US617240A

US617240A - George wesley eddy

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Publication number: US617240A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1899-01-03
Anticipated expiration: 1916-01-03

Description

No. 617,240. Patent'e'd- 1a... 3, I899. a. w. EDDY. CLAMP F08 BICYCLE BELLS.

(Application flled'Nov. 5, 1898.)

(No Modal.)

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ATENT GEORGE WESLEY EDDY, OF YVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CLAMP FOR BICYCLE-BELLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 617,240, dated January 3, 1899.

Application filed November 5, 1898. Serial No. 695,602. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WESLEY EDDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterb ury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clamps for Bicyole-Bells, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a clamp for bicycle-bells whereby the bell may be adjusted. so as to bring the bell-lever into any position which the operator may desire.

The invention consists of a solid or a divided of adjustable clamp having an angular socket to cooperate with an angular post projecting from the base of the bell and a screw or bolt or other suitable fastening for uniting the clamp and the bell in any desired position.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bell supplied with one form of my clamp. Fig. 2 is a top plan view, Fig. 3 is a perspective view, and Fig. 4. is a perspective view dismembered, of the clamp shown in Fig. 1, the same being a divided or adjustable clamp of common construction supplied with my improvement. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of a bell, showing a solid or one-piece clamp. Fig. 6 is a top plan view, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view, of the clamp of Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is a vertical section of the base of the bell shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 9 is a partial bottom plan view illustrating the base of either form of bell.

The bell proper, a, may be of any approved construction, as may be the bell-lever, the hammer, and the train of gearing for operating the same.

The base I) is supplied with an angular post 0, in this instance shown as hexagonal. This post may have a central plain bore for use in connection with the fastening-stem in Figs. 1 to 5, or it may be screw-threaded, as shown in Fig. 8, for use in connection with the fastening shown in Fig. 7.

The clamps cl and 6 may be of usual construction, excepting that one member terminates in an angular ear or socket, as shown at d and e, respectively, while the othermember terminates in a perforated flat flange or ear, as at 61 or in a cupped flange or ear, as shown at (3*.

As already described, the post 0 may be perforated, and, as shown in Fig. 5, such a perforated post permits the use of a bolt f, which extends through the members d and d or e and. e and up into the base and bell and serves as the usual post for the reception of the bell proper, while a tubular cylindrical extension 0 of the post 0 above the base receives the driven gear of the bell and the bell hammer, a nut 9 being applied above the bellhammer in order to secure the parts in position. The head of the bolt f may be slabbed 01f, as at f, in order to prevent-the turning of the said bolt as the nut g and the bell are applied thereto.

Where the post 0 is screw-threaded, as in Fig. 8, a short screw 72, Fig. 7, is passed through the parts d and d or e. and e" and into this screw-threaded post, and in this form of the invention the usual post i on the base of the bell may be employed. The cupping of the ear of the clamp, as at e serves to re ceive the head of the screw.

Now it is obvious that by loosening the screw or the bolt sufficiently the bell may be turned as desired to bring the bell-lever in the position most convenient for operation, and then when the angular post is fitted again into the angular ear of the clamp the screw or bolt is fastened and the new position made secure, and this may be done without altering the position of the clamp on the part to which it is applied, By thus making the bell adjustable with relation to its clamp the bell may be not only adjusted so as to bring its lever into any desired position, but said bell may be placed in positions-upon the frame .of the bicycle, for instance--heretofore inacto receive said post, and a fastening device engaging the clamp and post and adapted to receive the sounding mechanism of the bell, substantially as described. I 5

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of November, A. D.

GEORGE WESLEY EDDY. Witnesses:

GEO. F. HODGES, J H. FILLING.