An Adjustable Handle Bar for Bicycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands altor
Amendment (under Section 18 of the Patents, &c., Act, 1883), as allowed by
the decision of the Comptroller Goneral of the 20th day of May 1897.
Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct.. 1898
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM H. CASTLE, of Weedsport, State of
New York, United States of America, Manufacturer.]
An Adjustable Handle Bar for Bicycles.
JOSEPH OKELL of 93 Portsdown Road London W. in the County of
Middlesex Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An adjustable haudle bar mechanism, whereby the rider is enabled to raise or
lower the handle bar to any position desired, without, stopping or dismounting.
The handle bar can also be easily dropped down parallel with the frame, so as to
be packed and shipped in a minimum amount of space. The steering post having
a rearwardly extending arm interiorly threaded and provided with a flange, handle
bars provided on their inner ends with ringe, mounted on said arm and adapted to
rotate, a notched disc secured on said arm, and a latch secured to handle bars and
adapted to engage with the notches in disc, a screw adapted to engage with
said opening in the arm for the purpose of holding the disc and handle bars upon
the arm.
Dated this 17th day of August 1896.
Justable Handle Bar for Bicycles.
JOSEPH OKELL 93 Portsdown Road London W. in the County of Middlesex
Merchant 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 :-
This invention relates to adjustable handle bars for steering bicycles.
My object is to produce an adjustable handle bar mechanism whereby I am
enabled to raise the handles to any height desired or lower them sufficiently to lie
against the frame so as to allow the bioycle to be packed and shipped in a minimum
amount of space, the further object also being to allow the handle bars to be easily
and quickly dropped down parallel with the frame and to lie close to it, so that
the bicycle may be rested against a wall without fear of its being readily over-
turned, and to that end my invention consists in the several new and novel features
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of construction and operation hereinafter described and which are specifically set
forth in the claim hereto annexed.
It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which-
Fig. 1 is a rear view of the steering post of a bicycle and the handle bars
connected therewith, the outer ends of the bars and the lower part of the post
being broken away.
Fig. 2 is a side view of the upper end of the steering post, showing the connection
of the handle bars and disc in section.
Fig. 3, is a view of disc detached.
Fig. 4 is a side view of the inner end of the handle bar, detached, the latch being
fremoved.
Fig. 5 is an edge view thereof showing the latch.
Similar letters of reference iudicate corresponding parts.
a is the steering post having a rearwardly extending arm a' and flange.
The arm a' is provided with an interiorly threaded opening d indicated by the
-dotted lines in Fig. 2. c are the handle bars constructed substantially as shown
and being provided on their inner ends with rings o' the portion of the handle
adjacent to the rings being reduced in thickness as shown at d' and provided with
-& mortise e.
Upon une side of the handle bars and adjacent to the mortise e are ears el and
binged thereto is a spring actuated latch having a thumb piece f, g being a
spring which actuates the latch. At one side of the opening in the arm a' is a
ihole g¹.
The rings which the handles carry are placed one after the other upon the
arm a¹ and the disc having perforatious i, and J, and notches k in its periphery
is then placed upon the arm a' and a screw is inserted into the opening d for the
purpose of holding the rings and disc upon the arm a'.
The pin m is also inserted through the opening J and holes g¹ so as to prevent
the disc from rotating, the rings being allowed to hang loosely upon the arm a¹, 80
that they may be rotated at will.
The latch is adapted to engage with the notches k upon the disc h so as to
hold the liandle bars at any position desired. Assuming the handle bars are in
the position shown in Fig. 1, if tho operator desires to raise the handle bars, he
presses the thumb piece outwardly until the latches become disengaged from
the notches k, he then either raises or lowers the handles to any point desired and
as soon as his thumbs are removed the latches are thrown into the notches & where
they are held by the springs g uutil again released.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I make
no general claim to the mounting of the steering handles of a bicycle in such a
manner that they can be turned and held in various positions in a vertical plane
but what 1 claim is :-
The combination with a steering post, of a rearwardly extending arm baving
an interiorly threaded opening and a flange, handle bars mounted upon said arm
and adapted to rotate, and a notched disc mounted upon said arm, means to prevent
its rotation, a screw adapted to engage with said opening in the arm for the purpose
of holding the disc and handle bars upon the arm, spring actuated Intches mounted
upon said. handle bars and adapted to engage with the notches in the disc,
substantially as described for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 16th day of September 1896.
JOSEPH OKELL..