The modern drop-frame for tricycles and rear-driving bicycles would be a valuable improvement on Messrs. Christian and Reinhart’s invention; some of our ladies would object to a free exhibition of quite so much shoe-top.
T. W. Ward, of New York. Velocipede. No. 88,683. Patented April 6, 1869.
“The drawing represents a perspective view of my improved one-wheeled velocipede.
“This invention relates to a certain improvement on that class of one-wheeled velocipedes in which the driver’s seat is arranged above the wheel, it being pivoted to the axle of the same.
“The invention has for its object to provide for an easy balancing of the frame, and consists in attaching weights to the lower end of the seat-frame, whereby the same will be retained in a vertical position.
“The balance can, with this weight-attachment, not be so readily lost as without it, and the operation of the one-wheeled velocipede is made easier and more practicable.
“From the lower ends of the frame are suspended, as near to the ground as possible, weights E, E, which tend to keep the frame in a vertical position, and which are intended to balance the weight of the rider, so that the difficulty of holding the seat in the desired direction, above the axle, will be considerably reduced.
“The velocipede may be propelled by means of foot-cranks a, a, or by other suitable mechanism.
“Having thus described my invention,