Improvements in Means for Carrying Inflators and their Connections on Velocipedes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Carrying Inflators and their Connections
on Velocipedes.
I, MONTAGU WILLIAM CONSETT, of 58, Sloane Street, in the County of Middle-
sex, Lieutenant Royal Navy, 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 relates to inflators for velocipede tyres and has reference to
certain improvements connected with the inflators and means for carrying the
same set forth in the specification of prior Letters Patent granted to me on the
4th December 1896 No. 27688.
In the said specification I have described an inflator the barrel of which con-
stitutes the horizontal portion of the saddle stalk or the saddle pin. My present
invention is designed to provide means whereby an inflator may be detachably
secured in the saddle pin of a velocipede with sufficient rigidity to enable its
being operated while in such position. By this means any form of tubular saddle
pin may be employed.
A further feature of my invention consists in means whereby the tube em-
ployed to connect the nozzle of the inflator to the valves of the tyres, can be
carried within the handle bar of the velocipede, and retained therein in a manner
permitting its ready removal when desired.
According to my invention I employ an inflator the external diameter of the
barrel of which is preferably only slightly less than the internal diameter of the
saddle pin. The said barrel is placed in the saddle pin so that it projects there-
from at both ends, and it is secured in position by suitable means. For carrying
the connecting tube within the handle bar, I make the outer cap of one of the
handles detachable, and provide within said cap means for holding the end of the
said tube. When the tube is longer than the handle bar I prefer to make such
tube in two parts and to carry said parts side by side within the handle bar, the
aforesaid means being suitably constructed to hold both the parts.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into
effect, I will proceed to describe the same more fully with reference to the accom-
panying drawings, in which;-
Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing an inflator arranged in
the saddle pin according to my invention. The position of the saddle is indicated
by dotted lines.
Figure 2 is a plan of the handle bar, partly in section, showing the connecting
tube arranged therein.
Referring first to Figure 1. it will be seen that the saddle support, consisting
of the pin A and the post B, is of ordinary construction. Cis the inflator, which
may also be of any appropriate construction, it being only necessary that its
barrel shall be of such a diameter as to he capable of passing into the saddle pin.
In order to secure the inflator in place, I may employ a set screw a screwing
through the pin A, as shown. Or I may employ two collars arranged upon the

page_text: barrel, one or both of which collars are loose and adapted to be fixed by a clip or
by screw threads in such a position as to abut against the ends of the saddle pin
and so hold the inflator in place. This latter arrangement avoids the necessity
for drilling and tapping a hole in the saddle pin, and it also avoids the liability
of the set screw to distort the barrel, and thereby prevent the piston from work-
ing smoothly therein.
In placing the inflator in position in the saddle pin, the end of the barrel
is unscrewed and removed together with the piston rod, and the barrel is then
passed into the pin from the opposite end.
Referring now to Figure 2, D is the handle bar and E, E the handles thereof.
As the connecting tube requires to be about 3 feet long, that is to say longer than
the handle bar, make the said tube in two parts F, F, adapted to be connected
together by a screw connection of any well known form. The cape of one of the
handles (that on the left in the example shown), instead of being rigidly fixed to
said handle, is detachably secured thereto by internal projections el adapted to
spring into corresponding recesses in the horn or other material of which the
handle is formed; or this cap may be made to screw onto the handle. Secured
to the inner face of the cap are two spring clips f, f, each of which grasps one end
of one of the parts F of the inflator connecting tube, as shown. Instead of employ-
ing spring clips I may provide two screw threaded studs onto which the screw
threaded connections forming the ends of the parts of the connecting tube can be
screwed.
When the connecting tube is to be placed within the handle bar, the cap is
removed from the handle and the ends of the parts F, F are secured to the
clips ff. The opposite ends of the parts are then placed in the open end of
the handle bar and said parts are pushed along until they are entirely within
said handle bar, when the projections el of the cap e are snapped into place on the
handle, and the said cap, and consequently the parts F, are thereby securely held
in place. In order to withdraw the connecting tube, it is only necessary to re-
move the cape from the handle, when the clips f will pull the said connecting
tube from the handle bar.
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 in a velocipede is:
1. The combination with the saddle-pin of an inflator and of means for secur-
ing the same to permit of its being operated without removal from the said pin.
2. A removable cap for one of the handles of the handle-bar, provided with
means for detachably connecting it with the inflator-tube, so that the latter can
be carried in the handle bar and readily removed therefrom, substantially as
described.
Dated this 10th dox of T
1900
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.