Year: 1896

page_text: I WILLOUGHBY HYETT DICKINSON of 19 Campden Hill Road Kensington London
W. Barrister at Law do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
It is intended to serve as a stand in which a bicycle may be kept upright and
suspended so as to prevent the weight of the bicycle falling upon the tyres and is
50 Constructed that the wheel may be placed in a suspended position by the simple
operation of running it up an inclined plane.
It consists of two supports (A 1. A 2. on plan) fixed on a stout bottom (BB) and
standing upright in parallel planes at a sufficient distance from one another to
allow the wheel to pass between them. The top of each support (D 1. D 2) is
adjustable by means of screws (0) so that it may be fixed (1) at varying heights, (2)
at a varying angle with the horizon and (3) at a varying distance froin the other
support and is by this means, capable of fitting under the frame of any bicycle. An
inclined plane (E. E), having a groove in the centre for guiding the wheel, is so
fitted that, when the stand is not in use, it rests on the ground at the end E and
on a pin fixed between the supports at the point F. The inclined plane can rotate
round the pin and the point at which the pin passes through the inclined plane is
somewhat nearer to the end E¹ than to the end E. The point F in the support is
so situated that when the wheel of the bicycle, in ascending the inclined plane,
attains the point F the horizontal bars (or such other portions of the frame of the
bioycle as may be desired to rest on the supports) are slightly higher than the tops
of the supports (D 1. D 2). Thus, ou passing beyond the point F the wheel descends
and remains suspended by the frame of the bicycle falling on to the supports:
When the bicycle is resting on the supports the end E of the inclined plane is
raised in the air and in order to release the bicycle it is only necessary to press
down E with the foot and thereby the wheel is again raised and runs down the
inclined plane by its own weight.
The novelty of the invention consists in the use of an inclined plane turning on an
axis as a means of bringing the bicycle into a suspended position and releasing it
therefrom; and, also, in the system of adjustable supports.
Thated this 20th day of Aust 1900

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
It is intended to serve as a stand in wnich a bicycle may be kept upright and
suspended so as to prevent the weight of the bicycle falling upon the tyres and is so
constructed that the wheel may be placed in a suspended position by the simple
operation of running it up an inclined plane.
It consists of two supports (A' A2) as drawu.on the plans filed with my Provisional
Specification and iny Complete Specification fixed on a stout bottom (B. B) and
standing in parallel planes at a sufficient distance from one another to allow the wheel
to pass between them. The top of each support (D & D) is adjustable by means of
screws (C, C, C) so that it inay be fixed at a varying height & at a varying angle
to the horizon and the inner portion of it at a varying distance from the other
support, and is by this means capable of fitting under the framework of any bicycle.
The variation in the distance between D & D is obtained by having horizontal
slips on the inner sides of D 1 and D 2 fixed on the screws "C" and "C" and thus
capable of being moved by means of these screws towards each other as more
particularly shewn on the plan filed with my Complete Specification.
An inclined plane (E E) having a longitudinal groove in the centre for guiding
the wheel into its place is so fitted that when the stand is not in use it rests on
the ground at the end E and on a pin fixed between the supports at the point F.
The inclined plane can rotate round the pin and the point where the pin passes
through the inclined plane is somewhat nearer to the end E than to the end E.
The point I on the support is so situated that when the wheel of the bicycle in
ascending the inclined plane (E E¹) attaius the point F the horizontal bars (or such
other portions of the frame of the bicycle as may be desired to rest on the supports)
are slightly higher than the tops of the supports (D 1 D 2) so that on passing beyond
the point the wheel descends and remains suspended by the frame of the bicycle
falling on to the supports.
When the bicycle is resting on the supports the end E of the inclined plane
is raised in the air and thus in order to release the bicycle it is only necessary to press
down E with the foot and thereby the wheel is again raised and the bicycle is set free
and runs down the incline plane by its own weight.
Having now particularly described and. ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. That the novelty of the invention consista in the use of an inclined plane turning
on an axis as a means of bringing the bicycle into a suspended position and releasing
it therefrom.
2. That the novelty consists also in the adjustable supports as described above and
shewn on the plan filled with my Provisional Specification.