US612646A - Holder for lamps and parcels for bicycles - Google Patents

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No. 6l2,646. Patented Oct. l8, I898. W. HOWELL, L. E. CARRIER &. J. MAcLAGAN. HOLDER FOB LAMPS AND PARCELS FOR BICYGLES.

(Application filed June 3, 1898.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-8heet l.

No. 612,646. Patented Oct. l8, I898. W. HOWELL, L. E. CARRIER &. J. MAOLAGAN. HOLDER FUR LAMPS AND PARCELS FUR BIGYCLES.

(Application filed June 8, 1898.) (N0 MildeL) 2 Sheets-Sheei 2.

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\VILLIAM I-IOI'VELL, LYMAN E. CARRIER, AND JAMES MACLAGAN, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOLDER FOR LAMPS AND PARCELS FOR BICYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 612,646, dated October 18, 1898.

Application filed June 3,1898. Serial No. 682,509. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM HOWELL, LYMAN E. CARRIER, and JAMES MAOLAGAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Lamps and Pareels for Bicycles, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, and in which- Figure 1 shows our said new device in plan view in closed or attached position, the broken outlines indicating the motion of its parts when being attached or removed to or from a bicycle. The handle-bars are shown in broken outlines. Fig. 2 shows the said device in side elevation, one handle-bar being cut away. Fig. 3 shows a rear view of our said device formed for a lantern-bracket for bicycles. Fig. 4 shows a modification of our device shown in the preceding three figures in which the parts a b b b are expanded to form a bundle-carrier.

Like letters of reference denote like parts.

The object of our invention is to produce our said mechanism by means of a single piece of wire shaped to answer said purposes.

To attain said desirable ends, we construct our said new device in substantially the following manner, namely: We take a piece of wire of suitable gage and quality and length appropriate for the object to be made and form a central part like a or at, having the sides b b, which are terminated by a sharp bend b Fig. 2, forming an obtuse angle nearly equal to a right angle, from whence post, throwing the wire ends outward and horizontal about parallel to the parts d which then at the short curves (1 cl extend upwardly and become parallel'and bend forward over each arm of the handle-bar g, forming terminal hooks c c. To form a bundle-carrier, the arch a is extended so as to form the line or .bar a and sharply curved .at its ends, thence into the parts b 11 the equivalents of the parts I) I), also sharply bent at b as before, the ends of which are curved inward at I) and Z2, and reach by straight parts the horizontal curves I), from whence the mechanism to hold the bundle-carrier is identical in form and operation with that of the lan tern-bracket.

The parts in front of the post f and the partst' i d d c c, forming the ends of the wire, form the parts which hold the device rigidly in place against any weight on a or a.

To apply or remove this device, the parts Z) Z) or b b are compressed, whereby the parts 0 o are thrown apart, so that the post f may enter between the curves 2' v1. The spring action outward will throw the parts e'e' snugly against the post f, and thus lock the device firmly to its position, the hooks c c, with the parts (1 holding the projecting or bracket part rigidly in place.

What we claim is A carrying device for bicycles consisting of a single piece of wire whereof the central portion is'shaped into any suitable form and provided with overlapping parts (1 followed by opposite curved parts 6 e which terminate in curves it" vertical to said curves e e whereof the outer parts are straight and diverge and then turn upward and bend forward into parallel hooks e c, the curves 6 e embracing a vertical cylinder and said hooks cylindrical arms transverse to said vertical cylinder, sub stantially as specified.

WILLIAM HOWELL. LYMAN E. CARRIER. JAMES MACLAGAN.

Witnesses:

WM. ZIMMERMAN, O. P. PAOKER,

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