Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1886.
Complete Left, 1st Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Apr., 1887.
We ORMEROD BEVIL GRANVILLE of Bifrons Willow Road Hampstead in the
County of Middlesex Gentleman and FRANCIS TEMPLE PAGE of Clifton Villa Norwood
Road West Norwood in the County of Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows :-
The object of this Invention is to provide simple and efficient means for overcoming
or neutralizing the jolting and jarring of bicycles and other velocipedes due to the
action of the hind trailing or the front steering wheel or wheels or the like on rough
roads. According to our Invention the fork is extended below the axle of the wheel
and the connection of the said axle with the fork is made by means of links or shackles
centred at one end to the fork below the axle and at the other end to the axle.
On rough roads the wheel and its axle swing backwards and forwards upon the
centres by which the links or shackles are connected to the fork the weight of the
rider when the obstructions on the road are overcome causing the wheel to return to
its proper position without jolting or jarring the vehicle and rider and this without
the use of complicated parts or actual springs which would be very objectionable in
practice.
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J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said Ormerod Bevil Granville
and Francis Temple Page.

page_text: We ORMEROD BEVIL GRANVILLE of Bifrons Willow Road Hampstead in the County
of Middlesex Gentleman and FRANCIS TEMPLE PAGE of Clifton Villa Norwood Road
West Norwood in the County of Surrey Gentleman 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:-
The object of this Invention is to provide simple and efficient means for overcoming
or neutralizing the jolting and jarring of bicycles and other velocipedes due to the
action of the hind trailing or the front steering wheel or wheels or the like on rough
roads. According to our Invention the fork is extended or provided with continuations
to below the axle of the wheel and the connection of the said axle with the fork is
made by means of links or shackles centred at one end to the fork extensions below
the axle the other end being affixed to the axle so that the wheel axle and shackles
freely oscillate upon the fork extensions or continuations.
The accompanying drawing represents the best way with which we are acquainted
of carrying our Invention into practical effect. Figures 1 and 2 being elevations at
right angles to each other, A is the wheel to which our Invention is applied. The
fork B has extensions B2 to below the axle A2 of the wheel. These extensions may
either be made in one with the fork or they may be connected thereto in any suitable
way, for example as shewn by means of the bolts b. The links or shackles C form the
means of connecting the axle with the fork extensions B. The lower end of each
shackle has a circular pin or projection c² which is housed in ball bearings ¿ª in the
lower ends of the fork extensions. The upper ends of the shackles c are fixed in any
suitable way to the axle, for example, as shewn in the Drawings where Figure 3 shews
one of the ends of the axle. It is flattened at a so as to be of the shape shewn in the
section Figure 4. Figure 5 shews one of the shackles C separately, the upper end
having an opening of the shape of the end of the axle. When the shackle is placed
on the axle end by passing the axle end through the openings c³ the nut d is screwed
on the end of the axle and fixes the shackle securely in place thereon preventing any
relative movement of the axle and shackle but enabling the shackle to be readily
removed when required. It will be evident that the pin c² may be on the fork
extension and the ball bearings in the shackle, if so desired.
On rough roads the wheel and its axle and the shackles fixed to it swing backwards
and forwards upon the centres by which the links or shackles are connected to the
fork extensions and the weight of the rider when the obstructions on the road are

page_text: overcome causes the wheel to return to its proper position without jolting or jarring
the vehicle or rider and this without the use of complicated parts or actual springs
which are very objectionable in practice.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :—
In velocipedes, the combination with the guiding or hind or trailing wheel or wheels
or the like of links or shackles fixed to the axle and freely oscillating on.extensions or
continuations of the fork below the axle substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated.