An Improved Case or Covering for Pneumatic Cushions in Cycle Frames.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1897-Accepted, 4th Sept., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Case or Covering for Pneumatic Cushions in
Cycle Frames.
I, BRUCE GREEN of 65 and 66 Chancery Lane, London, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to pneumatic cushions intended to be fitted in or to the
parts or tubes of cycle frames in order to reduce vibration or for other advantageous
purposes, and the object of the invention is to provide a case or covering for such
cushions.
Such cushions are usually placed between end plates with sliding tubes placed so
as to pass through the centre or otherwise through the cushion which is annular or so
made as to surround the tubes; to keep dust and mud from said cushions and
generally to protect them from injury and to improve the appearance of the cycle, I
enclose the cushions in a metal casing which may be of aluminium or other metal, or
in a casing of hard and tough material, such casing being made bell shaped barrel
shaped, cylindrical or otherwise and formed in one part with or as a prolongation of
one of the end plates and to fit around but permit of sliding movement of the
other, preferably the lower, end plate.
Dated this 7th day of September 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Case or Covering for Pneumatic Cushions in
Cycle Frames.
I, BRUCE GREEN, of 65 and 66 Chancery Lane, London, 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 :-
This invention relates to pneumatic cushions intended to be fitted in or to the parts
or tubes of cycle frames in order to reduce vibration or for other advantageous
purposes, and the object of the invention is to provide a case or covering for such
cushions.
Such cushions are usually placed between end plates with sliding tubes placed so
as to pass through the centre or otherwise through the cushion which is annular or
so made as to surround the tubes; to keep dust and mud from said cushions and
generally to protect them from injury and to improve the appearance of the cycle.
I enclose the cushions in a metal casing which may be of aluminium or other metal,

page_text: or in a casing of hard and tough material such casing being made bell shaped barrel
shaped cylindrical or otherwise and formed in one part with or as a prolongation of
one of the end plates and to fit around but permit of sliding movement of the other
preferably the lower end plate.
In the annexed drawing is shown a section of such casing when made bell shaped;
A is one end plate, B the other end plate, C C¹ the sliding tubes, D is the bell shaped
prolongation of plate A. The pneumatic cushion occupies the space within the
bell D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The combination with the end plates A, B of the bell shaped or similar casing D
made as a prolongation of plate A and adapted to fit around, but permit sliding
movement of the other end plate B substantially as set forth.
this 5th day of
June 1897.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.