Improved Clip for Carrying Light Articles, such as Inflators, Walking Sticks, or the like, upon Oycles, Motor Cars, and other Light Carriages.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1906
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Clip for Carrying Light Articles, such as Inflators, Walking
Sticks, or the like, upon Oycles, Motor Cars, and other Light
Carriages.
I, JAMES KIRBY of 1 Broadgate, Lincoln, in the County of Lincoln, Cycle
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an improved clip for carrying light articles such as
inflators, walking sticks, or the like, upon cycles, motor cars, and other light
carriages, its object being to provide perfect security and ease of attachment,
combined with cheapness, durability and freedom from rattling or damage to the
tubes or bars to which it may be attached.
In carrying out my invention, I take a narrow strip of thin rubber, suitably
strengthened by canvas if desired, and of sufficient length to pass easily around
both the tube forming part of the cycle or other carriage and the inflator or other
article which is to be held thereon. I also provide a block of indiarubber, ebonite,
felt, wood, or other suitable material (covered if necessary with some soft substance)
and arch shaped at its top and bottom, so as to correspond more or less to the
contour of the tube and the inflator or other article respectively. I attach said
block to the strip aforesaid by means of a headed pin passing right through the
same from side to side, projecting slightly at the other end and provided with a
thread over which is passed a washer and a screwed button or stud. The two ends
of the strip are provided with button holes or eyelets, strengthened in any convenient
way, and the clip is now ready for use in the following manner.
The block aforesaid is laid against the particular tube or bar on which the article
is to be held, and the end of the strip is passed and stretched around said tube or
bar and fastened by means of the eyelet or button hole passing over the stud on the
opposite side of the block. A second clip may also be attached in a like manner,
each being so arranged that the strip is in tension when in position, thus ensuring
its being held firmly. The article, such as a pump or inflator, has now ouly to be
applied to the blocks and the other or free ends of the clips stretched or drawn
round same and secured in a similar manner by means of the eyelet and stud, when
the article will have thus been firmly fixed in position.
I may provide several eyelets upon each strip if desired, for use upon tubes or
articles of varying sizes and diameters, and in any case, the clip can be fastened or
unfastened in a moment or two, and when detached can be conveniently carried in
the wallet or pocket.
In some cases, I may prefer to employ a hook or hooks in place of the stud
before mentioned or other equivalent fastening devices may be used.
Dated this 25th day of November 1896.
STANLEY, POPPLEWELL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: as A attached at or near its centre to a doubly arched block such as E by means
of a headed pin such as F having a button screwed on its projecting end such
as H, as and for the purpose hereinbefore described with reference to the accom-
panying sheet of drawings.
2. The clip or fastener arranged and constructed substantially as hereinbefore
described (or any mere equivalent thereof) and as illustrated by the accompanying.
drawings.
Dated this 11th dow of January 1907
STANLEY, POPPLEWELL & Co.,
7 & 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London,
Chartered Patent Agents.