Improvements in Devices Applicable for Protecting Cycles from Injury during Transit, or Storage, or otherwise.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1899-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1899
Improvements in Devices Applicable for Protecting Cycles from
Injury during Transit, or Storage, or otherwise.
I, ARTHUR REECE DENBIGH, of 11, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, in the County.
of Lancaster, General Broker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
The enamel or other parts of cycles are very liable to injury through transit
in a railway train or during storage with other cycles or elsewhere thus greatly
spoiling their appearance and deteriorating their value.
The present invention has for its object to avoid this defect, and to provide a
ready means for protecting such parts of cycles from injury that are most exposed.
The invention comprises guards which can be applied by the owners of a cycle
or removed when required, and which will be found a most useful accessory to
any cycle to keep it in good condition. These guards are in one arrangement
made in lengths, and are by preference of felt or other soft or non-scratching
material with metallic springs or clips on the outside rivetted at intervals
throughout each length of the felt or other material. These springs or clips are
so bent or formed transversely into segmental circular form as to bind or clip
the felt or other material round the members of the cycle frame or other parts.
The ends of the springs are turned up slightly so as to avoid scratching, while at
top the springs are embossed to form a depression on the inside a rivet being
passed through both felt and spring and rivetted underneath in the depression.
By this means therefore the rivet head is kept clear of the enamalled part and so
avoids scratching.
In use the guards having been cut to length are pressed on to the parts that
are required to be protected, and the metal clips being springy, the guards are
sprung on, and hold the felt in place round the parts to which it is applied, the
turned up edges and the felt preventing any scratching taking place. Each
length forms a good protection against the enamel getting scratched as is so
liable to take place during transit in railway trains, or during storage with other
cycles, and the present invention will therefore be found a most useful accessory
for all those who desire to keep their cycles in good condition. The springs
being placed at intervals along the felt and not close together enables the felt
to be cut exactly to the required length.
In another arrangement the guards are made in lengths of felt or other soft
or non-scratching material with buckles, catches, straps, elastics or other fasten-
ings placed at intervals round each length of felt or other material.
buckles or other fastenings are adapted to bind or clip the felt or other material
These
round the member of the cycle frame or other parts. Instead of these fastenings,
however, the edges of the felt or other material may be provided at intervals
with strings or tapes secured to the felt etc. by eyelets or sewing or in other
suitable manner, so that when the felt or other material is passed round the part
to be protected the string can also be tied round it to hold it in position. Or

page_text: if desired, the string or tape may even be separate from the felt and tied round
at intervals on each length.
It is obvious however that the invention is not confined to protecting the
enamelled parts from injury only, as these guards could be applied to any part
of a cycle, either the handle, rims, cranks, mud-guards, etc., the springs being
made of such a form or the other fastenings being so arranged as to cause the
felt or other material to clip the required part. In this specification I have
referred to the clips being of springy metal, but it is obvious that other springy
material might be employed, such as celluloid or in fact any other suitable
material that is applicable to the purpose; furthermore instead of rivetting the
clips to the felt, sewing or other means of attachment might be employed. The
guards moreover can permanently remain on the cycle in bad weather as they
will not in any way. interfere with the movement of the machine.
Total thin 10th day of Mar 1800
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Devices Applicable for Protecting Cycles from
Injury during Transit. or Storage, or otherwise.
I, ARTHUR REECE DENBIGH, of 11, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, General Broker, 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 enamel or other parts of cycles are very liable to injury through transit
in a railway train or during storage with other cycles or elsewhere thus greatly
spoiling their appearance and deteriorating their value.
The present invention has for its object to avoid this defect, and to provide a
ready means for protecting such parts of cycles from injury that are most exposed.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference
being had to the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a general view of my invention;
Figure 2, a cross section.
The invention consists in providing guards which can be applied to a cycle
or removed when required, and which will be found a most useful accessory to
any cycle to keep it in good condition. One of these guards is shown in Figure 1.
They are made in lengths, and are by preference of felt or other soft or non-
scratching material A with metallic springs B or clips on the outside rivetted
at intervals throughout cach length of the felt or other material. These springs
or clips B are so bent or formed transversely into segmental circular form as to
compress the felt A or other material round the members of the cycle frame
or other parts. The ends of the springs are turned up slightly so as to avoid
scratching, while at top the springs are embossed at C to form a depression on
the inside, rivets D being passed through both felt A and springs B and rivetted
underneath in the depression over a washer E. By this means therefore the
rivet head and washer are kept clear of the enamelled part, and so avoid
scratching.
In use, the guards having been cut to length, are pressed on to the parts which
are required to be protected, such as the horizontal and diagonal tubes of the

page_text: frame, and the metallic clips B being springy, the guards are sprung on and hold
the felt in place round the parts to which it is applied, the turned up edges and
the felt preventing any scratching taking place. Each length forms a good pro-
tection against the enamel getting scratched as is so liable to take place during
transit in a railway train or during storage with other cycles, and the present
invention will therefore be found a most useful accessory for those who desire
to keep their cycles in good condition. The springs being placed at intervals
along the felt and not close together enable the felt to be cut exactly to the
required length.
These guards can be applied to any part of the cycle either the handle bar,
rims, cranks, mud guards, etcetera, the springs in such case being made in such
form as to grip the required part. In this specification I have referred to the
clips being of springy metal, but it is obvious that other springy material might
be employed such as celluloid, or in fact any other material which is suitable
for the purpose. Furthermore instead of rivetting the clips to the felt, sewing
or other means of attachment might be employed. The guards moreover can
permanently remain on the cycle in good or bad weather as they will not in
any way interfere with the movement of the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The improvements in guards for protecting the tubes or other parts of
cycles from injury, which consists in forming them in lengths of felt or other
suitable non-scratching material, with springs rivetted or otherwise secured onto
the outside of same at intervals throughout each length, substantially as
described.
2. A guard for protecting the tubes or other parts of cycles from injury, con-
sisting of felt or other suitable non-scratching material cut into lengths, in
combination with springs secured to the felt on the outside at intervals, and
of such shape as to retain the felt permanently in approximately the shape of
the part or parts to which it is to be applied, the said springs enabling the felt
to be sprung on to the parts and holding them in place round the same, sub-
stantially as described.
3. In a guard for protecting the enamelled tubes or other parts of cycles from
injury, the arrangement for rivetting the springs to the felt or other soft
material so that the projecting rivet heads and washers will not scratch the parts
to which they are applied, which consists in embossing the springs on the outside
so as to form a depression on the inside adapted to hold and contain the rivet
head and washer.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Patent Agents, of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham & London.