An Improved Stand or Support for Velocipedes, also applicable for Window Dressing and other Show Purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 29th Jan., 1898
TRUYIDIONAL DETALIUN
An Improved Stand or Support for Velocipedes, also applicable for
Window Dressing and other Show Purposes.
I, ALFRED ISAAC FEAR, of 40, Pevensey Road, Eastbourne, in the County of
Sussex, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide an extremely simple and cheap but
efficient and sightly stand or support for velocipedes primarily but also applicable
for other devices and appliances used in window dressing and other show purposes.
According to one the simplest method of construction I take a piece of stout and
strong wire and therewith I make a frame of the following style and shape. This
frame has two flat parts or bases from the ends whereof rise the supports each pair
of which meet at the top being there shaped as may be appropriate for the par-
ticular article or part of the article that is to be supported by this stand and thus
from the two bases rise two supports parallel with each other and the desired dis-
tance apart and these bases are likewise parallel with each other and the desired
distance apart which distance may be alterable to raise and lower the height of
this stand.
For velocipedes this stand may be arranged to support the ends of the crank
axle or the driving wheel axle or the front wheel axle or the lower members of the
frame or the steering handle bar or any other desired part of the machine in all
cases the two bases thereof being transverse to the machine and the two supports
rising from the bases on opposite sides of the machine.
For supporting other devices and appliances in shop windows and for other show
purposes this stand would be used in the same way.
Although this stand is perhaps preferably made of a single piece of wire bent
and formed as aforesaid yet it can also be similarly made of several separate
pieces of metal or wood or other material duly formed to produce the required
stand by the due combination of the several separate parts.
To the two bases may be fitted one or more adjustable stretchers whereby the
distance between the same may be regulated and adjusted and maintained.
Dated this 11th dose of March 1807
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stand or Support for Velocipedes, also applicable for
Window Dressing and other Show Purposes.
I, ALFRED ISAAC FEAR, of 40, Pevensey Road, Eastbourne, in the County of
Sussex, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
[Price 8d.1

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this my invention is to provide an extremely simple and cheap
but very highly efficient and sightly stand or support chiefly and primarily for
velocipedes and particularly safety bicycles which however is also applicable for
other appliances and devices used in window-dressing and other show purposes.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have
shewn a perspective view of my stand or support as made and formed and arranged
and fitted in one and perhaps the most convenient and efficient style and manner
and perhaps also the simplest method of construction.
According to this arrangement I take a piece of stout and strong wire of an
appropriate length and therewith I make in the following manner a frame of the
desired size. At or about the middle of the length of this piece of wire and by
the same is formed a base A of the desired length and this base A may be per-
fectly flat and level or may be slightly bowed or arched to raise the middle part A¹
thereof somewhat above the floor or ground or as is sometimes perhaps preferable
and as is shewn in the drawing on each side of the central part A' is raised an
high arch B with vertical or nearly vertical sides for the purpose hereinafter men-
tioned. At each of the two ends of the base A the wire is bent upwards to form
one of the legs D of the supports on either side and at the desired height the
wire is again bent sharply downwards to form the other legs F of the supports on
either side the apices Hof which two supports may be shaped as may be appro-
priate for the particular article or part of the article that is to be supported thereby
and thereon. When the legs F have attained the length of the legs D or there-
abouts or as desired the wire is again bent to form a base K which may be and
perhaps as a general rule preferably is in all respects similar to the base A in
either of its arrangements and shapes hereinbefore described the ends of the wire
being brazed or riveted or otherwise firmly connected together in any usual man-
ner or as is perhaps preferable and as is shewn in the drawing the central part K¹
of this base K may be a separate flat piece of metal or other suitable material
through the extremities of which the ends of the wire may be passed and therein
may be secured by clinching or riveting or brazing or otherwise.
Thus from the two bases A and K rise two supports each being created by two
legs D and F and the two legs D in an horizontal plane are or can be parallel with
the two legs F and are the desired distance apart.
The two bases A and K likewise are or can be parallel with each other and are
the desired distance apart and to render this distance alterable and adjustable
whereby to raise or lower the height of this stand the appliances shewn in the draw-
ing can very conveniently be fitted as also could many other ordinary and appro-
priate devices. A bar or stretcher M can be hinged on or clasped round the cen-
tral part A¹ of the one base A and in the free end of such stretcher M can be made
a series of holes N one of which can be engaged over a pin P or other suchlike
device provided therefor on and with the central part K¹ of the other base K.
When however the bases A and K are perfectly flat and level and the middle
parts A¹ and K¹ thereof are not raised off the floor or ground this arrangement
might be somewhat inconvenient and then this stretcher might be similarly ar-
ranged between the two legs D and F at the desired height and perhaps preferably
on each side of the stand. Thus it is obvious that the farther apart the two
bases A and K are kept and maintained by the stretcher M or other devices or that
is to say the more the legs D and F of the two supports are spread out the lower
this stand is and vice versa until the legs D are brought parallel with the legs F
in a vertical plane as is shewn by dotted lines in the drawing when as is evident
this stand is of little or no use as such or as a firm stable support but it is ready
for packing or carrying for transmission or otherwise and the stretcher can be
turned up parallel with the legs D as also is shewn by dotted lines and a small

page_text: link R or the like can be provided in any convenient and usual manner to keep
the two bases A and K in this position close together.
For velocipedes and particularly safety bicycles this stand herein before described
may be arranged to support any desired part of the machine and especially the
ends of the crank axle or the driving wheel axle or the front wheel axle or the
steering handle bar in which cases the apices H of the legs D and F are preferably
dipped or recessed as is shewn in the drawing properly to hold such part and the
stand would be placed with its bases A and K transverse to the line of the velo-
cipede and as the lower part of the wheel will enter between the two high arches B
herein before described they will greatly assist in retaining the velocipede steadily
in a vertical position.
For supporting other articles whether for window dressing or for other purposes
this stand hereinbefore described would be or could be used in the same way and
in all cases the apices H of the supports would he or could be formed or shaped
and flattened or otherwise treated as might be most appropriate or convenient for
the particular article or articles.
As is hereinbefore stated I consider that the style manner and method of con-
struction formation arrangement and fitment of this my stand or support as is
herein before described and as is shewn in the accompanying drawing is on the
whole the most convenient and efficient and also the simplest but I would have
it clearly understood what is indeed sufficiently evident that I do in no wise limit
myself thereto. For example this my stand or support need not necessarily be
made of a single piece of wire but all the several parts of the same or so many
of such parts as may be desired may be made of separate pieces of material which
may be connected together whether rigidly or otherwise in any ordinary and suit-
able manner and when the legs of the supports are separate they may be pivoted
or hinged or otherwise connected together at or near their upper ends while such
upper ends may be formed in manner as may be appropriate and customary in
each particular case. Again this my stand or support need not necessarily be
made of wire that is to say of metal generally in a cylindrical form for it can also
be made of metal or wood or cane or other suitable material of any kind and in
any form and shape.
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 arrangement and combination of parts and appliances constituting my
improved stand or support for velocipedes and other articles substantially as herein-
before described and set forth.
2. The improved stand or support for velocipedes also applicable for window
dressing and other show purposes substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn
in the accompanying drawing.