US557605A - Canopy for bicycles - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

. J. REID.

CANOPY FOR BIGYGLES.

No. 557,605. Patented Apr. '7, 1896.

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JENNIE REID, OF POND CREEK STATION, INDIAN TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF TYO-TIIIRDS TO MARY C. LAMB AND KATE IS. CLARK, OF \VICIIITA,

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CANOPY FOR BICYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,605, dated April '7, 1896.

Application tiled July 20, 1894.

To @ZZ whom t may con-cern:

Be it known that I, JENNIE REID, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pond Creek Station, Jefferson, Indian Territory, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Canopy-Tops for Bicycles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had vtherein to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective elevation of the canopy structure attached to a bicycle; Fig. 2, a detailed front view of the canopy-stand ard, having the upper and lower portions broken away; Fig. 3, a horizontal cross-section of Fig. 2 on a line immediately above the box E thereof, looking down upon said box; Fig. l, a detailed top view of the canopy-top, having the fabric covering removed therew from and showing the arms thereof folded. Fig. 5 is a side view of the same, made to a larger scale than Fig. i; Fig. t3, a vertical longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 7, a detailed side View of the upper portion of the canopy-standard and canopy-holding arm and brace thereof; Fig. 8, a detailed side view of said brace, and Fig. 9 a detailed top view of one of the clamps for attaching the canopy standard to a bicycle.

This invention relates to certain improvements in canopy-tops for bicycles; and it consists in certain novel structural features and in the particular arrangement and manner of adjusting the parts comprising the canopytop support, which improvements are fully set forth and explain ed in the following speciiication and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the casing or bearing of the bicycle turning-post. and a represent clamp-arms, each made with a two-part clamping-box adapted to be clamped to said casing A, one part, y, of said box being hinged to its fellow part, as shown at Ay', Fig. D, and said fellow part being provided opposite the said hinge with the side extending ear d, having hinged thereto a screw-shank d, arranged to be placed through a hole of lug of part y when said part is closed and provided with a thumb-nut d turn ed on Serial No. 518,162. (No model.)

said screw-shank and against said part y, and when turned up hard binds said box parts together firmlyabout the bicycle-casing A. Fixed in bores of the outer end of said arms e is a section D of the canopy-standard, which section has fixed to its upper end the laterally-elongated box E. D is a second section of said standard and is made with a fiat-tened section Gr at its lower end, placed through box E and pivoted at its terminal by means of a stud s to a bearing s of section D, and terminates at its upper end in a one-half part of a radially-serrated faced joint m. Said section has pivotally attached to its front side a spring latch-lever L, which leverterminates at its lower end with a rearwardlyextending portion adapted to register in faceholes o of box E and is adapted to and for the purpose of holding said section D adjustably in box E, either in a vertical position or a side-inclined position, as represented by full and dotted lines in Fig. D2 represents a third section of said standard and terminates at its lower end in a one-half part of a joint corresponding with that (shown at on) of part or section D, and m is a thumb-screw placed through one of said joint parts and turned into the other partfor the purpose of adjustably holding said joint parts, and hence the standard section parts, together, and the purpose of said joint m is to make it possible to incline section D2 either forward or rearward, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l, and also so said section D2 with its attached parts may be folded down when the canopy-top is not desired to be held upright in service, and D3 is a fourth and upper section of said standard, being telescoped at its lower end with section DE, so it may be adjusted vertically, where it is held by means of a screw, (represented at 'tu in Fig. l.) Connected to the upper end of said section D by means of a joint Y and screw I", similar to that shown at m m', is a rearwardly-extending arm a connected with an adjustable arm-section b at its end by means of a second joint e and screw e', and fixed both to the upper and under side of said arm l) by means of bolts I is a plate H, which plates are provided with a series of corresponding marginal holes into which IOO the canopy-top arms P and P are placed, as represented in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, which arms are provided with a brace portion P,as shown particularly in Fig. 6, and said arms being thus placed are adapted to be extended radially and give support to a fabric material c, forming the canopy top or shade, or be folded together with said fabrics when not in service; also, by means of the joint e, the top c may be adjusted to a vertical position, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 7, so as to serve as a sail to assist in propelling the bicycle to which it is attached.

B is a brace for giving strength to arm 60 and is pivotally attached at its lower end to standard-section D3 and detachably held at its upper end in an under cross-hollow a' of arm a by means of the spring-arm a, as represented in Fig. 7.

When the device is in service, the bicyclerider may adj ust the standard-sections to raise or lower, or incline in either direction, forward. backward, or sidewise, the top c, as may be desired, to accommodate his or her height above the bicycle-seat or give proper shade. When it is not desired for service, the brace B may be unlatched from springarm a and permitted to fall at the side of the standard, the top c folded and likewise per mitted to fall by adjusting` joint V, and, further, all of said parts thus lowered, above joint m of the standard, may be turned down at the side of standard-sections D and D by adjusting joint m, when all said parts may be bound together and conveniently carried by the rider.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

l. In a bicyclecanopy, the supportingstandard, made in sections, each of which is adjustable with relation to the other; the shade, adjustably pivoted to said standard; a supporting-rod, pivotally attached to the standard and detachably connected with said shade and means whereby said standard is attached to the fork of the bicycle.

2. In a bicycle-canopy, a removable and folding supporting-standard comprising the lower section D, means for securing said section to the bicycle-frame in which the said section is removably sleeved, a section D' pivoted to the section D and means whereby said section may be secured in a position inclined to the vertical, a section D2 adjustably pivoted to the last-named section and means whereby this section may be secured in a position inclined to the vertical, the section D3 adjustably sleeved to the section D2 and means whereby said section D3 may be secured in different vertical positions, a shadesupporting arm adj ustably pivoted to the section D3 and means whereby said arm may be secured in different vertical positions, the construction and arrangement being such that the shade may be held in any desired position and the whole supporting-standard removed and compactly folded when not required, substantially as described.

JENNIE REID. Vitnesses:

M. A. CLARK, WM. J. HUTcHINs.

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