Improvements in or relating to Dress-guards and the like for Velocipedes and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1897-Accepted, 11th Sept., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Dress-guards and the like for
Velocipedes and the like.
I, LAVINIA LENTON of Rockland Works, Eagle Street, Coventry in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to dressguards and the like for velocipedes and the like,
especially to those which are constructed of netted cord or the like and adapted to be
applied to the sides of the rear wheel of ladies' bicycles. Hitherto such guards have
commonly been constructed in two parts of sector-like form, the outer or curved
edge being secured to the mudguard fitted concentrically over the upper part of the
rear wheel, by lacing a cord through the outer loops of the network and through a
series of holes perforated along each side of the guard. This being a slow process,
hooks have been employed, such hooks heing secured to the netting in the process of
construction and being adapted to hook into the perforations in the mud-guard. The
hooks however are found to break and are open to other objections.
According to one part of my invention I provide each of the outer loops of the
network with a short lace of coated copper wire or the like; the wire may be doubled
into a loop and thereby attached to the loop of the network while the free ends are
preferably united in a small tag or cap. These laces have such flexibility, stiffness
and strength combined as to allow them to be readily threaded through the
perforations in the mud-guard and then twisted around themselves or part of the
network, thus securing the said network to the said guard in a speedy and durable
manner. If desired the various parts may be so constructed and arranged that each
lace secures two or more loops of network thus proportionately reducing the time
occupied in securing the network to the mudguard which may be provided with a
correspondingly smaller number of perforations.
According to another part of my invention, instead of constructing the network in
two parts I make it all in one piece the two sides being united by a connecting strip
adapted to cover or rest on the mudguard. And in order that the dress guard may
be readily applied to machines in which one or more members of the frame (such as
the upper back fork of the so called diamond framed safety bicycle) obstruct the free
application of the network to the mud guard, I make the said network with one or
more openings or divisions, preferably along one side of the said connecting strip, and
I close the said division or divisions, after the network has been arranged in place on
the mudguard, by any suitable means, but preferably by the wire or like laces
herein before described a series of which is secured along one edge of the division and
engaged with the other edge in a similar manner to that hereinbefore described with
respect to the attachment of the separate networks to the perforated mudguard.
The inner edge of the network has commonly been laced or hooked to a quadrant
like metal plate or similar fitting previously secured to the bicycle at or about the end
of the rear wheel axle thereof, but according to the last part of my invention I
construct a kind of rosette of covered wire formed into a series of radial loops the
inner ends of which may be secured to a central ornamental bobbin or button or the

page_text: like. The network is secured to the upper series of loops in the rosette during
the course of manufacture; the remaining edges of the network and the lower series
of loops of the rosette are adapted to be laced or tied to the lower back stays of the
frame and to the mudguard stays, by the wire or like laces hereinbefore described or
by flexible cord laces. This part of my invention is applicable to all kinds of net
dress guards whether made in one or two parts; and I hold myself at liberty to use
any part of my invention separately or in conjunction with one or more of the others
as may be convenient or desirable.
аррисати,
G. DOUGLAS LEECHMAN
18, Hertford Street, Coventry, Patent Agent.
Improvements in or relating to Dress-guards and the like for
Velocipedes and the like.
LAVINIA LENTON Trimmings Manufacturer Rockland Works Eagle Street Coventry
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:-
My invention relates to dress guards for velocipedes and the like.
The object of my invention is to make a dress guard which will be easy to fasten
to the bicycle without lacing, elastic, or hooks now in use and be ornamental also.
One part of my invention is a trellis dress guard made in the usual way with silk
case cord, but with one or more rows of network in the centre made of plain silk
piping gimp to improve the appearance of the guard.
The outer loops of the cord dress guard at the top (those that fit round the mud
guard) I provide with short lengths of wire made into loops the ends being fastened
inside a tag or cap by a tagging machine.
These metal tags are put through holes drilled in the mud guard and the dress
guard is then fixed to it.
I do not always use wire in these tags, or caps, as cord will do as well when the
holes in the mud guard have eyelets in them because they do not cut the cord but.
when no eyelets I have to use wire.
Another part of my invention is an ornament and slide to hold the dress guard
down tight to the axle of the wheel, made in this manner, I take a silk covered wire
and form a series of loops and turn them round into a rosette the outer loops being
drawn into the dress guard during the process of manufacture, the inner loops being
secured to a button or the like which is covered with silk and cord, this rosette is
for ornament only I have now to fasten this rosette and the dress guard to the
bicycle so I provide a metal slide made in two parts the over part sliding on the
under part on a thumb screw.
The under part is drilled and put on the axle of the wheel. The rosette is fixed to
the over part and the thumb screw holds it down and the dress guard with it.
According to the last part of my invention instead of constructing the network in
two parts I make it all in one piece the two sides being united by a connecting
strip adapted to cover or rest on the mud guard and in order that the dress guard
may be readily applied to machines in which one or more members of the frame
(such as the upper back fork of the so called diamond framed safty bicycle) obstructs
the free application of the network to the mud guard, I make the said network with

page_text: one or more openings or devisions preferably along one side of the said connecting
strip I close the said devision or devisions after the network has been arranged in
place on mud guard by any suitable means but preferably by the double wire or lace,
tagged hereinbefore described, a series of which is secured along one edge of the
devision and engaged with the other edge in a similar manner to that herein before
described.
In order that my invention may be better understood
I will proceed to explain the same with reference to the accompanying drawing
in which Figures 1 and 2 represents the dress guard constructed according to my
invention same letters denote the saine parts in both figures.
A is the double lace made of wire or cord and tagged or capped.
B is the silk wire loops in rosette.
C is the centre button.
D is the silk piping gimp in dress guard.
E is the thumb screw.
F is the screw.
G is the over part of metal slide with three holes drilled in it, two being used to
fasten rosette to it and one for the thumb screw.
H is the under part of slide with a slot down the centre in which the screw slides,
and a hole drilled to admit the wheel axle.
I is the opening in the single piece dress guard to admit members of the bicycle
frame and is the part that rests on the mud guard.
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 what
I claim is
1. Short double wire or cord laces with the two ends drawn into a tag or cap this
said cap being used to secure the dress guard to the bicycle.
2. Ornaments for dress guards made of silk covered wire, silk cords, buttons
covered silk and the like.
3. Plain silk piping gimp worked into the trellis dress guard to match the
ornaments.
4. An opening in a single peice dress guard in that part which rests or is put over
the mud guard.
Dated this fth day of M. 1907