Receptacles for Fitting to or Forming Part of Cycles or Velocipedes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1892-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Receptacles for Fitting to or Forming Part of Cycles or
Velocipedes.
I ALFRED SENNITT HOGE of No. 3 Ethelbert Road, Birchington, Isle of
Thanet, Kent, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention consists of the idea to provide bicycles and tricycles with a
receptacle or with receptacles for one or more than one or all of the following
articles, namely, pipes tobacco cigars cigarettes matches and fusees, and either
provided or not provided with a rough surface upon which to strike matches and
fusees; such receptacle or receptacles to be constructed either so as to form a
permanent part of the bicycle or tricycle or as a separate article attachable to and
detachable from the bicycle or tricycle. The said receptacle or receptacles would
be placed on the steering handle or on any other part of the bicycle or tricycle
with the double object of enabling the rider to fill and light a pipe or cigar or
cigarette whilst riding, and of relieving him or her of the inconvenience of carrying
the articles named above on the person.
The receptacle or receptacles may be made in any shape or pattern, and placed
on any part of the machine.
It is claimed that the idea embodied in the above description creates a new
article, and a monopoly is claimed in the manufacture and the sale of the same.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Receptacles for Fitting to or Forming Part of Cycles or
Velocipedes.
I ALFRED SENNITT HOGE of No. 3 Ethelbert Road Birchington Isle of Thanet
in the County of Kent, Accountant 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 invention consists of the idea to provide bicycles and velocipedes with
receptacles for the purpose of containing one or more than one or all of the
following articles, namely, pipes tobacco matches fusees cigars and cigarettes, to
be constructed in such a manner either so as to form a permanent part of the bicycle
or velocipede or as a separate article attachable to and detachable from the bicycle or
velocipede. The said receptacles to be placed on the steering handle or on any
other part of the machine. A monopoly in the manufacture and sale of such
articles is claimed, and the following will serve to illustrate one manner of carrying
the idea into effect. A thin metal box would be constructed in the shape of a tube,
with a roughened surface upon which to strike fusees, and large enough to contain
about half an ounce of tobacco, and fitted with screw clasps to fix upon the handle
of the bicycle in the same manner as bells are usually fixed on handles of bicycles
80 that it might be placed in any position desired. Usually the most convenient
position would be close to the handle held by the right hand whilst riding. The
pipe would then be taken from the pocket (or the receptacle if sufficient room be
provided) with the right hand whilst the bicycle would be momentarily steered by
the left hand only. The pipe would then be rested in the tobacco receptacle and
the tobacco pushed into the pipe with one or more fingers the right hand resting
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page_text: on the bicycle handle and being available for steering meanwhile.
The pipe
would then be conveyed to the mouth by the right hand, a fusee would be taken
from the receptacle, struck, and applied to the pipe, and thus the rider would be
enabled to fill and light the pipe without dismounting.
The monopoly is claimed to apply to receptacles made of any substance or
material and in any shape and pattern and attached to any part of the machine.
By way of additional description, I beg to add that it is proposed to carry the
invention into effect by constructing a metal box with a lid, of tubular shape, or
egg-shaped, or other suitable shape, and having a clasp so constructed as to be
clasped round the handle or other convenient part of the bicycle by means of
band-clips, in the same manner as bicycle bells are commonly attached to the
handles of bicycles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
That the idea of constructing such articles as before described attached to or
forming part of bicycles and velocipedes is novel, and a monopoly of the manu-
facture and sale of the same is claimed.
Dated this Twenty second day of December 1045