Improvements in Frames or Stands with Locking Device for Holding Bicycles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Frames or Stands with Locking Device for Holding
Bicycles.
I, EDUARD GRADLMILLER, of Leoben, Styria, Austria, Railway Official, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to improved constructions of frames or stands for holding
bicycles when these are being conveyed in a railway van or stored in a room or
other locality.
According to one arrangement, I fix at a suitable distance from the wall of the
compartment or room, two uprights sufficiently far apart to admit the framework
and wheels of the bicycle between them when the latter is reared against the wall.
The uprights are fastened to the wall by means of bars or brackets projecting
therefrom, which bars may fit into slots on the wall or may be otherwise arranged
so as to be easily detached when it is desined to remove the frame-work from
the compartment.
A downwardly curved looped arm is pivotted to the upper end of each upright,
or to each of the bars which hold the uprights to the wall; this curved looped.
arm having been raised, the bicycle to be held is reared against the wall between
the uprights: the looped arm is then allowed to fall so that the upper wheel
of the bicycle is confined within and rests with its tyre against the inner surface
of the loop of the arm.
For locking the bicycle I may hinge on the loop or on one of the arms a curved
plate which may be closed round the inner surface of the rim of the wheel and
fastened by a padlock or the like.
According to another arrangement, instead of fixing vertical bars to the wall
of the compartment as described I construct a separate stand, consisting of two
end uprights with feet, connected by a single longitudinal top bar and two
longitudinal bottom bars.
From the top bar project horizontally arms to which are pivotted the previously
described curved looped bars, so that on raisin these up, the bicycles can be placed
in the reared position between the arms, and the looped bar is then turned down
so as to embrace the top wheel, while the bottom wheel rests against the bottom
cross bar of the stand.
Dated this 7th day of Anvil 1908
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Frames or Stands with Locking Device for Holding
Bicycles.
I, EDUARD GRADLMILLER, of Leoben, Styria, Austria, Railway Official, 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 has for its object to avoid the inconveniences attendant on
storing and transporting cycles on account of the great space they occupy and
the damage to which they are liable by providing the walls of the rooms,. cars
or spaces in which they are stored with devices enabling the cycles to be
transported in an upright position without any damage. The longitudinal walls
of railway cars can be provided with such devices whereby a relative greater
number of cycles can be transported in a small space.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a side view and Fig. 2 a front
view of my improved device for storing or transporting cycles in railway cars
and other localities. Fig. 3 is a perspective view and Fig. 4 shews a railway
car with the cycles stored therein.
Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a modification of the appliance with a locking device
to protect the cycle against theft; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a modified
construction as cycle standard or support for rooms. Fig. S is a section of the
same.
These latter modifications are suitable for vestibules, stores, hotels, restaurants,
theatres, baths, clubs and other places, where cyclists meet and available space
is limited. This device can be locked by a small padlock brought by the driver.
The device consists, as may be seen in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, of a
vertical guide, formed by two parallel upright bars a a maintained in their upright
position by two (stationary or removable) bars 6 and secured against the wall
so that a cycle can be inserted between the bars a a in an upright position, that
is to say, the one wheel above the other one.
On the upper support is a pivotted loop turning on bolt g g and formed of
two shanks hh, which said loop forms a support for the upper wheel, embracing
the same and preventing it from falling.
Between the bars a a of the longitudinal guide and the upper loop h (which
latter is situated at a height from the floor correspondingly to the length of the
cycle) the cycle is inserted in an upright position, so that the steering wheel
engages between the shanks of the upper guide h whereas both wheels engage
between the upright bars a and are thereby held in an upright position the bent
loop h preventing the cycle from falling backward.
In securing the steering wheel the loop h is somewhat raised and then it is
lowered over the inserted cycle.
When not in use the upper support h may be in the raised or lowered position;
also, the longitudinal guide may be removed from its supports or blocks ? ? so
that the car may be used as ordinary freight car. These devices may be employed
at suitable distances apart on the longitudinal walls of the car as indicated at
Fig. 4 so that a considerably larger number of cycles can be transported by this
means than hitherto the devices can be arranged so as to hold the cycles some-
what inward inclined at the upper end, as shewn so as to leave a sufficient passage
at bottom between series of cycles.
I may also make provisions to protect the cycle against theft.
The locking device for this purpose consists generally of a strap or yoke k,

page_text: Figs. 6 and 8, provided on the one shank of the upper guide hand pivotted
at, which strap, together with loop of h encloses the rim and tyre, the strap
being made to fit with an eye on its free end against an eye m on the second
shank of h, so that it can be secured there by a padlock. The cycles are thus
securely held and may be easily removed from the car &c., without injuring the
other cycles.
The above described device can also be employed as a separate stand as shewn
in the modification at Figs. 7 and 8, this consists of two upright standards ss
having feet, and connected at top by a cross bar t, and at bottom by rods v v
forming thus a rigid frame. Upon the upper cross-bar t are attached on opposite
sides the U shaped cross supports b with the loops hh pivotted on bolts 99 which
said loops may be constructed with or without the said locking device kl. The
cycle may be inserted in the loops h in alternating positions, that
to say,
the one steering wheel is upward, and that of the next cycle is downward the
wheel resting upon the ground being made to bear against the neighbouring
cross bar r, which latter in combination with loop hh keeps the cycle in an upright
position. By this improved device which can easily be transported and taken
to pieces so as to be fitted up in any room which for the time is available
for storing the cycles.
Although in the above constructions I have described the loop has being
pivotted, so as to adapt them for securely holding different sized cycles, yet it
will be obvious that they may also be secured rigidly in the horizontal position the
cycle wheel being in that case raised into the loop.
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. A device for storing cycles in railway cars and other localities consisting
of vertical bars a a, arranged at suitable distances side by side and forming a
vertical guide or support for the cycles, in combination with a bent loop h,
provided at the upper end off the said bars aa, so that the cycle can be inserted
between the loop hand vertical bars a a in an upright position, the said loop h
being either fixed or pivotted so as to be turned in a vertical direction in order
to be enabled, to insert cycles of different length, substantially as described.
2. In a device such as is referred to in the first claim a yoke or strap k, adapted
to embrace the tyre of the inserted cycle, which yoke is pivotted on the one
shank of the upper loop hand overlaps with the other end having the form
of an eye a second eye m provided on the second loop-shank, so that the yoke
can be secured by a padlock substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. In a device, for storing and locking cycles of the kind referred to in the
first and second claims, the modified construction, consisting of a moveable frame,
formed of two supports ss connected at the top by a cross bar t, at the bottom
by rods or bars in combination with fixed or pivotted loops hh provided on
the upper cross-bar t in which supports the cycles can be inserted in an upright
position and bear against one of the connecting rods vv substantially as described
with reference to Figs. 7 and 8 of the drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1899.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.