Improvements in Bells for Cycles, Carriages, and other purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1896-Accepted, 11th July, 1896
WOBEI DDIM DI BOITIATION
[Communicated from abroad by HEINRICH WISSNER, of Mehlis, Thuringia, in
the Empire of Germany, Bell Manufacturer.]
Improvements in Bells for Cycles, Carriages, and other purposes.
We EDVARD LEVISON and CHARLES IGNAZ STEINER of 43 Tabernacle
Street, Finsbury, London, Merchants, 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 refers to spring bells such as are attached to bicycles, motor cars
and other vehicles, and employed for many other purposes.
Hitherto these bells have been sounded by means of a small projecting trigger,
lever, handle or button, the bell itself being stationary.
Our invention consists in connecting the bell to the clip which fastens it to the
vehicle, in such a way as to allow of the bell being moved to and fro within a
limited and regulated distance such movement causing the bell to ring.
No projecting trigger, lever, handle or button is employed, but the bell is rung
by being depressed or otherwise moved by the hand or foot of the operator, and
when so depressed or moved it is returned to its normal position by means of a
spring. This mode of ringing is applicable to bells with one or more dones, and
to any kind of action or movement.
We will now describe the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which :-
Fig. 1 shows an elevation of the invention applied to a bicycle bell with single
dome, the dome being removed.
Fig. 2. shows a plan of same.
Fig. 3. shows an elevation of the invention applied to a double dome bell with
upper dome removed.
Fig. 4 shows a plan view of the same.
a, is the clip which fixes the bell to the handle-bar, tube or other part of the
machine.
a', is a small bracket extending from the clip, the outer end of which forms part
of a joint on which the bell turns.
b, b, are lugs attached to a plate connected to the bell which form the other part
of the joint c.
c, is the joint as a whole, held together by the piu c¹.
d, is a small lever, centred on pin c', which carries a stump d¹, or short pin which
works the mechanism of the bell by pulling back the segment e, Fig. 2 or a link d³
connected to the toothed lever e Fig. 4.
e, is the usual segment or tocthed lever frame which is drawn back by d', and
which operates the striker of the bell by means of the usual pinion g' as shewn in
Fig. 2 or pivot lever g, as in Fig. 4.
, is the counter spring which draws back the segment or toothed frame and
thereby raises the bell to its normal or silent position.
It will be seen that this method of action has several advantages over the
ordinary trigger, lever, handle or button.
The bell is more easily found by the hand when the bell has to be rung at short
notice, and when desired it can be so placed as to be operated by the foot, which
in the case of motor cars or carriages is a manifest convenience.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
An alarm bell for bicycles, motor cars or other purposes in which the action of
ringing is effected by depressing or deflecting the bell itself, applicable to either
bells with one or more domes, as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1896.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, Patent Agent.