An Improved Appliance for Reading the Cyclometers of Cycles while Riding.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 1st Dec., 1898-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Reading the Cyclometers of Cycles
while Riding.
I, RICHARD ALLERTON, of 5, Park Villas, Southend-on-Sea, County of Essex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an appliance, variable in shape and make, to suit its
affixture, permanently or otherwise, to the handle bar, the front fork, or to some
other part of a cycle frame within sight range of the cyclometer in order that the
rider may see at a glance the distance he or she has travelled without the usual
inconvenience of dismounting to ascertain the state of the dial index.
The appliance consists of a lens or sight glass or glasses reflective or other,
fitted in a frame with legs, clips, or other devices to enable it to be set and held
to the machine at the desired part so that the rider at any moment could without
dismounting and while travelling read the record showing the distance ridden.
The legs of the appliance may be jointed and formed with an eye to go over and
fit on the desired part of the machine and be secured by fly nut and screw, or be of
springy material to be self gripping when pushed over.
AL
1900
H.
GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Richard Allerton.
An Improved Appliance for Reading the Cyclometers of Cycles
while Riding.
I, RICHARD ALLERTON, of 5, Park Villas, Southend-on-Sea, County of Essex,
Gentleman, 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: -
The appliance consists of a lens or sight glass, fitted in a frame with a leg
adjustable as to height by a pinch screw the leg being in a socket affixed to the
shell of the cyclometer, so that the rider at any moment can without dismounting
and while travelling read the record showing the distance ridden.
I have represented on the annexed drawings my invention as a lens applied to
"Veeder" cyclometer but it is applicable to any other kind of cyclometer as
found convenient.
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page_text: Figure 1 side elevation. Figure 2 perspective elevation of the lens A on a leg
or rod B adjustable in a socket C soldered on to the outer end of a cyclometer
casing D and fixed by button headed screw E which preferably enters one of the
holes also screw threaded after the focus of the lens A has been adjusted to suit
the sight of the rider.
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I have shown a lens as the simplest form for direct sighting of the distancing
figures which are exposed through a slot in the casing D which by its usual tang G
is jammed against a shoulder of the non-revolvable axle H of the front wheel I
by the pinch nut, (a portion of a wheel only is shown) in order that the "kicker
fastened to one of the spokes may have its projecting pin J within range of the star
wheel K of the cyclometer to move it step by step during the wheels rotations in
a well known manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is—
1. The employment of an adjustable and affixable sighting appliance A to a
cyclometer casing D to enable a rider to read, while travelling, the condition of the
distance indicator, as described and substantially as represented on the annexed
drawings.
2. Affixing a lens to a cycle by or from which the cyclometer indexing can be
readily seen by a rider while travelling, as set forth.
The 1st day of December 1898
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Richard Allerton.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Richard Allerton.