Improved Means for Lighting Cycles, Motor Cars, Carriages and other. Vehicle
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 7th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan.,
1899
Improved Means for Lighting Cycles, Motor Cars, Carriages and
other. Vehicles:
EBENEZER BARNARD, Stour Cottage, Christchurch, Hants, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To accomplish the purpose of this invention I propose to utilize the whole, or
any part of the hollow tubes, of a bicycle, or other vehicle to contain the
machinery necessary for generating acetylene or other gas, or to manipulate the oil
or other illuminating agent used to obtain the light. The tubes or parts of them
or the whole may be used, or adapted to contain a suitable apparatus for gene-
rating or storing the acetylene or other gas or manipulating the oil or other
illuminating agent, or the tubes may form part & parcel of such apparatus or
machinery. The object to be attained being the production of a fine light either
in front at the sides at the rear or in any or all positions the source of which shall
be out of sight, & also to utilize the spaces & tubes & do away with some of the
extra weight unavoidable by the addition of a generator or light producer of the
usual kind.
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1000
Improved Means for Lighting Cycles, Mötor Cars, Carriages and
other Vehicles..
EBENEZER BARNARD, Stour Cottage, Christchurch, Hants, no occupation, 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;-
To accomplish the purposes of this invention I propose to utilise the whole or
any part of the hollow tubes of a bicycle or other vehicle to contain the
machinery necessary for generating acetylene or other gas, or to manipulate the oil
or other illuminating agents used to obtain the light.
The tubes may be used to contain a suitable apparatus for the above purposes
or may form part & parcel of such apparatus or machinery.
If I describe the way of its application to a bicycle other vehicles may be treated
much in the same way.
In most of the bicycles now in use an apparatus can be easily inserted in the

page_text: saddle post after the saddle with its pin is removed, possibly some riders would
not care for this trouble in which case the saddle pin should be hollow, & the holo
oftentimes laced up in the saddle itself left large enough to slip down the necessary
cartridge or tube into the post as in Fig. 1.
Another way I would cut a hole to be covered by a screw cap at the bottom of
the post as in Fig. 2, A & another at B, after having made a water tight joint
with a rubber ring & two discs of metal screwed together by a long key from the
top, one at C & another at D (& in order not to weaken the machine I would here
have this made of double thickness by putting a collar round the tube) I would
insert a cartridge of carbide contained in some flexible material paper or other-
wise having a metal end of a cone shape, which I would push up into a corre-
sponding shaped piece in the joint at E, screw down the cap & then pour a little
water by means of screw cap at B which passing down the small tube F attacks
the carbide & gas is generated & carried off by a small metal or rubber tube which
passing through the horizontal bar as shewn in Fig. 1 at G is carried outside
in a tiny ring of metal H round the head post to a burner where it can be lighted
up, or it may be carried in a a tiny tube of metal on the under side of the hori-
zontal bar as in Fig. 2 at I. In the tube F a piece of string might be inserted
to allow the water to trickle slowly to the carbide. Fig. contains a complete
generator at J gas is carried to burner as described through tube G. Another
way would be to utilise the handle bar, using the larger pieces which are grasped
by the hand as generating chambers or one as a generating chamber & the other
as a water container & by capillary attraction by means of a piece of string or
by a syphon arrangement with a tiny tube of rubber or metal the water would be
carried over to the carbide or I would place the carbide in the centre of the handle
bar & the water at the extremities.
In most of these ways the carbide might be inserted in the tube in the form of
a cartridge, which when spent the case might be withdrawn thrown away & a
fresh one put in.
Cycle makers are now making machines with tubes considerably larger than
heretofore which makes it very easy to adapt this means of lighting machines,
but these now described do not prevent my using any simple form of generator
such as dripping water on to the carbide or with the large tubes it would be easy
to adopt a rising & falling gasometer possibly of aluminum or gutta percha or
other such material & having plenty of room the gas might be passed through a
purifier before being consumed.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
The use of the tubes of a bicycle, motor car, or any other vehicle to contain suit-
able machinery or apparatus necessary to generate acetylene or other gas, or to
manipulate the oil or other illuminating agents used to obtain the light, I do not
confine myself only to modes described & illustrated here, as an up & down
gasometer a dripping device or any suitable means might be adopted but the use
of the tubes to contain the same or to form part & parcel of the apparatus is the