Improvements in or relating to Clips for Carrying Pneumatic Tire Inflators on Velocipedes, for Holding Papers, and for other similar purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 17th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Clips for Carrying Pneumatic Tire
Inflators on Velocipedes, for Holding Papers, and for other
similar purposes.
I, JOHN JAMES HENRY STURMEY of No. 19 Hertford Street Coventry in the
County of Warwick, Journalist do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates primarily to spring clips for carrying inflators and other
articles on velocipedes in such a way that the said articles may be readily attached
to and detached from the machine, but is also applicable to clips for holding papers
together and for other purposes, and has for its object the production of an efficient
clip of light weight at small cost.
In carrying out my invention as applied to carrying inflators on velocipedes, I
take a piece of wire of a suitable kind and dimensions and bend it into a loop with
straight and parallel or approximately straight and parallel sides as in an ordinary
hair pin. I next so bend the loop about the middle that the ends pass one another
and a double ring with projecting ends is formed. I then bring the ends together
again so as to form a second double ring contiguous to the first and, finally, bend
the ends away from one another. If desired the free ends of the wire may be
connected together in any convenient manner and then, in some cases, may be
situated at a different position in the clip. The clip thus formed represents a
figure 8 of double wire, closed at the bottom and crossed in the middle but open or
openable at the top.
Instead of making the clip of wire it may be made of strip metal the portions
forming the upper ring being forked, slotted, or otherwise shaped so as to pass one
another without sideway displacement. Whether of wire or strip the clip is
preferably made of soft metal and is hardened and tempered after being bent into
shape so as to obtain the requisite springiness.
One ring of the clip is shaped to grip the inflator and the other to grip the part
of the machine to which it is to be attached. The clip is attached to the article to
he gripped by the closed ring by pulling the ends apart until the opposite sides of
the open ring approach, meet and pass one another a sufficient distance to allow
the passage of the said article into the said closed ring, when the clip is allowed to
resume its normal position: The grip of the clip on the article in the closed ring
is increased by the insertion of the other article into the open ring, which is done
by forcing it in between the turned back ends. The clips are preferably made
with the closed rings larger in diameter than the open and remain attached to the
article gripped by the closed rings, when one article is detached from the other by
pulling it out of the clip or clips.
In adapting and using the clip for holding together papers and similar articles
the closed ring acts as a spring and handle and does not necessarily grip anything
directly. The open ring may be made larger than the closed ring and the ends
fashioned or provided with additional surfaces for obtaining a firm grip on the
papers. Pinching the closed ring tends to open the ends or jaws and release the
papers.
In order to obtain a more flexible clip it may be constructed with two or more
closed rings instead of one. The clins may be brought into the shapes described

page_text: by any other process than those herein before mentioned and other modifications
may be made without departing from my invention.
Dated this 10th day of February 1893.
W. B. MAXFIELD,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Clips for Carrying Pneumatic Tire
Inflators on Velocipedes, for Holding Papers, and for other
similar purposes.
I, JOHN JAMES HENRY STURMEY of No. 19 Hertford Street Coventry, in the
County of Warwick, Journalist 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 :-
My invention relates primarily to spring clips for carrying inflators and other
articles on velocipedes in such a way that the said articles may be readily attached
.to and detached from the machine but is also applicable to clips for holding papers
together and for other purposes and has for its object the production of an efficient
clip of light weight at sinall cost.
