Improvements to Supports to Cycles
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements to Supports to Cycles.
HAROLD HIBBERD ELLIOTT, The Limes, Newbury, Berks. I do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To provide a means of support to cycles when left by their riders in the road
or to enable the rider to sit in the saddle when the cycle is stationary, and for
mounting or starting.
The way I accomplish my purpose, I provide an attachment or attachments of
iron or of any other metal or substance which I fix to the supporting frame of
the cycle at any convenient position suitable to the make of the cycle.
This attachment consists of a carriage or carriages with an axle arm projecting
right and left, and the arm to be of sufficient length for my purpose. The line
of each axle arm will not be straight or level with each other but each arm will
be inclined upwards from the shoulder.
I then provide for each axle a stay which for convenience, should be tubular.
At the end of each stay I make an enlarged and solid end. This end I flatten
out. I then proceed to drill an hole of sufficient size to fit on the arm of the axle.
As the arm of the axle is inclined upwards, so I make the hole in the stay at an
angle to incline upwards also, so that, when I cause the stays to turn round on
their axles, they describe an eccentric motion, and the ends of the stays widen out
as they drop to the ground; and the reverse action takes place, when I lift the
stays they fold close together.
I further provide for holding the stays in their different positions by means of
a bullet bolt, which I make to fit in the end of the tubular stay close to the axle ;
behind the bullet bolt, and in the stay I insert a spiral spring to push or press the
bolt into a recess, which is made for that purpose.
Dated this 26th day of May 1896.
HAROLD HIBBERD ELLIOTT.
HAROLD HIBBERD ELLIOTT The Limes Newbury Berks Firewood Merchant
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 :-
This invention relates to an improved support for cycles when left by their
riders in the road, also for mounting or alighting or for the rider to remain at
rest in the saddle and also starting without alighting.
In carrying out my invention I provide an attachment of iron or any other
substance which I fix to the lower part of the bicycle frame near the chain wheel
or any other suitable position. The attachment consists of an arm A of sufficient

page_text: length with one end made in the form of the letter T on the shorter part of the
Tpiece I fix two pins or axles B B inclined to the proper angle see Fig. 8 I then
place on each axle B B a stay or leg C of sufficient length for my purpose in
order to do this I form an eye or thimble at the end of each of the legs CC which
when placed on the axles B will rotate till they are in line with each other &
remain transverse or crosswise with the bicycle. I further form a foot E on each
of the legs C C. I now show by a simple device how I pick up and drop down
the legs CC. I take a piece of chain F or any other suitable contrivance and
fix it across from leg C to leg C in the centre of the chain F I form a loop or
ring to which I attach a line or cord G which I pass or take up through the frame
of the bicycle and fix it on the ratchet pulley H which pulley I place near the
handles of the bicycle for convenience and by turning the pulley round I pick.up
er let down the legs C C and that the position of the legs should be more readily
maintained I fix a spring J in the centre of each thimble D and coil it round from
the centre in opposite directions so that the legs C C may swing either way and
form no obstruction when the bicycle is in motion and also maintain their trans-
verse position as Fig. 1 I then make a prong or regulator K which. I fix on the
axle B which fixes the ends of the spring J.
Fig. 1 is a view of the bicycle with the legs or supports C C.
Fig. 2 is the legs extended to their position.
Fig. 3 is the thimble end of the leg shewing the springs J and the regulator K.
Fig. 4 is the ground plan of the legs extended.
Fig. 5 is a side view of the leg extended.
Fig. 6 is a ground plan of the legs folded up.
Fig. 7 is a side view of the leg folded up.
Fig. 8 is the attachment with the pins or axles B B on which the legs rotate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
-claim is
1. A support for bicycles being a simple device of two pins or axles fixed at
different angles to each other on the extending arm which branches right and left.
2. A support for bicycles in the combination of the thimbles of the legs rotating
on the axle with two movements a raising and closeing movement caused by the
different angles of the axles.
Dated this 16th day of March 1897.
HAROLD HIBBERD ELLIOTT.