An Improved Mud-guard Attachment for Cycles and other Vehicles.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mud-guard Attachment for Cycles and other Vehicles.
We, HARRY ROBERT CANDELENT and JOSEPH RICHARD HUNT, both of 157
Hockley Hill, in the City of Birmingham, Cycle Components and Cycle
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of an improved mud-guard attach-
ment for cycles, motor cars and, like vehicles, our object being to produce a neat
and compact attachment permitting of the ready removal of the mud-guard when
not required, without risk of disturbing the bearings of the axle upon which the
lower end of the attachment is mounted.
In the application of our invention we employ wire or rod of small diameter
and of sufficient length to permit of its formation, by bending at or about its
centre, into a forked arm, the two ends being sufficiently divergent to permit of
their connection to the mud-guard at such positions as to effectually support the
same. The connection between the mud-guard and the wire attachment is formed
preferably by means of nuts screwed on the extremities of the wire.
The opposite end of the attachment is clamped or secured within a metallic
stem mounted upon the driving or other wheel axle, and by releasing a screw
and binding plate the complete mud-guard and its attachment can be readily
withdrawn from such stem. In like manner the mud-guard and its attachment
can be as readily secured in its position upon the machine.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any one form of bicycle or
other cycle or vehicle but adapt the same with such modifications as may be
necessary to the various types of such machines.
Dated this 93rd day of December 1896.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.
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We, HARRY ROBERT CANDELENT and JOSEPH RICHARD HUNT, both of 157
Hockley Hill, in the City of Birmingham, Cycle Components and Cycle
Manufacturers, 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 to the construction of an improved mud-guard attach-
ments for cycles, motor cars and like vehicles, our object being to produce a neat

page_text: and compact attachment permitting of the ready removal of the mud-guard when
not required, without risk of disturbing the bearings of the axle upon which the
lower end of the attachment is mounted.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to,-
Figure 1 represents a mud-guard with its supporting arm secured within the
attachment stem.
Figure 2 is a reverse elevation and Figure 3 a plan, illustrating to a larger
scale, the connection of the lower end of the supporting arm to the attachment
stem.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In the application of our invention we employ a wire or rod of small diameter
and of sufficient length to permit of its formation, by bending at or about its
centre into a forked arm A, the two ends being sufficiently divergent to permit of
their connection to the mud-guard B at such positions as to effectually support
the same. The connection between the mud-guard B and the 'forked arm A is
formed preferably by means of nuts screwed on the extremities of the wire.
The opposite end or fork end of the arm is clamped or secured within a metallic
stem C mounted upon the driving or other wheel axle, and by releasing the
screw D the binding nut or plate E can be detached and the complete mud-guard B
and its forked arm A readily withdrawn from the stem .C. In like manner the
mud-guard and its forked arm can be as readily secured in its position upon the
machine.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any one form of bicycle or
other cycle or vehicle but adapt the same with such modifications as may be
necessary to the various types of such machines.
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
v claim is.
1. An improved mud-guard attachment for cycles and other vehicles,
substantially as described.
2. The combination with a mud-guard as B of a cycle or other vehicle wheel,
of the arm A detachably secured to the stem C, substantially as and for the
purposes described and as illustrated.
Dated this 28th day of Mov 1897
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.