Improvements in Attachment Clips for Pneumatic Tyre Inflators.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 20th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachment Clips for Pneumatic Tyre Inflators.
I, ROBERT FREDERICK HALL, Managing Director of the Cycle Components
Manufacturing Company Limited, of Bournebrook near the City of Birmingham,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has relation to means for securing pneumatic tyre inflators to
cycle framings, and known in commerce, as pump clips, and has for its object, a
simply-attached, self-adjusting and non-scratching clip.
The said attachment means consists of two parts, one of which is in the form of a
metal band, comprehending about three quarters of a circle, with the extreme ends
rolled over, and with those parts of the metal immediately adjacent to the said ends
pierced and formed into tongues, whose free ends are formed with longitudinal
openings, and the metal surrounding these openings is raised or swelled. This
inetallic part is secured about its middle to the inflator either by soldering or
rivetting, and normally embraces the pump barrel.
The other part of the attachment consists of a flexible india rubber band, with
the ends fitted with and stiffened by metallic or other plates, having their outer
ends formed into hooks and secured to the rubber band by cleats or turned over
ears made integral with or otherwise secured to, the said metallic end plates, which
said hooks are adapted to engage with the piercings in the tongues of the fast
metallic clip carried by or secured to the pump.
In use, the pump is provided with two sets of such clips, and in attaching the
same to a tubular member of a machine, simply bring the pump up to the said
framing member, cross the top of the same by the bands and connect the hooks with
the piercings or eyes in the metal parts.
Composite or two-part band clips constructed according to my invention. are
easily attached, self adjusted and do not scratch the enamel of a machine.
Dated this 31st day of October 1895.
Improvements in Attachment Clips for Pneumatic Tyre Inflators.
I, ROBERT FREDERICK HALL, Managing Director of the Cycle Components
Manufacturing Company Limited, of Bournbrook, near the City of Birmingham,
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 relation to means for securing pneumatic tyre inflators to
cycle framings, and known in commerce as pump clips, and has for its object, a
simply-attached and self-adjusting clip, not liable to scratch or otherwise injure
the enamel of a machine framing.
The said attachment means consists of two parts, one of which is in the form of a

page_text: metal band, comprehending about three quarters of a circle, with the extreme ends
rolled over to form seatings or bearings for the machine framing member to come
against when the pump is attached thereto and with those parts of the metal
immediately adjacent to the said ends pierced and formed into tongues, whose free
ends are formed with longitudinal openings. This metallic part is secured about
its middle to the inflator, either by brazing or rivetting, and normally embraces a
suitable part of the said pump.
The other part of the attachment consists of a flexible india rubber band, with
the ends fitted with and stiffened by metallic or other plates having their outer ends
formed into hooks and secured to the rubber band by cleats or turned over ears
made integral with, or otherwise secured to, the said metallic end plates, which said
books are adapted to engage with the piercings in the tongues of the fast metallic
clip carried by or secured to the pump.
use, the pump is provided with two sets of such clips, and in attaching the
same to a tubular member of a machine, simply bring the pump up to the said
framing member, cross the top of the same by the bands and connect the hooks
with the piercings or eyes in the metal parts.
Composite or two-part band clips constructed according to my invention are
easily attached, self adjusted and do not scratch the enamel of a machine.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a pair of my improved self-
adjusting pump clips attached respectively to the barrel and tubular grip of an
inflator and in use for securing the same to a member of a cycle framing.
Figure 2 represents a vertical section of Figure 1 upon the dotted line a.
Figure 3 shows a plan of the rubber embracing band part of the clip and its
hooked end fittings.
Figure 4 represents one of the said band end fittings separately and before its
securing cleats are turned down onto the end of the rubber strip.
Figure 5 represents the blank from which the fitting Figure 4 is made.
Figure 6 is an edge view of the metallic pump-embracing part of the clip, with
the eyed parts of which the hooks of the end fittings of the rubber band engage,
whilst the extreme ends of the metal band are rolled over and constitute a seating
for the member of a machine frame to take bearing upon.
Figure 7 is a side elevation of Figure 6, and Figure 8 represents, in plan and
edge view, the sheet metal blank from which the part of the clip shown in Figures 6
and 7 is made.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 8 of
the drawing.
a is a pneumatic tyre inflator or pump, consisting of a barrel or body part a¹, and
a tubular grip a², and secured to the member or tube b of a cycle framing by a pair
of clips or attachments e, one carried by the grip part of the inflator and the other
by the body or barrel of the same. Each of these clips comprehends two primary
parts d, and e, the part d, consisting of a metal band or strip d', secured by
rivetting, brazing, or otherwise to the pump and nearly encircling the same and
with parts adjacent to the ends cut out into tongues d², which are pierced at d³,
with longitudinal openings, whilst the extreme ends d, of the said band are rolled
over and form bearings do, against which the framing member b, comes when the
pump is secured thereto.
The part e, of the clip or attachment consists of a flexible band e¹, formed from
a continuous ring or strip of india rubber, flattened upon itself and having its ends e²,
provided with plates f, formed with hooks f, at its ends which engage with the
piercings d³, in the fixed part d, of the clip, which said plates are secured to the
flexible band by turned-down cleats or ears 1. One of the said hooks after being
engaged with its corresponding piercing d³, is turned or rolled over in order to
make a permanent attachment of the flexible band to the fast metal part of the
clip. The other ends f³, of the plates are turned over into finger holds for
facilitating the engagement of the hooks of the one part with the eyes or loops of
the other part.

page_text: Figure 9 represents a plan of a further form of my invention in which the fixed.
clip on the tubular grip is dispensed with and the pierced tongues and frame
member seatings are formed from the metal of the said grip.
Figure 10 is a side elevation of Figure 9 and Figure 11 is a section of Figure 10.
upon the dotted line x².
a is a pneumatic tyre inflator or air pump, the body part a', of which is provided
with a two-part clip alike as previously described in the previous Figures 1 to 8,.
whilst the tubular grip a², has tongues a cut out of its opposite sides and pierced
with longitudinal openings at, with which the hooked ends of the flexible band clip-
shown in Figure 3 engage.
The grip is also split longitudinally at a and the split
parts rolled over to form seatings a, for the framing member b, to which the
inflator is secured to take a bearing upon.
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. A two-part self-adjusting attachment clip for pneumatic tyre inflators,
consisting of an elastic or flexible band having metallic end fittings, one of which
is connected to, and the other adapted to engage with, loops or eyes formed either
out of parts of the metal of a fixed band, plates or equivalents carried by the
inflator or formed from out of the metal of the grip of the said inflator, substantially
as described and set forth.
Secondly. In the metallic end fittings of the flexible band part of the inflator
clips referred to in the preceding claim, making the same from sheet metal and
with integral cleats or ears, which, when turned down, secure the said metallic
fittings to the ends of the said flexible band, substantially as described and set
forth.
Thirdly. In the fixed part of the attachment clip for inflators as referred to in
the first claim, forming the eyes with which the hooks of the flexible band engage
integral with the said fixed part and thickening or rolling over the extreme ends
of the same to form a seating for the framing member, substantially as described.
and set forth.
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ROBERT FREDERICK HALL,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant..