Improvements in and connected with Velocipede Bells and Gongs.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 23rd Oct.,
1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Velocipede Bells and Gongs.
I, CAESAR BERNSTEIN of Messergrasse 39 Breslau in the German Empire,
Merchant, 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 devices employed for the the prevention or detection of
the act of theft of bicycles and other velocipedes and consists in the construction
and adaptation of appliances for putting the bell or gong at will into locked
contact with one of the wheels of the machine so that when that wheel is rotated
the bell or gong is sounded and an alarm is created.
I will describe my said Invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
which illustrate my improvements as applied to the front wheel of a bicycle and
in which:-
Figure 1 shews a sectional side view and
Figure 2, a plan.
Upon the right side of the handle bar a there is the usual brake lever b, and upon
the left side, a similar lever c, for putting the bell or gong in action. A double
gongd has, between its two domes, a rotary disc or wheel, the rotation of which
sounds the gong. The rotary wheel or disc projects beyond the domes, so that
when the device is lowered into contact with the tyre t, the wheel or disc is rotated
and the gong is sounded. I may employ various means for lowering the gong
upon the tyre t and for raising it as well as for locking it when the sound of the
gong is desired to be produced, but prefer to use those illustrated. The gong
is attached by a curved arm to the lower end of a hollow rode through which the
brake rod g passes and the upper part of this rod is connected as shewn with the
bell lever c. A latch is pivoted upon the bell lever c and ordinarily occupies
the horizontal position as shewn by the full lines Figure 1. When the latch is
in this position the gong may be sounded at will by the rider, by simply raising
the lever c towards the handle-bar a. Above the pivot of the latch there is
secured upon the handle-bar a catch i with which the latch may be engaged and
locked automatically by a spring lock or any other suitable locking device. If
the latch is raised into the vertical position as shewn by the dotted lines, and the
bell lever be then raised, the latch and catch will engage and be locked. Now.
the
gong is in fixed contact with the tyre, and the machine cannot be moved in the
ordinary way without sounding an alarm. The owner of the machine may dis-
engage the gong by means of his private key when he requires to use the machine.
By means of these Improvements the bell or gong is actuated in a much more
convenient manner than is the case at present with similarly placed bells, since
the rider has not to reach down to take hold of the cord by which such bells are
actuated.
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:-

page_text: connected with a gong or bell actuated by contact with the tyre of a velocipede
wheel, of a latch and catch capable of being automatically interlocked, constructed
and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth and as illustrated by
the accompanying drawings.
2. In connection with a velocipede, a bell lever c having a pivoted latch thereon,
a catch on the handle bar with which the latch may be locked, a tube or rod con-
pected with the bell lever and an arm at the lower end of the tube or rod carrying
the gong, constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of September A.D. 1897.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.