Improved Protecting Cover or Awning for Velocipedes and other such like Carriages or Vehicles.
Year: 1894

page_text: ODEL ELE
New or Improved Protecting Cover or Awning for Velocipedes and
other such like Carriages or Vehicles.
We BERNARD VICHMANN and CONSTANTIN PAWLIN both of Gumpendorfer-
strasse, Vienna in the Empire of Austria Manufacturers of Millinery, 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 a protecting cover or awning for velocipedes and
other such like carriages or vehicles, which can be adjusted in position according
to the direction of the wind; its object is to protect the rider from the rain and
sun, and when not required it can be taken down, folded, together, and fastened to
some part of the frame work.
This protecting cover is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which
Figure 1 is a side view of a cycle with our invention applied thereto,
Figures 2, 3 and 4 respectively side, front, and plan views (the latter partly in
section) of the supporting bar or pole of the protecting cover,
Figure 5 a plan of the framework of the cover,
Figure 6 a section taken on the line x of Figure 5, and
Figure 7 a side view, partly in section, of a part of the supporting bar or pole.
Figures 2 to 4 inclusive are drawn to a larger scale than Figure 1, and
Figures 5 to 7 to a yet larger scale.
The protecting cover or awning consists of three principal parts, namely, the
support, the cover frame, and the covering for the latter.
The supporting bar or pole which is intended to carry the cover is formed of
several separate parts a bed, so constructed and arranged as to be easily
dismounted and adjusted; the parts a and b or b and c may if preferred be made
in one piece.
The said support is preferably secured to the vehicle at two or more points, for
example to the bar g of the frame, and to the steering rod i, or to both bars g g of
the frame, by means of clamping appliances such as those shown at e and f; e¹ is
a ring by pressing down which the cheeks or jaws of the pincer like clamp e are
pressed together, see Figures 1, 2, and 3.
The clamping appliance is arranged so as to allow free movement therein of
the steering rod i. According to another arrangement the supporting bar or pole
may be secured to the bars g g by a foot bearing, adapted to support the bar or
pole, and a neck bearing adapted to secure the same in position.
The supporting bar or pole ad carries the cover frame, (Figures 5 & 6), the
sides m, or the ends n, or both sides and ends, of which are or may be made in
several parts hinged together so that they can be folded up.
The frame m n is covered over preferably with a waterproof material o and is
folded together by bending the sides m inwards in the direction of the arrows, and
pressing the ends n towards one another.
The adjustment of the cover frame to suit the direction of the wind is effected
by slackening the set-screw b', and turning the part in the part b, and then
fixing it by the said set-screw in that position. The knuckle joint d³ provides
a means for turning and folding, in a vertical plane, but the said knuckles joint
may be made rigid by sliding the socket d' over the same. The said socket is
guided by the slot ', and pin d, which act as a bayonet joint in a manner which
will be readily understood.

page_text: Struts serve to support the cover frame m n; these struts are free to turn at
their lower ends on the part c of the supporting bar or pole, which can be fixed
in the tube b by means of the set screw 61 as before described and they can be
fixed adjustably at their upper ends to the sides m of the cover frame by means
of the clamp land slots k¹, (see Figures 5 and 6).
It will be understood that the bar or pole shewn in the drawings for supporting
the cover consists, firstly, of a part a which may be solid or tubular, and which is
clamped to the frame g; secondly, of a tubular part 6 screwed on to the upper end
of the part a; thirdly, of a rod c which fits freely in the tubular part b and can be
fixed at any desired position therein by the set screw 6', the said rod c being
provided at its upper end with a socket and screw; and fourthly, of a rod d
adapted to screw on to the upper end of the part c, as shewn in Figure 7.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. The new or improved folding and adjustable protecting cover or awning
for velocipedes, and other such like carriages or vehicles, which consists of a
folding cover-frame m n, jointed to a supporting bar or pole a b c d, secured to
the vehicle, stiffening struts k¹ secured adjustably to the said supporting bar or
pole, and cover-frame, and a cover o preferably of water-proof material, sub-
stantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Second. In a protecting cover or awning for velocipedes & other such like
carriages or vehicles, the supporting bar or pole a b c d constructed in parts
secured together adjustably, to enable the cover or awning to be fixed in various
positions, substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Third. In a protecting cover or awning for velocipedes and other such like
carriages or vehicles, fixing the supporting bar or pole to the framework of the
vehicle by means of clamping parts e, f, the cheeks or jaws of the pincer-like
clamping part e being pressed together by the sliding socket e¹ substantially as
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of July 1894.