Improvements in or Additions to Clips for Connecting Bells, Lamps, Inflators, and other Attachment Accessories to Cycles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Clips for Connecting Bells, Lamps,
Inflators, and other Attachment Accessories to Cycles.
We, FREDERICK JOHN MILLER and CHARLES ALBERT MILLER, trading as
H. Miller and Company, of Miller Street, Aston, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to band attachments or clips for connecting or securing
articles to velocipedes, such as bells, horns, lamps, mud-guards, inflators and the
like, and consists essentially of a bracket fitted with locking mechanism and having
a jointed band, with the free end secured over an inclined peg, through the medium
of a bearer, which is propelled and repelled with the bracket through the medium
of a key or turn.
In carrying out our invention in connection with a bell, we make the carrying
bracket part of a box form, with a key hole end or sleeve, fitted interiorly with a
turning post, adapted to rotate and be retained within the bracket, and with a
screwed end taking through a screwed hole in a traversing bearer, which is
preferably square, and made to fit and slide within a square hole, made within the
box part of the bracket, so that by rotating the post through the medium of a loose
or other key, turn or the like, the said sliding bearer is made to extend itself
beyond the range of the rear of the box, which is curved to form a seating for a
rod or tube member of a machine to rest against.
Now fitted to this rear end of the bracket is a horse-shoe shaped band spring, with
one end jointedly connected to the bracket, and the other and free end provided
with a hole, for taking over a headed or hooked stud; standing from that side of the
bracket opposite the said free end.
The stud is preferably inclined upon the one side and rakes backward. so..that
when the band spring end is pushed backwards it travels over the stud and then
snaps into position.
Assuming the band to be thrown back and passed around a handle bar, and the
clip to be brought forward and the end locked by snapping over the stud, then
insert the key into the sleeved end or upon the post and rotate it in one direction
when the traversing bearer will be forced outwardly against the inner side of
the rod or tube member of a machine and by it a fast connection will be made,
by contracting the distance between the seat of the bearer and the back of
the band.
Instead of the band being jointed it may be loose and connected by two studs,
and instead of a band being employed, a jointed or other clip may be used
instead.
To disconnect the bell, the key has only to be rotated in the reverse direction
when the clamping bearer is withdrawn.
Instead of the clamping bearer being made in the form of a screw box it may
have a screwed stem upon which a screw box passing up the post, takes.
It is understood that on the removal of the key the band clip is locked and
cannot be tampered with or the bell removed until a like key has been
obtained.

page_text: It is also understood that the studs or connection over which the free ends of the
band clip take are fixtures with the bracket.
As a further form of our invention we slot the slide or bearer carrying the stud
which passes through a slot in the bracket, so that the rod or tube member lies in
the curved seating of the bracket and the band clip is drawn taut by the traversing
inwards of the stud with the slide.
Thus it will be seen that the headed stud moves with the slide so that the
releasing or drawing taut of the band is made by traversing the stud backwards or
forwards.
The application of our invention to horns, lamps and other analogous articles as
mentioned, differs in no essential respect from its application to a bell attachment
as described.
Dated this 11th day of August 1894.
FREDERICK JOHN MILLER,
CHARLES ALBERT MILLER,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
Improvements in or Additions to Clips for Connecting Bells, Lamps,
Inflators, and other Attachment Accessories to Cycles.
We, FREDERICK JOHN MILLER and CHARLES ALBERT MILLER, trading as
H. Miller and Company, of Miller Street, Aston, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, 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 :-
Our invention relates to band attachments or clips for connecting or securing
loose articles such as bells, horns, lamps, mud-guards, inflators and the like, to
velocipedes, and consists essentially of a bracket, fitted with locking mechanism and
baving a jointed band, with the free end secured over an inclined peg, through the
medium of a bearer, which is propelled and repelled within the bracket by means of
a key or turn,
In carrying out our invention, in connection with a bell, we make the carrying
bracket part of a box form, with a key hole end or sleeve, fitted interiorly with a
turning post, adapted to rotate and be retained within the bracket and with a
screwed end taking through a screwed hole in a traversing bearer, which is
preferably square, and made to fit and slide within a square hole, made within the
box part of the bracket, so that by rotating the post through the medium of a loose
or other key, turn or the like, the said sliding bearer is made to extend itself
beyond the range of the rear of the box, which is curved to form a seating for the
rod or tube member of a machine to rest against.
Fitted to this rear end of the bracket is a band clip, with one end connected to
the bracket, and the other and free end provided with a hole for taking over a
headed or hooked stud, standing from that side of the bracket opposite the said
free end.
The stud is preferably inclined upon the one side and rakes backwards, so that
when the band clip end is pushed backwards it travels over the stud and then snaps
into position.
Assuming the band to be thrown back and passed around a handle bar, and the
clip to be brought forward and the end locked by snapping over the stud, then
insert the key into the sleeved end or upon the post and rotate it in one direction,

page_text: general construction, arrangement and combination of the parts, substantially as
and for the purpose described and set forth.
Dated this 9th day of April 1895
FREDERICK JOHN MILLER,
CHARLES ALBERT MILLER,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.