Improvements in Mud Guards for Cycles and other similar Vehicles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 9th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mud Guards for Cycles and other similar
Vehicles.
We HOWARD EDWARD LANE, of 76 Fenwick Road, Peckham Rye in the
County of Surrey and CHARLES HENRY HAVILL of The Albion, Burr Street
Lower East Smithfield in the County of Middlesex Brassfinishers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:—
We affix a clip or suitable contrivance to each fork or stay on both sides of the
wheel, and we pivot a suitably bent wire to these said clips or contrivances, which
wire can be raised or lowered, over the wheel as required, and is held in the lowered
position by a spring or other suitable stop.
The mud guard is attached by any suitable means, to the bent wire, when required
for use, which wire will then be lowered over the wheel, and held in position by the
said spring or suitable stop.
When the mud guard is not required it is rolled up, and the said bent wire is
folded back against the stays or forks of the wheel.
Dated this 9th day of November 1892.
HOWARD EDWARD LANE.
CHARLES HENRY HAVILL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mud Guards for Cycles and other similar
Vehicles.
We, HOWARD EDWARD LANE of 76 Fenwick Road, Peckham Rye, in the
County of Surrey and CHARLES HENRY HAVILL of The Albion, Burr Street,
Lower East Sinithfield in the County of Middlesex, Brassfinishers, 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 consists in improvements in mud guards for bicycles, tricycles
and other similar vehicles.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a safety bicycle with our
mud guard applied thereto,
Figure 2 is a detail view in plan to an enlarged scale of the wire frame for
supporting the mud guard over the rear or driving wheel of the machine,
Figure 3 is a side elevation thereof, and
Figure 4 is a plan view of the mud guard proper to a smaller scale.
We affix a clip or other suitable contrivance a a to each fork or stay on both
sides of the wheel. The clip as shown consists of two bent elastic plates a a
which are held together so as to embrace and clip the forks b by means of bolts
and nuts c.
Each clip aa has a spring plate d which is bolted to said clip by one
of the bolts e and has at the other end a lip or turned up part to take hold of.
Near this end is a small stud e which goes through two slots in the clip plates in
such manner as to form a stop which takes against a bent wire frame ƒ pivotted
between the plates a a on the bolts c. The wire frame ƒ thus pivotted can be raised
or lowered over the wheel as required when the studs or stops e are withdrawn from
the slots in the clip plates and when the spring plates d are released the studs again
project through the slots in the clip a and hold the frame in the raised or lowered
position. The full lines on Figure 1 represent the frame fiu its extended position
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page_text: with the mud guard g on. The said mud guard is in this instance laced to the
bottom bracket at h, and strapped higher up by means of a strap and buckle i goes
over the cross bar of the forks near the saddle pillar and is laced to the spring or
in a convenient manner under the saddle. From thence it extends to the wire
frame which is provided with small hooks or studs k which take into eyelet holes l
in the mud guard proper. The hooks k may be screw threaded so as to allow if
desired of putting nuts m thereon which shall prevent the mud guard from being
jolted off.
When the mud guard is not required it is rolled up either wholly or partly and
the wire frame fis folded back against the saddle or forks as shown for example by
dotted lines in Figure 1.
Although we have only shown and described our invention with reference to a
diamond framed safety, it is evident that with slight modifications in form and size
it may be applied equally well to other classes of cycles.
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 :-
1. A mud guard provided with an adjustable wire frame which is pivotted to
clips having springs with studs or stops mounted thereon so as to hold the frame
either in an extended or folded back position substantially as described.
2. The construction of mud guard as shown on the drawing.
DLL i 1. of Annuat 1902
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.