Improvements in connection with the Frames of Velocipedes and in the Manufacture of the same.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1898--Accepted, 21st Jan., 1899
Improvements in connection with the Frames of Velocipedes
and in the Manufacture of the same.
I, HENRY PARSONS, of 27, George Street, Lozells, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in connection with velocipedes
and in the manufacture of the same by which I am enabled to easily and quickly
convert a lady's safety into a gentleman's machine or vice versa.
In carrying my invention into practice I may form the top ball head or steering
socket lug with a double socket, one above the other. The top socket receives
one end of a detachable member and this end of the member is secured into
the socket by a nut and bolt or their equivalent. Or, instead of forming the
top ball head lug with a double socket, I may attach a lug to the said end of my
detachable member and provide it with two ears or projections by which it
may be attached to the ordinary top ball head lug by a nut and bolt car their
equivalent. The other end of this detachable member is fixed into one of the
sockets of a seat pillar lug in the ordinary manner. The other socket of this
seat pillar lug has a short piece of tube fixed into it, and this short piece of
tube fits onto or into the socket of the seat pillar lug of a lady's frame, which
latter lug is connected to the upper end of the tube fitting into the bottom
bracket. The upper back stays of the frame also are connected to this latter
lug in the ordinary manner. The lower socket on the top ball head lug receives
one end of the tube which passes down to a hug fixed at the bottom of the seat
pillar tube in the ordinary pattern of a lady's frame.
The seat pillar passes down the lug at the rear end of the detachable top
tube, down the short piece of tube and into the lug to which the upper back
stays are connected. It will thus be readily understood that by disconnecting
the top tube the machine is instantly converted into a lady's safety. The short
piece of tube which is fixed into the seat pillar lug connected to the top tube
enables this latter tube to be set parallel to the ground when the machine is
used as a gentleman's safety.
G. DOUGLAS LEECHMAN,
18, Hertford Street, Coventry, 75, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., and
9, Exchange Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in connection with the Frames of Velocipedes
and in the Manufacture of the same.
I, HENRY PARSONS, of 27, George Street, Lozells, Birmingham, Engineor
o hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object improvements in connection with velocipedes
and in the manufacture of the same by which I am enabled to easily and quickly
convert a lady's safety into a gentleman's machine or vice versa.
In carrying my invention into practice I may form the top ball head or steering
socket lug with a double socket, one above the other. The top socket receives
one end of a detachable member and this end of the member is secured into
the socket by a nut and bolt or their equivalent. Or, instead of forming the
top ball head lug with a double socket, I may attach a lug to the said end of my
detachable member and provide it with two ears or projections by which it
may be attached to the ordinary top ball head lug by a nut and bolt or their
equivalent. The other end of this detachable member is fixed into one of the
sockets of a seat pillar lug in the ordinary manner. The other socket of this
seat pillar lug has a short piece of tube fixed into it, and this short piece of
tube fits onto or into the socket of the seat pillar lug of a lady's frame, which
latter lug is connected to the upper end of the tube fitting into the bottom
bracket. The upper back stays of the frame also are connected to this latter
lug in the ordinary manner. The lower socket on the top ball head lug receives
one end of the tube which passes down to a lug fixed at the bottom of the seat
pillar tube in the ordinary pattern of a lady's frame.
The seat pillar passes down the lug at the rear end of the detachable top
tube, down the short piece of tube and into the lug to which the upper back
stays are connected. It will thus be readily understood that by disconnecting
the top tube the machine is instantly converted into a lady's safety. The short
piece of tube which is fixed into the seat pillar lug connected to the top tubo
enables this latter tube to be set parallel to the ground when the machine is
used as a gentleman's safety.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I
have illustrated examples of my improvements.
Figure 1 shews the upper portion of the frame of a lady's cycle with my
improvements applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a similar view to Figure 1 shewing a slight modification of my
improvements.
Figure 3 shews the member D as shown at Figure 1 but detached.
Figure 4 is a part sectional view showing a modified form of the back portion
of the frame.
Figure 5 is a similar view to Figure 4 shewing a further modification.
In carrying my invention into practice I form the lug which is fixed on
the front end of the top tube or member 1) with the ears or projections d², and
these ears or projections fit around the socket of the top lug of the ball head
or steering socket H. On the other end of this member D) I fix the lug 3; also
fixed in the socket d of this lug is the supplemental tube or member E, which tube
either fits onto the usual seat pillar lug of a lady's cycle, as shewn at Figure 4;
or this member E may fit into the lug F as shewn at Figure 5. To secure the
tube or member D to a lady's cycle so as to convert it into a gentleman's, the
lug d' is fixed to the top half head or steering socket lug h by means of the screw
or other pin d, which pin passes through holes formed in the ears or projections d
and in the socket of the lug h. Or the lug d may be secured to the lug h by
other suitable means. The other end of this tube D is fixed to the seat pillar
lug F by means of the seat pillar stem P which passes down the interior of the
socket and the short tube E into the seat pillar lug which is provided with
the usual clamping arrangement for holding the seat pillar in position, as clearly
shewn at Figure 1. It will readily be seen that by this means I am enabled to
easily and quickly convert a lady's cycle into a gentleman's having a parallel

page_text: top tube or rail. The length of the tube E may vary according to the height
of the tube J, and I may also provide the lug d³ with a clamping arrangement for
holding the seat pillar if desired.
At Figure 2 I have shewn a slight modification of my invention. In this
case I form the ball head or steering socket lug h¹ with an extra socket or
junction h³ into which the front end of the tube D fits, the tubo being held
therein by the pin and nut & or by other means. The other end of the tube D is
fixed to the seat pillar lug F as hereinbefore described.
In the modification shown at Figure 4 I bulge out the end of the member E
so as to fit over the top of the lug F, the said lug being rounded off for this
purpose. Or I may fit the lower end of the member E into the top of the lug F,
the member J only passing partly up this lug as shown at Figure 5. It will
thus be seen that I can take any existing lady's machine and fit my ears or
other parts to it so that I can attach my member D to it, thus making it an
exchangeable or convertible machine.
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 I am
aware that this invention has been described in the specifications appertaining
to Application No. 22009 A.D. 1897, but that application was refused on my
opposing same, and this present application is maile under Section 35 of the
Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act 1883, and what I therefore claim is :-
First:——The improvements in connection with velocipede frames and in the
manufacture of the same consisting essentially in attaching or fixing the top
tube or member D removably to the frame of a lady's cycle so as to convert
it into a gentleman's cycle, in the particular manner and for the purpose sub-
stantially as herein set forth and as shewn upon the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Second: In convertible cycle frames the subject of the first claim, connecting
the front end of the tube or member D to the lug h¹ by a screw or other pin or its
equivalent which pin passes through holes formed in ears or projections such
as d and in the socket of the lug h¹, the other end of the said member D being
attached to the seat pillar lug in the manner and for the purpose substantially
as herein set forth and as shewn at Figures 1, 4, and 5.
Third In cycle frames which form the subject of the first and second claims,
forming the lug h¹ with an extra socket or junction piece in the manner and
for the purpose substantially as herein set forth and as shewn at Figure 2 in
regard to the front end and at all the figures in regard to the back ends.
Fourth-In cycle frames forming the rear end of the detachable member D
with a supplemental piece E so that when the said member is attached to the
cycle it assumes a position parallel or nearly parallel to the ground, in the
manner substantially as herein set forth and as shewn upon the drawings.
D; 5th lor of Draambar 1908
G. DOUGLAS LEECHMAN,
18, Hertford Street, Coventry, 75, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., and
9, Exchange Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.