Improved Method of and Means for Converting Ordinary Cycles. into Water Velocipedes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of and Means for Converting Ordinary Cycles.
into Water Velocipedes.
LOUIS PAUL CONSTANT JULES JACQUET Engineer 115 Gaisford Street:
London N.W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct a portable apparatus to fit safeties and
tricycles to enable them to run on the water as well as on the roads. It is composed
of two tubes parallel fixed on both sides of the cycle; these tubes are made of cloth,
coated with india rubber or any other suitable material inflated with air. A certain
number of wooden or metallic hoops are fixed inside the tubes to keep the shape and
to support the branches destined to keep the machine at the necessary height above.
the water. Some little paddles are to be fixed to the moving wheel which has to
act as a propeller; and a sheet of stiff cloth or light metal is to be fixed between
the spokes of the front wheel which has to act as a rudder.
The tubes can be folded by placing the hoops near each other, and all the
apparatus disconnected can be put on the luggage carrier of the cycle.
The tubes can be made also in metal and in different shapes.
Dated this Olot dan of Santamban 1000
L. P. C. J. JACQUET..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of and Means for Converting Ordinary Cycles
into Water Velocipedes.
I, LOUIS PAUL CONSTANT JULES JACQUET, of 20 Wellington Square, Chelsea,.
London, S.W. Engineer, 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 :-
By this invention I provide a simple and effectual means for converting ordinary
bicycles into water velocipedes. The apparatus is portable and easily attached to.
the bicycle and by its application an ordinary bicycle is enabled to be ridden upon
the water as well as upon the road.
And in order that this my invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will now proceed to describe same with reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan of an ordinary safety bicycle to which
is attached the apparatus herein before referred to by means of which the bicycle is.
converted into a water velocipede all in accordance with this my invention.
Figure 2, is a side elevation of the same, and similar letters of reference indicate
like parts in both figures.
Now, in accordance with this my invention I affix to the bicycle two floating
tubes a a, one upon each side of same as shown particularly in the plan view of
Figure 1 of the drawings. These tubes a may be of any desired shape or
configuration, and may be of metal or any other suitable material.
They may
conveniently be made of cloth coated with india rubber or other suitable water-
proofing solution or material and then be inflated with air to give them the required
buoyancy. A certain number of wooden or metallic rings, shewn in dotted lines
and marked a' in the drawings may be fixed inside the tubes at convenient distances
apart to keep the shape and to form supports for the branches or brackets b b¹ by
which the floating tubes a a are attached to the bicycle and connected with one
another. The branches or brackets b are so arranged as to keep the tubes a a.
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page_text: parallel with one another, and those marked b¹ maintain the machine at the necessary
height above the water, and connect same to the floating tubes. These parts are
affixed to the framing of the machine and to one another by means of screws, or
nuts and bolts, or other suitable securing device or devices, in order that they may
readily be attached and detached. Bearing plates c are placed along the top of
each tube and the branches or brackets & are attached thereupon and to the
stiffening rings a¹ aforesaid.
For propelling the machine upon water I affix small paddles or blades d, see
Figure 2, to the driving wheel spokes, and the front wheel may be formed to act as
a rudder by attaching a sheet of stiff cloth or light metal between the spokes of
same, see e Fig. 2, or a light sheet of metal of suitable size and shape may be clipped or
otherwise attached externally to the rim of the wheel and thus act as a rudder when
required.
When not required for use as a water velocipede the whole of the parts above
described may be quickly taken apart and folded together and be conveniently
carried upon the front support branches forming the luggage carrier of the cycle.
Though only particularly described herein as applied to a bicycle this my invention
is equally applicable in connection with cycles of every description.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved method of, and means for, converting ordinary cycles into water
velocipedes, substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
2. The construction, arrangement, and application, to ordinary cycles of
attachable and detachable floating tubes, propelling paddles, and means for steering;
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings,
for the purpose of converting ordinary bicycles into water velocipedes.
Dated this 21st day of June 1893.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.
JAMES
STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.