Improvements in Apparatus for use in Learning Cycle Riding, and in Home Trainers.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2010 mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1897-Accepted, 12th Feb., 1898
Date of Application, 2310 mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1897-Accepted, 12th Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for use in Learning Cycle Riding, and in
Home Trainers.
I, FRIEDRICHI WILHELM LOUIS HERMANN BRAUNE, of No. 12, Steindamm, in the
City of Hamburg, in the German Empire, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for use in learning cycle
riding and in home trainers, and which may be employed particularly at such
places where there is not sufficient space for cycling in the ordinary manner.
My improved apparatus mainly consists of a suitable frame in which are
journalled a suitable distance apart, two drums or cylinders. Upon these drums is
placed the drill-or exercising-apparatus, for instance, a bicycle in such a manner
that the wheels of the latter rest each upon one of the said drums. Against cap-
sizing or falling down laterally the bicycle may be secured or protected by chains
or the like laterally connecting the bicycle frame with the frame of the supporting
drums.
The rider uses the pedals of the bicycle as usual so that the rear wheel of the
bicycle is revolved by means of the driving chain. The revolution of the rear
wheel thus effected is imparted by friction to the rear supporting
drum which latter in its turn transmits its motion by means of a suit-
able transmitting gear to the fore or front supporting drum. The latter revolves
by friction the front wheel of the bicycle, so that both the bicycle wheels are turned
around as in ordinary cycling but on stationary supporting drums revolving
accordingly.
In some cases I, moreover may stretch over the two supporting drums an endless
belt or the like so as to form a movable platform on which the bicycle appears to be
driven along; in reality, however, the bicycle remains stationary, only its wheels
and the supporting surface being moving or revolving.
According to progress made in cycling by the rider the connecting chains pre-
venting the bicycle from falling down may be more or less loosened.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1897
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for use in Learning Cycle Riding, and in
Home Trainers.
I, FRIEDRICH WILHELM LOUIS HERMANN BRAUNE, of No. 12, Steindamm, in the
City of Hamburg, in the German Empire, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature
Price 88T
Improvements in Apparatus for use in Learning Cycle Riding, and in
Home Trainers.
I, FRIEDRICH WILHELM LOUIS HERMANN BRAUNE, of No. 12, Steindamm, in the
City of Hamburg, in the German Empire, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature
Price 871

page_text: of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for use in learning cycle
riding and in home trainers, and which may be employed particularly at such
places where there is not sufficient space for cycling in the ordinary manner.
In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention.
Figure 1 is a side-and Figure 2 an end elevation of the improved apparatus.
My improved apparatus mainly consists of a suitable frame in which are
journalled a suitable distance apart, two drums or cylinders a¹ and a². Upon these
drums is placed the drill-or exercising-apparatus, for instance a bicycle, in such
a manner that the wheels b', 62 of the latter rest each upon one of the said drums.
Against capsizing or falling down laterally the bicycle may be secured or pro-
tected by chains k or the like laterally connecting the bicycle frame with the frame
of the supporting drums.
The rider uses the pedals of the bicycle as usual so that the rear wheel of the
bicycle is revolved by means of the driving chain c. The revolution of the rear
wheel 2 thus effected is imparted by friction to the rear supporting drum a² which
latter in its turn transmits its motion by means of a suitable transmitting gear such
as a chain d to the fore or front supporting drum a¹. The latter revolves by
friction the front wheel b¹ of the bicycle, so that both the bicycle wheels are turned
around as in ordinary cycling but on stationary supporting drums revolving
accordingly.
In some cases I, however, stretch over the two supporting drums an endless belt
or the like so as to form a movable platform on which the bicycle appears to be
driven along; in reality, however, the bicycle remains stationary, only its wheels
and the supporting surface being moving or revolving.
According to progress made in cycling by the rider the connecting chains pre-
venting the bicycle from falling down may be more or less loosened.
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:-
:-
An improved apparatus for use in learning cycle riding consisting of two suitably
journalled drums or cylinders connected by a transmitting gear or the like and
adapted to form a stationary but rotatable support for the wheels of a cycle placed
thereon substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dotad this 23rd day of December 1897
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
1. No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.