Improvements in or relating to Supports for Bicycles and the like
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1897-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"Improvements in or relating to Supports for Bicycles and the like."
(A communication from BENGT SALOMON ANDERSSON of Fleminggatan 12, Stock-
holm, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Publisher.)
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 111 Hatton Garden, in the county of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The present invention relates to a device for supporting bicycles in an upright
position when not in use. This device consists principally of two rods placed so
as to slide up and down within the hollow saddle post or down tube and projecting
from two lateral openings in the lower end of this post. The rods are, at their
upper ends, hinged to a sliding-piece, which is connected to a string, cord,, or
chain, as stated below.
Within the hollow saddle-post there is a sliding-piece to which are hinged the
two support rods. The lower end of each rod passes through a lateral opening in
the lower part of the post. The distance between these openings is greater than
the distance between the hinge-points of the rods, in consequence of which
the rods form an angle to each other, which angle becomes greater the nearer the
sliding piece approaches the openings. On the upper and lower surface of the
sliding piece are fixed the ends of a string, cord, or chain, or the like which either
passes through openings on the upper and lower ends of the post, and is connecter
to a loop or ring surrounding the post and held in the desired position by means
of au adjusting-screw or attached to a button; or the cord can be passed over
wheels, rollers or guides placed in the interior of the saddle-post and if desired,
also at some other point of the bicycle-frame, where one of the rollers may be
provided with a projecting axle and folding-crank. Some of these wheels may
be combined with a spring tending to draw up the sliding piece, which will always
have a tendency to fall downwards by its own weight.
In a modification the crank-axle bearing or bottom bracket is provided with a
sleeve, through or into which the saddle-post or down tube passes in such a manner
that the post terminates at the side of said bearing, in which case the openings
for the support rods are not placed laterally on the post but in the lower end-surface
thereof.
From the above it will be seen that the invention for supporting bicycles,
consists of two rods hinged to a piece sliding up and down in the interior of the
hollow saddle-post and projecting out of openings in this post, the said sliding
piece being connected to a string, cord, chain, etc. for raising and lowering said
sliding piece.
Dated this 28th day of December 1808

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Supports for Bioycles and the like.
(A communication from BENGT SALOMON ANDERSSON, of Fleminggatan 12, Stock-
holm in the Kingdom of Sweden Publisher.)
...
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111 Hatton Garden, in the county of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent. do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:--
2
The present invention relates to a device for supporting bicycles in an upright
position when not in use... This device consists principally, of two rods placed so
as to slide up and down within the hollow saddle-post or down tube and projecting
from two lateral openings in the lower end of this post. The rods are, at their
upper ends, hinged to a sliding-piece, which is connected to a string, cord, or
chain, as stated below. :
.
Fig 1 is a side elevation, in section, of the saddle post, with the rods and
connections,
In the annexed drawing, Fig. 2 is a side view of the supporting device and the
saddle post in perspective, and
Fig. 3 is a partly sectional front view of the same,
Figs. 4 and 6 are a modification of this device.
Within the hollow saddle-post a, there is a sliding-piece b' to which are hinged
the two support, rods e c. The lower end of each rod passes, through a lateral
opening in the lower part of the post a. The distance between these openings d
is greater than the distance between the hinge-points of the rods, in consequence
of which the rods form an angle to each other, which angle becomes greater the
nearer the sliding piece b approaches the openings d. On the upper and lower
surface of the sliding piece 6 are fixed' the ends of a string, cord, or chain, or the
Like e which either passes through openings f f on the upper and lower ends of the
post a (Figs. 1, 2 and 3), and is connected to a loop or ring surrounding the post
and held in the desired position by means of an adjusting-screw g or attached to
a button or the cord can be passed over wheels, rollers or guides placed in the
interior of the saddle-post a and if desired, also at some other point of the bicycle-
frame, where one of the rollers may be provided with a projecting axle and folding-
crank m (Fig. 4). Some of these wheels may be combined with a spring tending
to draw up the sliding piece b, which will always have a tendency to fall down-
wards by its own weight.
In Figs.. 4 and 5 the crank-axle or bottom bracket is provided with a sleave,
through or into which the saddle-post or down tube passes in such a manner that
the post terminates at the side of said bearing, in which case the openings d are
not placed laterally on the post but in the lower end-surface thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me by myi foreign correspondent, and' in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
.. 1. A device for supporting bicycles and the like, consisting of two rods hinged to
a part capable of sliding up and down in the interior of the hollow saddle-pin tube.
and projecting out of openings in this tube, the said sliding-piece being connected
to a cord or chain, for raising and lowering said. sliding piece substantially as
described:
2. A device for supporting bicycles and the like, as described in claim 1, the
combination with guide rollers for the cord or chain, substantially as described.

page_text: 3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete device
for supporting bicycles, substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2
and 3 or in Figures 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
Deted this 22nd day of Sontember 1807
BOULT & WADE
Agents for the Applicant.