Improvements in Supports for Carrying Luggage or other Articles on Bicycles and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1899
Improvements in Supports for Carrying Luggage or other Articles on
Bicycles and the like.
I, HERBERT TANNER, of 1, Devonshire Road, South Lambeth, in the County of
Surrey, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates more especially to supports for carrying luggage or
other articles on bicycles and the like, which are connected to the back part of
the frame of the bicycle or other like vehicle and project backward over the
hind wheel; but the improvements are also more or less applicable to supports
for the same purpose when applied to other parts of such vehicles.
According to my present invention I make the support of metallic wire or
other suitable material, the upper part, which is intended to occupy, when applied
to the vehicle, a more or less horizontal position, and on which the luggage or
other article to be carried is strapped or otherwise secured, being preferably
formed as a flat wire frame, provided with loops or other appliances for the ready
attachment of straps or other fastening means. This wire frame is provided at
or near its rear end with legs or stays which abut at their lower ends against
the lower part of the back-stays or fork and are stayed to the other or front end
of the wire frame by suitable stays which are preferably adjustable as to length
so as to enable the aforesaid wire frame to be placed more or less horizontally
whatever may be the rake of the back-stays or fork to which it is to be attached.
The lower ends of the abovementioned legs or stays are provided with hook-
like parts preferably covered with india-rubber or other soft material so as not
to injure the enamel of the parts they come in contact with, and adapted to hook
on to the sides of the branches of the back-stays or fork. The said legs or stays
are so made that their lower ends, where the hook-like parts are placed, have a
tendency to spring towards each other, so that when such hook-like parts are
placed on the branches of the back-stays or fork they are pressed firmly against
the same by the said tendency to spring together. The end of the wire frame
opposite to that at which the aforesaid legs or stays are placed is also provided
with hook-like parts preferably covered with indiarubber or other soft material, and
adapted to take on to the upper part of the branches of the back-stays or fork.
It will now he understood that the support is connected to the frame of the
vehicle by simply hooking it on to the back-stays or fork or other suitable
member of such frame. When the member to which the support is hooked is
the back-stays or fork the downwardly diverging shape of the branches of such
stays or fork prevents the hooks of the support descending on such branches
below the point at which they become tightly engaged against such branches;
and to enable the hooks to be adjusted to suit various widths and rakes of such
forks they are screwed into or are otherwise adapted to swivel in lugs or other
suitable parts fixed to or formed with the wire frame of the support. The afore-
said adjustable stays between the lower ends of the legs and the end of the wire

page_text: frame may be made adjustable by being passed through a suitable clamp or
clamps on the said frame.
Instead of the flat frame being made of wire it may be made of sheet metal
or otherwise, and the various parts of the entire support may be made of any
suitable shape according to the part of the vehicle to which the support is to be
attached, and to suit other circumstances without departing from the nature of
my invention.
It will be understood that the above described support can be applied to or
removed from a vehicle with very great facility, and without the use of any tools
whatever.
GUMIDIM DIVALIUN.
Improvements in Supports for Carrying Luggage or other Articles on
Bicycles and the like.
I, HERBERT TANNER, of 1, Devonshire Road, South Lambeth, in the County of
Surrey, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, do hereby declare
the nature of the said 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 more especially to supports for carrying luggage or
other articles on bicycles and the like, which are connected to the back part of
the frame of the bicycle or other like vehicle and project backward over the
hind wheel.
And in order that the said invention may be fully understood, I will now pro-
ceed to describe the same with the aid of the accompanying sheet of drawings, in
which Figure 1 is a plan view of a support constructed in accordance with my
invention, Figure 2 à side elevation showing the support applied to the back
part of the frame of a bicycle, and Figure 3 a back view of the support detached
from the bicycle.
According to my present invention, I make the support of metallic wire or other
suitable material, the upper part A which is intended to occupy, when applied to
the vehicle, a more or less horizontal position, and on which the luggage or other
article to be carried is strapped or otherwise secured, being preferably formed as a
flat wire frame or platform provided with loops B or other appliances for the ready
attachment of straps or other fastening means. This wire frame or platform A
is provided at or near its rear end with legs or stays C which abut at their lower
ends against the lower part of the back-stays or fork D, and are stayed to the
other or front end of the wire frame by suitable stays E which are preferably
adjustable as to length so as to enable the aforesaid wire frame or platform A to
be placed more or less horizontally whatever may be the rake of the back-stays or
fork D to which it is to be attached.
The lower ends of the abovementioned legs or stays C are provided with hook-
like parts F preferably covered with indiarubber or other soft material so as not
to injure the enamel of the parts they come in contact with, and adapted to hook
on to the sides of the branches of the back-stays or fork D. The said legs or
stays C are so made that their lower ends, where the hook-like parts F are placed,
have a tendency to spring towards each other, so that when such hook-like parts

page_text: are placed on the branches of the back-stays or fork D they are pressed firmly
against the same by the said tendency to spring together. The end of the wire
frame or platform A opposite to that at which the aforesaid legs or stays are
placed is also provided with hook-like parts G preferably covered with india-
rubber or other soft material, and adapted to take on to the upper part of the
branches of the back-stays or fork D.
It will now be understood that the support is connected to the frame of the
vehicle by simply hooking it on to the upper part of the back-stays or fork. When
the support is hooked on to the back-stays or fork the downwardly diverging shape
of the branches of such stays or fork prevents the hooks G of the support descending
on such branches below the point at which they become tightly engaged against
such branches; and to enable the hooks G to be adjusted to suit various widths
and rakes of such forks they are screwed into or are otherwise adapted to be
adjusted laterally and if required, to swivel in lugs G or other suitable parts fixed
directly or indirectly to, or formed with the wire frame or platform A of the
support. The aforesaid adjustable stays E extending between the lower ends of
the legs C and the end of the wire frame or platform A may be made adjustable
by being passed through a suitable clamp I on the said frame, the said clamp being
tightened up on the said frame and on the stays E by a clamping screw J.
Instead of the flat frame or platform A being made of wire it may be made of
sheet metal or otherwise, and the various parts of the entire support may be made
of any suitable shape to suit circumstances, without departing from the nature
of my invention.
When the support is intended to be adapted to suit any particular rake of
back-stay or other part, and not to be adjustable to suit other rakes the stays E may
be fixed permanently at their upper ends to the frame or platform A, the adjust-
ment in the clamp I being in that case dispensed with.
It will be understood that the above described support can be applied to or
removed from a vehicle with very great facility by simply hooking it on to the
diverging members of the back stay or fork and without the use of any clamps or
screws whatever.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
First. A support for carrying luggage or other articles on bicycles and the
like, constructed, and applied substantially as described.
Second. The improved support for carrying luggage or other articles on bicycles
and the like which consists of a flat, more or less horizontally placed frame or
platform A, legs or stays C having hook-like parts F, stays E and hook-like
parts G combined and adapted, substantially as described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of December 1898.
H. TANNER.
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C. Agent,