Cycle safety apparatus.

Application filed December 24,1902. Serial No. 136,509. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Arthur Kuhn, manufacturer, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, residing at 31 Diesdorfer5 strasse, Magdeburg, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cycle Safety Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention in question is io an alarm apparatus in connection with cycle protection.

It consists of any kind of alarm apparatus which by moving a lever to the right or left , is set in motion. This movement is caused *5 by the device itself, so that the ringing takes place automatically when the cycle is moved as well as when an attempt is made to remove the stopping-bar.

Figure 1 of the drawings show a part of a 20 cycle and the apparatus fixed on the frame;

Fig. 2, the apparatus, in an enlarged size, in section; Fig. 3, in a side view, the bells removed ; and Fig. 4 shows the stopping-bar and its fastening.

The bell and its clockwork are known and are only schematically drawn.

The letter a denotes a fork-bar of a wheel. On this is fixed in a suitable manner—for instance, by means of a clasp &—the pivot c for 30 the fork stopping-bar /, which can be raised from its hanging position, and its hook-like part n grasps the spoke and lies with its free end in the shackle e of the lock. In order to be able to move it to and fro, the bar d is pro35 vided with a second hinge f. A lock g is fastened, with its shackle, to the other fork-bar of the.wheel. The shackle extends upward to a disk bearing the alarm apparatus. On the disk a lever/1 is fixed, which swings with 40 its fork-shaped end i before the openings of shackle of the lock. The same grasps the end of the stopping-bar d, which reaches through the opening e, so that a movement of the stopping-bar causes a movement of the lever h.

In the construction, for example, according 45 to the annexed drawings a clockwork-bell is provided, whose clapper k is provided with a pin I. In the path of this pin a pin m, fastened on the lever h, swings, and thus arrests the clapper k when the lever h is in its mid- 50 die position. When bar d moves the fork i of the lever h to the left or to right, which is caused, for instance, by a spoke touching the bar d, then the clapper k becomes free in its path and the bell 0 rings. By the movement 55 of the lever h an electric circuit can also be closed and an electrical ringing apparatus set in action. .

In order that the bell 0 may not be muffled by placing the hand on it, a second bell p is 60 placed oyer it, which prevents the inside bell 0 being touched.