US680816A - Mud-guard for cycles. - Google Patents

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No; 680,8I6. Patented Aug. 20, mm. W.-J. STEVENS, w. E. mmmu & IF. R; BLUEMEL.

MUD GUARD FUR CYCLES.

(Application flied Mar. 5, 1000.)

(N0 Model.)

2 Sheets-Sheet I.

Patented Aug. 20; MM. H. BLUEMEIL.

no. 680,8l6.

W. J. STEVENS, H. E. HABROLD &. F.

MUD GUARD FUR CYCLES.

(Application filgd Mar. 5, 1900.) No Model.) 2 Sheeur-Sheet 2.

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WILLIAM J. STEVENS, OF LONDON, I-IENRY E. HARROLD, OF LEVVISIIAIVI,

AND FREDERICK R. BLUEMEL, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MUD GUARD FOR GYCLES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 680,816, dated August 20, 1901..

Ap li ation filed March 5, 1900. Serial No. 7,439. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM JAMES STEVENS, of Bancroft WVorks, Bancroft road, Mile End, London, HENRY EBENEZER HAR- ROLD, of 13 Lewisham Hill, county of Kent, and FREDERICK RICHARD BLUEMEL, of Bancroft Works, Bancroft road, Mile End, London, England, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Stays for Mud-Guards of Cycles, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improved attachments for mud-guards for cycles, and has for its object to provide improved means for readily attaching or detaching the said guards to or from the machine, such means being convenient, light in weight, and inexpensive in construction.

Our invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is an elevation of the hinder portion of a bicycle with the apparatus in position. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, and Fig. 3 an end elevation, of the spindle end of the attachment. Fig. 4c shows a bridge piece adapted to be attached to the inside of the mud-guard and having its ends open for the reception of the ends of the stays. Fig. 5 is a side View of the said bridge-piece, showing the engagement of the stay ends therein. Fig. 6 is a front view, and Fig. 7an end view, of a modification of the spindle attachment. Fig. 8 is a front elevation, and Fig. 9 is a section on the lines IX to IX of Fig. 8 of another modification of the spindle in detachment. Fig. 10 is a front View, and Fig. 11 a side View, of another form of spindle and detachment plate. Fig. 12 is a front view of the stamping which forms the portion inserted in the plate.

In the drawings the frame 1, wheel 2, and mud-guard 3 of the cycle may be of any desired construction, these parts forming no part of our invention.

The stays 4 are usually formed of a single piece of wire bent together at its middle into the form shownin Fig. 2 or the alternative construction, Fig. 6. The bent portion, Fig.

2, of the stays has a portion of the material 5o hole 8 for the adjustable bolt, and a hole 10,

in which is secured the rivet holding the spring 11. This spring, which may be a leafspring of the outline shown in Fig. 3 or any other suitable construction, has attached to it the stud or pin 12, which pin serves to secure the stays in the socket.

The construction of the device for uniting the upper ends of the stays to the mud-guard may be as follows, reference being made to Figs. 4 and 5: A bridge-piece 18 is provided, consisting of a strip of steel or thelike folded over and shaped into an arch corresponding to the curve of the mud-guard, to the inside of which it is riveted or otherwise attached. The ends 13 of the said bridge-piece are opened out sufficiently to admit of the insertion from behind of the ends of the stay-wires. These ends are bent into the curved form shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, and slots or openings 19 are provided in the bridge-piece for the purpose of securing the ends of the stay wires therein. The requisite adjustment in height of the mud-guard is effected by placing the said stay-ends in the upper or the lower slots of the bridge-piece, respectively. The mud-guard itself is usually secured to the frame by straps or otherwise in the ordinary manner, as well as held in place by the device of our invention.

In place of the construction illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 we mayin some cases adopt the construction shown in Figs. 6 and '7 in which the plate is formed without possibility of adjustment of the stays therein, but having an elongated slot for the spindle of the wheel, enabling the requisite adjustment of the device to be efiected by adjusting the spindle in the said slot and fastening it in place by screwing up the nut 7.

