Improvements in Combined Mud and Dress Guards for Bicycles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Mud and Dress Guards for Bicycles.
ROBERT WILLIAM HEARNDEN, 18, Gabriel's Hill, Maidstone, Kent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
1
This invention relates to a combined mud and dress guard intended for the
rear wheel of a ladies bicycle and has for its object, an easy means of attaching
the guard to and detaching the same from the machine, without the aid of tools.
The improvements consist in furnishing an ordinary mudguard of steel, wood,
celluloid of any rigid material having horizontal and vertical stays-forming
a rigid frame for the usual lacing with (a) a split pin on a plate rivetted to the
mud-guard which fits into a hole or socket in the bridge or crosspiece, between
the backstays; (b) a suitable slotted clip-fixed to the guard--to clasp the cross
piece between the back forks; (c) a bolt or screw with thumb nut fitted to this
cross piece to cramp the clip (6) and hold the guard firmly in position; (d) two
spring clips one fitted to each back fork,-to receive the stays of the guard to
prevent noise or rattling between the stays and back forks.
For lacing the guard I employ (E) four open coiled ring hooks fixed to the
stays of the guard and (f) hooks or wires fixed to the under edges of the mud-
guard-placed at regular distances and invisable from the top.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1898.
Improvements in Combined Mud and Dress Guards for Bicycles.
ROBERT WILLIAM HEARNDEN, 18, Gabriel's Hill, Maidstone, Kent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:
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My invention has reference to improvements in mudguards and dress guards,—
having for its object-a quick and easy means of fixing same to and detaching
from, the bicycle, without the aid of tools.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I append the accom-
panying sheet of drawings:-
M Fig. 1, represents an ordinary mudguard, which may be of steel, wood,
celluloid, or any stiff material, with horizontal and vertical stays S, bent to suit
any peculiarity of the frame of the bicycle.
A Figs. 1 and 2 represents a metal pin on plate rivetted or otherwise fixed to

page_text: the mudguard, the pin is split and sprung to fit comfortably the socket A¹ Fig. 3.
The socket A¹ is fitted to a hole drilled in the bridge between the back stays of
the machine and fixed by means of a nut.
A metal clip B is also fixed to the guard and slotted to pass the screw pin C
fixed in the bridge between the back forks as shewn in Figs. and 4; C represents
a thumb screw for the purpose of binding the clip B to the bridge, when in position,
as shewn in Fig. 1.
Two clips Fig. 5 are fitted to the back forks the said clips having parts adapted
to encircle and so be affixed to the forks and other spring parts to receive the stays
of the guard, for the purpose of preventing chattering or noise between the forks
and stays and shewn in position Fig. 1, D.
For the lacing of the guard I employ four open coiled ring hooks Fig. 1, E, one
fitted on either side of the vertical stays on each of the horizontal stays, and
hooks or wires F fixed to the under edges of the mudguard. The lacing is carried
alternately from hooks E to F.
То
The method of attachment and detachment is as follows,-that is to say: -
When the guard is required to be removed for cleaning or other purposes-the
thumb nut C is released and the guard is drawn away from the machine.
refix, the operation is reversed-the guard is pushed forward until the pin A enters
the socket A and the clip B clasps the bridge of the back forks, the stays at the
same time falling into the clips D-the screw nut C¹ is then closed down and
fixes the whole firmly to the machine.
Having now particularly described the nature of my invention_and
in what manner the same is performed, I wish it to be understood that I am
aware various devices have hitherto been introduced in connection with mud-
guards and dressguards to which I make no claim but I declare that what I do
claim is:-
1. An improved and novel construction wherby mud-dress guards can be fixed
to and detached from the bicycle without the aid of tools, as in the adaptation of
devices A, A¹ B C C and D) substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.
2. An improved method of lacing the said guard by the adaptation of devices E
and F, substantially as set forth herein.
Dated this 10th day of June 1898