In carrying out my invention as applied to carrying inflators on velocipedes I
take a piece of wire of a suitable kind and dimensions and bend it into a loop with
straight and parallel or approximately straight and parallel sides as in an ordinary
hairpin. I next so bend the loop about the middle that the ends pass one another
and a double ring with projecting ends is formed. I then bring the ends together
again so as to form a second double ring contiguous to the first and finally bend the
ends away from one another. If desired the free ends of the wire may be connected
together in any convenient manner and these in some cases, may be situated at a
different position in the clip. The clip thus formed represents a figure.8 of double
wire, closed at the bottom and crossed in the middle but open or openable at the
top. Instead of making the clip of wire it may be made of strip metal, the portions
forming the upper ring being forked, slotted or otherwise shaped so as to pass one
another without sideway displacement. Whether of wire or strip the clip is pre-
ferably made of soft metal and is hardened and tempered after being bent into
shape, so as to obtain the requisite springiness. One ring of the clip is shaped to
grip the inflator and the other to grip the part of the machine to which it is to be
attached. The clip is attached to the article to be gripped by the closed ring by
pulling the ends apart until the opposite sides of the open ring approach, meet and
pass one another a sufficient distance to allow the passage of the said article into
the said closed ring, when the clip is allowed to resume its normal position. The
grip of the clip on the article in the closed ring is increased by the insertion of the
other article into the open ring, which is done by forcing it in between the turned
back ends. The clips are preferably made with the closed rings larger in diameter
than the open and remain attached to the article gripped by the closed rings, when
one article is detached from the other by pulling it out of the clip or clips.
In adapting and using the clip for holding together papers and similar articles,
the closed ring acts as a spring and handle and does not necessarily grip anything
directly. The open ring may be made larger than the closed ring and the ends
fashioned or provided with additional surfaces for obtaining a firm grip on the
papers. Pinching the closed ring tends to open the ends or jaws and release the
papers.
In order that my invention may be well understood I append drawings which
show the general form and arrangement of the parts of my invention but modifica-
ticns can be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

page_text: Figures I and II show in perspective a piece of wire in two stages in the course
of constructing a clip according to my invention.
Figures II and IV show in perspective clips constructed respectively of wire
and strip according to my invention.
Figure V is an end view showing the method of passing an article into the closed
ring.
Figure VI is a similar view showing the method of passing an article into the
open ring.
Figure VII is an end view of a clip for holding papers and constructed according
to my invention.
Figure VIII is a similar view showing a clip constructed with an additional
closed ring according to my invention and attaching one article to another.
Figure IX is a broken side view showing an extended clip constructed in accord-
ance with my invention carrying an inflator 11 on the upper backbone 10 of. a
diamond framed safety bicycle.
The piece of wire is first bent into a loop with straight and parallel or approxi-
mately parallel sides as in Figure I. It is next so bent about the middle 2 of
the loop that the ends 3, 4, pass one another, the free ends 4 either passing both
between, or one between and one outside or both outside the members of the double
end 3. A double ring 5 with projecting ends 3, 4, is thus formed (Figure II). I
then bring the ends 3, 4, together again so as to form a second double ring 6
contiguous to the first (5) and finally bend the ends 3, 4, back or away from one
another (Figure III). Or the ends 3, 4, may be bent back before forming the
second ring 6 if preferred. If the members constituting the end + both pass
between or both outside of the members constituting the end 3 (but not otherwise),
the free ends of the wire at 4 may be connected together by a sleeve 7 as shown
(Figure III) or by any other convenient means. The clip thus formed represents
a figure 8 of double wire, closed at the bottom and crossed in the middle but open
or openable at the top.
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Instead of making the clip of wire it may be made of strip metal as shown in
Figure IV, one of the portions of the upper ring terminating at 3 being slotted (8)
and the other portion terminating at 4 passes through the slot, it being made
sufficiently narrow (9) for the purpose.
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The clip is attached to the upper backbone or other article 10 to be gripped by
the closed ring 5 by pulling the ends 3, 4 apart until the opposite sides of the open
ring 6 approach, meet and pass one another a sufficient distance to allow the passage
of the said backbone into the said closed ring as shown in Figures V and VIII.
And if both the ends 3, 4 be closed, the end say 3, the members of which are
passed outside the members of the other (4) in making the clip (Figure II), is
preferably made longer than the other so that the ends may readily pass each other
in drawing them apart in the manner above described. If either or both of the
free ends terminating at 4 be passed between the members of the end 3, such free
end or ends is or are preferably made shorter than the end 3, with a like object.
