Year: 1898

page_text: I, EMILE TENAERTS, of No. 13, Rue Gretry, Brussels, Belgium, Electrical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an apparatus for use in storing and conveying cycles
and which will enable a large number of machines to be stored in a limited
space. The apparatus consists of a folding rack, capable of being readily taken
down, in which one of the wheels of the machines, which are arranged side by
side from both sides, rests on the ground or floor, whilst the other wheel, which
is raised at an angle of about 45°, rests in the rack. By this means when two
rows of bicycles are arranged, one on each side of the rack, the whole can be
readily placed in an ordinary railway wagon, whilst still leaving sufficient space
for passing between the sides of the wagon and the wheels that rest on the floor.
In order to enable the invention to be readily understood reference is had to
the annexed drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus showing in dotted lines the positions
occupied by the cycles on both sides of the rack; and
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.
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The apparatus consists of two trestles a a adapted to fold on their pivots
each of which supports one of the uprights of a frame c to which the upper ends
of the arms of the trestles a are attached by means of chains or rods a¹ (Fig. 1)
that also serve to regulate the distance between the arms of the trestles.
Below the upper cross piece of the frame c there is fixed a metal bar or band d
bent into a zig-zag shape, and attached at its ends to the top of the uprights
of the frame c, and the top of each arm of the trestles a is connected to the top
of the corresponding arm of the other trestle by means of a bar or metal band e
bent in a series of undulations arranged at right angles to the said arms, and
whose inner apices coincide with the lower bends of the zig-zags of the bar or
band in such a manner that into each of the recesses between the zig-zags of said
bar or band there can be introduced, by raising the same, the front wheel of
a bicycle, whose hind wheel will rest upon the floor, whilst the said front wheel
will rest in the coincident recesses between the undulations of the two bars or
bands ee as shown in Fig. 1.
By placing the bicycles alternately on the two sides of the rack, as many
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page_text: bicycles will be able to be stored as there are recesses between the zig-zags of the
bar or band d.
The corrugated bars e e may be connected to the zig-zag har d by means of
chains f f so as to aid the bars e e in supporting the weight of the bicycles, and
in order to reinforce the corrugated bars e, there may be fixed along the same at
their outer prominences a bar h (Fig. 2) to which there may be fixed small
projecting plates g designed to receive. the lamps of the bicycles placed in the
rack.
In order to give greater strength and rigidity to the rack, the uprights of the
frame c may be connected to the lower cross bar of said frame by means of diagonal
bars c c whose lower ends rest upon the ground or floor when the trestles a a are
open and the rack is placed in position to receive the bicycles.
When there are no bicycles to be stored, the trestles can be folded and the
closed rack placed against a wall or the side of a wagon, where it will take up but
very little room.
I, EMILE TENAERTS, of No. 13, Rue Gretry, Brussels, Belgium, Electrical
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:-
This invention relates to an apparatus for use in storing and conveying cycles
and which will enable a large number of machines to be stored in a limited
space. The apparatus consists of a folding rack, capable of being readily taken
down, in which one of the wheels of the machines, which are arranged side by
side from both sides, rests on the ground or floor, whilst the other wheel, which
is raised at an angle of about 450, rests in the rack. By this means when two
rows of bicycles are arranged, one on each side of the rack, the whole can be
readily placed in an ordinary railway wagon, whilst still leaving sufficient space
for passing between the sides of the wagon and the wheels that rest on the floor.
In order to enable the invention to be readily understood reference is had to the
drawings annexed to my Provisional Specification in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus showing in dotted lines the positions
occupied by the cycles on both sides of the rack; and
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.
The apparatus consists of two trestles a a adapted to fold on their pivots bb
each of which supports one of the uprights of a frame e to which the upper ends
of the arms of the trestles a are attached by means of chains or rods a¹ (Fig. 1)
that also serve to regulate the distance between the arms of the trestles.
Below the upper cross piece of the frame e there is fixed a metal bar or band d
bent into a zig-zag shape, and attached at its ends to the top of the uprights
of the frame e, and the top of each arm of the trestles a is connected to the top
of the corresponding arm of the other trestle by means of a bar or metal band e
bent in a series of undulations arranged at right angles to the said arms, and
whose inner apices coincide with the lower bends of the zig-zags of the bar or
band d in such a manner that into each of the recesses between the zig-zags of said

page_text: bar or band d there can be introduced, by raising the same, the front wheel of
a bicycle, whose hind wheel will rest upon the floor, whilst the said front wheel
will rest in the coincident recesses between the undulations of the two bars or
bands e e as shown in Fig. 1.
By placing the bicycles alternately on the two sides of the rack, as many
bicycles will be able to be stored as there are recesses between the zig-zags of the
bar or band d.
The corrugated bars e e may be connected to the zig-zag bar d by means of
chains ff so as to aid the bars e e in supporting the weight of the bicycles, and
in order to reinforce the corrugated bars e, there may be fixed along the same at
their outer prominences a bar h (Fig. 2) to which there may be fixed small
projecting plates g designed to receive the lamps of the bicycles placed in the
rack.
In order to give greater strength and rigidity to the rack, the uprights of the
frame c may be connected to the lower cross bar of said frame by means of diagonal
bars ee whose lower ends rest upon the ground or floor when the trestles a a are
open and the rack is placed in position to receive the bicycles.
When there are no bicycles to be stored, the trestles can be folded and the
closed rack placed against a wall or the side of a wagon, where it will take up
but very little room.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Apparatus for use in storing and conveying cycles comprising a rack formed
of two folding trestles adapted to fold on pivots that carry the uprights of a
frame to the upper cross-piece of which frame is fixed a zig-zag bar or band
whose recesses coincide with the recesses of two wavy bars or bands that connect
the tops of the arms of the trestles substantially as herein before described with
reference to and shown in the drawing.
2. For use in storing and conveying cycles, apparatus constructed and arranged
as herein before described with reference to and shown in the drawings.
Toted this 41st day of October 1898.
ated this 21st day of October 1898
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.