Improvements in Handles for Velocipedes and similar Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 4th Dec., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Velocipedes and similar Vehicles.
I, GUSTAV HAGEMANN of 13, Moltkestrasse Ludwigshafen a. R. in the Kingdom of
Bavaria, Manufacturer, 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 the handles for steering velocipedes and similar vehicles
steered by hand and consists in constructing or arranging said handles in such a
manner that the rider himself can easily exchange or replace the middle part of the
handle consisting of cork, artificial cork, felt or the like and most subject to wear
and to do so without using paste or cement. The solid clamps or collars holding the
middle part between them remain in use, while hitherto the entire handle became
useless as soon as the middle part was worn and had to be replaced by a new handle
or repaired by the maker.
On the drawing appended hereunto two ways in which my invention may be carried
out are shewn, Figures 1 and 2, showing longitudinal sections of two forms of the
improved handle, and Figure 3 a cross section of the same.
Each of the handles shewn consists of four main parts, namely:
1. A tube a which passes through the entire length of the handle and is fluted
externally at its middle part;
2, An annular clamp or collar b which is fixed to the tube a and may be formed in
one piece with the same;
3, A closed detachable cap shaped collar or clamp d. This may be tapped with an
internal screw thread and screwed upon the externally threaded end of the tube a as
shewn on Figure 1, or be attached by means of a wood screw g to a wooden plug c
fixed in the inside of the tube a, as shewn on Figure 2. Any other equivalent
means for fixing the cap may be used.
4. The exchangeable middle part f composed of cork, artificial cork, felt or other
suitable material, which is pushed without any cement or paste on to the tube a
and is prevented from turning round while in use by the flutings of the tube.
The handle is fixed on the handle bar e of the velocipede or other vehicle by
cementing or glueing the tube a to the handle bar e, or by soldering when the tube
a and the handle bar are formed of metal.
To exchange the middle part f afterwards it is only necessary to remove the cap d,
replace the old middle part by a new one and then fix the cap on again.
The improved handle may be made of any desired shape by shaping the
clamps band d and the middle part f correspondingly; thus for instance Figure 1
represents the known ball handle, while Figure 2 shows the usual barrel shaped
handle.
The use of a separate tube a for the handle is convenient as it allows the handle to
be attached to existing handle bars, but may be omitted and the clamp and the
wooden plug c fixed directly on respectively in the handle bar, so that in this
case the middle part f is pushed directly upon the handle bar and the cap d fixed by
the screw g to the wooden plug cor screwed upon the end of the handle bar or attached
by equivalent means.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The construction or arrangement of the handles for velocipedes and similar
vehicles so that the middle parts of the handles can be readily removed and replaced
by new ones, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. In combination with handles for velocipedes and similar vehicles the use and
arrangement of detachable and renewable middle parts of said handles, substantially
as herein before described.
.
3. In handles for velocipedes and similar vehicles the combination of a tube
externally fluted on its middle part, an annular collar fixed on one end of said tube, a
cap detachably fixed upon the other end; and a middle part of elastic material
clamped between said collar and cap, substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings.
4. The constructions of handles for velocipedes and similar vehicles herein before
described with reference to the drawings.
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Consulting Engineer & Patent Agent.