Improvements in or relating to Cycle Mud Guards and Dress Guards.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 7th Oot., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cycle Mud Guards and Dress Guards.
We, THOMAS MORTON SCHOFIELD, of 113, Sussex Road, Southport, Engineer,
and GEORGE CRAVEN SCHOFIELD, of 45, Tithebarn Road, Southport, Engineer, do'
hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates chiefly to mud-guards as used with cycles and has for
its object to provide simple and efficient means whereby a mud-guard may be
expeditiously applied to or removed from the wheel of a cycle, and a further
object is to produce a mud-guard which when detached from the cycle will be
capable of lying in small compass, or of being readily stowed away.
A further object of my invention is to facilitate the lacing of the mud guard,
as used in ladies machines.
Upon one extremity of the mud guard of the rear wheel I fix a projection and
upon the bottom bracket of the machine a socket or cavity into which the said
projections fit and which is secured therein by a set screw or clamp. I provide a
similar projection along the length of the mud guard designed to engage with
a socket held between the mud guard stays. To the ends of the back mud guard
stays and upon the axle of the wheel or machine frame I fix similar projections
and sockets.
In each case the projection is held by set screw or clamp. Upon the front
wheel mud guard and its stays I also provide similar devices, and thus allow for
the ready fixing or removal thereof The sockets may be upon the guards and
the projections on the fixed parts and each may have a slight taper.
Instead of lacing the dress guard over the edges of the mud guard I provide rings
or loops lying beneath the respective edge of the guards secured by pins, rivets
or other fastenings. To allow of the convenient folding up of the mud guards
when not in use I form the same in sections and connect them by a swivel pin.
To further assist in securing the mud guards I make them of spring metal or
yielding material and of such proportions that with the projections engaging
with the sockets the elasticity of the mud guards will serve to hold them tightly
in position whether the screws are used or not.
Dated this 11th day of November 1898.
THOMAS MORTON SCHOFIELD.
GEORGE CRAVEN SCHOFIELD.
By John G. Wilson & Co.,
Agents.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Cycle Mud Guards and Dress Guards.
We, THOMAS MORTON SCHOFIELD, of 113, Sussex Road, Southport, Engineer,
and GEORGE CRAVEN SCHOFIELD, of 45, Tithebarn Road, Southport, Engineer, 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:
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Our invention relates chiefly to mud-guards as used with cycles and has for its
object first, to provide simple and efficient means whereby a mud-guard may be
expeditiously applied to or removed from the wheel of a cycle, and secondly, to
produce a mud-guard which when detached from the cycle will be capable of lying
in a small compass, or of being readily stowed away, and thirdly, to facilitato
the lacing of the dress guard as used in ladies machines.
Upon one extremity of the mud guard of the rear wheel we fix a projection and
upon the bottom bracket of the machine a socket or cavity into which the said
projection fits and which is secured therein by a set screw or like clamp. Along
the length of the mud guard we provide a similar projection designed to engage
with a socket held between the mud guard stays. To the ends of the mud-guard
stays and upon the axles of the wheel or upon the machine frame we fix similar
projections and sockets.
In each case the projection is held by a set screw or clamp. Upon the front
wheel mud guard and its stays we also provide similar devices and thus allow
for the ready fixing or removal thereof. The sockets may be upon the guards,
and the projections on the fixed parts, and each may have a slight taper.
Instead of lacing the dress guard over the edges of the mud guard we provide
snugs or hooks lying beneath the respective edges of the guard, secured by pins,
rivets or other fastenings. To allow for the convenient folding up of the mud
guards when not in use we form the same in sections and connect the sections by
a swivel pin.
To further assist in securing the mud guards we make them of spring metal or
yielding material, and of such proportions that with the projections engaging
with the sockets the elasticity of the mud-guards will serve to hold them tightly
in position whether the screws are used or not.
And in order that our said invention may be more readily understood we have
hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings and will now proceed to describe the various
letters and figures of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a side view of one of the projections, and Fig. 2 a side view of one
of the sockets. These latter are, by preference, fixed in the machine frame or
wheel axles, and the former upon the mud guard or its stay rods.
Each socket is provided with a set screw by which the projection is tightly
held when requiring to securely hold the mud-guard in position.
Fig. 3 shews an alternative form of the projection, composed of a wire rod
attached to the mud guard at one end and at the other end bent to enter the
socket and engage with the point of the set screw when the latter is screwed in.
Fig. 4 shews an end view of the socket.
The projection is, by preference, made of a piece of thin sheet metal bent to
readily engage with the socket, and by its elasticity tend to bind upon the interior
of the socket, and thus assist in fixing the guard until firmly secured by the set
screw or clamp.
Figs. and 5 shew one of the sockets with a
"
shoe-horn extension for the
purpose of guiding the projection on the mud guard into the mouth of the socket.

page_text: Such socket is more particularly useful for attachment to the bottom bracket of
the machine and in conjunction with the mud guard of the rear wheel, where the
projection is difficult to manipulate.
Fig. 6 shews a side view, and Fig. 7 a transverse section of a mud-guard with
our improved arrangement for enabling the cords of the dress-guard to be laced
thereto without overlying the edges of the mud guard. Fig. 8 illustrates a
modification.
Fig. 9 shews the mud and dress guard with connecting tongues complete.
Along each edge of the mud guard we provide a series of hooks engaging at
one end with a wire in the edge of the mud guard and at the other with the lacing
of the dress guard (see Figs. 6 and 7) or we provide a series of staples passing
through the edge of the mud guard, and provided with small rings to which the
dress guard is laced, in each arrangement the dress guard lying below the edge
of the mud guard and consequently protected from abrasion by contact with the
frame of the machine.
Figs. 10 and 11 shews the joint we use with the mud guard when made in halves
or sections.
The mud guard is made of thin flexible material and is of flat cross-section,
and the two parts are joined by a pin or nut on which they may fold and to which
one of the projections aforesaid is connected, so that when in use the joint is
prevented folding by the projection and its socket.
Whilst chiefly described as applied to mud guards the projections and sockets
may also be applied to gear cases (i.e., mud guards for protecting the gearing) for
connecting the parts of such cases together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
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1: In means for securing mud-guards to cycles, the combination of projec-
tions, sockets, set screws or clamps, mounted and operating as set forth.
2: Cycle mud-guards in combination with hooks or staples and rings secured
to the edges of the mud-guards, as and for the purposes set forth.
3: A mud guard formed of flexible material and in sections connected by pivot
or stud carrying a projection or socket, as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 12th day of August 1899.
THOMAS MORTON SCHOFIELD.
GEORGE CRAVEN SCHOFIELD.
By John G. Wilson & Co.,
Agents.