Improvements Bicycle
Year: 1896

page_text: I, ALFRED HENRY TARLETON, J.P. of Breakspears, Uxbridge, Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of a crate for transport of bicycles, this
crate being made of lattice work in parts jointed together so that, when it is not in
use for enclosing and protecting a bicycle, it can be folded up in small compass.
for convenience of transport. When the crate is unfolded, it is placed around so.
as to enclose the framework of the bicycle, which is fixed to it, leaving parts of the
wheels projecting below the crate so that the bicycle can be moved along on its.
wheels.
Dated this 6th day of November 1896.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant..
Improvements
Bicycle
I, ALFRED HENRY TARLETON, J.P. of Breakspears, Uxbridge, Middlesex, 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:-
My invention relates to the construction of a crate for transport of bicycles, this
crate being made of lattice work in parts jointed together so that, when it is not in
use for enclosing and protecting a bicycle, it can be folded up in small compass for
convenience of transport. When the crate is unfolded it is placed around so as to
enclose the framework of the bicycle, which is fixed to it, leaving parts of the
wheels projecting below the crate so that the bicycle can be moved along on its
wheels.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view shewing a bicycle in the
crate in condition for transport.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the crate unfolded to receive the bicycle,
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the crate unfolded,
Fig. 4 is a perspective view shewing it folded up in small compass.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the standard and arms which serve to stretch the
crate and to hold the bicycle in position in it.
Fig. 6 is a perspective view of this folded up for transport.
The crate consists of four frames consisting of top bars AA' A'A' connected
by lattice work to corresponding bottom bars B¹ B B B', the one set of lattice
laths C being pin jointed to the top and the bottom bar in each case, and the cross.

page_text: laths D being pin jointed only to the laths C, so that the lattice work allows of
each top bar A being moved down close to the bottom bar B. Each pair of
lattice frames have their top and bottom bars hinged together at E, and jointed
together at F and G by hinged straps.
The frames A'B' and A' B are made somewhat longer than A'B' and A'B',
and the straps at G are somewhat longer than those at F so that the frames A'B',
A'B' can be folded in between the frames A' B¹, A B as indicated by the dotted
lines aa in Fig. 2, when the crate is packed up into the condition shewn in
Fig. 4.
The standard H is made with a hook at which engages one of the tubes of the
bicycle frame, and it has jointed to its lower end two arms I I¹ to which are
jointed pieces J J' of which J serves as transverse stretcher keeping the lower
bars B B apart, and J¹ keeping B2 B3 apart. At the upper part of H there is a
slot through which can slide side by side two bars K K terminating in hooks k kt
each of which engages a tube of the bicycle frame. After engaging the tubes the
hooked ends of the two bars are drawn towards each other by a screw and when
they are thus made to take firm hold of the bicycle the bars K K' are clamped
together by a screw passing through slots of these bars. To the top of H are
jointed two arms L L' which form transverse stretchers holding the two sides of
the crate apart at the top, end pieces fitting on the top bars of the crate where
they are hinged together at E. For convenience of transport the standard H and
the arms connected to it are folded together as shewn in Fig. 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A bicycle crate consisting of four lattice frames hinged and jointed together in
combination with a standard and arms constructed and arranged for packing,
substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of January 1897.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.