Cycle Steering Look.
Year: 1894

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Cycle Steering Look.
ALEXANDER SPAUL 28 Castle Hill Norwich Cycle Maker. I do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows.-
I insert inside the ball head a band clip. The steering post of the front forks
passes through this band clip, when the machine is put together. My band clip
can be tightened by a screw or other wise when required & will fix the head in any
& every position. The fastening only being visible, the locking of the head being
caused by the band firmly clipping the steering post when tightened. The band
clip can be put at any part of the ball head & the fastening can be brought through
the frame luggs or any part of ball head tube.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1894
1, ALEXANDER SPAUL of 28 Castle Hill, Norwich, in the County of Norfolk,
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 will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings in which
Figure 1 is an outside view of part of the framing showing as much of the
invention as appears outside.
and
Figure 2 is a similar view, but partly in section showing the interior application,
Figure 3 is a view of the fastener itself.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
The object of this invention is a head or steering lock for cycles, for the purpose
of preventing the movement of the steering head when it is desired to lix it as
for example in the case of a safety bicycle when the machine is placed against a
wall In carrying out the invention I employ a device ench as illustrated in
Figure 3 of the accompanying drawings, consisting of a flexible band A preferably
of metal to which is jointed at A' a screw B passing through an opening A' in
the other end of the band A and carrying outside the band a wing or other nut C.
The pivot may be formed in any desired manner as for example by dividing the
end of the band A so as to form jaws and bending the ends over so as to embrace
the pivot upon A which may either pass through a hole in the screw B or may
be projections extending upon cach side froin that screw. Similarly the opening
In the other end of the band may be provided in any convenient manner, but ne
shown in the drawing the arrangement is substantially the same as for the end A'.
In applying this invention to cycles I place the band as illustrated in Figure 2
of the drawings around the shank D of the movable member or fork which carries

page_text: the steering wheel and bring the screw B through a hole in the fixed member or
lug E at the top of the steering head F or portion of the frame of the machine
though which the steering tube D passes. However, I may apply the invention
at any other convenient part if preferred. I find the lug E a convement place to
apply it as there is in that Jug space in which the band can he and expand when
the nut is relaxed sufficiently to prevent it interfering with the fice steering of the
machine, the natural tendency of the band A being to expand so that it may only
grip the tube D when purposely contiacted upon it by screwing up of the nut C.
With this aangement it will be observed that there is only one small hole in
the lug E no other portion of the machine being interfered with and that the only
visible part of the apparatus is the nut C and a small washer it that be used.
Modifications may be made without departing from the spit of the invention,
and means other than the screw and nut described might be employed for con-
tacting the band upon the movable member, and so long as they effected this
purpose and connected the band with the fixed member that would be comprised
within the scope of this invention, for example, one end of the band might be
fastened inside the lug E or tube F and the band contracted by means of a screw
and nut or other device without passing though the other end of the band Or
again, one end of the band might be formed itself into the screw, or a screwed
wire or the like might be igidly connected instead of being jointed to the band
however, I find the invention as above described to give excellent results and I
believe that to be the best way of carrying it into effect
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
on and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is
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1. Locking or fixing the steering head of a cycle by means of a band passing
1ound the movable member inside the fixed member and connected with the latter.
2. A steeg head lock for cycles comprising a flexible band sun:ounding
the movable member a screw jointed to one end of the band passing through the
other end of the band and also through a hole in the fixed member and a nut
screwing upon the screw for tightening up the band substantially as described.
3. The combination with the lug E of the steering head or fixed member of a
cycle of a band such as A inside it for the purpose of locking the stcening fork on
movable member.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete head
or steen ng lock for cycles substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying diawings.
Dated this 26th day of August 1895.
ALEXANDER SPAUL.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.