Improvements in Dress Guards for Ladies' Cycles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Nov., 1895-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL DIUINICATION.
Improvements in Dress Guards for Ladies' Cycles.
WILLIAM LIGGINS Manufacturer 12 and 13 White Friars Lane Coventry in
the County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
Improvements in dress guards for ladies cycles.
The object of this invention is to make a detachable dress guard to protect
ladies dresses from the back wheel & the driving chain.
I make the guard of silk, cotton, tinsel, elastic & non-elastic cord, in net-work,
in various patterns & designs. I then use a small metal hook, secured to the net
work & attach this to a metal frame, which covers the top part of the back wheel
of the cycle. This metal frame has a broad rim at the top which covers the
wheel & there are holes on each side of this rim, to which I attach the net work
by means of a small metal hook at the bottom of the metal frame there is a small
circle of metal with holes in & I secure the net-work to this by a small metal hook ;
so that this net-work which protects the ladies dress from the wheel & chain, and
which is called the dress guard, I secure to the metal frame at the top & bottom,
by a small metal hook; by this means it can be put on a cycle in a few minutes or
taken off; this is therefore a good improvement & invention, as at the present they
are not detachable but the cord is worked through the holes on the metal frame
both at top & bottom, & by the friction of the cycle the holes soon cut the
cord & thus the guard is spoilt. By my invention having a small metal hook to
fit in the holes they will wear so very much longer; then the most important part
about it is, 1 can make the detachable dress guard so that cycle manufacturers can
keep them in stock ready & put them on at machine in a few minutes; where as at
present they have to send a cycle to the guard makers & often have to wait several
days & weeks, before they are ready, which causes great inconvenience & loss of
time to cycle manufacturers. I use the same guards with hooks, detachable to cover
the driving chain on the cycles.
Sentember 4th 1895
Improvements in Dress Guards for Ladies' Cycles.
WILLIAM LIGGINS Manufacturer 12 and 13 White Friars Lane Coventry in
the County of Warwick. I 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 :-
The object of this invention is to make a detachable dress-guard for ladies
cycles; this guard is to protect ladies dresses from the back wheel & the driving
chain. I make the guard of silk, cotton, tinsel, elastic or non-elastic cord in net-
work, in various patterns & designs. I then use small metal hooks secured to the
net work & attach this to a metal frame which covers the top part of the back
wheel of the cycle. This metal frame has a broad rim at the top which covers the
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page_text: wheel & there are holes on each side of this rim all round it to which I attach
the net-work by means of small metal books. Concentric with the metal frame,
there is on each side a small segment of metal with holes in & I secure the net
work to this by small metal hooks, so that this net work which protects the ladies
dress from the wheel & chain, & which is called the dress guard, I secure to the
metal frame and segments by small metal hooks; by this means it can be put on a
cycle in a few minutes or taken off, this is therefore a good improvement &
invention as at the present they are not detachable but the cord is worked
through the holes on the metal frame, both at top & bottom & by friction of
the cycle the holes soon cut the cord & thus the guard is spoilt. By my
invention having a small metal hook to fit in the holes they will wear so very
much longer; then the most important part about it is I can make the detachable
dress guard so that cycle manufacturers can keep them in stock ready & put them
on a machine in a few minutes where as at present they have to send a cycle to the
guard makers & often have to wait several days & weeks before they are
ready which causes great inconvenience & loss of time to cycle manufacturers.
I use the same guards with hooks detachable to cover the driving chain on the
cycles.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figures 1 and 2 represent the dress and chain guard, constructed according to
my invention.
Same letters denote the same parts in both figures.
A is the hook secured to the network in Figures 1 and 2.
B is elastic used in any part of the network.
C is the hook. Or we use any similar hook.
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 :-
Improvements in ladies' dress guards for ladies' cycles, consisting of the
adaptation of elastic cord in network and small books secured to the network to
attach it to the mudguard frames and metal quadrants.
December 17th 1895.
WILLIAM LIGGINS.