Improvements in Bells for Bicycles and Horses.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 7th May, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bells for Bicycles and Horses.
PIERRE FRAINIER, ALFRED FRAINIER, and ALBERT FRAINIER, all of Morteau,
Boubs, in the Republic of France, 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:-
The present invention has for its object a bell illustrated, for instance, on the
accompanying drawing. Fig. I front elevation, Fig. II section on line X X
particularly applicable to bicycles and horses. Its external appearance is like
those used in the Alps for the cattle, only differs from them by its structure, the
former being made of several cast pieces roughly fitted together, the latter said
bell made of two steel or iron shells A and B stamped in templets of suitable form,
hardened and carefully welded together at C (Fig. II).
This system of fabrication enables us to obtain a very strong ringing much
clearer than with the hitherto known bells, besides, they are made much more
economically thanks to the stamping; they may be easily decorated, polished,
engraved, engine turned, nickled, silvered, gilded, etc.
The rod E of the clapper or striker 1 oscillating in e with a ring F welded at
the top of the bell enables us to suspend it with a belt or band R, or otherwise.
An arrangement to stop the striker can be adapted; for this purpose a string
or little chain G getting through the hole P of the bell is attached to the bended
part of the rod E forming in this manner a ring or hook, the ring m at the end
of the chain is engaged in the lever M of a stopping hook attached to the belt or
band R. This hook is made of three pieces namely a stand S in the lips n of which
revolves the lever M and a spring r acting at the lower part of the lever to maintain
same open or shut. When the lever M is shut as shown on the drawing the
striker D is held fast against the inside walls of the bell and while it is open the
chain drops leaving the striker and the rod completely free.
The forms and dimensions of our bell may be altered as may be found convenient
we mean to claim only its construction, in two stamped and welded metal shells,
its external decoration and the nature of the metal being indifferent.
Besides we claim the adaption or not of an arrangement to stop the striker,
using conveniently one bell or more as the case may be.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is: -
1. A bell made of two stamped hardened metal shells conveniently decorated to
be applied separately as an alarm bell on bicycles or horse.
2. In the above we claim :
A striking rod made of one piece with its suspension hook and its cranked
portion for stopping.
I the above we claim

page_text: The stopping hook formed by the lever M of the stand S and the spring r
substantially as described.
Dated this 5th day of February 1898.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.