An Improved Bicycle Dress Guard Attachment.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improved Bicycle Dress Guard Attachment.
WILLIAM ROBINSON, Manufacturer, 5, Brereton Road, Bedford, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved bicycle dress-guard attachment, the object
of which is to provide an attaching device capable of being very cheaply produced
and which combines simplicity and ease in attaching and detaching.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I provide a clip, preferably
formed by stamping, out of sheet metal, and designed to be secured to the spindle
of the wheel by a locking nut. This clip tightly grips a suitable coiled or spiral
spring, the end of said spring projecting from each side of the clip.
I further provide a bow or arc of suitable shape formed of bent wire and ter-
minating in a hook at either end designed to engage with the extremities of the
aforesaid coiled or spiral spring.
To this curved wire bow the ends of the cords, threads or the like of the mud-
guard are suitably secured, so that by releasing the said bow from the ends of the
aforesaid coiled or spiral spring, the dress-guard can be thrown back or removed
so as to allow of ready access being bad to the various parts of the velocipede for
cleaning purposes etc.
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I, WILLIAM ROBINSON, of 5, Brereton Road, Bedford, Lace Manufacturer, 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 follow-
ing statement:-
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My invention relates to an improved bicycle dress guard attachment, the object
of which is to provide an attaching device capable of being very cheaply produced
and which combines simplicity and ease in attaching and detaching.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I provide a clip preferably
formed by stamping out of sheet metal and designed to be secured to the spindle
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page_text: of the wheel by a locking nut. This clip tightly grips a suitable coiled or spiral
spring, the end of said spring projecting from each side of the clip.
further provide a bow or are of suitable shape formed of bent wire and ter-
minating in a hook at either end designed to engage with the extremities of the
aforesaid coiled or spiral spring.
To this curved wire bow the ends of the cords, threads or the like of the mud-
guard are suitably secured, so that by releasing the said bow from the ends of the
aforesaid coiled or spiral spring, the dress-guard can be thrown back or removed
so as to allow of ready access being had to the various parts of the velocipede for
cleaning purposes etc.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I will now proceed
to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1
is a side elevation of the dress guard attachment, fig. 2 being a similar view with
the are detached.
Fig. is a side elevation of the rear portion of a velocipede showing the dress
guard attachment in position.
My improved device comprises a clip a preferably formed by stamping out of
sheet metal and designed to be secured to the spindle of the wheel by the lock-
ing nut, said clip tightly gripping a suitable coiled or spiral spring b, the ends
of which project at each side.
A bow or are is further provided preferably formed out of bent wire and ter-
minating in the hooks d. d designed to engage with the aforesaid extremities dď,
of the coiled or spiral spring b.
To the curved wire how or are the ends of the cords, threads or the like of
the mud-guard are suitably secured, so that by releasing the hooks d, d of the bow
or are from the extremities, d, of the coiled or spiral spring b, (Fig. 2) the dress
guard can be turned back or removed to allow of ready access to be had to the
various parts of the velocipede, for the purposes hereinbefore stated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is:-
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1. A bicycle dress guard attachment, comprising a bow or are c in combina-
tion with a coiled or spiral spring b, and a suitable clip or lip such as a, for
securing it fo a velocipede, substantially as set forth.
2. The improved bicycle dress guard attachment arranged and constructed
substantially as herein described and shown, with reference to the accompany-
ing drawings.
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