Improvements in Spoke Grips.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spoke Grips.
We, WILLIAM ARTHUR LLOYD and JOHN BLYTH, Managing Directors of
W. A. Lloyd and Company Limited, of Lionel Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, 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 instruments for the tightening up of cycle-wheel spokes,
known as "spoke-grips," and has relation to the means for swivelly connecting the
operating screw with the traversing jaw part.
By our invention, the inner terminal end of the traversing screw is swivelly
connected to the gripping jaw in such a way that the said gripping jaw is propelled
and repelled upon a slide rest and towards the fixed jaw, which is formed with a
spoke seating.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a plan of a spoke grip, whose
movable jaw part is connected to the end of the traversing screw part, in accordance
with our invention.
Figure 2 represents a side elevation of Figure 1, whilst Figure 3 represents a
longitudinal vertical section upon the dotted lines X-X Figure 1, whilst Figure 4
is a cross section of Figure 3 upon the dotted line A.
Figure 5 shows the gripping jaw and traversing screw, with its lever end,
separately.
Figure 6 represents a section and a front elevation of the gripping jaw separately.
Figure 7 represents a topside plan of the carrying frame, with fixed jaw,
separately.
In Figures 1 to 7, a is the frame or body part of the instrument, a¹ the bed,
a² the fixed head, as the grip seating and as a screw box, wherethrough a traversing
screw b, having a lever or turn 61, at its end, passes, with the headed or enlarged
end or circular boss 62, taking into, and working freely within, an undercut or like-
shaped gap c', of a gripping jaw c, having upon its front side, a chisel-shaped
nose, of which the overhanging inclined plane c³, forms the impingement or
gripping contact, between which and the seating a³, the spoke to be held comes.
Thus, when a spoke is held, the instrument, together with it, is rotated, and the
wormed end of the said spoke is screwed into the hub of the wheel.
It will be seen that by rotating the lever or cross end in one or other directions,
the head end 6', of the screw b, is rotated within the boxed gap cl, and the screwed
stem b, is turned within the screw box a', and by it, the gripping jaw c, is traversed
for gripping or releasing.
Figure 8 represents a modified form of our means of connecting the screw part of
spoke grip to the jaw part, in which bis the screwed stem, having a channel b²,
nade circumferentially around the same near its end, into which the end of a screw
or pin d, which passes through the walls of the jaw c, enters, and thereby swivelly
connects the said screw to the jaw.
As a modification of the first form of grip, a swivelling connection may be made
y a converse arrangement of the parts, such as represented in Figure 9.
c is the gripping jaw, c' the necked head, b the screwed stem, 62 the head and
the box gap within it.
The traversing jaw is kept from rising by a screw or pin e, working through a
lot a, in the body a, of the instrument.

page_text: 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 :-
:-
First. In spoke grips, uniting the inner end of the propelling screw with or to
the traversing gripping jaw by a swivelling connection, substantially as set forth.
Secondly. In spoke grips, swivelly connecting or uniting the inner end of the
propelling screw with or to the traversing gripping jaw by a head, or a necked
head on the end of the screw part taking into a gap, or an undercut gap, or a boxed
gap on the other or traversing jaw part, substantially as described and set forth in
Figures 1 to 7.
Thirdly. In spoke grips, swivelly connecting or uniting the inner end of the
propeiling screw with or to the traversing gripping jaw by the means and in the
way substantially as described and set forth in Figures 8 and 9.
Dated this 16th day of August. 1894.
WILLIAM ARTHUR LLOYD,
JOHN BLYTH,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.