so that the vertical lip A¹
may be considered as a flange or lug on the top of the lantern. Cand Care slides or
sliding brackets whose horizontal branches C C are slotted at 100, and stand
side by side; their said slots coinciding laterally so that the clamp screw D is passed
through both and screwed into the vertical lip A' of the bracket A. Each of said
horizontal branches CoCo is provided at the end with a tongue or lug all 201
protruding into the slot of the other slide, so that, regardless of the fact that said slides
may rest their lower edges upon the surface of the horizontal plate A³ of the
bracket A; they are held in line together for the entire distance between their said
lug-bearing ends; and this distance is sufficient to cause them to be rigid as one, as
respecting any strain tending to change their angle to each other in the plane of their
faces which are in contact. Said slides have also the vertical branches C C", at the
ends opposite those having the tongues respectively, and said vertical branches
terminate at their upper ends in the overhanging hooks C C", which are interiorly
provided with the packing or cushions
The hooks C Care designed to be hung over the axle E of the bicycle, between
the hubs F F; and the clamp screw D being loosened, the slides C Care moved
outward until the hooks ("C" bear against the inner ends of the hubs and there-
upon the clamp screw being tightened, the lantern suspended by the hooks cannot
move sidewise from the position, to which it is thus adjusted. The lantern having the
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page_text: form of a hanger, is thereby adapted to wheels having wide range of distances between
the hubs, being adjustable from the length of one of the slides, to nearly the length
of both.
To prevent the hanger becoming unhooked from the axle by accident, an underhook
or bearing G is provided having a cushion 9. on its upper concave surface, and
vertically adjustable toward and from the line of the overhanging hooks C1 C22, that is,
towards and from the axle when the hanger is placed thereon. A convenient method
of securing this under hook or bearing so that it may be adjusted, is that shown in
Fig. 4, a vertical slot is made in the vertical lip A¹ of the bracket A and the hook G
is given a threaded terminal g' to pass through the slot h, leaving the shoulder gå to
bear against the lip A. A clamp nut H fitted to the threaded terminal g¹ secures the
hook G at any desired height within the range of the slot h.
Two of the underhooks G may be used as seen in Fig. 1 and in that case preferably
they are clamped upon the vertical arms C C of the slides; said arms having the
slots corresponding precisely to the slot in the lip A¹ of the bracket. The
hooks G and their clamp nuts H are made precisely alike in the two cases.
The adjustable underhook or hooks G not only serve as a gate to be opened to
admit the axle under the hooks C₁ C, but also serve to adjust the hanger to axles of
different diameters, since it is found that the hanger should fit the axle as snugly as
possible without being in danger of being revolved with it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1) In combination substantially as set forth, the lantern and the two supports
laterally adjustable and secured on the top of the lantern, and having hooked
extensions upward at their remote ends to engage the axle and stop against the hub
shoulders.
2) In combination substantially as set forth, the lantern, the hooked slides on the
top of it laterally adjustable and an underhook or bearing vertically adjustable
toward and from the line of the upper hooks.
3) In combination substantially as set forth, the bracket A having the vertical
flange provided with a clamp screw, the slides having each a vertical arm hooked at
the upper end to engage the axle, and a horizontal aru slotted to slide on the clamp
screw, each of said horizontal arms having a projection as " and " entering the slot
of the other slide.
4) In combination substantially as set forth, the bracket A having the vertical
flange provided at the lower part with the clamp screw D and above said screw
have the vertical slot ; the slotted slides guided and clamped by the clamp screw,
and having their vertical arms hooked at the upper end, and the lower bearing or
: bracket adjustable in the slot.
THOMAS B. JEFFERY.
Pp. Herbert & Co.,
67, Strand, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.