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Funny Patents - Double bicycle for looping the loop 1905

 Double bicycle for looping the loop 

for circus and other performances


double bicycle

Inventor :  Karl Lange, BERLIN, GERMANY
Country : United States of America    

Filed : 24 March 1904


Serial No: 199670


Grant : 16 May 1905


Patent No. 790063

The present invention consists of a double bicycle for looping the loop for circus and other performances. The object is to provide a cycle by means of which a mutilated loop may be traversed, the performer springing, with the wheel, off the end of the loop While head downward and running off onto a track leading out of the loop on the two upper wheels of the cycle head downward.

What is claimed in this invention?

  • A cycle for looping a mutilated loop consisting of a frame having two wheels mounted on the lower part and
  • Two wheels mounted above the head of the rider, a saddle on the lower frame and a cushion on the upper frame to brace the rider.
  • A cycle for looping a mutilated loop, consisting of a frame, a pair of wheels-mounted in the bottom portion of the frame and
  • A pair of wheels mounted in the top portion of the frame, a saddle in the central portion of the frame, and
  • A cushion in the top portion of the frame to brace the rider, said Wheels being all in the same plane.