An Improved Adjuster for Dress Guards upon Cycles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Adjuster for Dress Guards upon Cycles.
I, WILLIAM RADFORD, of Stoke Green, Coventry, Cycle Works Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved dress guard for cycles, and it has for its
objects to provide a means whereby in the event of the lacing of which such guards
are usually constructed, becoming slack the same may be easily drawn tight again,
and also to provide a means whereby the guard may be readily removed
to permit of the chain wheel or other parts of the cycle being more accessible for
cleaning or other purposes.
In carrying the invention into effect, I secure to the lower end of the back stays
small eye bolts, the eyes of which are formed with an opening in the front to
permit of the insertion therein of a wire suitably twisted or bent at its upper end
to allow of the cord or lace of which the guard is formed being passed through the
loop thus formed and fastened at the ends. The plain portion of the wire is
screwed and carries upon it two nuts, one of which may be a simple milled disc and
the other has formed upon it an extension or collar which is adapted to fit the eye
of the bolt and has formed upon it a collar, the periphery of which may be milled
to facilitate the manipulation of the nut by the fingers. The nut may also have
formed upon it an ordinary hexagon or other head for a spanner. To prevent the
nuts from being removed from off the screwed wire the end of the wire may be
slightly upset or have a small head formed thereon. The two nuts are located, the
thin one upon the top side of the eye bolt, and the other upon the underside, locking
the whole together when the adjustment has been effected.
Dated this 22nd day of April 1898
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Adjuster for Dress Guards upon Cycles.
I, WILLIAM RADFORD, of Walsgrave, near Coventry (late of Stoke Green,
Coventry), Cycle Works Manager, 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:
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This invention relates to an improved dress guard adjuster for cycles and it has
for its objects to provide a means whereby in the event of the lacing of which such
guards are usually constructed becoming slack, the same may be easily drawn tight-
again, and further to provide a means whereby the guard may be readily removed to
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page_text: permit of the wheel or other parts of the cycle being more accessible for cleaning
or other purposes.
In order that the invention may be the better understood, drawings are appended
in which:
Fig. 1, is a side view of part of a cycle frame showing the adjuster applied thereto.
Fig. 2. is a front view of the adjuster approximately full size.
Fig. 3. is a side view of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4, is a section showing more clearly the adjusting nuts.
Fig. 5, is a plan of the eye bolt forming part of the device.
A, indicates the frame of the machine into the vertical stay of which is tapped
the screwed shank of the stud B. The stud B, has formed at its outer end an
eye C, an opening being formed in the front thereof to permit of the free insertion
therethrough of the screwed end of the wire 1), the upper end of which may be
bent as shown at E, in Fig. 1, for the lacing therethrough of the cord of which the
guard is composed. F', is a small disc having a central opening threaded to corres-
pond with the thread upon the wire and which disc is milled upon its edge to
facilitate its manipulation when the adjustment is being effected and by which
means, in conjunction with the nut G, the adjuster is locked in position after
effecting the adjustment.
The nut G, consists of a disc having formed upon its upper face a small collar H,
corresponding in diameter with the diameter of the opening in the eye of the
stud B, in which it fits when in position. Upon the lower face of the disc I may
form an hexagon or other head for a spanner.
Instead of forming the upper end of the wire D as shown in Fig. 1, I may bifurcate
it and flatten the ends afterwards turning them over so as to form hooks as shown
in Figs. 2 and 3 in which I may insert rings I, through which the cord J, may be
threaded. By this latter arrangement it is possible, when necessary, to unhook one
half of the guard only, when it has been slacked, and thus allow of free access to
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the wheel without entirely removing the guard as is at present the case.
be readily understood from the foregoing description that the tension of the
cord J, may be readily adjusted by turning the nuts upon the wire D, and also
that the wire may be withdrawn from the eye C, by turning back the lower disc
until the collar formed thereon is clear of the stud when the wire will pass through
the opening formed in the eye of the said stud and the wheel be fully exposed.
I may, instead of the hooks shown in the Figs. 2 and 3, and the loops in Fig. 1.
form a single loop at the upper end of the adjuster through which the cord may be
threaded.
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. In a dress guard adjuster a means whereby the said guard may be readily
released so that it can be raised to expose the wheel, substantially as described and
shown.
2. In a dress guard adjuster a means whereby a part of the said guard may be
readily released to facilitate access to the wheel or other parts, substantially as
herein described and shown by the appended drawings.
3. The improved adjuster for dress guards constructed and arranged substantially
as herein described and shown by the appended drawings.
Dated this 10th day of January 1899.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.