Improvements in or connected with Mud-guards for Velocipedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 1st Feb., 1898-Accepted, 16th Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Mud-guards for Velocipedes.
We, FRANK HENRY BLUEMEL, ERNEST ADOLPHUS BLUEMEL, and CHARLES
WILLIAM BLUEMEL, (trading as C. W. Bluemel & Bros.), all of Crown Works,
Globe Road, London, E., Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in or connected with mud-guards for
velocipedes the object being to facilitate the attachment or removal of same.
The mechanism we employ, to this end is of simple construction, thoroughly,
reliable for firmly securing the mud-guard in position, and while it allows of almost
instantaneous attachment and detachment of the mud-guard the latter is not liable
to accidently, slip or shift while travelling.
Our invention consists broadly of the application of a clip or clips (of a similar
construction to those described in the Specification of our Application for Patent
No. 20410 A.D. 1896), to a mud-guard for the purpose above referred to, and in
carrying same into practical offect, we rivet or secure in any suitable manner one,
two or more clips of a similar construction to that described in connection with our
Application for Patent No. 20410 A.D. 1896, and above referred to to the under-
Burface of the mud-guard, while instead of fastening tabs or lugs being employed
in connection with same the ends of the stay or stays are bent over at right angles
in such a manner as to enter the recessed or channelled portions of the aforesaid
clips into which they may be readily sprung, while the end of each bent over portion
is provided with a head or enlarged part to prevent its pulling out of the side of the
clip.
In order to attach the mud-guard in position, the stay or stays which may consist
of supporting rods, wires, or the like are secured preferably to the axis of the wheel
in any well known or suitable manner, the mud-guard proper being secured by the
bent over portions or parts of the stays being sprung into the clips carried upon tho
under surface of same and hereinbefore referred to.
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page_text: Improvements in or connected with Mud-Guards for Velocipedes.
Wo, FRANK HENRY BLUEMEL, ERNEST ADOLPHUS BLUEMEL, and CHARLES
WILLIAM BLUEMEL, (trading as C. W. Bluemel & Bros.), all of Crown Works,
Globe Road, London, E., 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 improvements in or connected with mud-guards for
velocipedes, the object being to facilitate the attachment or removal of same.
The mechanism we employ, to this end, is of simple construction, thoroughly
reliable for firmly securing the mud-guard in position, and while it allows of almost
instantaneous attachment and detachment of the mud-guard, the latter is not liablo |
to accidently slip or shift while travelling.
Our invention consists broadly of the application of a clip or clips (of a similar
construction to those described in the Specification of our Letters Patent No. 20410
A.D. 1896) to a mud-guard for the purposes above referred to, and in carrying same
into practical effect, we rivet or secure in any suitable manner one, two or more
clips of a similar construction to that described in connection with our Letters
Patent No. 20410 A.D. 1896 and above referred to, to the undersurface of the mud-
guard, while instead of fastening tabs or lugs being employed in connection with
same, the end of the stay or stays are bent over at right angles in such a manner as
to enter the recessed or channelled portions of the aforesaid clips into which they 2
may be readily sprung, while the end of each bent over portion is provided with a
head or enlarged part to prevent its pulling out of the side of the clip.
In order to attach the nud-guard in position, the stay or stays which may consist
of supporting rods, wires or the like are secured preferably to the axis of the wheel
in any well known or suitable munner, the mud-guard proper being secured by the 2
bent over portions or parts of the stays being sprung into the clips carried upon the
under surface of same and herein before referred to.
In order that our invention may be more fully understood, we will now proceed
to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a
side elevation of a mud-guard and mud-guard stays arranged according to this 3
invention.
Fig. 2 is a view at right angles to l'ig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the clips with the ends of the mud-guard stays in posi-
tion, and
Fig. 4 is a cross section through one of the clips.
3:
According to our invention we secture to the under surface of the mud-guard m a
suitable number of clips e of similar construction to those described in the Specifica-
tion of our former Letters Patent No. 20410 A.D. 1896, while the ends of the
mud-guard stays s are bent at right angles and take undor the channelled por-
tions c¹ of the clips c, and by this means the ends of the mud-guard stays are securely 40
fastened to the mud-guard m, while to the upper end m³ of the said mud-guard we
arrange a strap 9 which may be furnished with a buckle or other suitable fastening
to allow of this end of the mud-guard being secured to the machine.
C
Any suitable number of clips and mud-guard stays may be employed, while
to further facilitate the securing of the mud-guard straps and buckles or the like 45
of ordinary and well known construction may be secured to suitable parts of the
mud-guard for attachment to convenient parts of the velocipede frame, as hitherto.
The extremity of the mud-guard stays may be secured to the axle of the
machine in any well known and suitable manner, but preferably by the meane

page_text: described in the Specification of Gardner & Marshall's "Improvements in or relating
to oycle mud-guards" No. 18651 A.D. 1891 and now assigned to us.
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
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In securing mud-guards to velocipedes, the application to the under surface of
the mud-guard m of clips such as c in combination with mud-guard stays s having
their ends headed and bent at right angles and entering the channelled
portions c¹ of said clip, substantially as herein described and shown with reference
to the accompanying drawings.
F. G. CASSELL
(of Cassell & Co),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.