Improved Detachable Clip for Use in connection with Cycle Handle Bars and for similar Purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar.,
1899
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1900
PROVISIONAL DI ECIFICATION
An Improved Detachable Clip for Use in connection with Cycle
Handle Bars and for similar Purposes.
We, WILLIAM Bown, of Overdale Villas, Sutton Street, Aston juxta
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Works Manager, and WILLIAM BOWN
LIMITED, of 308, Summer Lane, Birmingham aforesaid, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:
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Our invention has for its object an improved detachable clip by which we are
enabled to easily and quickly attach and detach the same and which will be
found suitable for various purposes such as attaching brake levers to cycle
handle bars, or for attaching handle bars to their stems and for similar purposes.
In carrying our invention into practice we construct our clip in two parts.
These parts are hinged or joined together by forming a T headed piece on the
junction end of the one part and a centrally slotted projection on the junction
end of the other part. The stem neck or narrowed portion of the T headed
piece fits into the slot in the projections of the other part, the head of the T
piece butting against the side projecting pieces, thus locking the parts together.
The opposite ends of the parts of the clip are formed with a projecting piece
drilled to receive a screw pin or bolt so that when the parts of the clip are fitted
around say the handle bar of a cycle for carrying or supporting the brake
lever and the pin or bolt tightened up the clip firmly grips the handle bar.
When forming our clip for the purpose of attaching the brake lever to the
handle bar of a cycle we form a bracket pin on the side of one of the clip parts
and this bracket piece is provided with a screw pin or the like upon which the
brake lever is pivoted. This pin or its equivalent is provided with a loose
sleeve or roller which forms a bearing or axis upon which the brake lever works.
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WILLIAM BOWN.
WILLIAM BOWN, LIMITED.
By George Barker,
Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicants, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.
An Improved Detachable Clip for Use in connection with Cycle
Handle Bars and for similar Purposes.
We, WILLIAM Bowx, of Overdale Villas, Sutton Street, Aston juxta
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Works Manager, and WILLIAM BOWN
CD Q.71

page_text: LIMITED, of 308, Summer Lane, Birmingham aforesaid, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:—
Our invention has for its object an improved detachable clip for use in
connection with cycle handle bars and for similar purposes by which we are
enabled to easily and quickly attach and detach the same and which will be
found suitable for various purposes such as attaching brake levers to cycle handle
bars or for attaching handle bars to their stems and for similar purposes.
In carrying our invention into practice we construct our clips in two parts.
These parts are hinged or joined together by forming a T headed piece on the
junction end of the one part, and a centrally slotted projection on the junction
end of the other part. The stem neck or narrowed portion of the T beaded
piece fits into the slot in the projections of the other part, the head of the T
pieces butting against the side projecting pieces thus locking the parts together.
The opposite ends of the parts of the clip are formed with a projecting piece
drilled to receive a screw pin or bolt so that when the parts of the clip are fitted
around say the handle bar of a cycle for carrying or supporting the brake
lever and the pin or bolt tightened up the clip firmly grips the handle bar.
When forming our clip for the purpose of attaching the brake lever to the
handle bar of a cycle we form a bracket piece on the side of one of the clip parts
and this bracket piece is provided with a screw pin or the like upon which the
brake lever is pivoted. This pin or its equivalent is provided with a loose sleeve
or roller which forms a bearing or axis upon which the brake lever works.
In order that our invention may be more clearly understood and casily carried
into practical effect we have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings
upon which we have illustrated our improved detachable clip as applicable for
attaching the brake lever to the handle bar of a cycle.
Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a cycle handle bar and brake lever
shewing the brake lever connected to the handle bar by one of our clips.
Figure 2 is a front view shewing a portion of the handle bar and brake lever
with our clip fixed in position.
Figure 3 is a part sectional end view of Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a view of one portion of the clip.
Figure 5 is a view of the other portion of the clip.
Figure 6 is a plan view of Figure 4.
Figure 7 is a plan view of Figure 5.
In carrying our invention into practice we construct our clip A in two parts
a¹ and aª hinged or joined together by forming the T headed piece a³ on the
junction end of the part a¹ as clearly shewn at Figures 1 and 6 and the centrally
slotted projection on the junction end of the part a as clearly shewn at
5 and 7 or vice versa. The stem or neck or narrowed portion as of the T headed
end of the part a¹³ fits into the slot a' and the head of the T. a butts against the
slotted projection a* as clearly shewn at Figures 1 and 3 thus locking the parts
together. The extreme end of the head of the Ta³ is chamfered or bevelled off
and a flat is formed in front of the slotted projection a*, so that when the parts
are fitted together the extreme end of the head of the T is flush with the
surface of the part of the clip as clearly shewn at Figure 3 thereby forming
a neat and compact joint. The opposite ends of the parts and a³ of the clip
are formed with the projecting portions as which are drilled to receive the screw
pin a' or a bolt or its equivalent. The hole in the part a² is tapped to receive
the screwed end of the pin and the hole in part a¹ is countersunk to receive the
head of the pin as clearly shewn in Figure 8 so that when these parts are fitted
around say the handle bar H of a cycle for carrying or supporting the brake
lever L and the pin or bolt a tightened up the clip firmly grips the handle bar
as clearly shewn at Figures 12 and 3.

page_text: When using our clip A for attaching the brake lever L to the handle bar H
we form the lug or bracket a on the side of the part a¹ into which the lever L
fits and this lever is held in position and pivots upon the pin or stud a³ or its
equivalent which passes through a hole in the bracket a8 and screws into a hole
formed in the part a¹ and upon this pin we mount the loose sleeve or roller a¹
as shewn at Figure 3 which forms a bearing or axis upon which the brake lever
works or pivots. In some cases the lug or bracket as may be dispensed with and
the brake lever pivoted upon the pin a³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
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CLAIMS.
First The improved detachable clip for use in connection with cycle
handle bars and for similar purposes consisting essentially of two parts the one
part being formed at its junction and with a T head piece such as a which fits
into a slotted projection such as a' formed on the junction end of the other part
in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein set forth and as shewn
upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Second-In detachable clips formed in two parts uniting the junction ends
together by forming a T head on the one part and a slotted projection on the
other part in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein set forth
and as shewn upon the drawings.
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1000
WILLIAM BOWN.
WILLIAM BOWN LIMITED.
By George Barker,
Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicants, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.