A New or Improved Cycle Stand or Support.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July. 1896
Complete Specification Left, 15th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1896
A New or Improved Cycle Stand or Support.
I, GEORGE ADCOCK of 11 Baxter Gate Loughborough in the County of Leicester,
Music Seller, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object a new or improved cycle stand or support which
is connected to the frame of a velocipede and when not in use can be folded up and
lie flush with the part of the frame to which it is fastened.
In carrying my invention into practice I take two strips of steel iron or brass
and hinge them together at one end to the end of a screwed pin. I also form a
hinge or folding stay or strut at about the centre of these metal strips which holds
them apart when in an open position ready for use. Fastened on to the screwed
pin is a spring clip and also a thumb screw which tightens the spring clip around
the part of the frame on which it is placed. When the stand is not required for.
use it is folded up and lies alongside the tube of the frame to which it is attached
the bottom end being held by a hook or clip or its equivalent. Instead of hinging
the ends of the metal strips to the screwed pin I may hinge them to the spring
clip instead which would answer the same purpose. I may provide another hinged
strip of metal at the opposite side of the spring clip as an extra support if it is
found desirable.
Dated this 13th day of July 1896.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.
I, GEORGE ADCOCK of 11 Baxter Gate Loughborough, in the County of Leicester
Music Seller do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to he performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object a new or improved cycle stand or support which
is connected to the frame of a velocipede and when not in use can be folded up and
lie flush with the part of the frame to which it is fastened.
In carrying my invention into practice I take two strips of steel iron or brass
and hinge them together at one end to the end of a screwed pin. I also form a
binged or folding stay or strut at about the centre of these metal strips which
holds them apart when in an open position ready for use. Fastened onto the
screwed pin is a spring clip and also a thumb screw which tightens the spring clip
around the part of the frame on which it is placed. When the stand is not required
for use it is folded up and lies alongside the tube of the frame to which it is
attached the bottom end being held by a hook or clip or its equivalent. Instead of
binging the ends of the metal strips to the screwed pin I may hinge them to the
spring clip which would answer the same purpose. I may provide another hinged
strip of metal at the opposite side of the spring clip as an extra support if it is
found desirable.

page_text: In order that my invention may be more clearly understood and carried into
practical effect I have appended hereunto a full sized sheet of drawings on which
1 have illustrated my improved cycle support.
Figure 1 is a diagram view of a safety velocipede showing my improved folding
support attached to the front portion of the frame.
Figure 2 is an enlarged view of the support.
Figures 3 and 4 are modifications of Figure 2.
Figure 5 shows one form of clip for holding the support in position when not
in use.
In carrying my invention into practice I swing two strips or rods s¹, s¹ of steel
iron or brass on one end of the screwed pin has shown at Figure 2 which are held
in position by the lock nuts and mounted on the centre of this pin is a spring
clip or compression band H which fits around any portion of the frame of a
velocipede and is clipped to the frame by the wing nut h³ or its equivalent. When
fixing the support to the frame of a velocipede the wing nut is screwed off and the
end which fits loosely on the screwed pin is slipped off and the clip passed around
any part of the frame according to the length of the rods s', s¹ the loose end of the
clip is then placed on the pin again and the wing nut screwed on which tightens
or compresses the clip around the frame. For the purpose of keeping the rods
apart when in use I mount the spring s between and to prevent them from slipping
too far apart I connect the ends of the chain s to them or I may use the hinged
folding stay or struts as shown at Figures 1 and 3.
When the support is not required for use it is folded up and lies flush with or
along side that part of the frame to which it is attached as shown in dotted lines
Figure 1 the pointed ends being held together by a clip d which is attached to the
frame an example of which is shown at Figure 5.
At Figure 3 1 have shown a modification of my support. In this case I hinge
or pivot the ends of the rods s¹s to one side or other part of the clip or compression
band H or I may form the clip or compression band in two parts and hinge or
pivot the ends of the rods thereto as shown at Figure 4. I may secure another
rod or rods on the opposite side of the clip H in the same manner as hereinbefore
described if it is found desirable.
I may forin the rods s's in one piece and bend them by suitable tools into the
form shown in Figure 3 in this case I can dispense with the spring s³.
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
First. A folding portable cycle support capable of being fixed to a velocipede
frame by a spring clip such as H or its equivalent and capable of being folded
against and lying flush the adjacent portion of the frame and held by a clip such
as is shown at Figure 5 or its equivalent and prevented from opening too far apart
by a chain such as s³ or a hinged stay such as st and a spring such as 3 for keeping
it apart substantially as herein before described and shown at Figures 1, 2, 3
and 4.
Second. The improved folding portable support shown upon the accompanying
drawings and as herein set forth.
Dated this 14th day of August 1896.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.