A New or Improved Bicycle Stand.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1899
A New or Improved Bicycle Stand.
I, ALEXANDER BRUCE STEWART, of the Upper Hooghly Mills, No. 9, Garden
Reach, in the Suburbs of Calcutta, British India, Mechanic, 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 a neat and simple stand which can
be clamped on to a cycle.
This object is accomplished by means of a contrivance which I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is an elevation of my stand open and ready for use.
Figure 2 an elevation of same closed.
Figure 3 an enlarged view of the spring arrangement hereinafter described.
Figure 4 a sectional view of same through line X Z of Figure 3.
A is a suitably sized pipe having a bell mouth at its lower end. Over the
upper end of this pipe fits a socket B on which is brazed or otherwise attached
a trough C of such a size as to fit the lower tube of the diamond frame of a
safety bicycle. This trough is fixed at such an angle to the socket that when the
pipe A is vertical the trough will fit onto the aforesaid lower tube.
In the socket B are two slots on opposite sides thereof through which the two
heads of a rivet passing through the pipe A protrude, such slots admitting of the
socket being lifted a certain distance. One side of the socket B is cut away as
shewn in Figure 1 and 2 of the drawings and admits of the socket, after being
lifted up as far as the slot will allow, to be turned back against the pipe A as
shewn in Figure 2.
From the bell mouthed end of the pipe A protrude four legs D of convenient
size and shape. Near the upper end of each of these legs is rivetted a lug E
pivoted by means of a rivet F to protruberances on a short pipe G fixed within
the lower portion of pipe A. This arrangement allows the legs a range of move-
ment from the closed position (as illustrated in Figure 2) where their further
closure is prevented by the presence of a ring. fixed on one of the legs, to the
open position (as illustrated in Figure 1) where their further opening is pre-
vented by the legs coming in contact with the bottom of the bell mouth.
Within the pipe is a spring whose upper end presses against a rivet H and
whose lower end presses against a suitable, button or ball J. The lugs E on the
legs D have each an extension K which is in contact with the lower end of the
button or ball J. The pressure of the spring on the button or ball J causes the
legs E to be depressed and the legs spread out into the position shewn in
Figure 1. In order to retain the legs in the closed position as shewn in Figure 2
it is necessary to compress the spring and to keep it compressed by means such
as a clip around the lower end of the legs.
In use, the trough is clamped to the lower tube of the diagonal frame of a
safety bicycle near to the bottom bracket bearing. The pipe A is pulled out of
the socket B and turned upwards so that it lies along the said lower tube. The

page_text: four legs are gathered together and retained in a suitable clip. When required
for use the legs are taken out of the clip and at once spread out and fall to the
ground. The machine is then lifted off the ground whereupon the pipe A
swings down to the vertical. When four legs rest on the ground the machine
can be lowered whereupon the pipe A will enter the socket B and be held firmly
the bicycle standing clear of the ground by an inch or two.
It is not however essential that the stand should be so long as to take the
wheels of the bicycle off the ground. If preferred the stand may be of such a
length as to hold the machine steady while the wheels remain on the ground.
For such a purpose it is not necessary that the stand should have four legs,
two, one on each side, being sufficient. This modified form will be convenient
for riders who wish to rest sitting on their machines.
The number of legs is not a material feature of this invention and the use of
any number of legs from 2 upwards as may be found convenient is claimed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In a bicycle stand the use of the trough and socket, the latter being pro-
vided with two slots (for the reception of a rivet passing through the main pipe
of the stand) and having a portion of its side cut away as described.
2. In a bicycle stand, the use of two or more legs pivoted within the main
pipe of the stand and having a spring under pressure of which the legs spread
out, as described.
3. In a bicycle stand having two or more legs which spread out when opened,
means for causing such legs to spread out consisting a spring within the main
pipe terminating with a ball or button such ball or button being in contact with
lugs or projections on the upper portion of the legs, as described.
4. The arrangement and combination of the various parts forming a bicycle
stand, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 20th day of July 1890