Improvements in Clips or Holders for Attaching Tyre Inflators or Pumps to Velocipedes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1899-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips or Holders for Attaching Tyre Inflators or
Pumps to Velocipedes.
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I, JOHN VERNON PUGH, of Primrose Hill House, Coventry, in the County
of Warwick, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-.
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in clips or
holders for attaching tyre inflators or pumps to velocipedes and has for its object
to simplify the construction and arrangement of the parts of the said clips or
holders and to facilitate the application of the same to the velocipede, and of the
pump or inflator to the clips or holders on the velocipede.
The tyre inflator or pump holders to which my invention relates consist
essentially of two clips fixed to one of the frame tubes of the velocipede at a
slightly shorter distance apart than the length of the inflator or pump which
they are to carry. One of the said clips carries a fixed pin and the other a spring
pin which engage in the holes at the opposite ends of the pump. One of the ends
of the pump being applied to the spring pin with pressure the said pump is
brought in line with the fixed pin and the pressure being relaxed the other end of
the pump is engaged with the said fixed pin and by the two pins thereby securely
attached to the velocipede.
In constructing a holder of this kin according to my invention I make each
of the clips in the form of an open or spring ring, the open side being taper
and its edges turned back so as to permit of the engagement therewith, by a
sliding dovetail connection, of a closing strip for the open side of the said ring,
the said closing strip by its motion on the turned back edges of the ring drawing
the two edges of the ring closer together and tightening the clip on the frame tube
of the velocipede.
The closing strip of one clip, preferably the upper clip has a rigid arm at
right angles thereto which arm carries or terminates in a pin or projection
for engaging with the hole in one of the ends of the tyre pump or inflator to be
used therewith and the closing strip of the other clip terminates in a nearly
circular spring coil, made preferably of sheet metal, the end of which carries
or is formed into the pin or projection for the hole in the other end of the pump
or inflator.
The pump or inflator is attached to the clips or holders by first engaging one
of its ends with the pin or projection of the nearly circular coil and by slightly
pressing the coil downwards, increasing the distance between its pin and the fixed
pin of the upper clip so as to permit of the other end of the pump being brought
in line with the fixed pin. By now relaxing the pressure on the coil of the
lower clip the said coil causes the engagement of the upper end of the pump with
the fixed pin.
The pins or projections of the sliding strips of the clips may consist of solid
pins rivetted thereto or may be made in one piece therewith and may be flat,
cylindrical or slightly taper.
Dated this Thirty-first day of December 1895.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Clips or Holders for Attaching Tyre Inflators or
Pumps to Velocipedés.
I, JOHN VERNON PUGH, of Primrose Hill House, Coventry, in the County
of Warwick, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 consists of the improvements hereinafter described in clips or
holders for attaching tyre inflators or pumps to velocipedes and has for its object
to simplify the construction; and arrangement of the parts of the said clips or
holders and to facilitate the application of the same to the velocipede, and of the
pump or 'inflator to the clips or holders on the velocipede.
The tyre inflator or pump holders to which my invention relates consist
essentially of two clips fixed to one of the frame tubes of the velocipede at a
slightly shorter distance apart than the length of the inflator or pump which
they are to carry. One of the said clips carries a fixed pin and the other a spring
pin which engage in the lioles at the opposite ends of the pump. One of the ends
of the pump being applied to the spring pin with pressure the said pump is
brought in line with the fixed pin and the pressure being relaxed the other end of
the pump is engaged with the said fixed pin and by the two pins thereby securely
attached to the velocipede.
In constructing a holder of this kind' according to my invention I make each
of the clips in the form of an open or spring ring, the open side being taper
and its edges turned back so as to permit of the engagement therewith, by a
sliding dovetail connection, of a closing strip for the open side of the said ring,
the said closing strip by its motion on the turned back edges of the ring drawing
the two edges of the ring closer together and tightening the clip on the frame tube
of the velocipede.
The closing strip of one clip, either the upper or lower clip, has a rigid arm at
right angles thereto which arm carries or terminates in a pin or projection
for engaging with the hole in one of the ends of the tyre pump or inflator to bo
used therewith and the closing strip of the other clip terminates in a nearly
circular spring coil, made preferably of sheet metal, the end of which carries
or is formed into the pin or projection for the hole in the other end of the pump
or inflator.
