Removable Flexible Covering for Handles of Road Vehicles, such as Cycles, and any Road Vehicle that has Handles for Steering and Controlling Gear.
Year: 1896

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Date of Application, 17th June, 1896
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Date of Application, 17th June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1806 Accepted, 10th Dec., 1906
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Removable Flexible Covering for Handles of Road Vehicles, such as
Cycles, and any Road Vehicle that has Handles for Steering and
Controlling Gear.
MARK GOODMAN 2 Harriett Street Lowndes Square, W. Tailor JOHN JOSEPH
RAWLINGS and WILLIAM ROBERT RAWLINGS, 82 Gloucester Road South
Kensington S. W. Engineers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists of a removable sheath, mantle, or caseing; formed of any
suitable flexible material, which can be drawn over the handle of a road vehicle
& suitably fastened at the end of the handle, so as to stretch the covering tightly
upon the handle, by a spring or hinged metallic ring; or by a flexible band or ring
of metal or any elastic material, or by strings to draw tightly, or by any suitable
fastening, as we do not place much importance upon this.
The covering may be woven in the form of a tube, one end being drawn together
& the other end with the clip fastening.
The cover may consist of leather, plaited fabric or of any flexible or elastic
material.
We claim that it lends itself to adornment in the matter of colour & design, also
that it affords easy facilities for renewal of the handle coverings, thereby ensuring
cleanliness & comfort as the cover can be treated in the same manner as a glove.
Dated this Sixteenth day of June 1896
M. GOODMAN.
J. J. RAWLINGS.
W. R. RAWLINGS.
Removable Flexible Covering for Handles of Road Vehicles, such as
Cycles, and any Road Vehicle that has Handles for Steering and
Controlling Gear.
We, MARK GOODMAN, of 2 Harriet Street, Lowndes Square, W. Tailor,
JOHN JOSEPH RAWLINGS and WILLIAM ROBERT RAWLINGS of 82 Gloucester
Road, Engineers, both in South Kensington in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
If the handles of bicycles, tricycles, and other steered vehicles and carriages
used on common roads, are made of an absorbent material, cork and the like, they
speedily become dirty and unpleasant in use, particularly for ladies, whilst
if they are made of ivory, celluloid, porcelain or other non-absorbent material,

page_text: they are uncomfortable. This invention has been designed to obviate these defects,
and at the same time to improve the appearance of the handles.
For this purpose we construct a tubular sleeve, as hereinafter described, which
is adapted to be readily placed upon and removed from the handles. The sleeves
may be constructed of any one or more of a large variety of suitable materials, as
for example any textile yarns or threads, knitted braided netted woven or other-
wise formed to the required shape and dimensions, or cloth, felt, close netting, kid,
leather or the like, sewn, cemented or similarly made up into the required tubular
form. They may obviously also be made to a large variety of patterns, to have any
colour or combination of colours or designs, and to have as accessories, any desired
trimmings, ornaments, small bells and the like. For ladies' use the sleeves will be
made of a cheap material which can be thrown away when dirty or of such a more
expensive material as may be readily cleaned or washed as required. Usually we
propose to construct them of braided or knitted silk or chenille or of kid.
One of our sleeves or protectors is represented on the accompanying drawings as
applied to the handle of a bicycle. In this case it is supposed to be made of
chenille or soft silk cord closely knitted or netted. When off the handle it may
be quite tubular in form with a closed end, as, from the nature of its construction,
it will readily adapt itself to the shape of the handle when placed thereon. It may
be made by severance from an originally longer tube, or it may be made singly in
which case the end may be closed like the end of a finger of a glove during
construction. When made by severance from a longer tube, one end may or may
not be closed up. Generally, however, the end A should be closed, as this prevents
the sleeve creeping up the handle. The other end, B, may have threaded around
its edge or near it a silk cord or ribbon C, which, when the sleeve is on the handle,
may be drawn tight and fastened by tieing in a bow. The ends of this cord may
have tassels or other ornaments. Instead of the silk ribbon or cord, other equivalent
materials or an elastic band may be used.
The sleeves are intended to remain upon the handles only when the machine is
in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is-
A sleeve or protector for the handles of bicycles and other steerable vehicles
used on common roads, constructed substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described.
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W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.