The inflator or other article (11) is inserted into the open ring 6 (when the clip
has resumed its normal or approximately normal position after the insertion of the
backbone 10 into the closed ring (5) by forcing it in between the turned back
ends 3, 4 as shown in Figures VI and VIII.
The closed ring 5 is preferably made larger than the open ring 6, and the clip
remains attached to the backbone 10 gripped by the closed and larger ring 5 when
the inflator 11 is detached from the backbone 10 by pulling the inflator out of the
clip in the manner reverse to that in which it entered the clip.
In Figure VII is represented a clip, adapted for holding papers. The closed
ring 5 acts as a spring and handle and does not grip anything directly. The
open ring 6 is made larger than the closed ring and the ends 3, 4 are provided
with additional surfaces 12, 13 for obtaining a firm grip on the papers. Pinching

page_text: the closed ring 5 tends to open the ends as shown in dotted lines and to release-
the papers.
In Figure VIII is represented a clip, constructed with an additional closed
ring 14. The clip is made from a piece of wire correspondingly longer than that
illustrated in Figures III, V and VI but it is made up in the same way as it,
except that the process of making the closed ring 5 is repeated to make the ring 14.
The object of the additional ring is to increase the flexibility of the clip and it
accomplishes it by increasing the length of wire over which the strains are
distributed.
The wire clips may be made in single form instead of doubled (as described and
illustrated) but I prefer to make them doubled as they are steadier sideways than
when single and I further prefer to make the clips of extended form as shown in
Figure IX or to use the shorter clips (as shown in Figure III in pairs, as they
hold the articles together more securely than if only one short single clip be used
at a time. Where an article to be held is free-or nearly free ended it may in
some cases be easier to slide the clip over such end thereof than to insert it in
the closed ring, or to a less degree, in the open ring, in the manner hereinbefore
described, especially where the clip is not constructed with an additional ring or
rings as shown at 14 Figure VIII. The clips may be brought into the shapes
described and illustrated by any other convenient process or processes than
those hereinbefore described and other modifications may be made without departing.
from my invention.
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 clip, for carrying pneumatic tire inflators on velocipedes, for holding
papers and for other similar purposes, consisting of a single piece of wire or strip
of metal or other suitable material constructed, arranged and operating substantially
as set forth.
2. A clip, constructed from a single piece of wire or strip of metal or other
suitable material, and consisting of two or more rings, firstly, a normally closed
ring, secondly a closed or partly open ring and in some cases, third, one or more
.closed rings; the first ring being adapted to receive, hold and continue to hold
one of two articles, the second, to readily receive the second of the two said
articles, and to hold the same but in such a way that the second article may be
readily withdrawn therefrom, thereby rendering the said articles readily
attachable to and detachable from each other; and the third ring or rings
being adapted, if used, to add to the flexibility of the clip; substantially as
described.
3. The improved clip or clips for carrying pneumatic tire inflators on velocipedeg
and for other similar purposes substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
by Figures III and IX of the accompanying drawings.
4. The improved clip for carrying pneumatic tire inflators on velocipedes and
for other similar purposes substantially as herein before described and illustrated
by Figure IV of the accompanying drawings.
5. The improved clip for holding papers and for other similar purposes
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figure VII of the
accompanying drawings.
6. In a clip for carrying pneumatic tire inflators on velocipedes for holding
papers and for other similar purposes, constructed from a single piece of wire or
strip of metal or other suitable material, the employment of an additional ring or
rings adapted to add to the flexibility of the said clip substantially as hereinbefore
described, and illustrated by way of example at 14, Figure VIII, in the accom-
panying drawings.
7. The improvements in clips for carrying pneumatic tire inflators on velocipedes,

page_text: for holding papers and for other similar purposes substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated.
Dated this 16th day of November 1893.
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Registered Patent Agent,
"The Central" Office for Patents, &c.,
19, Bowling Green Street, Leicester, Applicant's Agent.