Improvements in Velocipede Bell Attachments.
Year: 1887

page_text: Improvements in Velocipede Bell Attachments.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, of Great Charles Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object principally, to simplify the construction of, and
to render more simple and efficient in use, velocipede bell attachments, or means as
herein-after described, for securing bells, to velocipede framings, or parts of
velocipedes.
My invention consists of an adjustable clamping device, consisting of a claw like
bracket, with an adjustable screw passing preferably through its lower part, and its
presented gripping end, provided with a crescent shaped swivelling head, of which
the concave, is presented uppermost, to grip a corresponding, or like convex part of
a machine.
In carrying out my invention, I make the lower end of the pillar stem, of an
ordinary bell, into a claw, or embracing like bracket; and passing through one of
the claws of the said bracket, is a screw pin, with a fly or turn at its outer end,
(outside the bracket) and a swivelling crescent shaped head at its other end, within
the claws of the bracket.
In securing the attachment to a machine, rotate the turn as aforesaid, when the
swivelling head is made to embrace one side of a bar or other cylindrical object,
while the other inner-side of the claw of the bracket, is made to embrace the other
side of the said object; by which means, a bar or the like, is uniformally gripped
between the two concaves as aforesaid.
The attachment means as herein described, may be modified, by making the lower
claw of the bracket part, movable; that is, the bracket is made in two parts, with
the upper and fixed part, provided with a pillar stem, upon which a like bossed eye,
on the other and movable part, slides.
The adjustment, and affixing of the claw like parts, is effected, by a screw pin
passing up the middle of the pillar, and with its head coming upon the underside of
the shank of the movable half.

page_text: The grips or presented gripping parts as aforesaid, are provided with facings of
ruhher, or other yielding materials.
The swivelling head of the arrangement, first described, instead of being crescent
shaped, may be of any other suitable figure.
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JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Velocipede Bell Attachments.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, 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 following statement :-
This invention has for its object principally to simplify the construction of, and to
render more simple and efficient in use, velocipede bell attachments, or means as:
herein-after described, for securing bells to velocipede attachments or framings.
The said invention consists of a claw shaped bracket, with an adjustable screw
passing through the offside arm of the said bracket. The inner end of the screw, is
provided with a swivelling and inside shaped crescent head, of which the said concave,
is presented to the concaved inner side of the inner arm of the bracket as aforesaid,
and between the concave of the head, and the concave of the bracket, an object to
which the bell is to be attached, is gripped.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a velocipede bell, provided with
an attachment or securing means, constructed according to my invention. Figure 2
is a part vertical section of the same, taken at right angles to that of figure 1, and
which exhibits the concaved inside part of the swivelling head. Figure 3 is an
underside plan of figure 1. Figure 4 shows upon an enlarged scale, the attachment
part in section.
Figure 5 represents a modified form of the head or inner end of the screw pin of
the attachment, and figure 6. also represents a modified form of the said attachment,
consisting of a fixed and movable jaw, made adjustable by a screw pin.
The same letters of reference, indicate corresponding parts in figures 1 to 5.
a is a claw shaped bracket, suspended from the inside of the bell b, by a hanger c,
although the said connection may be made in other ways, according to the form, and
construction of bell employed.

page_text: The attachment bracket a has arms a², a³, through the former of which, a screw
pin d, passes; and which said screw pin has at its inner end, a swivelling head or
end e, with a concave or crescent shaped inner side e², which is presented to a like
concaved inner side a', of the arm a³, and between the said concaves, a handle bar f
or other part of a machine is gripped.
The inner end of the screw pin is formed into a neck, and riveted at its extreme
end d, which turns within the head, on an adjustment being made. The other and
outer end of the screw pin has a nut head or turn d³, by means of which the said screw
pin is rotated.
In securing a bell to a machine, provided with an attachment as herein-before
described, rotate the screw pin, when the swivelling head at its inner end is made to
embrace an object, disposed between it, and the bracket arm presented to it.
By connecting the inner end of the screw by a swivelling action, the said head
admits of taking an even grip and bearing, partially around or upon a handle bar, or
other part of a machine, to which a bell is required to be attached.
In figure 5 the head is made circular, and with the inner part faced with rubber or
other yielding material e³.
In the modification figure 6, a is the fixed bracket attachment, a² is a claw like
arm, a³ is an angular and depending extension or pillar, up the middle of which, and
the bracket a, a screw pin d passes; and upon the said angular extension a³, the
eye of a movable arm or jaw a', slides; so that by turning the screw pin g, the
distance between the concaved inner directed sides a², a³, can be adjusted, and a.
handle bar or other framing gripped between them.
The attachment is connected to the bell b, by a hanger c.
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 :-
First Swivelling the inner end of the affixing screw of a bell attachment, to a
clamping head, as set forth in figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Secondly A bell attachment, making the clamping head inner end, concaved, and
Swivelling the inner end of the affixing screw within the said head, as set forth in
figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Thirdly Providing the clamping heads of the affixing screws of bell attachments,
with rubber or yielding facings, as set forth in figure 5.
Lastly -A bell attachment, consisting of a fixed bracket a, a², a³, and a sliding
jaw bracket at, a³, which latter is adjusted by a screw pin d, passing up the screwed
middle of the fixed bracket part a, a³, as set forth in figure 6.
Dated this 24th day of August 1888.