Improvements in or appertaining to Velocipedes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 1st May, 189.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Velocipedes.
We, WATKIN HALL, of College Road Great Crosby in the County of
Lancaster, Civil Engineer and PETER LEONARD of 75 Victoria Road, of the same
place, Master Plumber, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object an arrangement whereby a lady or other
person can work a bicycle without being exposed to the sun or in some instances
to the rain, and the invention consists in attaching to the front fork or other
suitable position a sunshade or rainshade, so contrived that the occupant of the
bicycle or other velocipede can move it into any position by the hand, and that it
shall stay in that position, the friction or spring catches of the attachments being great
enough to resist the force of the wind while not being strong enough to resist the
force of the hand moving it in any required direction. There are numerous ways
in which this can be arranged. By one plan a universal joint attached to the
handle-bar projects upwards. The universal joint is provided with a set screw or
other device whereby any required amount of friction can be placed on it. The
vertical bar can thus be adjusted to any angle and will remain in that angle against
the force of the wind until forcibly adjusted in another direction. The sunshade,
screen, parasol, umbrella, or the like, slides up and down on this vertical bar.
also slides with sufficient resistance to withstand the effect of wind and rain, but
not of adjustment by the hand. In some instances however we may make the
supporting rod fixed and attach the shade to a sliding telescopic bar capable of
being set to any desired length and at any angle with the supporting rod.
this bar the shade umbrella or the like is attached by means of a swivel socket or
universal joint of any desired kind. It is obvious however that once given the
idea of a sunshade or umbrella attached to the bicycle by an adjusting device
capable of being adjusted by one hand while capable of withstanding the effect
of the wind and rain, it is very easy to design numerous arrangements for carrying
it into effect.
Dated this 12th day of May 1906
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We, WATKIN HALL of College Road, Great Crosby in the County of
Lancaster, Civil Engineer and PETER LEONARD of 75 Victoria Road of the same
place, Master Plumber 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 has for its object an arrangement whereby a lady or other person
can work a bicycle, tricycle or other velocipede without being exposed to the sun

page_text: or in some instances to the rain, and the invention consists in attaching to the front
fork or other suitable position a sunshade or rainshade, so contrived that the
occupant of the bicycle or other velocipede can move it into any position by the
hand, and that it shall stay in that position, the friction or spring catches of
the attachments or some of them being great enough to resist the ordinary force of
the wind while not being strong enough to resist the force of the hand moving it
in any required direction. There are numerous ways in which this can be arranged.
By one plan a universal joint attached to the handle-bar projects upwards. The
universal joint is provided with a set serew or other device whereby any required
amount of friction can be placed on it. The vertical bar can thus be adjusted to
any angle and will remain in that angle against the force of the wind until forcibly
adjusted in another direction. The sunshade, screen, parasol, umbrella, or the
like, slides up and down on this vertical bar. It also slides with sufficient
resistance to withstand the effect of wind and rain, but not of adjustment by the
hand.
In some instances however we may make the supporting rod fixed and attach the
shade to a sliding telescopic bar capable of being set to any desired length and at
any angle with the supporting rod. On this bar, the shade, umbrella or the like is
attached by means of a swivel socket or universal joint of any desired kind. This
is the arrangement shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a lady's bicycle with the invention applied to it,
the machine being slightly tilted to show top of shade;
Figure 2, an enlarged elevation of the skeleton frame of the sunshade or
screen;
Figure 3, a plan view thereof to the same scale as Figure 1;
Figure 34, the same folded;
Figures 4, 5 and 6, enlarged detail views of the various connections to be
hereinafter described; and
Figures 7, 8 and 9 are views showing the device folded up and secured to
different portions of the framework of the machine.
B is the fixed supporting rod, being one of the tubes composing the frame of the
cycle, and we attach the shade N to a sliding telescopic bar E capable of being
set to any desired length and at any angle with the supporting rod B. For this
purpose, A is a socket which may be firmly fixed to the bar B and provided with
a boss C and a pin D (see Figure 6) for connecting with the bar E which is also
provided with a boss or projection F. This joint or connection is made by inserting
the pin D of the socket A through the boss on the end of the bar E and screwing
up the nut G until the teeth on the opposite faces of C and F engage each other,
thus fixing the bar E. In order to more readily disconnect the parts, a spring H
is inserted which always tends to force them apart. By slacking the nut & there-
fore, the bar E together with the shade can be adjusted to any desired angle, s
shown by the dotted lines in Figure 1 and secured at that angle until adjusted in
another direction,
To set the sliding telescopic bar to any desired length, one part of the bar is
telescoped into the other, and the outer portion is split at L¹ so that it can be
tightened on to the inside portion by means of a clip L and thumb screw L' after
baving been lengthened or shortened to the extent desired. Furthermore, the
telescopic bar È can be rotated on its own axis by the device shown more
particularly in the lower part of Figure 5, which consists in a device similar to
the one just described for the upper part at L, one portion of the rod being
telescoped into the other, and the outer portion split at I, so that it can be
tightened on to the inside portion by means of a clip J and thumbscrew after having
been turned into the position required. K is a milled collar to more readily turn
the rod. The tightening of the clip J is such that the friction between the two tubes
will resist the force of the wind, while not being strong enough to resist the force
of the hand moving it in any required direction. By this arrangement, the
shade N can be further adjusted to any angle with the supporting rod B.

