Improvements in the Frames of Veloci pedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Frames of Veloci pedes.
We, WALTER HENRY COCKS, Managing Director, and Messrs. WASS AND COCKS
LIMITED, Pembroke Cycle Works, 149, Uxbridge Road, Ealing Dean, in the County
of Middlesex, Cycle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the frames of bicycles adapted for the use of ladies, and
it has for its object stiffening the frame particularly the front part which usually
consists of a single member running between the socket of the head and the pedal-
crank axle bracket.
According to this invention we drop a bracket or its equivalent from the pedal-
crank axle bracket and we connect this bracket with the bottom of the socket of the
steering head and with the ends of the members of the lower back fork by means
of tension rods.
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Improvements in the Frames of Velocipedes.
We, WALTER HENRY COCKS, Managing Director, and Messrs. WASS AND COCKS
LIMITED, Pembroke Cycle Works, 149, Uxbridge Road, Ealing Dean, in the County
of Middlesex, Cycle Manufacturers, 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:―
This invention relates to the frames of cycles adapted for the use of ladies, and
it has for its object stiffening the frame particularly the front part which usually
consists of a single member running between the socket of the head and the pedal-
crank axle bracket.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates--by way of example—this inven-
tion applied to the frame of a rear driving bicycle:-
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation.
Figure 2 is a view in front elevation, and
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Figure 3 is a view-on an enlarged scale-partly in section showing a detail of
construction.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.

page_text: From the pedal crank axle bracket X is dropped a stem A carrying a bracket A¹
beneath which passes one or more tension stays B, the ends of which are connected
to the bottom of the socket Y of the steering head or to the member of the frame
adjacent thereto and to the free ends of the members of the back fork Z of the
frame.
If one stay is used its rear end beyond the pedal crank axle must be forked.
For this reason it is more convenient in practice to use two separate stays as shown
in the drawing but this is not obligatory.
The front ends of the stays BB are preferably connected to the socket Y by
means of a transverse pin passing through eyes formed at the ends of the stays and
their other ends are conveniently connected to the ends of the members of the
back fork Z by bending them over to form hooks, or by attaching hooks to them,
which engage with holes in the ends of the said members of the back fork.
The stays are preferably put in tension by any convenient device preferably by
making the stem A of the bracket A' adjustable in length which is conveniently
effected by making it in two parts the one part a carrying the bracket A¹ being
threaded to receive an adjusting nut and a lock nut a³. The adjusting nut a³
has a guiding sleeve adapted to fit in the part of the stem fixed to the pedal crank
axle bracket.
It will be understood that this invention is applicable to all types of cycles in
which the top member of the frame is dispensed with for the purpose of obtaining
an open front to render the machine adapted for the use of ladies.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is;-
(1) The improved construction of open fronted frame for velocipedes, sub-
stantially as herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
(2) The combination with an open fronted frame for cycles of one or more tension
stays extending between the bottom of the steering head and the ends of the mem-
bers of the back fork and of a depending bracket carried by the pedal crank axle
bracket under which the stays pass as and for the purpose set forth.
(3) The combination with an open fronted frame for cycles of one or more
tension stays extending between the bottom of the steering head and the ends of the
members of the back fork and of a bracket carried by a stem depending from the
pedal-crank axle bracket under which the stays pass the construction of the said
bracket or stem being such that the length of the stem is capable of being varied
for the purpose of putting the stays in tension, as set forth.
Dated this 10th dev of Decemlum 1907
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS. Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70. Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.