US603916A

US603916A - Bicycle-canopy

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Publication number: US603916A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-05-10
Anticipated expiration: 1915-05-10

Description

(No ModeL) J. J. METZGER. BICYCLE CANOPY.

No. 603,916. Paten te d May 10,1898.

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BICYCLELCANOPY;

SPEGIFICATION forming part of LettersiPatent No. 603,916, dated May 10, 1898. Application filed anuary 22,1898. Serial No. 667,578. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AOOB J. METZGER, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Bicycle-Oanopy,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is a bicycle-canopy capable of attachment to all classes of machines and of adjustment so as to meet the inclination of the suns rays, and also to be utilized as a sail both in running with and reaching on the wind, and to be also utilized as a shelter durin g rain-storms.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claim defines the actual scope of the invention.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side'elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the canopy with a part broken away. Fig. 1 is a detail view illustrating the construction of the frame for the canopy. Fig. 5 is a plan view illustrating the base-section of the canopy. Fig. 6 is a detail section showing the manner of joining the canopyframe with the supporting-bars. Fig. 7 is a fragmentaryperspective view of the frame for the canopy.

The canopy has a base-section adapted to clamp the stem of the bicycle-frame, and consisting of two semicircular members 10 and 11, having rearwardly-exteuding ears held together by a thumbscrew 12. The front end of the section 10 has a hook 13, entering an opening in the forwardly-projected lug 14 of the section 11. The lug 14 has a transverse opening in its outer end, through which a thumb-screw 15 passes. The thumb-screw 15 has a connection with a tubular standard 16, the lower portion of which is provided with a serrated enlargement 17, engaging a correspondingly-serrated face of the lug 14:. A spring 17 surrounds the screw 15 and keeps the serrated face of the lug 14 and the serrated enlargement 17 on the standard 16 yieldingly engaged. By these means the standard 16 may be adjusted and held rigidly at any inclination either forward or backward.

Slidable within the standard 16 and held by a thumb-screw 18 is a rod 19, having-a flattened upper end provided with an orifice to receive a thumb-screw 20. The flattened upper end of the rod 19 is serrated to engage a serrated face on the block 21. The thumbscrew 2O'eXtends into the block 21 and is surrounded by a spring 20, which presses the serrated faces of the rod 19 and block 21 in yielding engagement, and by these means the block .21 is adj ustably mounted on the rod 19. The block 21- has two serrated faces arranged in planes at right angles to each other. The upper serrated face of the said block is engaged by the correspondingly-serratedl lower end of one of the pivotally-connected members, forming'a fork 22. Said fork is held adjustably to the block 21 by means of aheaded pin 23, sliding in'the block 21 and in one of the members of the fork 22, said pin being screw-threaded and engaged with a screwthread in the other member of the fork 22.

Pressure is applied by a spiral spring 32,. pressceiving a bowed casing-frame consisting of a number of flat flexible metallic sections 26, pivotally connected with each other by rivets 27 and each having a fixed pin 28, such pins being capable of seating in openings formed in the sections 26. When the pins 28 are engaged in said openings, the sections 26 are held rigidly in extended position. The sec tions may be folded, however, by bending the sections laterally, as illustrated with reference to the right-hand section in Fig. 1, thus causing the contiguous pin 28 to be disengaged from its corresponding opening and permit the bent section to swing on the pivot formed by the rivet 27. By these means the several sections 26 may be folded snugly alongside each other. Each end section 26 is provided with an eye respectively receiving pins 29, in turn respectively formed rigid with the arms of the fork 22. Extending horizontally between the pins 29 is a bar 30, which passes through the casing at the forward edge of the awning or canopy proper, 2 1, and which is held also by the pins 29. Thumb-nuts 31 on the pins 29 press down upon the

parts

26 and 30 to hold them rigidly in place.

A canopy constructed as shown and described may be adjusted as a whole forward and backward on the screw 15. The height of the awning or canopy proper may be regulated by moving the rod 19 up and down in the standard 16. The inclination of the awning with reference to the horizontal may be regulated by moving the block 21 on the screw 20, and the edgewise disposition or tilt of the awning may be adjusted by swinging the parts on the pin 23. Consequently the awning may be adjusted to any inclination of the rays of the sun or for shelter from rain. The awning also may be swung to a perpendicular position, so as to serve as a sail with which the bicycle may run before a fair wind, and if the Wind be on the quarter the awning may be adjusted to serve as a sail reaching on the wind.

Owing to the peculiar arrangement of the joints of the canopy the position of the several parts may be readily adjusted by the rider without necessitating his leaving his seat on the bicycle. This enables thecanopy to be adjusted to suit the conditions of the weather without interfering with the convenience of the rider. The canopy maybe disjointed and folded beneath the bicycle, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. In this position the canopy is not in the way and may be conveniently reached for assemblance in an operative position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a canopy the combination of a base-section capable of being attached to the stem-of a bicycle, a tubular standard supported on the base-section, a rod adjustably held in'the tubular standard, a block located at the upper end of the rod, a thumb-screw adj ustably holding the block on the rod, two pivotallyconnected members mounted on the block and forming a fork, the arms of which extend upward and outward in opposite directions, and a canopy proper having the upper ends of the said members attached thereto, whereby to sustain the canopy proper ad j ustably in place.

JACOB J. METZGER.

WVitnesses:

J NO. W. TABER, H. W. WADE.