.Cushioned and Non-vibrating Cycle Handles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Loft, 27th May, 1801-Accepted 11th July 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
.Cushioned and Non-vibrating Cycle Handles.
EDMUND CONSTANTINE PLOTNICKI, 18 Frank Place, North Shields, in the
County of Northumberland, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
A handle made of india rubber, having hollow tubes all round (running
horizontally) made to slip over existing handles, and to fix on to the handle bar,
(as per drawings) the object of the invention is to prevent all vibration on the
hands of the rider.
Figs. 1 & 2. are cross and horizontal sections of handle to be used over existing
handles.
Figs. 3 & 4. are similar sections of handles to be fixed on to the handle bar.
The handles can be made any length, diameter or thickness, also any form to suit
the hand, and to suit any handle bar.
Dated this 18th day of September 1890.
E. C. PLOTNICKI.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Cushioned and Non-vibrating Cycle Handles.
I, EDMUND CONSTANTINE PLOTNICKI of 18 Frank Place, North Shields in the
County of Northumberland, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a novel form of cushioned and anti-vibratory handle more
especially useful to riders of velocipedes.
It consists essentially of an india rubber handle with a central opening into which
existing handle bars are meant to be inserted as well as a ring of minor openings
arranged within the substance and just within the circumference thereof.
I will fully describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which
Figures 1 and 2 show respectively a transverse and a horizontal section of an
india rubber cushioned and anti-vibrating handle,
Figures 3 and 4 being similar views of a similar article but on a slightly altered
pattern.
As will be readily understood from the drawings, the rubber handle can by the
central opening P therein be easily slipped either over an ordinary wooden handle
or over an iron handle bar. The minor holes or openings P¹ arranged around the
central opening are for the double purpose of firstly interposing an elastic cushion
between the hand of the person gripping the rubber handle and the bar round
which the rubber handle is placed by which means communication of the vibrations
of the machine to the hand is to a great extent diminished or annulled and secondly
to provide for the free circulation of air through the holes by which means the
tendency is to keep the hands cool.
The small hole P' is to allow air to escape from within the opening P when the
rubber handle is being pushed or slipped over an ordinary handle or bar.

page_text: 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 what I
claim is
1. A handle having a central opening surrounded by minor openings substan-
tially as herein set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1891.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3, St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Patent Agent for Applicant.