Improvements in Mud Guards for Velocipedes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mud Guards for Velocipedes.
We GEORGE KILBURN of 59 Broad Street, Northampton in the County of
Northampton, Clothier and WALTON PAGE of 63 Sheep Street in the same town
and county, Cardboard Box Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to provide light detachable mud guards of such an
character that they may be readily detached from or fixed to a velocipede and
when not in use may be carried in a small case or wallet.
In carrying out our invention we form our mud guard in short lengths or sections
fitting into cach other and capable of attachment to the machine as hereafter
described.
We may form our mud guard sections of xylonite tubing or other light material
the ends of the sections being fitted with metal joints engaging with or sliding into
each other; or they may be formed of steel wire frames fitted together by means
of socket or other convenient joints with a light leather or waterproof sheath or
cover to fit over all or sections of light steel or xylonite plates may be used.
shouldered at one end and screwed together a washer being inserted to prevent
vibration.
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To support the guard in position we pivot at or near the axle two light rods or
stays one at each side of the wheel and these when not in use may be turned upu
parallel with the fork and secured by a clip or other device. At or near the outer
end section of the mud guard is attached an arched clip carrying lugs to which the
outer ends of the stays are screwed or otherwise secured, and these lugs are further
provided with attachments or means for attaching two other light rods or back-
stays which extend inwardly and take into sockets formed in a clip or like device -
which is fixed to the fork of the machine and forms the means for securing the
pivotted stays when in use.
The end of the first section of the guard takes into a socketted clip fixed or
fitted at a convenient point on the frame, say just over the treadle.
It will be seen that the same arrangement with but little alteration of details
will apply to either wheel and that the only portions of the apparatus carried
normally by the machine are the folding or pivotted stays attached near the axle
which when not in use are folded back and secured to the frame and even these
may be loose and made to fit or screw to lugs on the fork or frame.
Dated this 30th day of June 1891.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,.
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in Mud Guards for Velocipedes:*
GEORGE KILBURN 59 Broad Street Northampton Clothier WALTON PAGE
Box Manufacturer Woodlands, Kingsley Road, Northampton, 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 :-
The object of our invention is to enable cyclists to readily attach and detach
their mud-guards, and to carry them when detached in a convenient form.
We effect our object in the following way. The guards slide into metal socketa
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page_text: permanently affixed to the machine, and are supported by stays which, when not in
use, fold back to the frame of machine..
Each guard is made in sections which are secured together by spring-studs
attached to metal sockets, and when detached these short sections can be con-
veniently carried in a bag, or otherwise, as the cyclist may desire.
Having now described the nature of our invention we proceed to explain it in
detail by aid of the accompanying drawings.
The sockets (B. B B.) are formed of thin pieces of metal curved to a corre-
sponding section with the guards, the metal being bent over, or returned, at the
sides to form flanges, or lugs, thus forming a socket into which the end of the
guard fits. These metal sockets are affixed to the machine in the following
manner, viz.
(a.) The socket for front-wheel guard at the crown of the fork.
(6.) The socket for back-wheel and distored to a clamp fixed between the
stays behind the crank-bracket.
The front-guard socket is fitted with a spring-stud (P) which being pressed down
admits the guard to slide into socket, and being released it goes through a small
hole in the guard, and so renders it impossible for the guard to vibrate out of the
socket.
The sections (a) are attached, and detached, to and from each other as follows-
With the exception of the two terminal sections (a a) each section is fitted at one
end with an ornamental metal socket (c) stamped out of sheet brass, (and formed
in a similar manner to sockets B, B B, before described,) into which, upon the
spring (D) being pressed, the corresponding section (F) is allowed to slide, and is
there secured by the spring-stud (E) and can only be again detached by pressing
down the spring.
The last section of both the front and back guards end in a curved metal
mount (T).
The stays (G) are attached to the machine, and the guards, as follows. In the
case of the front wheel the stays are attached to jointed clips (H) cramped near
the bottom of the forks. In the case of the back-wheel the stays are jointed to a
washer-joint (1) fitted to the cone pin. Each pair of stays is braced together at
the end next the guard by an arched clip (K) to which clip the guard is secured
by a revolving stud (L). The back-guard is further secured to the machine by a
similar stud which fastens it to a brace between the stays.
The stays are jointed in the aforesaid manner in order to enable them to be
folded back close to the frame, when the guards are removed (Fig. 1) and are held
in that position by spring clips (N) fastened to front forks, and back stays.
L
We purpose making the sections of xylonite or other suitable light material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
(a) Making the guards in sections.
(b) The method of joining the sections together.
Attaching guards to the machine by means of sockets.
(d) Folding, and securing, the stays to the frame.
WALTON PAGE.
GEORGE KILBURN..