Improved Means or Appliances for Supporting and Holding Cycles in Railway Vehicles or elsewhere.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improved Means or Appliances for Supporting and Holding Cycles in
Railway Vehicles or elsewhere.
I, DAVID BAIN, of Glen Roy, East Parade, Harrogate, in the County of York,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My present invention has for object the provision of simple means whereby
cycles, and especially bicycles, may be conveniently and safely supported and
held, either in a vehicle for transport or in a room or other place for storage.
Means for these purposes are described and claimed in the Specifications of
my prior Patents No. 26511 and No. 28772, both of the year 1896, and devices
such as I will hereinafter describe may, in some cases, be conveniently and
advantageously employed in conjunction with devices such as referred to in
the specifications of my said previous patents.
According to this invention, the cycle to be carried or stored is supported or
held, either wholly or as to one of its ends, by means of a suspending device (or
suspending devices) which (or each of which) comprises a carrier or holder whose
internal form is approximately that of the letter U, with the sides gradually
approaching one another towards the bottom so as to afford a seating and lateral
support to cycle frames or back-bones of different diameters or thicknesses, and
which carrier or holder, in one construction, resembles a hook.
It is or may be lined or covered with leather or other suitable material, to
prevent its scratching or otherwise injuring the cycle supported.
The carrier or holder is connected at one end by means of a flexible connection,
which may be a chain, to the roof of the vehicle or room or place (or it may be to
a beam or equivalent) so that the flexible connection may hang down with the
carrier or holder suspended to its lower end; the other end of the carrier or
holder has formed with or fixed to it a rod whose free end is adapted to be remove-
ably connected (it may conveniently be by a hook and eye connection) to the roof
or beam.
The arrangement is such that the rod can be passed under the back-bone or
other convenient part of a cycle frame, so as to bring the carrier or holder under
the desired part of the frame, and then if the carrier or holder and the cycle be
raised, the free end of the rod can be hooked or secured to the roof or beam,
and thus the corresponding end of the cycle will be supported and held safely for
transport, or for storage, as the case may be.
When both ends of the cycle are not to be so supported, I provide a suitable
support or supports for the one end.
I sometimes provide in conjunction with my above-described improved means,
channelled arms adapted, when not in use, to fold up out of the way against the

page_text: side or end of a vehicle or the wall of the building or a partition or post, and with
or without means for laterally supporting cycles.
This invention may be carried out in various forms.
Improved Means or Appliances for Supporting and Holding Cycles in
Railway Vehicles or elsewhere.
I, DAVID BAIN, of Glen Roy, East Parade, Harrogate, in the County of York,
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:-
My present invention has for object the provision of simple means whereby
cycles, and especially bicycles, may be conveniently and safely supported and
held, either in a vehicle for transport or in a room or other place for storage.
Means for these purposes are described and claimed in the Specifications of
my prior Patents No. 26511 and No. 28772, both of the year 1896, and devices
such as I will hereinafter describe may, in some cases, be conveniently and
advantageously employed in conjunction with devices such as referred to in
the specifications of my said previous Patents.
According to this invention, the cycle to be carried or stored is supported or
held, either wholly or as to one of its ends, by means of a suspending device (or
suspending devices) which (or each of which) is constructed as I shall now
describe with reference to the accompanying illustrative drawings wherein Figs. 1
and 2 are elevations at right angles to each other showing one of such suspending
devices and Figs. 3 and 4 are longitudinal and transverse sections respectively of
a portion of a vehicle showing the improved suspending device illustrated in
Figs. 1 and 2 employed in conjunction with channelled arms such as are referred
to in the specifications of my said prior patents.
The improved suspending device comprises a carrier or holder 1 whose internal
form is approximately that of the letter U, with the sides gradually approaching
one another towards the bottom so as to afford a seating and lateral support to
cycle frames or back-bones of different diameters or thicknesses, and which carrier
or holder, in the construction illustrated, resembles a hook. It is or may be
covered with leather 2 or other suitable material, to prevent its scratching or
otherwise injuring the supported cycle. The said carrier or holder 1 is connected
at one end by means of a flexible connection 3, which may be a chain as shown,
to or near to the roof 4 of the vehicle or room, or other place in which the cycle
is to be stored, (or it may be to a beam or equivalent) so that the said flexible
connection can, when desired, hang down with the carrier or holder 1 suspended
from its lower end, The connection between the chain and roof or equivalent may
be effected by any suitable means such as by a hook 3" on the one engaging an
eye 3b on the other. The other end of the carrier or holder has formed with or
fixed to it a rod 1° whose free end 1b is adapted to be removably connected (it
may conveniently be by a hook and eye connection) to the roof or beam, the said
free end being formed for this purpose, in the example shown, with hook for engage-
ment with an eye 1°.
As will be seen, the arrangement is such that the rod 1ª can be passed under

page_text: the back-bone or other convenient part of a cycle frame A (Figs. 2 and 3) so as
to bring the carrier or holder 1 under the desired part of the frame, and then if
the carrier or holder and the cycle be raised, the free end 1 of the rod 1ª can be
hooked or secured to the roof or beam, and thus the corresponding end of the cycle
will be supported and held safely for transport, or for storage, as the case may be,
The other end of the cycle may be similarly supported.
When both ends of the cycle are not to be so supported, I provide a suitable
support or supports for the one end. For this purpose I sometimes provide in
conjunction with my above-described improved means, channelled arms adapted,
when not in use, to fold up out of the way against the side or end of a vehicle or
the wall of the building, or a partition or post, and with or without means for
laterally supporting cycles. Figs. 3 and 4 show an arrangement of this kind
wherein 5 is a curved support or channelled arm pivoted at 6 to a partition 7 which
is shown as hinged at 8, 8 Fig. 4 to a post 9 so that it can be folded back against the
side of the vehicle when not in use." 10 is another curved support or channelled
arm, or it may be a couple of connected arms or a bifurcated arm, pivoted at 10"
and serving to prevent the machine from falling over, the said arm 10 and the
support 5 being capable of being folded against the partition when not in use as
described in my said former specifications. 11 is a seating to aid in holding the
machine in place.
It will be obvious that suspending devices according to this invention can be con-
structed in various forms; also that such suspending devices may be employed in
conjunction with supporting devices such as referred to in my said former specifi-
cations other than that shown in and described with reference to Figs. 3 and 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A suspending device for supporting and holding a cycle in a railway vehicle
or elsewhere, comprising a carrier or holder whose internal form is approximately
that of the letter U with the sides gradually approaching one another towards the
bottom so as to afford a seating and lateral support to cycle frames or back-bones of
different diameters or thicknesses, a flexible connection attached to one end of the
said carrier or holder and whereby it can be suspended from a roof, beam or
equivalent, and a rod formed in one with or attached to the other end of the carrier
or holder and having is free end adapted to be removably connected to the
roof, beam or equivalent, substantially as herein before described.
2. The construction and use as hereinbefore described with reference to and shown
in the drawings annexed of suspending devices for supporting and holding cycles
in a railway vehicle or elsewhere, whether or not there be used in conjunction
therewith, devices of one or other of the kind described in the Specifications of
Patents No. 26511 and No. 28772 both of the year 1896, for holding and supporting
one or more of the wheels of such cycles as set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1898
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.