Improvements in and connected with Brackets for Bicycle Lamps and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th 'Dec., 1896-Accepted, 6th Mar., 1897
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM OTTERBEIN GOTTWALS, Manufacturer,
of 3636 Thirteenth Street, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
of America.]
Improvements in and connected with Brackets for Bicycle Lamps
and the like.
I, WILLIAM HENRY BECK, of 115 Cannon Street, London, Chartered. Patent
Agent, 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 brackets especially adapted for the support of bicycle.
lamps. It is necessary for convenience that such brackets should be adapted to
be removably clamped upon the frame of the bicycle, or other support; also.that.
they, have capacity for adjustment in, various directions, so as to direct the light
upon the road in front of the wheel, or otherwise as may be preferred.
By my improvements these advantages are fully realized, and by a construction.
which is extremely simple.and economical both of material and labor.
The invention consiste in the parts and combinations thereof hereinafter set forth
and claimed.
In order to make the invention more.clearly, understood there are shown, in the
accompanying drawings.means for carrying it into practical effect, without thereby
limiting the improvements, in their useful applications, to the particular construction
which, for the sake of illustration, has been delineated..
In said drawings:
'
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bracket, for bicycle lamps. and other
purposes, embodying my invention..
Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the swivel detached.
Figure 4 is a similar view of a part of the clamp.
Referring to the drawings, A indicates the clamp, shown as attached to a
support B such as one of the front forks of a bicycle.
C is the swivel, adapted to be held in the clamp, and D the bracket proper
held in the swivel and adapted to carry a lamp of any usual construction.
The clamp A is formed with grasping jaws 1 adapted to hold the support, and
which may be balf-round to fit the handle bar or other round frame piece or
support, or may be shaped as shown so as to be more especially adapted to grasp
the front fork. The jaws are provided with means whereby they may be forced
or compressed towards each other and firmly upon the support. While my
improvements are not confined to the use of any particular means for this purpose,
I prefer that shown, cousisting of a bolt 2 passed through apertures 3 in the clamp-
armis or jaws and having a head 4 and nut 5 on the outer sides of said arms. By
screwing up said nut the jaws may be compressed in a well known manner. At
their outer ends the parts of the clamp are formed with rounded flanges 6 within
which is held the swivel C. The latter is shaped to fit these flanges, as by being
formed with rounded lugs 7, and is also provided with a bearing adapted to receive
a part of the bracket proper. I prefer to make the swivel bearing compressible
by the same means as that which operates the clamp. To this end the swivel is

page_text: formed of elastic sheet metal having its portion which is intermediate of the lugs 7
bent to form a bearing 8 which is partly open at the side as shown at 9. By this
arrangement, when the nut 5 is operated to force the jaws together, the flanges 6
will at the same time be compressed upon the lugs 7 of the swivel, forcing said
lugs towards each other and contracting the bearing 8.
The bracket proper, D, is provided with a journal 10 which fits within the
bearing and is firmly grasped thereby when the same is contracted as above
described.
It will be observed that by my invention the bracket may be adjusted in any
necessary way. By turning the swivel in the clamp, before the latter is fully
compressed the light may be directed at an upward or downward angle or
horizontally; while by turning the journal 10 in the swivel the light may be
directed at any angle to the right or left or straight ahead. After these adjust-
ments are complete the nut may be further turned to firmly secure all of the said
parts in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed; I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A.bicycle-lamp bracket consisting of the combination of a clamp adapted to
grasp a support, such as a bicycle fork, a swivel also held between the parts of
the clamp, a lamp-holding bracket having a bearing in said swivel, and means for
compressing the clamp to hold said support and swivel.
2. A bicycle-lamp bracket consisting of the combination of a two-part clamp
adapted to grasp a support, a compressible swivel also held between the parts of
the clamp, an adjustable lamp holding bracket having a bearing between the parts
of said swivel, and means for compressing the clamp to hold' said support and to
hold and compress said swivel.
3. A bracket for bicycle-lamps and other purposes consisting of the combination
of a clamp having grasping means or jaws and rounded grasping 'flanges; a swivel
bent to form a bearing and having rounded ears adapted to fit within said 'Hangos,
a bracket having a journal fitting in:said bearing, and means for compressing the
clamp to grasp a support and compress the swivel ou said journal.
Dated this 28th day of December 1896.
W. H. BECK,
115 Cannon Street, London, Applicant.