Improvements in or relating to the Warming of the Handles and other parts of Cycles, Autocars, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897
Improvements in or relating to the Warming of the Handles and
other parts of Cycles, Autocars, and the like.
. I, HELEN FOWLER of The Old House, Hampton, in the County of Middlesex,
Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the warming of the hand grips or handle bar of cycles,
autocars and the like, for the purpose of keeping the hands warm while riding in cold
weather, and the invention may also be applied to the pedals to serve the same
purpose with the feet.
The invention may be carried into practice by applying to that portion of the
handle bar, hand grip or the like, a heating device, preferably in the form of a
bricquette heater, such, for example, as are used in ladies' muffs. The application
may be made in various ways, but perhaps the most convenient is to provide a case,
preferably of perforated metal in which the combustible substance, say for example,
prepared charcoal, is placed and surrounded, if necessary, with an asbestos or other
incombustible fabric. The combustible containing case is adapted to be screwed or
otherwise adjustably secured in the end of the handle bar at that portion underneath
to be gripped by the hand of the rider. The handle bar may be perforated to provide
necessary access of air, or this may be allowed for by perforating the end of the metal
case. Any suitable handle grip may be employed, which may be perforated or not
according to requirement.
The heating may be applied to the whole of the handle bar if desired, but usually
the portions gripped by the hands will be sufficient.
Instead of employing a metal case, I may use a bag of say asbestos cloth or the
like, of a sufficiently open texture to allow necessary access of air; or woven wire
might be employed covered inside or out with asbestos cloth or the like. Or the
asbestos cloth might be placed in such a position as to protect the grip, or the
cement by which it is held from too great heat.
If preferred the hand grip and the combustible containing tube may be formed in
one piece or connected together, and adapted to be applied to the bar and removed
together.
The invention may be applied to the pedals of cycles in a more or less similar
manner, the details being varied to suit the different application; one way of
carrying it into effect would be to form a pedal, say of the rat-trap description, with
a hollow cast, at each side, into which the bricquette or equivalent would be placed,
the other details being substantially the same as those already described. Rubber
grips may however be used in connection with the pedals as well as the heating
device. If preferred the heating device may be applied in the centre portions of the
pedal, the pedal being constructed more or less as a hollow box or case or one or more
tubes may be used, one of them being, if desired, a central tube, which surrounds
the pedal pin. Other devices for applying the invention may however be used.
Dated this 10th day of July 1896
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to the Warming of the Handles and
other parts of Cycles, Autocars, and the like.
I, HELEN FOWLER, of the Old House, Hampton, in the County of Middlesex,
Spinster, 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 warming of the hand grips or handle bars of cycles,
autocars and the like, for the purpose of keeping the hands warm while riding in
cold weather, and the invention may also be applied to the pedals to serve the same
purpose with the feet.
The invention may be carried into practice by applying to a portion of the handle
bar hand grip or the like a heating device preferably in the form of a bricquette
heater, such for example, as are used in ladies' muffs.
The application may be made in various ways, but perhaps the most convenient is
to provide a case, preferably of perforated metal in which the combustible substance,
say, for example prepared charcoal, is placed and surrounded, if necessary, with an
asbestos or other incombustible fabric.
The combustible containing case is adapted to be screwed or otherwise adjustably
secured in the end of the handle bar which is to be gripped by the hand of the rider.
The handle bar may be perforated to provide necessary access of air, or this may be
allowed for by perforating the end of the metal case. Any suitable handle grip may
be employed, which may be perforated or not according to requirement.
The heating may be applied to the whole of the handle bar, if desired; but usually
the portions gripped by the hands will be sufficient.
Instead of employing a metal case, I may use a bag of say asbestos or the like, of
a sufficiently open texture to allow necessary access of air; or woven wire might be
employed covered inside or out with asbestos cloth or the like. Or the asbestos cloth
might be placed in such a position as to protect the grip, or the cement by which it
is held from too great heat.
If preferred the hand grip and the combustible containing tube may be formed in
one piece or connected together, and adapted to be applied to the bar and removed
together.
The invention may be applied to the pedals of cycles in a more or less similar
manner; the details being varied to suit the different application. One way of
carrying it into effect would be to form a pedal, say of the rat-trap description, with
a hollow case at each side, into which the bricquette or equivalent would be placed,
the other details being substantially the same as those already described.
Rubber grips may however be used in connection with the pedals as well as the
heating device. If preferred the heating device may be applied in the centre
portions of the pedal, the pedal being constructed more or less as a hollow box or
case or one or more tubes may be employed, one of them being if desired, a central
tube, which surrounds the pedal pin. Other devices for applying the invention may
however be used,
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the hand grip of a cycle or other handle bar
with this invention applied to it;
Figure 2 is a perspective view partly broken away showing the invention applied to
a cycle pedal;
Figure 3 is a similar view showing a modification of the same.
Figure 4 shows a detail.
The handle A is formed hollow and preferably of metal covered or not as desired

page_text: with cloth or other suitable material B. The open end of the handle is adapted to be
closed by a hinged lid A¹ arranged to be held in a closed position by a catch or spring
clip or other suitable device. Within the handle is inserted a bricquette heater C
preferably enclosed either in a casing of gauze or other porous receiver D. The lid A¹ is
perforated to allow of the air necessary for combustion, to obtain access to the
bricquette. The cover B may be formed removable or not, as desired.
In applying the invention to a cycle pedal as shown in Figure 2 the cross pieces of
the pedal are replaced by hollow cylindrical or suitably shaped cases E, upon the
exterior of which may be formed the serrations E¹ or other non-slipping device such
as usually employed. One end of each of the cases E is closed while the other is
provided with a perforated lid E2, the arrangement being similar to the hollow handle
shown in Figure 1, the two bricquettes enclosed in perforated or porous receivers are
inserted in casings in the pedal when required. In the method of arranging the
heating device shown in Figure 3 an ordinary rat-trap pedal is employed, into which
between the central casing and the pedal pin of the cross pieces and the pedal are
inserted casings E containing the bricquettes. The casings in this construction are
preferably formed of square section with a lid E2 provided with perforations E³ or
serrations along its edges to allow the bricquette being inserted and air obtaining
access thereto.
To insert the bricquette the casing is removed from the pedal and the lid opened;
the latter being kept closed when the casing is in position on the pedal, by being
placed at the side so as to come against a portion of the framing of the pedal E.
The casing may be attached to the pedal frame by spring hooks E5 or other suitable
device. The shape of the casing here may be inodified as desired, to suit the shape
of the pedal.
If desired, ordinary non-slipping devices may be employed, in conjunction with
either the handles or pedals.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and, in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Heating a handle or other part of a cycle, autocar or the like, by the combus-
tion of a charge or cartridge therein substantially as described.
2. In a cycle, autocar or the like, a hand grip or pedal constructed to carry a charge
of combustible material to be burnt therein.
3. In a cycle, autocar or the like the combination with a hand grip or pedal of an
internally perforated or porous receiver such as D for the purpose described.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete hand grip
substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in Figure 1 of the
accompanying drawings.
5. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete cycle
pedal substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in Figure 2 or
Figure 3 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 30th day of March 1897