Improvements in and relating to Gear Cases for Velocipedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1897--Accepted, 15th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Gear Cases for Velocipedes.
I, SAMUEL LLEWELLEN, Universal Leather Works, Wisemore, Walsall, in the
County of Stafford, Cycle Saddle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the improvements hereinafter described in gear cases
for velocipedes and has for its object to provide means whereby gear cases used
for protecting the driving gear for velocipedes may be made in a manner to enable
them being attached or detached from the machine in a simple and expeditious
manner the cost of their production being much reduced
My invention consists essentially in a gear case made from leather canvas or
other similar material the said case being so arranged that it may be connected
or disconnected to and from a machine by means of suitable fastenings thus dis-
pensing with the troublesome method of lacing or unlacing the sides of the case
as heretofore.
In carrying my invention into practice I make a gear case of leather, canvas
or other similar material somewhat of the ordinary form of gear cases and along
the lower edges and in some cases along both edges, and at any other suitable part
I attach a series of suitable fasteners preferably those known as as the "Schloss
button or look," these said fasteners may be so arranged that they may be easily
unfastened when desired by simply pressing or pulling the edge of the material
sideways thus saving the trouble of unlacing the full length of the case. I do not
confine myself to the use of the "Schloss button or lock" aforesaid. I may use
any form of simple fastening and I do not confine myself to any particular way
of connecting them to the material used or to the position in which they are
attached to the gear case for the purpose herein before described.
Improvements in and relating to Gear Cases for Velocipedes.
I, SAMUEL LLEWELLEN, Universal Leather Works, Wisemore, Walsall, in the
County of Stafford, Cycle Saddle Manufacturer, 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:-
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This invention relates to cycle gear cases or covers, and has distinct reference to
5 that class of case in which a skeleton metallic frame work is sheathed within a
covering of leather, canvas, or other suitable material; the said skeleton frame
work being attached to the framing members of a cycle by bracket clips or
other contrivances and made to support the said covering. Such gear cases are
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page_text: made so that their coverings or sheaths can be slipped off and on to the skeleton
frame work for the purpose of getting at the enclosed driving gear when requisite
and, hitherto, this has been accomplished by leaving open portions of the longi-
tudinal ends and sides of the covering but connecting the edges thereof together
by lacing cords.
Now this invention is to dispense with these lacings because they are found
troublesome and not to be a very expeditious fastening means.
By this invention the open end and side portions of the casing or sheath are
closed by snap fastening means, and the meeting edges of the open parts are
formed in such a manner that they fold upon each other and thereby render the
gear case or cover more dust-proof than hitherto.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings the invention is practically illustrated;
Fig. 1 showing a side elevation of a gear case constructed according to this inven-
tion, Fig. 2 an underside view of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 a transverse section of a portion
of the case showing the connection means of its open edges and how they overlap,
and Figs. 4 and 5 separate views of a portion of the overlapping edges of the cover-
ing with that part of the snap fastening means carried by them in elevation.
The cover or sheath of the gear case which fits over the skeleton frame d
(shown only in Fig. 3) is made for the most part upon ordinary lines; the greater
part of its bottom end a³, and also portions of its rear side being left open. The
one and outer edges c of the open parts of the sheath are made to overlap the
other edges c³, and the former carries upon it the outer portions of a number of
snap fasteners arranged along the sheath's open ends; the other portions c of the
map fastenings being carried upon the inner edges of the open ends which are
over-lapped by the outer edges. The snap fastening illustrated is the well known
"Schloss Button" and a number of these are arranged along the open parts of
the sheath at necessary distances apart; the section in Fig. 3 showing how the
one part of the fastening snaps over the bulbous end of the other part of the
fastening. To open the sheath or covering it is only necessary to pull the outer
edge thereof outwardly, and to close the open part to fold the outer edges over
the inner edges and press the parts of the fastenings onto the other parts o' of
the fastenings, which is but the work of a moment.
The right is reserved to use other snap fastening means for connecting
together the open edges of the covering or sheath, and also to place them upon
the top end of the gear case so as to open it at that part if necessary, but such
a fastening is necessary that will allow of the over-lapping of the meeting edges of
the material of the covering at the parts where the said covering is left open or
not nermanently fixed.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said
invention, and in what manner the same is, to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
First. In a detachable gear case having an exterior covering or sheath of leather,
canvas, or the like, as described, making the edges of the open parts thereof over-
lap and connecting them together by snap fastening means, substantially as
described and set forth.
Second. In gear cases having removable exterior sheaths or coverings, the com-
bination with the said coverings of over-lapping closing edges and push-on and
pull-off snap fastening means carried upon said edges, substantially as described.
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AT
1907
3533
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Also of Liverpool, London, & Manchester, Agents for Applicant.