Means for Identifying Cycles with their Owners in order to Facilitate the Detection of Cycle Thieves.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1896
CODIL DELE DE MULLICATION.
Means for Identifying Cycles with their Owners in order to
Facilitate the Detection of Cycle Thieves.
ARTHUR LANGTON PYER 18 Currie Road Tunbridge Wells Kent Life
Assurance Agent ERNEST ADOLPHUS TREETON 57 and 58 Chancery Lane
London W.C. Journalist 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 is to consist of a metal disc of any quality desired of a size
convenient to be carried in the pocket or on the person. It is to have the maker's
autograph or autograph initials or trade mark and a number or a letter or letters
and number, (preferably the first letter of the tally owner's surname, or any other
letter or letters selected as necessary from his name or names), indelibly marked
upon the one side by means of stamping, engraving or etching, or by any other
process most effectual for the purpose, and it is to have the owner's autograph or
autograph initials indelibly marked on the other side by any process most effectual
for that purpose. The tally number, or letter or letters and number, or the tally
maker's trade mark to be indelibly marked upon the handle bar or frame, and upon
the hubs of the wheels, or upon any other part or parts of the owner's cycle as may
be necessary by any process most effectual for the purpose. Or the tally number,
or letter or letters and number, or the tally maker's trade mark, shall be indelibly
marked by any process most effectual on metal plates of any required quality, and
these plates shall be attached to any part or parts of the owner's cycle by means
of screws or shall be made fast to the cycle by any means most effectual to prevent
fraudulent removal, and the plates shall be attached to the cycle in such a manner
as to give ineffaceable evidence of fraudulent removal of any or all of them. The
tally owner shall also be supplied by the tally maker with a tally warrant with a
facsimile of the tally thereon, with the owner's autograph, address and description
written thereon, also a full description of the owner's cycle written thereon and
signed by the tally maker. The tally to be carried on the person and the warrant
to be left at home at the owner's option.
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 is, that it's features of novelty are as follows;
1. Metal tallies for cyclists indelibly marked with different numbers or different
Jetters and numbers and with the tally owner's autograph or autograph initials and
with the tally maker's autograph or autograph initials or trade mark.
2. Any part or parts of a cycle. being indelibly marked to correspond with the
owner's tally or metal plates marked in like manner being attached to any part or
parts of the tally owner's cycle, all marks or plates being used or attached so as to
give evidence of fraudulent removal.
3. The identity of cycles and their owners being also secured by a tally warrant
with a facsimile of the tally thereon, with the tally owner's autograph, address
and description written thereon and with a full description of the tally owner's
cycle written thereon, and signed by the tally maker.
ARTHUR LANGTON PYER.
ERNEST ADOLPHUS TREETON.