Handle Bar for Cycles in General.
Year: 1897

page_text: Handle Bar for Cycles in General.
I, THOMAS VANN, Jubilee House, Hay Mills, Near Birmingham, Cycle Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said Handle Bar to consist of 3 Distinct pieces.
(First) 2 pieces of tube or other material brazed or fixed together by joints
forming a tee piece.
(Second) 2 Curved pieces of tube or other material with clip joints on one end
into which the tee piece is inserted and tightened with nut & bolt forming a com-
plete adjustable handle bar which I claim can be made out of any metal or wood.
of Antah- 1907
I, THOMAS VANN, of Jubilee House, Hay Mills, near Birmingham, Cycle Maker,
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 improvements in handle bars for cycles generally, and
its object primarily is to provide means whereby the relative angular position of
the handles to the steering post tube, may be altered at will, and otherwise improv-
ing its convenience in shape, construction, and transit.
In order to more clearly explain this my invention, I have appended hereunto an
illustrative drawing upon which are figures and numbers of reference, similar
numbers referring throughout to the same thing or part.
Fig. 1, is a general plan view; and Fig. 2, a side view of the handle.
Fig. 3, is a cross sectional view of the connection in the bar at line A-B.
Fig. 4, is a similar sectional view but showing a modification in the locking
device.
It will be seen that the handle bar broadly consists of three parts,-the tee
piece, consisting of the post 6, and cross bar 7; and of the two (curved) pieces 8, 8,
upon which are placed the handles 9, 9. Handles 9", 9", may also be placed upon
the bar 7.
The pieces 8, 8, may be adjustably secured to the cross bar 7, as follows:-In
the bar 7 (see Fig. 3) are number of holes 10. The end of the piece 8, is shaped
to fit the bar 7, and further provided with bolt lugs 11, 11, through which passes
the bolt 12. Between the lugs is placed the spring 13, whose one end 14, is made

page_text: to enter any selected one of such holes, according to the angle desired. Thus by
tightening up the bolt the bar 7, is firmly gripped, while by reason of the end 14,
engaging with the hole 10, no angular movement can take place. Further the
spiral springs 13, serves to prevent any jarring action which might loosen the
nut 15.
Instead of the holes 10, I may make longitudinal grooves or notches 10, in the
end of the bar and form upon the interior of the clip, a rib 16, or the like,
which may engage with any selected one of such notches 10, with a similar result
as before described, or other equivalent device may be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In handle bars the combination with the part 6 and cross bar 7 of the attach-
able handle pieces 8, 8, substantially as set forth and shown.
2. In handle bars, adjustably connecting the handle pieces 8, to the cross bar 7,
by lugs 11, 11, bolt 12, with locking end 14, engaging with holes 10, all substan-
tially as set forth and shown.
3. The modification as shown and described in reference to Fig. 4.
Dated this Zora day OI November 1091.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent, 12, Cherry Street, Birmingham.