An Improved Stand or Support for Safety or other Cycles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1893
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omplete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stand or Support for Safety or other Cycles.
We JOHN MACKENZIE of Egglescliffe, Yarm-on-Tees, Engineer, and WILLIAM
MINTO of Bishopton Lane Stockton-on-Tees, Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the construction of stands for safety
and other cycles, and has for its object the construction of a reliable & rigid stand
for cycles, from one piece of suitable material, either bar iron or steel, or metallic
tubing of any kind may be used, or a simple steel or metal casting may be
substituted. The stand is made on the well known lever principle, and for example,
we take a bar of iron, & first bend it at the centre of its length, till the two ends
come together, forming a long U. We then splay the ends of the U outwards
sufficiently to ensure transverse steadiness. At a suitable distance from the curve
of the U, we make corrugations at right angles to the said curve, these corrugations,
one on each leg, are to receive the bottom bracket of the cycle. In use the stand
is placed over the bottom stay & the cycle lifted up till the bottom bracket rests in
the corrugations, the cycle is then secure.
Dated this 1st day of May 1893.
JOHN MACKENZIE.
WILLIAM MINTO.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stand or Support for Safety or other Cycles.
We JOHN MACKENZIE of Egglescliffe, Yarm-on-Tees, Engineer, and WILLIAM
MINTO, of Bishopton Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, Cycle Manufacturer, 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:
Our invention relates to stands of a suitable construction for supporting and
retaining safety and other cycles in the standing position when not in use, and has
for its object to provide a reliable and rigid stand of a simple and convenient
form which is adapted for use with cycles generally, of the kind in which the
framework is of the ordinary design, in respect of the bottom bracket and the
adjoining stays, or of the kind known as cross framed safeties that is to say that
a stand constructed according to our invention is to be distinguished in this respect
from stands which are designed to effect their purpose by accurately fitting a
particular class of tyre or some other part and which stands are consequently
restricted in use to the uniform size or pattern of cycle in respect of its tyre or
other part which they are especially designed to accomodate.
And in order that our invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into effect I will now proceed to describe the same by reference to the accompanying
drawings in which
Figure 1 illustrates our stand in the position of supporting a cycle of the usual
construction in respect of the bottom bracket and adjoining stays and
Figure 2 illustrates to an enlarged scale an elevation of the same stand as seen
transverselv.

page_text: Figures 3 and 4 are corresponding views respectively of the stand supporting a
cross framed safety and its transverse elevation to an enlarged scale.
From the figures it will be observed that the stand takes the form of a bifurcated
lever or strut formed by taking a bar of iron or the like and bending it at the
centre of its length into the form of an elongated Ụ the legs a a of which are
splayed or set out in the manner shown in Figures 2 and 4 so as to afford a sufficient
transverse basis to the stand when fixed in position.
But in order that the stand may effect the purpose of our invention we provide a
seat or set off at 6 in each leg a a in the form shown more particularly in Figures 1
and 3, so that when in use the stand is placed astride the bottom stay c, Figure 1,
or the cross frame c' Figure 3, as the case may be and the cycle is lifted up till
the bottom bracket d is supported on the seat of the stand. The two ends of
the legs a a of the stand and the base of the wheel of the cycle in contact with the
ground thus become three points of support on which the cycle remains secure in a
fixed and standing position.
It will be observed that no particular accuracy of fit is required to enable the
bottom bracket d to rest on the seat 6 of the cycle stand a a and consequently
within such limits as will meet all but exceptional cases the same stand will serve
any cycle of the types illustrated in Figures 1 and 3 which illustrations are also
to be taken as representative of cycles generally in which the construction of the
frame includes a like combination of a bottom bracket and bottom stays or a like
construction of what is known as a cross framed safety.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A stand for cycles consisting of a bifurcated lever or strut a a furnished with a
seat or get off of the form, construction, and use, substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Did this 1st day of March 1901
G. J. CLARKSON,
Chartered Patent Agent,
Stockton-on-Tees, Agent for the Applicants.