Improvements in the Handle Bars and Handles as Adapted to Bicycles and Velocipedes of all kinds.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 3rd Apr.. 1897
Improvements in the Handle Bars and Handles as Adapted to
Bicycles and Velocipedes of all kinds.
1 CHARLES EDWARD WYRALL Artist of 10 Grosvenor Road Aldershot
Hampshire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention applies to improvements in the handle bars and handles for
bicycles and velocipedes of all kinds, and has for its object an important adaptation in
the form and manner of a ventilator which shall be placed in the handle bar and
handles as herein described.
And furthermore my invention consists of a handle bar and handles of the usual
construction as applied to bicycles and velocipedes but which I ventilate by means
of holes or curves drilled or cut through the tube forming the handle bar and
handles in such a manner and position that a continuous currant of air shall pass
into the tube forming the handle bar and find an exit through the perforations slots
or holes I drill or cut through grooves in the handles into the tube forming the
handle bar and in such a manner and position as shall prove necessary to carry out
the purpose for which I claim my invention.
I furthermore declare that the effect of my invention when in use shall be to
keep the hands of the rider cool and dry and in a marked degree to lessen the
danger of the hands slipping off the handles when riding.
Dated this 13th day of October 1896...
CHARLES EDWARD WYRALL.
Improvements in the Handle Bars and Handles as Adapted to
Bicycles and Velocipedes of all kinds.
I CHARLES EDWARD WYRALL of 10 Grosvenor Road Aldershot in the
County of Hampshire Artist do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention applies to improvements in the handle bars and handles for
bicycles and velocipedes of all kinds and has for its object an important adaptation
in the form and manner of a ventilator which shall be placed in the handle bar and
handles as herein described.
And furthermore my invention consists of a handle bar and handles of the usual
construction as applied to bicycles and velocipedes of all kinds (A. B. Fig. 1) but
which ventilate by means of holes or curves drilled or cut through the tube
forming the handle bar and handles (C D) in such a manner and position that a
continuous current of air shall pass into the tube forming the bandle bar (A) and
find an exit through the perforations slots or holes (D) I drill or cut through the
handles (B) into the tube forming the handle bar (A) and in such a manner and

page_text: position as shall prove necessary to carry out the purpose for which I claim my
invention.
I furthermore declare that the effect of my invention when in use shall be to
keep the hands of the rider cool and dry, and in a marked degree lessen the danger
of the hands slipping off the handles when riding.
Should I wish to close the ventilators I do so as follows-
I make the handles open at both ends, round the openings I fix a metal
rim (E. E.) large enough to allow the handles (B.) to slide easily on to the ends of
the handle bar (A.).
Through each of the rims fixed to the upper ends of the handles, I cut two
slots (F. F.) for the purpose of securing the handles in their positions as hereinafter
described.
At the ends of the tube forming the handle bar (A.) and at a given distance
which shall be somewhat less than. the length of the handles, I fix a pin or
screw (G.) centrally through the handle bar having a fixed bead working in
connection with the slots cut into the handles as herein described.
At the extreme ends of the tube forming the handle bar, and for a short
distance into the inside, I turn threads (H.), into this I screw plugs or screws (I.)
made of pieces of metal tubing with threads turned on the outside (J.) that shall
fit the threads (H.) turned in the inside of the tube forming the handle bar.
I fix upon one end of these plugs or screws, caps or discs having milled
heads (K.) and somewhat larger than the metal rims round the handles (E.).
By turning round the plugs or screws (I.) when fitted into the threads turned in
the handle bar, the caps or flat discs (K.) shall press tightly against the
handles (B.) which project slightly beyond the extreme ends of the handle
bar (A.), and shall press the handles up securely against the fixed pins or
screwe (G.) driven through the handle bar, and the projecting heads coming
between the slots (F.) cut into the rims round the handles shall hold the handles
firmly in position.
By turning the milled headed plugs or screws (I.) in the manner of ordinary
screws the handles shall be released, and by a slight turn either to the left or
right, as the case may be, shall change the positions of the slots and open or close
the perforatious, D, I cut or drill through the handles into the tube forming the
handle bar, as occasion may require.
By a reversing turn of the milled headed plugs or screws the handles shall
again be fixed in their proper positions (I. Fig. 2.).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
1. That I am the first and only inventor of a ventilated handle bar and handles
for bicycles and velocipedes of all kinds, having for its object a means of preventing
the hands of the rider from getting hot and damp when riding.
2. That my invention consists in a handle bar and handles of the usual
construction as adapted to bicycles and velocipedes of all kinds, but in which I
place ventilators C. D. for the purpose and manner as herein described.
3. When in use a continuous current of air shall pass into the tube forming the
handle bar through the ventilators C. out through the perforations D. direct i
the hands keeping them cool and dry.
4. That when in use my said invention shall be to considerably lessen the danger
of the hands of the rider slipping off the handles when riding.
Dated this 7th day of November 1896.
CHARLES EDWARD WYRALL.