A Rain Guard for Cycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 30th July, 1898
PROVIDIONAL DEPUIT.
A Rain Guard for Cycles.
I, WILLIAM ALBERT WILSON, of Janefield, Aberdour, in the County of Fife, N.B.,
Civil Service Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to a rain guard for cycles for the purpose of protecting
the knees and legs of the cyclist from rain. It consists of a waterproof apron the
top of which is supported from the handle bar and the lower part of which is
secured to each side of the front fork of the front wheel. In order to hold the
apron in a spread out position in front of the knees of the rider, I fix extension
rods to each side of the handle. The top of the rod is clamped to the handle at
each side of the machine, the rod depending downwards. The sides of the apron
may be attached to these rods in any convenient way such as by rings. The apron
may be of a knickerbocker shape to receive the pillar of the handle bar. The ends
of the apron are secured to the ends of the front fork and the lower corners of
the apron secured to the lower ends of the rods.
I, WILLIAM ALBERT WILSON, of Janefield, Aberdour, in the County of Fife, N.B.,
Civil Service Clerk, 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 rain guard for cycles for the purpose of protecting
the cycle and the lower extremities of the cyclist from raiz or weather while
offering a minimum of resistance to a head wind.
It consists of a waterproof apron carried in front of the steering post of the
cycle and supported at the top from the handle bar of the cycle, the lower part
being secured to each side of the front fork. In order to hold the apron in a
spread out position in front of the lower extremities of the rider, extension rods
are attached to each side of the handle bar depending downwards, the upper ends
being fixed to the handle bar by clips or other convenient attachment. But in
order that my said invention may be more readily understood and easily carried
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page_text: into effect I will proceed to describe one method of constructing and attaching
the guard, with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents the guard detached from the cycle and spread out flat.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the clip shewn in Fig. 1 for attaching the sup-
porting rods to the handle bar.
of the
In the said drawings A represents the apron, the sides B, C and D, E of which
are attached the rods F by means of cords passed through eyelets in the material,
or by rings or lacing as found convenient. The lower part of the apron is bifur-
cated to receive the front wheel of the cycle and the lower part of the steering
pillar, and the extremities G and H of the bifurcated parts of the apron are
secured to the lower ends of the front fork in any convenient way, such as by the
cord loops h, which may be passed round the front of the fork, then underneath it
and finally over the spindle nut. The rods may be attached to the handle bar
clips J (shewn more particularly in Fig. 2) by passing them through suitable
holes or slots in the outer flanges ; of the clips and securing them by means of
butterfly nuts or in any other convenient manner. The outer flanges
clips are skewed to such an extent as to cause the depending rods to take a true
vertical position, thus forming an acute angle with the steering post and keeping
the face of the apron stretched tight. Alternatively the holes or slots in any other
handle bar attachment which may be used are so bored or placed as to have a
similar effect. The upper ends of the apron may be secured by cords passing
over the butterfly nuts or otherwise. To receive the lamp bracket of the cycle,
slits K are cut in the front of the apron, and there may be more than one such slit
in the apron to adapt it to fit different cycles in respect of the varying position of
their lamp brackets. The shape of the apron and the method of its attachment to
the rods and the cycle, cause it to take and retain, when fixed in position, a wedge
shape, and hold it clear of the lower extremities of the cyclist without in any way
interfering with the proper management of the cycle. The said rain guard when
not required can be removed, rolled up and carried on the cycle in inflator clips
of any ordinary pattern.
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 I
claim is:-
1. The combined construction and arrangement of the various parts of a rain
guard for cycles, substantially as described and set forth herein.
2. A rain guard for cycles, which, although constructed of thin and light
material, forms and retains from its method of construction and attachment, a
wedge like form when fixed in position.
3. A rain guard for cycles affording efficient protection from rain to the lower
extremities of the rider without impeding his movements or his control of the cycle
and free of contact with any part of his body.
4. An easily detachable and portable rain guard for cycles, which when not
in use may be detached, rolled up and carried on the cycle in inflator clips of
ordinary pattern.
Dated this 13th dow of Tul 1900
JOHNSONS,
Applicant's Agents, 115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.