Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1896-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1898
FRANK SETTLE FOLEY of Numbers 1 and 3 Mason Street Horwich in the
County of Lancaster Solicitor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
An apparatus for supporting a bicyclo in a perpendicular position combined with
a guard to prevent mud being thrown from the front wheel of such bicycle on to
the person propelling such bicycle consisting of arms between which is stretched
and affixed a cover of any material suitable for a nudguard such arms each having
a foot at one end and such arms being each attached at or near the other end to a
spindle in a manner to allow such arms to extend the spindle being carried through
and allowed to turn in a chip or other suitable fastening affixed to the frame of
the bicycle at such a height as will allow the feet of such arms when extended to
touch and rest upon the surface upon which the bicycle stands so that when such
arms are held extended and the feet rest upon such surface the bicycle is held in a
perpendicular position without other support and when the extended ends of such
arms are lifted from such surface and raised into a position parallel with the lower
bar of the said frame and held in that position by a suitable fastening such arms
and cover form a mudguard for the front wheel of the bicycle.
Dated this 5th day of October 1895.
Бали ани шиабuard for Diyor.
I FRANK SETTLE FOLEY, 1 Mason Street, Horwich near Bolton, in the County
of Lancaster, Solicitor, 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.-
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My said invention relates to un apparatus for supporting a bicycle in an upright
position when at rest and also serving as a mudguard for the front wheel when
the bicycle is being ridden.
In order to more clearly set forth my said invention' I will describe it with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
DESORIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. is a side elevation of a bicycle showing the said invention applied
thereto.
Fig. 2 18 a side elevation to a larger scale.
Fig. 3 18 an end elevation of the bracket das scon from the left hand of
Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a plan to a larger scalo of the apparatus as seen in the direction of the
arrow in Fig. 1. From this figure the bar A of the frame is omitted in order to
more clearly show the construction of the apparatus.
In all the figures the same letters of reference indicate the same parts.

page_text: Struts or arms a a are hinged at 6' 6' to a cross head or swing bar 6' having
bearings in a bracket & suitably secured as for example by a clip b³ to the pait A
of the bicycle frame. Spungs c c are attached to the aims a a so as to cause the
latter if not otherwise restrained to diverge and by turning about the hinges b¹ b¹
to assume the positions indicated by dotted lines in Fig 4.
At the upper part. A of the frame is a second bracket d secured by a clip d' or
other suitable means. Turning in bearings in the bracket are a pan of levers d².
When the levers are in the position shown in Fig. 2 the short aims of the
levels engage in slots in the lower plate of the bracket d If prior to setting
the levers in the position shown in Fig. 2 the struts a a are pressed towards ench
other and held up over the plate the short aims of the lever (on then
engagement with the slots in the plate ) will prevent the divergence of the
stiuta a a and keep them up in the position shown in Fig. 1 Small plate springs de
under the bracket bear on the extremities of the short aims of the levers and act
as sping biakes to prevent them turning and coming out of the sluts through
concussion or vibration. If now the lever is turned in the direction of the arrow y
of Fig. 2 the short aims d³ will be withdiawn from the slots and lifted clear of the
struts a a which will then (under the influence of the springs cc) diverge and at the
same time (turning by their own weight on then bearings in the bracket b) they
will fall into the position indicated by dotted lines at a¹ in Fig 1 thus providing
lateral supports which will keep the bicy cle upright. The ends d' of the levers d
are hooked and on the release of the struts aie turned over so as to engage with the
fork of the bicycle as shown in dotted lines in Fig 1. By proventing the twisting
of the front wheel in the steering socket additional igidity is imparted to the
machine.
When the struts are held up in the bracket d and parallel with the fiame A they
seive as a mudguard frame. To one of the struts is secured one end of a stripe of
leather rubber or other suitable material It is conveniently secured to one of
the struts by a cross bai e' which when held up will come under the bracket d, the
lower end is secured by laces or other convenient means to the strut or bracket and
in use will hang down in front of the pedal as shown in Fig 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim 18.-
1. A combined support and mudguard for a bicycle substantially as and for the
purpose set forth
2. An apparatus for affording lateral support to a bycle when at rest
consisting of a pan of struts hinged on a swing bar or crosshead with means for
holding them together releasing them and causing them to diverge and fall down
when to released substantially as set forth and shown.
3. The combination of the rotatably mounted and divergible stiuts a a and the
lovers for holding and releasing the stiute and locking the steeling fork
substantially as and for the purpose set forth and shown.
Duted this 13th day of May 1896.
E. T WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70 Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.