The operation of'the device is as follows:

The plates 5 having been placed one on each side of the axle and the sockets 13 being suitably secured on each side of the mud-guard the stays 4 are inserted in the rectangular 5 box formed by the plate 5 by lifting up the spring 11 and bolt 12 and adjusting the same to the cavities 8 or 9, respectively, in the ends of the stays. It is immaterial in this construction whether the said stays are joined at their lower end or arejormed of two separate pieces.

In the alternative form of construction shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the plate 5 has a rectangular piece stamped in its upper part, one edge of which is undercut, so as togrip the loop of the stay-wires, which are slipped underthe said undercut portion, as shown in the drawings, the lower portion of the plate Z 5-having been previously adjusted in its place by means of the nut 7.

The invention abovedescribed may be constructed in other modifications, as follows, reference being made to Sheet 2 of the draw ings, in which, referring first to Figs. 8 and 9, the plate is formed, as shown, with a raised slotted part 14. The portion of the said plate consequently formsv a box and serves, togetherw'iththe said T-shaped slot,

as the entrance and holding device for the stays.

The stays are formed of a single piece of wire bent at its middle into the form v shown in the drawings. The T-shapedbend of the, stays can therefore be passed into the slot of the box 14 at rightangles to the plane of the wheel, and by simply moving the wires sidewise into the position parallel to the; plane of the wheel they are caused to firmly engage in the plate.

Figs. 10, 11, and 12 illustrate another modification in which the plate 5 has fixed upon: it a stud or button 15-, having pieces cut out of its periphery at 16, the edges of said outout portions being undercut, substantially-as shown in the drawings. The correspondingpart 17, Fig. 12, can then be slipped over-the said studs and caused to turn intoits permanent position, engaging the-projection on its,

internal surface beneath the undercut portions of the studs 15. Inv this construction the stays are firmly secured to the part 17', E or the stays may be formed of a single piece of wire bent together at its middle to serve: the purpose of the part 17.

tus to suit the cycle or velocipede on which it is required to be used according to the size of the wheel or wheels.

Although the device is illustrated as applied to the hind wheel of a cycle, it is equally adaptable to the frontwheel thereof, as will be obvious from the drawings.

The parts forming our invention are preferably made as stampings; but they may be cast or otherwise, if found desirable. They may be of any suitable metal.

What we claim is- 1. Mud-guard support for cycles consisting of the combination of spindle attachments, l detachable stays adapted to be attached at one end to said attachments and provided at the other end with bent portio.ns,and abridgepiece adapted to be attachedto the mud guard and possessing open ends provided withslots for the. reception of the bent portions of the stay-ends, substantially as described. 2. Mud-guard support for-cycles consisting j of the combination of adjustablesp-indle attachments, detachable stays adapted to be '1 attached at one end to. said attachments and provided at. theother end with. bent portions,

and a brid-geepieceg adapted to be attached to the mud-guard and possessing open ends. provided with slots for the reception of the bent portions of the stay-ends, substantially as described. I v 3. Mud-guard support for-cyclesconsisting 1 of the combination of spindle attachments, detachable stays adapted to beattached at one. end to; said attachments and provided at the other end withbent portions, and a bridge raised slotted portion 14 adapted to be fixed 5 on the spindle, the stays 4, t with bent outer ends and with a bentv portion at their'spindle tends to engage with the slotted portion 14, 5 the bridge-piece 1'8 with open ends andslots E 19,19 therein for the adjustable reception of Ethe outer ends of the stays, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this; specification in; the presence of ltwo subscribing witnesses.

, W. J STEVENS.

' H. E. HARROLD. F. R. BLUEMEL.

Witnesses:

WALTER J. S'KERTEN,

LEONARD E. HAYNES.

of the combination of the plate 20 with the

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