Improvements in Badges and Name-plates, and their Attachments, for Use upon Cycles and for like purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1894
Complete Spécification Left, 6th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1895
TRŪVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Badges and Name-plates, and their Attachments,
for Use upon Cycles and for like purposes.
I, THOMAS ALBERT VAUGHTON, of Gothic Works, 193 Great Hampton Row,
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manner in which I construct name-plate and
other badges and marking labels for attachment to cycles and for like purposes,
the object of the invention being to produce a marking plate or label capable of
being attached to a tube or other portion of a cycle without requiring that the
tube shall be drilled or otherwise prepared for the reception of the plate.
In carrying my invention into effect when constructing my plate or badge label
for attachment to a tube upon a cycle, I make the plate or label portion with its
inner surface curved to suit the tube, and I form a pair of bands upon the badge
for enabling it to clip on to the tube or for permitting it to be sprung on to any
portion of the frame of the machine. The ends of the clipping arms I draw
together by means of a tapered locking piece or key piece which I slip over the
flange-like ends of the semi-circular bands; the flanges being made preferably
with tongue like grooves for the reception of like flanged pieces which I form upon
my locking clip.
I make my locking or junction piece preferably of metal in the form of a flat or
curved tapered plate or bar having a portion of the plate bent over at each side
to form a flange with a space between the flange and the plate back equal to the
thickness of the flange formed upon the ends of the clip pieces upon the label
plate.
Instead of having a locking or junction piece in the form of a flat flanged slide
I sometimes make the two half clip-like ends of my plate to unite the one to the
other and I pass my locking piece or key through the two ends thus scarved.
together, or I join the two bands together by means of a recessed channel or groove
on the one portion, and a corresponding bar or rib on the other portion, the one
lapping into the other and drawing the other tight by the taper which I provide.
upon the meeting surfaces.
I may rivet or burr over the joint when the key piece has been introduced or
when the flanges have been placed one within the other.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any particular form of badge
or front plate or to any special shape of band upon the plate, as I sometimes
employ two or more junction' bands when making a long plate, and I apply my.
improvements to marking plates or labels for use upon circular or other rods
forming parts of frames bedsteads or other appliances constructed or built up of
tubes similarly to the manner herein before described when applied to a cycle.
Dated this 6th day of November 1894.
:
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buidings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Badges and Name-plates, and their Attachments,
for Use upon Cycles and for like purposes.
I, THOMAS ALBERT VAUGHTON, of Gothic Works, 193 Great Hampton Row,
in the City of Birmingham, 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 reference to the manner in which I construct name-plates and
other badges and marking labels for attachment to cycles bedsteads and for like
purposes, the object of the invention being to produce a marking plate or label
capable of being attached to a tube or other portion of a cycle or other tubular
structure without requiring that the tube shall be drilled or otherwise prepared for
the reception of the plate.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter
referred to;—
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Figure 2 a side elevation representing my
improved name-plate or badge attached to a cycle tube.
Figure 3 is a plan of the plate or badge with its locking or key piece attached.
Figure 4 is a plan of the plate or badge without the locking or key piece.
Figure 5 is a front elevation and Figure 6 a plan of the locking or key piece, or
junction piece.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In carrying my invention into effect when constructing my plate or badge label
for attachment to a tube such as A. upon a cycle, I make the plate or label
portion Bwith its inner surface curved to suit the tube, and I form a pair of bands
upon the badge or a band such as B made with the plate or label portion B, for
enabling it to clip on to the tube A or for permitting it to be sprung on to any
portion of the frame of the machine. The ends of the clipping arms or band B1
draw together by means of a tapered locking piece or key piece C which I ɛlip
over the flange-like ends of the semicircular bands or band B the flanges being
made preferably with tongue-like grooves for the reception. of like flange pieces
which I form upon my locking clip.
I make my locking or junction piece C preferably of metal in the form of a flat
or-curved tapered plate or bar having a portion of the plate bent over at each side
to form a flange as shown at Figures 5 and 6 with a space between the flange and
the plate back equal to the thickness of the flange formed upon the ends of the
band of the label plate.
Instead of having a locking or junction piece in the form of a flat, flanged side
I sometimes make the two ends of my plate band B¹ to unite the one to the other
and
pass a locking piece or key through the two ends thus scarved together, or
I join the two bands together by means of a recessed channel or groove on the
one portion, and a corresponding bar or rib on the other portion, the one, lapping
into the other and drawing the other tight by the taper which I provide upon; the
meeting surfaces.
I may rivet or burr over the joint when the key piece has been introduced or
when the flanges have been placed one within the other.
or
I do not limit the application of my invention to any particular form of badge
front plate or to any special, shape of band upon the plate, as I sometimes employ
two or more junction bands,when making a long, plate, and I apply my improve-
ments to marking plates or labels for use upon circular or other rods forming parts
of frames bedsteads or other appliances constructed or built up of tubes similarly
to the manner herein before described when applied to a cycle.

page_text: 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. The improved method of attaching a badge or name-plate to a circular or
other tube or rod of a cycle or other appliance substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The improved badge or naine-plate having a clipping band or bands secured
at the ends by a junction or key piece substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination of a badge or name-plate with a clipping attachment
substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.