US598547A

US598547A - Folding bicycle-stand

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Publication number: US598547A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-02-08
Anticipated expiration: 1915-02-08

Description

(No Model.)

H. L. WHITE. PUDDING BICYGLE STAND. NO. 598,547. Patented Feb. 8, 1898.

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FOLDING BICYCLE-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,547, dated February 8, 1898.

Application filed February 19, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HAMMOND L. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Bicycle-Stands, of which the following is a specification.

My invent-ion relates especially to devices employed for supporting bicycles when not in use, and has for its object the provision of a simple, cheap, compact, and effectual stand, which may be folded together, occupying but little space. i To attain the desired end my invention consists in certain novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts and peculiarities of construction and operation, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved stand, showing the parts in position for receiving the wheel of a bicycle. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the movable parts of the stand as folded together.

Like numerals of reference wherever they occur indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

1 is the main portion or base of the frame of the stand, made of suitable metal rod bent as shown, the ends of the rod being connected together at 2.

3 and 4. are diagonal braces which cross each other and are connected to the transverse bars of the base 1. Loosely connected to the to the other brace 4 is a similar loop '7.

8 and 9 are short loops projecting from the base 1, at right angles thereto, arranged to receive the tire of a Wheel.

Pivoted at the larger extremity of the base 1 is an upright support 10 for the wheel.

WVhen constructed and arranged in accordance with the foregoing description and the parts extended, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the loops 6 and 7 come in contact with the transverse bars of the base 1 near their inner extremities and with the floor or ground at their outer extremities, and when a wheel is Serial No. 624,129. (No model.)

placed within the

loops

8 and 9 and the sup port 10 the pressure of the transverse bars of the base 1 upon the lateral loops holds them firmly in position, sustaining the bicycle in a perfect manner.

VVhen-not in use, the support 10 folds forward, passing over the

short loops

8 and 9, and the loops 6 and 7 by reason of my peculiar mode of connection to the diagonal brace: pieces 3 and 4 may each swing one-fourth of a circle, bringing them beneath the base 1, parallel thereto and to each other. As the entire stand is now flat and very compact, it occupies but little space and may be hung up or placed in any position out of the Way.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A folding bicycle-stand in which are comprised a base-piece provided with supports for the bottom of a wheel; a side support pivoted to an extremity of the base and two lateral arms pivoted to the base and arranged to extend horizontally from the base upon the same plane, substantially as shown and described.

2. In afolding bicycle-stand, a base-piece, provided with diagonalbraces,in combination with arms loosely connected to said braces and arranged to extend horizontally from the base upon the same plane, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination with a base-piece carrying loops for engaging the tire of a wheel, of loops loosely connected to said base-piece, and arranged to fold thereunder, or be extended horizontally, upon the same plane as the base at right angles thereto, substantially as shown and described.

4:. In a folding bicycle-stand, a base pro vided with supports for the tire of the wheel, two of which are fixed, and the other pivoted thereto, diagonal braces being secured to the base near one extremity, in combination with loops having their sides of unequal length, eyes at the ends of said sides embracing the diagonal braces whereby said loops will fold together beneath the base, substantially as shown and described. I

5. A foldingbicycle-stand in which are comprised a base-piece; diagonal braces secured upon the same plane as the base, the Whole thereto near one extremity; short tire-receivcombined, substantially as shown and deing loops secured to the base and projecting scribed.

at right angles thereto; a Wheel-support piv- HAMMOND L. lVHITE. 5 oted at the extremity of the base-piece, and Witnesses:

two loops loosely connected to the diagonal A. M. PIERCE,

braces and arranged to extend horizontally MABEL SIGLER.