The pump or inflator is attached to the clips or holders by first engaging ono
of its ends with the pin or projection of the nearly circular coil and by slightly
pressing the coil downwards increasing the distance between its pin and the fixed
pin of the upper clip so as to permit of the other end of the pump being brought
in line with the fixed pin. By now relaxing the pressure on the coil of the
lower clip the said coil causes the engagement of the upper end of the pump with
the fixed pin.
The pins or projections of the sliding strips of the clips may consist of solid
pins rivetted thereto or may be made in one piece therewith and may be flat sided,
cylindrical or slightly taper.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in elevation (partly in
section) a tyre inflator or pump holder constructed according to my invention
attached to the tube of a cycle frame, and Figure 2 represents the same before the
application of the tyre inflator or pump to the said holder.
Figure 3 is a plan of underside of the upper portion of the pump holder and

page_text: Figures 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are views of the two parts of the same detached; Figure 9
is a plan of the lower portion of the pump holder and Figures 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14
are views of the two parts of the same dotached,
Figures 15, 16, 17 and 18 are views of modifications of my invention hereinafter
particularly described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing:
I will first describe the arrangement Figures 1 to 14 both inclusive.
The upper and lower portions of the pump holder are marked A and B
respectively.
Each portion A, B consists of an open spring ring part marked a, b respectively
(see Figures 4 and 5 and Figures 10 and 11) the edges a', a¹; b¹ b' of which are
turned back or outwards (see Figures 5 and 11) the open part being wedge shaped
or taper (see Figures 4 and 10). The spring rings a, b are completed and thereby
formed into grips for the cycle tube by wedge shaped closing strips marked a²,
respoctively (see Figures 6, 7 and 8 and Figures 12, 13 and 14) the said closing
strips having turned in edges a³, 63 respectively for sliding into dovetail connection
with the turned back edges a¹, 61 of the open rings. By the sliding of the flat
wedge shaped strips a³, 6 on the turned out edges of the ring part, the open
ring is contracted and made to grip the tube of the bicycle frame. By detaching
the flat wedge shaped pieces from the ring or by moving it partially off the turned
out edges of the ring part the said ring part opens to such an extent as to be
capable of adjustment on the tube of the cycle frame.
The closing strip a³ (Figures 6, 7 and 8) terminates in a nearly circular spring
coil a in one piece therewith, the said spring coil a carrying a pin a³.
The closing strip 63 (Figures 12, 13 and 14) terminates in a rigid arm 64, in
one piece therewith, the said rigid arm carrying a pin b.
The axial hole
The pump C is applied to the holder in the following manner.
in one end of the pump is passed on to the pin a of the upper part A of the
holder and the spring a is pressed so as to permit of the axial hole in the other
end of the pump engaging with the pin 6 of the lower part B of the holder
when the pressure of the spring a retains the pump in position until released
by hand.
Where one end of the pump has a projection or screwed terminal as in Figure 15,
I make in the rigid arm 64 a hole for the reception of the projection or screwed
terminal the said hole replacing the pin or projection 65.
Where the handle end of the pump is flat or approximately flat, as in Figure 16;
I prefer to make the rigid arm circular and of the same or approximately the
same diameter as the flat end of the pump, the said circular disc like rigid seat
thus formed being provided with spring arms. 66 (see the elevation Figure 17 and
plan Figure 18 of the rigid arm) for holding the lower end of the pump the said
spring arm 66 replacing the axial pin 65 or being used in addition thereto. The
upper or spring part A of the arrangements Figures 15 and 16 differ in no essential
respect from the arrangement Figures 1 and 2.
Holders or clips constructed according to my invention may be used with tyre
inflators or pumps of various kinds the seating or engaging parts being modified to
suit the class of pump to which it is to be applied as will be understood by an
examination of the drawing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention:-
The improvements in tyre inflator or pump clips or holders hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing the said improvements
consisting essentially in making the holder of two open spring rings taking
and being capable of adjustment on one of the frame tubes of the cycle, the said
open spring rings being closed and thereby made to grip the frame tube by taper

page_text: closing strips one of which terminates in a nearly circular spring coil with:
means for engaging one end of the tyre inflator or pump, the other closing strip
terminating in a rigid arm with means for engaging the other end of the tyro-
inflator or pump substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated the Thirty-first day of August 1899: