Improvements in Cycle Inflator Attachment Clips.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Inflator Attachment Clips.
I, CHARLES THOMAS BROCK SANGSTER, Works Manager to the Cycle Com-
ponents Manufacturing Company Limited, of Bournbrook, near the City of
Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates principally to that class of cycle inflator attachment
clips which are made of rubber, and comprising a rubber block or body part,
having concaved seatings upon the two opposite siles. and with the lower and
opposite outside parts having rubber band extensions, adapted respectively to
embrace the tube member of a cycle framing and the inflator, and one terminated
by a double hooked metallic clip with back pull-offs, and the other by a single
hooked metallic connection, adapted to come between the bifurcation of
the metallic connection of the other part and for both of them to engage
with a transverse bar crossing the middle of one end of the seating block, with
its shank or root sunken or embedded within the rubber of the double seating
block. This har may be in the form of a loop or frame having a shank or ex-
tension around which the rubber of the bearing block is mounted, and with the
inner edge of the said bar gapped to receive the single hook, so that when the
two sets of hooks are in position the attachment hands form a pair of loops en-
circling inflator and framing member and with the concave bearing-faced block
coming between them and forming seatings for the said parts.
Instead of employing a bar or looped frame extending across one side or end
of the bearing block and hook connections adapted to engage therewith on the
ends of the embracing bands. I may employ a neck stud at one end of the block
and around whose shank the rubber of the said block is moulded, whilst the
loose terminal ends of the embracing bands are provided with rings, loops or
eyes adapted to be engaged over the said stud for securing up the loose ends
of the said bands, the rubber of which may be extended beyond the clips or
turned over ears which connect the eyed plates thereto, into transverse enlarge-
ments or thickenings, which, when the bands have been passed around the pump
or tube members come against the edges of the block and form buffers or cushions.
A pair of such clips are employed to secure an inflator in position.
Dated this 25th day of November 1897.
CHARLES THOMAS BROCK SANGSTER,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Inflator Attachment Clips.
I, CHARLES THOMAS BROCK SANGSTER. Works Manager to the Cycle Com-
ponents Manufacturing Company Limited, of Bournbrook, near the City of
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page_text: Birmingham, 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 principally to that class of cycle inflator attachment clips
which comprise a bearing block having concaved seatings on its opposite sides
against which the tube member of a cycle framing and the inflator to be
attached, respectively come, and also having rubber or elastic bands proceeding
from the said block and adapted to embrace the said tube and inflator and be
fastened at their free ends to the said middle block.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a cycle tyre inflator at-
tached or secured to a tube member of a bicycle frame by a pair of rubber
attachment clips constructed according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents, upon an enlarged scale, an edge view of the said clip.
Figure 3 is a front elevation of the said clip showing the fastening arrange-
ment.
Figure 4 is a vertical section of Figure 3 upon the dotted line ..
Figure 4 is a cross section, upon the dotted line, of Figure 4.
Figure represents an elevation of the said clip with the band extensions laid
out flat thus having the figure of a letter T with a long head.
Figure is a plan of Figure 5 and Figure 7 a longitudinal vertical section of
the same.
Figure 8 is an elevation of the rubber parts of the clip, separately, and
Figures 9 and 10 represent, in plan and edge view the metallic fastening
fittings of the respective band extensions, with the attachment ears thereof laid
out flat.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures 1
to 10 inclusive, of the drawings.
This form of the improved clip consists of a rubber block or body part ",
having concaved seatings a, a², upon the two opposite sides and with the top
and bottom edges of one end having proceeding therefrom, integral rubber band
extensions b', b, adapted respectively to embrace the tube member c, of a cycle
framing and the inflator d, with the one band 3, terminated by a double hooked
metallic clip, attached to the rubber by ears e, and having a back pull-off
rib, and the other band b¹, by a like but single hooked metallic connection f.
adapted to come between the bifurcation e, of the other metallic connection e,
whilst both of the said hook fittings are adapted to engage with a transverse bar g,
crossing the middle of one end of the double seating block, with its shank or
root sunken or embedded within the rubber thereof. This bar may form a
part of a loop or frame (see Figure 4) around the shank or extension of which,
the rubber of the bearing block is moulded and with the inner edge of the said
bar gapped at 3, to receive the single hook, so that when the two sets of hooks
are in position the attachment bands form a pair of loops encircling inflator and
framing member and with the concave bearing-faced block coming between them
and forming seatings for the said parts.
Figure 11 represents a cycle inflator attached or secured to a tubular frame
member by a pair of clips constructed according to a modification of the last
form of my invention..
Figure 12 is an edge view, upon an enlarged scale, of one of the said clips and
Figure 1 is a front elevation thereof.
Figure 14 is a vertical section of Figure 13 upon the dotted line
Figures 15 and 16 represents a plan and an elevation of the said clip with
the rubber band extensions thereof laid out flat, and partaking somewhat of the
figure of an elongated and flattened letter Z
Figure 16 represents a plan and an edge view of one of the metallic fittings
of the clip, said fittings being of the same kind on each band.
In this arrangement, instead of the end fittings e, and f, being constructed to

page_text: engage in common with the bar of a single attachment loop, the double seated
rubber bearing block a, carries a double loop ended fitting 9, with the shank g',
embedded within the rubber, whilst the outer bars of the end loops g², g³, are
respectively engaged by the hooks e, f, of the metallic attachments e, and f,
which are secured to the rubber band extensions 6, 63, by turned over ears,³.
Figure 18 represents a cycle inflator attached to a framing member by a pair
of clips constructed according to another form of my invention.
Figure 19 is an end view of one of the said clips upon an enlarged scale and
Figure 20 is a vertical section of the same.
Figure 21 is a like view as Figure 19, but showing one of the rubber band
extensions of the double seated middle block unfastened.
Figure 22 is an elevation, Figure 23 a longitudinal vertical section and
Figure 24 a plan of the said clip with the band extensions thereof laid out flat.
Figure 25 is an elevation of the rubber part of the clip separately and
Figure 26 represents a plan and an edge view of one of the fastening attach-
ments of the said clip separately.
Thus, instead of employing, as in the previous arrangements, a bar or looped
frames upon an end or the ends of the middle bearing block, with hook attach-
ments of the encircling bands engaging therewith, I propose in the arrangement
Figures 18 to 26, to employ a neck stud g, at one end of the block a, with the
rubber of the said block moulded around the shank g', of the stud, whilst the
loose terminal ends of the embracing bands 1, 2, are provided with rings, loops
or eyes e, f, attached by ears el. f, and adapted to be engaged over the said stud
for securing up the loose ends of the said bands the rubber of which may, (both
in this and the previously described forms) be extended beyond the said turned-
over ears e, f, into transverse enlargements or thickening ribs, which when
the bands have been passed around the pump or tube member, come against the
edges of the block and form buffers or cushions for the parts embraced and
prevent scratching.
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
First; A cycle inflator attachment clip consisting of a divisional or double
seated hearing block made of elastic material and having upon one end, integral
free ended bands or strap members, suitably fitted at their outer ends with con-
nections which fasten onto a fitting of the said middle block, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 10 and 18 to 26.
Secondly In cycle inflator attachment clips, the combination with a double
seated bearing block made of clastic material, and having integral band exten-
sions proceeding in opposite directions from one end thereof, of an embedded
connection loop, frame. bar, or stud, with which hook or eye end fittings of the
said bands engage, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 10
and 18 to 26.
Thirdly-In cycle inflator attachment clips, the combination with a double
seated bearing block made of elastic material, and having integral band exten-
sions proceeding respectively from the opposite ends thereof, of an embedded
bar or equivalent having extended ends with which the end fittings of the said
bands engage, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 11 to 17.
Bated this TOU
MY OF AMYUNG TORZO.
UHS
CHARLES THOMAS BROCK SANGSTER,
By Heury Skerreti
24, Temple Row, Birmingham. Agent for Applicant.