page_text: On the bar E, the shade, umbrella or the like is attached by means of the swivel
socket or universal joint U O shown in Figure 4, in which U is a central socket
joint from which the ribs n of the sunshade or rainshade radiate all round. The
cover of silk or other material is divided radially at S, and the ribs n are socketted
in the central joint U so as to turn or swivel about their axes in such a manner
that the ribs together with the cover can be folded so as to lie in the position
shown in Figure 34 in practically the same plane as they were when extended and
parallel or nearly so with the lateral portion of the bar E. Ris a clip which clips
two adjacent radial ribs n of the skeleton frame, and holds the shade extended, as
shown in Figure 3, while the disconnecting of these two ribs allows all the ribs
together with their cover to collapse and fold together in the same plane as they
lie in when extended, that is to say at right angles to their axes U. This folding
up of the frame permits the shade to be folded into a very small space in close
proximity to the lateral member of the rod E. The said swivel socket or universal
joint also comprises in addition a ball and socket joint O the amount of freedom
thereof being regulated by the thumb-screw P, and further the socket Q hinged as
shown permits the separation of the parts for the purpose of detachınent of the
shade. It will be obvious that with this ball and socket joint the sunshade N can
be tilted to almost any position to suit the rider.
It is obvious that once given the idea of a sunshade or umbrella attached to the
velocipede by an adjusting device it is very easy to design numerous arrangements
for carrying it into effect, thus, for example, instead of making the sliding
telescopic bar E as shown in Figure 1, it may be jointed at the elbow as shown in
Figure 5, by a connection similar to the connection between the bar E and the
supporting rod B and therefore any further detailed description of that joint is
unnecessary, the same reference letters being used to indicate like parts. The
addition of this joint permits the lateral portion of the telescopic bar E together
with the folded shade, to be folded against the upright portion, the upright portion
collapsed, and the whole apparatus can then be folded up when not required for
use into a very small space, and if desired placed inside the leather case T and
strapped to the machine in the manner shown in Figures 7 and 8 or in the manner
shown in Figure 9. Furthermore we do not restrict ourselves to fixing the
telescopic sliding bar E to the supporting bar B, as any suitable part of the
machine can be used as the supporting bar. The said supporting bar might, for
example, be the handle bar or any convenient portion of the frame. When the
sliding telescopic bar is fixed to the handle bar, it can be folded up, placed inside
a suitable leather case T and strapped to the handle bar in the manner shown in
Figure 7.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1. The combination with a sunshade, screen or umbrella for velocipedes, of the
devices for supporting the same and for adjusting its height or angular position,
whereby such adjustment can be accomplished by hand pressure while being
capable of withstanding the effects of wind and rain substantially as described and
illustrated.
2. The combination with a velocipede of a sunshade, screen or umbrella and its
supports constructed substantially as described so as to fold up into a small
compass and to be secured to the framework or handle bar of the velocipede.
3. In a bicycle or other velocipede, the combination with a sliding telescopic or
other bar attached or fastened to the machine, of a collapsible shade, umbrella or
the like supported thereon having radial ribs with an outside cover of silk or other
flexible material divided radially at S, and a swivel socket, universal joint or the
like, whereby the ribs together with their flexible cover will fold in the same plane
as they lie in when extended substantially as described.
4. The combination with a bicycle or other velocipede, of a sliding telescopic or

page_text: other bar attached or fastened to the machine, a shade, umbrella or the like
supported thereon, and a swivel socket, universal joint or the like so arranged that
the shade can be tilted to almost any position by the hand to suit the rider,
substantially as described.
5. The general combined arrangement and construction of parts forming our
improved devices for supporting sunshades, screens or umbrellas on velocipedes and
enabling them to be adjusted into almost any position to suit the rider, substantially
as set forth.
Dated this 15th day of February 1897
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London,
Patent Agents.