Improvements in Rests or Supports for Cycles and similar ⚫ Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 27th Mar.. 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rests or Supports for Cycles and similar
⚫ Vehicles.
I, ALFRED EARNEST BARNETT, Military Gas Works, Fermoy, Co. Cork
Ireland, Manager, 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 :-
My invention relates to supports or rests for cycles and similar vehicles, and it
consists essentially of a two legged compass-like arrangement, the upper part of
which is attached to the frame of the machine in such manner that when the rest is
out of use it may be fastened to the side of the machine, in such a way that it can
be let down for use as and when required. When out of use, the legs are shut up,
against one another, and when in use, they are spread out, at their lower ends.
I sometimes provide a hinge in the legs.
In order that my invention may be the more readily understood, I make reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which.
Fig. 1 is a side view shewing the rest in use, and also fastened up out of use.
Fig. 2 is an end view of the machine with the support in use.
Fig. 3 is a cross section of backbone of machine shewing pin and washer and nut
to hold the top of the support thereon.
Fig. 4 is a cross section of the clip for holding the ends of the legs of the rest
when out of use.
Fig. 5 is a side view of one leg of the rest, when used for ladies cycles.
Similar letters refer to the same parts in each of the figures.
a is the backbone of the machine to which is clipped the collar having formed
thereon or attached thereto the somewhat upward inclined pin c. d d¹ are the legs
of the rest and these must be of such length that when the rest is in use, the
machine will incline somewhat to one side, as indicated in Fig. 2. The legs d d'
are connected compass-wise at e having a hole which is placed on the pin c and held
by the washer and nut g. is the clip for holding up the ends of the legs when
the rest is out of use. It is clipped to the backstays by the collar j. The two
parts are formed with grooves k k¹ for accommodating the two legs and these two
parts are hinged at m and held together when shut by the spring catch n. In
ladies machines the top of the rest is preferably attached to the machine at the
place marked o and each leg is provided with a hinge p. The rest may be made
of any suitable metal or material, if of metal, the legs may be tubular or solid and
they may be attached to any other part or in any other manner than just.
described.
1 do not restrict myself to the precise configuration, relative proportion or
disposition of the various parts as described in the above specification, or shewn in
the drawings, as any or all of them may be considerably varied without departing
from the spirit of my invention.
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 ;-

page_text: consisting essentially of two hinged or unhinged legs joined compass-wise at their
upper ends and movable round a pin or equivalent provided in the back-bone or
other part of the.machine by which the rest may be turned up so as to allow it to
be held in a clip when not in use; the said compass-like arrangement being let
down and the bottom ends of the legs opened out to the shape of an inverted V
when it is required to support the machine, the length of the said legs being such
that when the stand is thus in use, they will allow, the machine to incline somewhat
out of the vertical, the whole substantially as described in the above specification
and exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
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2. Rests or supports for cycles provided for and operating substantially as
described in the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 4th day of December 1896
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.