US634298A

US634298A - Bicycle-support.

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Publication number: US634298A
Application number: US70792099A
Authority: US
Inventors: William H Hart Jr
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-03-06
Filing date: 1899-03-06
Publication date: 1899-10-03
Anticipated expiration: 1916-10-03

Description

Patented. Oct. 3, I899. w. H. HART, JR. BICYCLE SUPPORT.

(Application filed Bar. 6, 1899.) (No Model.)

THE NORRXS FETERS CO., PHOTO LITHO.. wxsmnorommc NITE STATES IVILLIAM II. HART, .18., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BICYCLE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,298, dated October 3, 1899.

Application filed March 6,1899. Serial No. 707,920. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. HART, J12, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bicycle-Supports, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a bicycle-support formed of a pedal-frame having an opening in the side wall thereof and a leg formed with a journal which is adapted to enter said opening, the adjacent portion of the leg being adapted to abut against the end wall of said frame for retaining the leg in operative position.

It also consists of a turnbuckle for retaining the leg in inoperative position on the pedal-frame, said turnbuckle being adapted to be prevented from releasing the leg during the ordinary motion of the pedal.

Figure 1 represents a perspective View of a bicycle-support embodying my invention, the same being in operative position. Fig. 2 represents a bottom plan view thereof. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section of another form of the invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a bicycle-pedal which, excepting the feature of my invention applied thereto, is of usual construction.

B designates a supporting device for a bicycle, the same consisting of the legs 0, with journals 0, which latter freely occupy openings D in the transversely-eXtending side pieces of the pedal-frame E, whereby the device may be turned on said frame so as to be placed in comparatively upright position, as in Fig. 1, in order to support a bicycle or in folded position on said frame when it is inoperative, as in Fig. 3, said device having a broad base F for evident purposes.

When the device is in operative position, the upper portion of the legsO abut against the inner side of the longitudinally-extending front wall of the frame E, whereby its outward motion is limited 5 but it is evident that when the legs are drawn together the journals C emerge from the openings D, and the support is'accordingly removed from the pedalframe, and it may be placed in a pocket or carried in the satchel or bag of a bicycle or elsewhere. In order to retain the device in inoperative position when it is folded as has been stated, there is pivotally mounted on the pedal-shaft sleeve the turnbuckle or crosshead G, whose ends project across the legs 0 at an angle thereto, and thus engage with and control said legs, as most plainly shown in Fig. 2. When, however, the cross-head is turned sufficiently to clear the legs 0, the latter are free, when they may be partly rotated to be placed in operative position, the result being again as shown in Fig. 1.

In the frame E are slots H, which receive the ends of the turnbuckle or cross-head and cause said ends to be supported on the lower walls of said slots, whereby the motions of the pedal will not materially aifect said turnbuckle and release the legs. In Fig. 2 the legs are folded within the pedal-frame. In Fig.

3 the legs are folded outside of said frame.

'with an opening therein adjacent to said wall,

and a leg having a journal which is seated in said opening and adapted to abut against said wall in the operative position of said support. 2. In a bicycle-support, a pedal-frame with a side piece and an end wall and a sleeve by which said frame is mounted on the pedalshaft, a leg journaled in an opening in said frame and a cross-head which is pivotally connected wit-h said sleeve and adapted to pass under said leg when the latter is in inoperative position, said frame being adapted to have the ends of said cross-head enter the same.

\VILLIAM H. HART, JR. lVitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

WM. 0. WIEDERSHEIM.