Improvements in Cycle Dress Guards and in Means for Attaching and Detaching the same..
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Cycle Dress Guards and in Means for Attaching
and Detaching the same..
I, JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, of Lexden, Bath Road, Reading, in the County of Berks,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to improvements in cycle dress guards and in means for
attaching and detaching the same and it is particularly adapted to what are known as
straight cord, in contradistinction to netted guards, and the chief object of my
Invention is to dispense with elastic cord and enable the dress guard to be readily
attached to or detached from the mudguard and quadrant or either of these parts,
and another improvement consists in a novel hook for connecting the cords forming
the dress guard to the mudguard or quadrant.
I make the quadrant in two or more parts so that the dress guard can be removed
without interfering with that part of the quadrant which is secured upon the wheel
hub spindle. To the upper part of the quadrant I connect any suitable number of
springs, or other suitable elastic connections, to each of which I propose to secure a
hook made of wire or metal preferably with two forks or prongs and into each hook
is clipped say four cords of the dress guard and to the other end of each cord is
secured a hook to hook into a hole in the mudguard. I prefer to make a special hook
with a barrel portion or its equivalent which is closed over and clipped on to the
cord and firmly secured in any convenient manner so as to avoid doubling and
stitching the cord to the hook. The barrel or other hook arranged to be secured to
the cord without doubling or stitching may be formed with a tang preferably inade
in one piece with the hook so as to form a safety hook. Each of these hooks is
passed through a hole in the mudguard the elastic connection from the upper part
of the quadrant, serving to keep all the cords tight; or the elastic connection might
be on the mudguard in which case the hooks could be used to connect the cords to
the quadrant.
If elastic cords were employed the spring connections referred to could be dispensed
with.

page_text: Improvements in Cycle Dress Guards and in Means for Attaching
and Detaching the same.
I, JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, of Lexden, Bath Road, Reading, in the County of Berks,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner the
Bame is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My Invention relates to improvements in cycle dress guards and in means for
attaching and detaching the same and it is particularly adapted to what are known as
straight cord, in contradistinction to netted guards, and the chief object of my
Invention is to dispense with elastic cord and enable the dress guard to be readily
attached to or detached from the mudguard and quadrant or either of these parts,.
and another improvement consists in a novel hook for connecting the cords forming
the dress guard to the mudguard or quadrant.
I make the quadrant in two or more parts so that the dress guard can be removed
without interfering with that part of the quadrant which is secured on the wheel hub
spindle. To the upper part of the quadrant I connect any suitable number of springs
or other suitable elastic connections to each of which I propose to secure a hook
made of wire or metal preferably with two forks or prongs and into each hook is
clipped say four cords of the dress guard and to the other end of each cord is secured
a hook to hook into a hole in the mudguard. I prefer to make a special hook with a
barrel portion or its equivalent which is closed over and clipped on to the cord and
firmly secured in any convenient manner so as to avoid doubling and stitching the
cord to the hook. The barrel or other hook arranged to be secured to the cord
without doubling or stitching may be formed with a tang preferably made in one
piece with the hook so as to form a safety hook. Each of these hooks is passed
through a hole in the mudguard the elastic connection from the upper part of the
quadrant serving to keep all the cords tight; or the elastic connection might be on
the mudguard in which case the hooks could be used to connect the cords to the
quadrant.
If elastic cords were employed the spring connections referred to could be dispensed
with.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings-
Figure 1 is a view illustrating the mode of attaching a straight cord dress guard
to the quadrant and mudguard. Fig. 2 represents two views of a hook with two
prongs, made of wire. Fig. 3 represents similar views of a hook made of sheet
metal. Fig. 4 represents on an enlarged scale views of a hook made with a barrel
body. Fig. 5 represents views of a similar hook with safety tang. Fig. 6 represents
two views of the upper portion of a cycle quadrant, suitable for a dress guard made
of elastic cord. Fig. 7 represents two views of the lower portion of the quadrant.
Fig. 8 is a front view of the complete quadrant hooked together showing elastic cord
passing through the upper part of the quadrant and hooked to the mudguard.
Fig. 9 is a view of a slightly modified quadrant also made in two parts.
In the drawings a represents the upper and b the lower portion of the quadrant
which is secured to the spindle of the back wheel; to the upper part of the quadrant
are secured any convenient number of springs c or their equivalent elastic connections
and to each spring is secured a hook d preferably such as shown in Figs. 2 and 3,
formed of wire or sheet metal made with two prongs under each of which say two
cords e of a straight cord dress guard can be passed and clipped.
The other end of each straight cord is connected to a hook arranged to engage
into a hole or its equivalent in or secured to the mudguard, the hooks we prefer to

page_text: use are of the improved construction shown at f in Figs. 4 and 5 in order to dispense
with any doubling or stitching of the cord to the hook. These hooks are made of
sheet metal and are preferably provided with serrated edges and a tang f¹; the.
serrated edges can be bent at right angles to the sides ready to be clipped on to
the cord e; this is effected by laying the cord over the sheet metal and bending the
latter round into a barrel shape so as to clip the cord, the serrations forming a
reliable and secure fastening.
If desired the barrel hooks may be employed to secure straight cords to the
quadrant in addition to or in place of the mudguard, and the spring connections could
be placed at the mudguard in place of at the quadrant.
The quadrants illustrated in Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 are adapted for dress guards made
of elastic cords e, and in Fig. 8 is also illustrated one means of attaching the
cords to the quadrant and the mudguard.
By my improvements a straight cord dress guard can be readily attached to and
detached from the mudguard and quadrant of a cycle.
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. A detachable straight cord dress guard connected at one end by springs and
hooks or equivalent elastic connections to a quadrant formed in two or more part
and at the other end by the specially formed barrel hooks for equivalen
connections to the mud guard substantially as herein set forth.
2. A detachable dres onard formed of elastic cords connected in any convenient
manner to a quadrant formed in two or more parts, and the other end by the
specially formed barrel hooks f or equivalent connections to the mudguard
substantially as herein set forth.
3. The combination with a straight cord dress guard, of the specially formed barrel
hooks substantially as herein set forth.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant, 17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester.