Vice for Looking the Steering Du Русте
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 21st Aug., 1897
Vice for Looking the Steering Du
Рустев.
We FRANZ LOUIS HÜTTEL and HERMANN ALEXANDER KIPPE, Proprietors of the Firm
of Hüttel & Kippe, Manufacturers, of Erlau in the Kingdom of Saxony, German
Empire, do hereby declaro the nature of our invention and in what manner the same
is be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :--
The present invention consists of a device for locking the steering bar of cycles, for
the purpose of preventing their being stolen or used by unauthorized persons.
And in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference is
had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote similar
parts throughout the several figures:-
Fig. 1 being a part elevation and part section of one form of our invention.
Fig. 2 a section showing a modified forin,
Fig. 3 a section of a further modification and
Fig. 4 a horizontal section through the device as illustrated by Figure 3.
The sleeve through which the steering bar passes is provided with a housing A and
a lug is provided on the flange c of the steering bar to extend over said housing when
the steering wheel is in the position in which it is required to lock it. The lug of the
flange c is provided with an orifice or a depression into which a pin or plug a may
engage. The plug a is mounted in the housing A and normally retained in its
depressed position out of engagement with the depression of the lug by means of a
spring d. The lower end of the housing may be closed up by a screw threaded plug e.
The pin a is provided with a laterally extending pin having button b and extending
through a curved slot b of the housing A. When it is required to arrest the steering
bar, the button b is moved upwardly along the curved slot and forces the pin a into
the depression of the lug of Hange c against the action of its spring, which thereby
holds the pin in the upper depression of the slot 6' as shown. The plug e may be
provided with a square head and if it is desired that the steering bar shall remain locked
for a long time, the plug e may be turned by a key and forced upwardly so as to
prevent the unlocking of the pin a, until the plug e shall have been unscrewed.
In the device shown at Figure 2 the spring pressed pin is dispensed with and the
plug with an upper pin serves to engage the depression in the lug of the steering
bar flange. This plug f may be turned by a key or any other suitable means.
In the modification as shown at Figures 3 and 4 a ping is mounted in the housing A
said pin being normally depressed by a spring and having at its lower end
lateral projections adapted when the pin is turned a quarter of a turn to engage in
recesses formed in a horizontal partition in the housing A. To lock the steering
bar a key is placed over the equare end of the ping the latter pressed upwardly so
that its upper end engages the depression of the steering har flange and then turned
a quarter of a turn so that the lugs i engage on the partition and prevent
the pin from falling under the influence of its spring.
The device is very simple and can easily be applied to any cycle.

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:-
1. Device for locking the steering bar of cycles, consisting of a spring pressed pin
having button and guide slot and mounted at any suitable point of the bicycle frame,
in proximity to a flange or projection of the steering bar and adapted to engage
Baid steering bar projection when in its upper position, but being normally depressed
by its spring, and a threaded plug mounted underneath said pin and adapted when
tightened up to retain said pin in its upward position, substantially as described.
2. A modification of the device covered by Claim one according to which a screw
threaded plug engages the steering bar projection the spring pressed pin being
omitted, substantially as described.
3. A pin to engage a slot in the steering bar flange or a depression in said flange,
said pin being normally retained in its lower position by means of a spring lateral
projections at the end or there about of said pin, a horizontal partition in the housing
said partition having recesses into which said lateral lug engage when the pin has
been turned a part of a turn, substantially as described.
4. The device for locking the steering bar of a cycle, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 19th day of November 1896.
HORN, SON & Co.,
Applicants' Agents.