An Improvement in Clips for the Attachment of Pumps and other Articles to Cycles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Clips for the Attachment of Pumps and other
Articles to Cycles.
I, AMELIA ROSE, of High Street, Northallerton, in the County of York, Cycle
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
.
This invention consists of two parts, namely, the ordinary leather strap or a
metal clip with tightening screw to place around part of the tubular frame.
Attached thereto is a metal or other suitable ring or frame, inside or around
which is an india-rubber disc or pouch, or elastic diaphragm of annular shape.
In other words the centre of the ring or frame is filled or composed of an elastic
web or diaphragm which may be perforated or not. By preference I perforate
t with a central hole or aperture adapted to the size of the pump to be carried.
Two of these improved clips are employed and the fore end of the pump being
placed in one, the rear end is drawn back and inserted in the other. The pump
s thus held securely and there is no rattle or noise. Sticks, telescopes,
umbrellas, or the fore-end of guns can be carried conveniently in this way. If
the disc is not perforated, the grip will be on the end of the article and the
elastic diaphragm will project and enclose each end like a cup.
Dated this 10th day of December 1898
An Improvement in Clips for the Attachment of Pumps and other
Articles to Cycles.
I, AMELIA ROSE, of High Street, Northallerton, in the County of York, Cycle
Agent, 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 clips or supports for carrying pumps or inflators for
the tyres of cycles, motor cars and the like, and it is also adapted for carrying
sticks, umbrellas, telescopes and the like.
The invention consists of two clips or more if found necessary as hereinafter
mentioned, each made in two parts, one of which may be a leather strap, spring
or indiarubber fastening or any other simple arrangement for attaching or fixing
the clips to the tubular frame or other part of cycles or motor cars. The other
part of each clip consists of a metal ring inside which is an indiarubber or other

page_text: elastic web or diaphragm. By preference this diaphragm is perforated with a
central hole or aperture adapted to the size of the pump or other article to be
carried, but it may however be unperforated if desired. The two ends of the
pump are thrust one through each hole in the web and the pump is thus held
securely and there is no rattle or noise from it when the cycle or car is in motion.
If the web is not perforated the grip will be on the ends of the pump and
the web will project and enclose each end like a cap.
For heavier articles additional clips may be used if found necessary.
I will now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying draw-
ings, in which
Fig. 1 shews an elevation of the two clips as fastened to the frame tube of a
bicycle or the like vehicle and supporting a pump.
Fig. 2 shews a transverse section taken on line 1-1, Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shews an enlarged horizontal section taken on line 2-2, Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 shews a modified form of clips in which the elastic diaphragms are
unperforated.
are
a is a portion of a frame tube of a bicycle from which the clips
suspended by the curved plates c c which embrace the tube a and are fastened
together by the tightening screws c¹. The plates may be replaced by straps
or other simple fastenings if preferred. The clips bb consist of rings or collars
inside which are mounted elastic diaphragms d d which are preferably perforated
at or near their centres as shewn in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 to allow the ends of the
pump or inflator e to pass through. In Fig. 4 the diaphragms are unperforated;
the inflator e being held by pressure at either end arising from the stretching
of the diaphragms. The clips 66 are attached to the curved plates c c by
loops bb, or by any other simple fastening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In a clip or support for carrying pumps or other articles upon cycles,
motor cars and the like, the elastic web or diaphragm attached to a metal ring,
said web or diaphragm being perforated or not as desired, adapted to hold the
pump or other article by thrusting same through or into the elastic web or
diaphragm, as herein described and set forth.
2. In a clip or support for carrying pumps or other articles upon cycles, motor
cars and the like, the combination of an elastic web or diaphragm with suitable
means of attaching or fixing same to the said cycle or motor car, as herein
described and set forth.
Dated this 9th day of Sentember 1899.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
Agent for Applicant, 33, Cannon Street, London, E.C.