Cycle Manufacturer.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1899
A communication by VALENTIN ROCKENMEYER, of 41, Grombühlstrasse,
Würzburg, in the Empire of Germany, Cycle Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester,
both in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, and 822, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to he particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The bicycle stands or supports hitherto known have various drawbacks of
which the greatest is that the cycle cannot freely move in all its parts and also
that it is not scated sufficiently stable in the stand.
These drawbacks are entirely removed by the stand which forms the object
of the present invention and which is shown in the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 being an elevation of the stand as a whole;
Figure 2, an elevation of a bicycle in the stand; and
Figures 3 to 8 views of details.
This improved stand or holder comprises two arms a and b adapted to embrace
the tubes and of the bicycle frame and held together by a coupling or
clip in two parts and d connected by a screw e. This coupling or clip cd is
shown in front and side elevation in Figs. 9 and 10 and in plan view in Fig. 11.
It is formed at one end with two openings and at the other end with only one
opening and the screw e passes through the centre, the two arms a and b are
inserted in the two upper openings, a small fin n lying in the interstice & formed
by the two half couplings. The other end of the coupling embraces as already
mentioned the standard f.
When the screw e is tightened, the arms a and b and also the upright fare
firmly clamped together. The two arms a and b are formed of round iron and
bent in opposite directions to embrace the cycle frame and have strips of cloth
wrapped round them to avoid scratching the cycle. The one arm a embraces
the frame tube and the other arm the frame tube d, while the crank lies
between both arms. A small projection is formed on the lower end of each
arm to engage in a corresponding groove in the coupling e l in order to prevent
the arms turning and shifting. The coupling e is mounted on the upper end
of a standard f and a shoulder or socket E, metal plate 7 and nut m are attached
to the lower end of said standard. The legs g h i forming the feet of the stand
are held between the two parts and land are secured by the nut m being
screwed up. The shoulder has three grooves in which the feet g h i fit.
By this arrangement the stand may be taken apart into its separate pieces
and in this condition takes up very little room.
In placing the bicycle in the stand the pedals must be placed in a horizontal
line.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :—
A bicycle stand having two arms bent upwards and to different sides to embrace
the frame of the bicycle, the separate parts of said stand being made to be taken
to pieces substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 15th day of November-1898.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.