Improvements in Quadrants or Attachments for Dressguards for Cycles and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 5th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Quadrants or Attachments for Dressguards for
Cycles and the like.
1, CHARLES WILLIAM BENSON DEAR, of Chase Side, Southgate, in the County of
Middlesex, Ironmonger and Cycle Maker, do hereby declare the nature of "this
invention to be as follows:-
The dressguards of cycles are usually made of cord lacing or network and extend
radially from or near the axle of the back wheel of ladies cycles to the mudguard.
At the lower or axial edge they are usually attached to what is known as a quadrant,
and this is the appliance to which my invention refers. The cord or network when in
use is liable to become stretched or slack, or it may shrink if it gets wet; in either
case it requires adjusting, and to obtain an easy means of adjustment I provide a
quadrant or attachment having a screw adjustment.
This may be modified considerably but essentially it is a suitable attachment or
device for fixing on the frame or axle of a cycle, which has or carries a screw, which
actuates the bar or plate or arms, to which the dressguards are attached the
adjustment; either the tightening or the slackening being effected by turning the
screw.
Improvements in Quadrants or Attachments for Dressguards for
Cycles and the like.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM BENSON DEAR, of Chase Side, Southgate, in the County of
Middlesex, Ironmonger and Cycle Maker, 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;
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The dressguards of cycles are usually made of cord lacing or network and extend
radially from or near the axle of the back wheel of ladies cycles, to the mudguard.
At the lower or axial edge they are usually attached to what is known as a quad-
rant, and this is the appliance to which my invention refers.
The cord or network when in use is liable to become stretched or slack, or it
may shrink if it gets wet; in either case it requires adjusting, and to obtain an
easy means of adjustment, I provide a quadrant or attachment having a screw
adjustment. This may be modified considerably, but essentially it is a suitable
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page_text: attachment or device for fixing on the frame or axle of a cycle, which has, or carries
a screw, which actuates the bar or plate or arms, to which the dressguards are
attached.
In order to clearly explain this my invention I have appended hereunto illus-
trative drawings, upon which are letters; and each similar letter refers to the same
thing or part in the various drawings.
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of this my invention.
Fig. 2 is a modification of Fig. 1, having the same movement and effect; but
being actuated by a straining or pulling action of the screw, instead of a thrust
pressure as shown in Fig. 1.
The dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2 show the position of the arms when the
appliance is extended or adjusted to its limit.
Fig. 3 shows both a detail front view and a side view of the combined ring and
hook G, for the attaching to, and detaching of the dressguard from the appliance.
This my invention consists of four arms or levers, D DEE, which being so
jointed or pivoted together, with studs or rivets K K, and held or affixed to the
plate A by the stud 0, that if the screw collar or nut C, is turned it moves the
Screwed rod B, and so either raises or lowers the rings GG, in a radial direction,
and either tightens or loosens the tension of the dressguards.
F, F, are holes into which the hooks of the rings GG engage.
I may make all the arms or levers D D E E, of equal length, or I may place both
long ones E E, at either top or bottom, but I prefer them as shown in Figs. 1 and 2
as by so making them I obtain a more symetric appearance, when the appliance is
fixed on the top stays of a cycle; as it is then in a sloping position and the two
rings GG, to which the dressguards are attached, are approximately paralel with
the chain stays of the cycle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In quadrants or attachments for cycle dressguards the combination of the
four arms or levers D D E E, with a tension obtained by means of a screw B and
screw collar or nut C, the effect of the said tension being a radial movement or pull
on the dressguards towards their common centre, substantially as and for the pur-
poses set forth.
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