Improvements in or connected with Bicycle Supports or the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Bicycle Supports or the like.
I, HENRY KINNERSLY of 4 Sheep Street, Northampton, in the County of
Northamptonshire, Clothier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in or connected with bicycle supports
or the like, the object being to provide a reliable, simple, and efficient support
capable of being cheaply produced, and which can be easily secured to a wall
or the like for the purpose of supporting a velocipede in such, a manner as to
allow of the wheels being freely revolved, while the machine can be turned
from side to side so as to allow of ready access being had to all the parts for
cleaning purposes, repairs, or the like.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I take two lengths of wire each
of which is bent into the form of a bracket, having a looped or hooked portion
at the front thereof, while the free ends are each bent round at right angles so
as to engage with sockets hereinafter referred to or the brackets may be cast or
stamped metal. The looped or hooked portions of the brackets are covered with
rubber tubing or other suitable soft material and are designed to pass under the
top rail or tube or other parts of the frame of the machine for the purpose of
supporting it.
I further provide two pairs of sockets cast or formed together integrally in any
suitable manner, either in combination with a back or wall plate or in such a
manner as to be readily secured to a back or wall plate of suitable material, or
the said sockets may be attached to the wall direct, or to a suitable upright. Into
the top pair of sockets the upper free ends of the aforesaid two wire brackets are
passed, while the lower pair of sockets are designed to receive and accomodate
the lower free ends of said brackets, in such a manner that the latter are free to
turn from side to side, while in cases where it is desired to rigidly retain the
brackets in one fixed position I provide a suitably shaped piece of wire or the like
passing around the back plate of the support and furnished with two projecting
arms terminating in hooked or bent portions so as to engage with the aforesaid
brackets in order to prevent their turning.

page_text: I, HENRY KINNERSLY of 4, Sleep Street, Northampton, Northamptonshire,
Clothier, 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 improvements in or connected with bicycle supports
or the like, the object being to provide a reliable, simple and efficient support
capable of being cheaply produced, and which can be easily secured to a wall
upright or the like for the purpose of supporting a velocipede in such a manner as to
allow of the wheels being freely revolved, while the machine can be turned
from side to side so as to allow of ready access being had to all the parts for
cleaning purposes, repairs, or the like.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I take two lengths of wire each
of which is bent into the form of a bracket, having a looped or hooked portion
at the front thereof, while the free ends are each bent round at right angles so
as to engage with sockets hereinafter referred to or the brackets may be cast or
stamped metal. The looped or hooked portions of the brackets are covered with
rubber tubing or other suitable soft material and are designed to pass under the
'top rail or tube or other parts of the frame of the machine for the purpose of
supporting it.
I further provide two pairs of sockets cast or formed together integrally in any
suitable manner, either in combination with a back or wall plate or in such a
manner as to be readily secured to a back or wall plate of suitable material, or
the said sockets may be attached to the wall direct, or to a suitable upright: Into
the top pair of sockets the upper free ends of the aforesaid two wire brackets are
passed, while the lower pair of sockets are designed to receive and accomodate 2
the lower free ends of said brackets, in such a manner that the latter are free, to
turn from side to side, while in cases where it is desired to rigidly retain the
brackets in one fixed position I provide a suitably shaped piece of wire or, the like
passing around the back plate of the support and furnished with two projecting
arms terininating in hooked or bent portions so as to engage with the aforesaid 3
brackets in order to prevent their turning.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I will now proceed
to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1
is a side elevation of my improved cycle supporting bracket.
Fig. 2 a front elevation of said bracket.
Fig. 3 illustrates a front and side view of a detached socket, Fig. 4 being a cross
section on line. a, z of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a plan of a locking device for securing the arms of the bracket, and
Fig. 6 is a side view of same.
According to my invention I form two brackets of bent wire or other suitable 4
material and substantially of the shape shown, each bracket comprising essentially
a horizontal arm a terminating in a curved portion of hook h covered with india-
rubber or other suitable soft material i upon its upper surface to prevent the
enamel of the machine from being damaged.
The hooked portion of the arm is formed. of a double thickness of material
as shown, the continuation of the material or wire taking the form of a curved
strengthening arm or stay and terminating vertically below the horizontal
arm a. The ends of arm and strengthening stay bare both bent approximately
at right angles so as to form pins 7, each of which is designed to take into
one of a pair of double sockets s, s¹, either formed integrally with a suitable wall 5

page_text: plate wo or as a detached and separate piece (Fig. 3) designed to be screwed or
suitably secured in the required position upon a wall upright or the like.
Figs. 5 and 6 show a locking device designed to secure the brackets together
in such a manner that one cannot move independently of the other, said device
comprising a back member c designed to pass behind the wall plate w or socket s
Fig. 3 and having curved side arms d, the hooked ends f of which are designed
to clip over the arms a, a, of the brackets.
I claim for my improved supporting device that it can be cheaply produced,
that it is strong and not liable to readily get out of order and that it efficiently
fulfills the purpose for which it is intended.
The great strength of my improved cycle support is primarily due to the form
of bracket employed, but more particularly to the use of a double thickness of
material at the curved or hooked portion h, and to the arms or stay b, while the
method of supporting same in vertically arranged sockets is also conducive to
great strength.
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:-
1. The new or improved cycle support comprising essentially a pair of wire
or metal brackets having their ends formed in such a manner as to form pins P, P,
, p, and taking into double sockets s, s¹, arranged vertically above one another,
substantially as herein described and shown, and for the purposes specified.
2. In a cycle support having double sockets the use of a pair of brackets, each
comprising essentially a horizontal arm a, having a curved or hooked portion h
formed of a double thickness of material, a strengthening stay band pins ?, ?',
designed to take into the aforesaid sockets, substantially as herein described and
shown, and for the purposes specified.
3. In combination with a cycle support such as above claimed, the use of a
locking device substantially as herein described and shown with reference to Figs. 5
and 6 of the accompanying drawings, and for the purposes specified.
4. In a cycle support, the use of a pair of brackets each comprising essentially
horizontal arm having a curved or hooked portion formed of a double thickness
of material and a strengthening stay, substantially as set forth.
5. The improvements in or connected with cycle supports and the like, sub-
stantially as herein described and shown, and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 9th day of August 1897
F..G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.
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