A New or Improved Method of Securing Pneumatic Tyre Inflators and similar Articles to Cycles, Motor Cars and like Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 10th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 28th May, 1898
A New or Improved Method of Securing Pneumatic Tyre Inflators
and similar Articles to Cycles, Motor Cars and like Vehicles.
I, JOHN GRAY, Draughtsman, of Hampden Cottage, Washwood Heath Road,
Saltley, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:
My invention has for its object an improved means of attaching inflators or
like articles to cycles and other vehicles for the convenience of their carriage
upon the same, affording facilities for their easy removal, and this in such a
manner that the clips or holders by means of which the same is accomplished is
not in any way loosed or detached from the tube or portion of the said vehicle to
which they are secured on the removal of the inflator or like articlé
aforementioned.
The method I adopt in carrying out my invention is as follows:-
Around the tubular member of the vehicle to which the inflator is to be secured
a spring steel wire, or other metal, band is passed until it almost wholly encircles
the tube, then each half of the wire is bent round transversely to its former
direction until small holes or loops, through which a screw bolt or pin may be
passed are formed. The direction of the wire is then again changed the ends being
bent outward until they jointly make a semicircular receptacle in the same, or a
parallel, plane containing that part of the wire encircling the tube.
The ends of the wire terminate in a loop and a hook, or their equivalents,
respectively, and admit of being connected by an india rubber or other flexible
ring, or a flat elastic band suitably secured by its one end to the one extremity
of the wire, and having attached to its free end any suitable arrangement whereby
it may be readily hooked to, or fastened upon or detached therefrom, the other
extremity of the wire.
A pair of the above described clips are sprung upon the tube to which the
inflator has to be attached and are firmly fixed to the same by passing through
the beforementioned loops or holes suitably screwed pins or bolts (one in each
clip) which entering suitable nuts or internally screwed plates tightly tension
up the clips around the tube. The said nuts may for convenience have formed
upon them slots or projections which coming in contact and engaging with some
other part of the band prevent the nuts rotating when the pins are screwed into
them. The inflator is then fastened to the clips by placing each of its ends in
the semicircular receptacle in each of the clips, and then securing it there by
stretching the aforementioned elastic rings or bands around and in contact with
the inflator, connecting up the two ends of the clip, and with the clip completing
the encirclement of the inflator.
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page_text: A New or Improved Method of Securing Pneumatic Tyre Inflators
and similar Articles to Cycles, Motor Cars and like Vehicles.
I, JOHN GRAY, Draughtsman, of Hampden Cottage, Washwood Heath Road,
Saltley, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, 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:-
My invention has for its object the production of an improved clip or holder for
securing inflators and like articles to cycles and other vehicles.
to
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a side elevation of an inflator clip
or holder constructed in accordance with my invention.
Figure 3. is a front elevation of the clip in position upon a tubular member of
a cycle frame, and embracing a pneumatic pump or inflator.
Figure 4 is a side elevation showing an inflator suspended by a pair of my clips
from a tubular member of a cycle frame.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
The body of my clip I form preferably from a single length of steel wire tho
central portion of which is made to a loop form as A for embracing a tube as B of the
cycle frame. The free ends of the wire projecting from the loop A are then
bent or coiled in a transverse direction to form the loops A¹ for the reception of
the bolt C by which the clip is securely tightened around the tube B. The wire
ends are then curved as shown to receive the inflator D and their extremities are
bent back to form hooks or loops as A² for the attachment of the rubber or other
flexible band E.
Each clip is sprung over the tube as B in the desired position and is secured
thereat by the clamping bolt C which is then inserted through the loops or
coils A and screwed tightly into the nut C¹, the nut C is prevented
from rotation by the engagement of its projecting cars
c with the
adjacent portion of the Wire forming the clip. One end of the
rubber band E is preferably permanently secured to one of the ends A² of the clip,
but the other end can be connected or disconnected as required to permit of the
insertion and removal of the inflator D. The band is shown with one end
disconnected at Figures 1 and 2, but at Figures 3 and 4 it is shown in position
for retaining the inflator D in attachment with the cycle.
I employ an elastic band of other forms than that of the band E, sometimes
attaching metallic hook or fastening pieces upon the ends of the same for engage-
ment with the suitably shaped ends of the clip body. I also form the clip body
from one or more pieces of metallic strip instead of from wire as hereinbefore
described.
By my method of securing the inflator holder to the cycle frame tube or other
like part with a positive mechanical grip, set up by the action of a screw or of
a bolt and nut on the clip body, as hereinbefore described, and of the attachment
of the inflator by the combination of a flexible band with the ends of such holder,
the inflator can be very readily and conveniently attached and detached without
affecting the connection of the holder itself with the cycle frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
claim is:
1. In holders for securing pneumatic tyre inflators and simile.

page_text: motor cars, and other vehicles, the combination of a clip like body part which
is gripped to its support by the action of a bolt and nut or like mechanical means,
with a flexible band, substantially as described.
2. A cycle or like clip or holder constructed and arranged substantially as and
for the purposes described and as illustrated.
ALL
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.