Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 7th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Aug., 1887.
We WALTER JOHN LLOYD and WILLIAM PRIEST trading as the Quadrant Tricycle
Company of Sheepcote Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Velocipede
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object so to construct the bar handle of bicycles tricycles
and other velocipedes that the position of the end parts of the bar handle with
respect to the seat or saddle can be readily changed for the purpose of increasing the
distance between the said parts of the handle and the seat or saddle and thereby
permitting the rider to mount to and dismount from the seat or saddle without the
inconvenience attending the mounting and dismounting when bar handles of the
ordinary kind are used.
This object we effect by constructing the said bar handles and parts connected with
them in the manner hereinafter described.
We will describe our invention as applied to a tricycle to which it is particularly
applicable.
Instead of using a bar handle of the ordinary kind we give to the handle an
angular figure that is we bend the end parts of the bar handle at an obtuse angle with
the straight middle part which has a length only about half that of each of the bent
end parts. The middle straight part of the angular bar handle works in a fixed
tubular collar or bearing in which it is capable of a semi rotation in one or other
direction the motion of the said handle through a semi rotation being limited by a
pin or stud on the straight middle part working in a cross slot in the tubular collar or
bearing. The said tubular collar or bearing is fixed to the top of the pedestal or
handle support of the tricycle.
When the bar handle is in use its bent end parts are turned towards the seat or
saddle and the said handle is fixed in that position by a vertical locking spring arm on
the fixed pedestal snapping upon the limiting stud herein before described which
projects from the slot in the tubular bearing of the bar handle. The upper end of the
locking spring arm is curved and constitutes a finger plate by pressing back which

page_text: the spring arm may be disengaged from the stud and the bar handle released. When
so released the bar handle may be turned through a semi-circle. By this motion of
the bar handle its bent or angular end parts are turned outwards or from the seat
or saddle and the distance between them and the seat or saddle is thereby increased
to such an extent that the rider can readily mount to or dismount from the said seat
or saddle.
The lever by which the brake is operated is jointed to the fixed bearing or collar in
which the straight part of the bar handle turns.
Instead of giving the bar handle the angular figure described it may have a curved
or bow figure and instead of fastening the bar handle in its position for use by a
locking spring arm other equivalent arrangements such for example as a spring bolt
may be used for that purpose.
Dated this Canand das of Novemben 1002

page_text: Improvements in the Bar Handles of Bicycles, Tricycles, and
other Velocipedes.
We WALTER JOHN LLOYD and WILLIAM PRIEST trading as the Quadrant Tricycle
Company of Sheepcote Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Velocipede
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our 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 so to construct the bar handles of bicycles tricycles
and other velocipedes that the position of the end parts of the bar handle with respect
to the seat or saddle can be readily changed for the purpose of increasing the distance
between the said parts of the handle and the seat or saddle and thereby permitting the
rider to mount on and dismount from the seat or saddle without the inconvenience
attending the mounting and dismounting when bar handles of the ordinary kind are
used.
This object we effect by constructing the said bar handles and parts connected with
them in the manner hereinafter described.
We will describe our invention as applied to a tricycle to which it is particularly
applicable. Instead of using a bar handle of the ordinary kind, we give to the handle
an angular figure, that is, we bend the end parts of the bar handle at an obtuse angle
with the straight middle part, which has a length only about half that of each of the
bent end parts. The middle straight part of the angular bar handle works in a fixed
tubular collar or bearing in which it is capable of a nearly semi-rotation in one or
other direction, the motion of the said handle through nearly a semi-rotation being
limited by a pin or stud on the straight middle part working in a cross slot in the
tubular collar or bearing. The said tubular collar or bearing is fixed to the top of
the pedestal or handle support of the tricycle.
When the bar handle is in use its bent end parts are turned towards the seat or
saddle and the said handle is fixed in that position by a vertical locking spring arm
on the fixed pedestal snapping upon the limiting stud hereinbefore described, which
projects from the slot in the tubular bearing of the bar handle. The upper end of
the locking spring arm is curved and constitutes a finger plate by pressing back
which the spring arm may be disengaged from the stud and the bar handle released.
When so released the bar handle may be turned through a semi circle. By this
motion of the bar handle its bent or angular end parts are turned outwards or from
the seat or saddle and the distance between them and the seat or saddle is thereby
increased to such an extent that the rider can readily mount on or dismount from the
said seat or saddle.
The lever by which the brake is operated, is jointed to the fixed bearing or collar in
which the straight part of the bar handle turns.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents in plan a tricycle to which a
bar handle constructed according to our invention is applied; Figure 2 represents in

page_text: front elevation; Figure 3 in plan; Figure 4 in side elevation and Figure 5 partly in
side elevation and partly in section the bar handle detached from the tricycle drawn
to a larger scale; Figure 6 represents the same view as Figure 5 with the bar
handle turned back for facilitating the mounting on or dismounting from the seat or
saddle.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5
and 6.
5
d 1
a, a², a is the angular bar handle, a, a being the bent or cranked ends and a² the
middle straight part. The middle straight part a² of the bar handle works in the tubular
collar or bearing fixed to the fork c on the top of the pedestal or handle support
of the tricycle. In the said tubular collar or bearing 6 the bar handle a, a², a is
capable of a nearly semi rotation in one or other direction, the motion of the said bar
handle being limited and the handle locked in the manner hereinafter described. On
the straight part a² of the bar handle is a pin or stud e which works in a slot fin a
boss on the fixed tubular collar 6 the said pine when the handle is in its normal
position occupying the position in the slot represented in Figure 5 and when the
handle is in its thrown back position occupying the position in the slot shown in
Figure 6. The handle a, a², a is fixed in the normal position Figures 1 2 3 4 and 5,
or in the thrown back position Figure 6 and indicated in dotted lines in Figures 1 and 3,
by the vertical locking spring aring the lower end of which is fixed on the pedestal d.
In the said spring arm g is a hole h for the pin or stud e to snap into and the upper
end of the said spring arm is curved the extreme end constituting a finger plate for
releasing the spring arm from the pin or stud.
When the handle is in its normal position the stud e is engaged in the hole h in the
spring arm g (see Figure 5) and the handle is locked. When the handle is in this
position its bent ends a, a are turned towards the seat or saddle and the handle is
used like an ordinary bar handle. When it is wished to mount on or dismount from
the seat or saddle i the bar handle a, a, a is turned back into the position represented
in Figure 6 and indicated in dotted lines in Figures 1 and 3. Its angular ends a, a
are now turned outwards or from the seat or saddle i, i. The distance between the
said ends a, a of the handle and the seat or saddle is thereby increased as represented
in the Drawings and the rider can readily mount on or dismount from the seat or saddle.
Before the handle can be moved into its turned back position, the spring arm gis
pressed in the direction of the seat so as to disengage the stud e from the hole h in the
spring arm g. The handle can now be turned back, the stud e bearing against the
inner face of the curved head of the spring arm as illustrated in Figure 6. The
elasticity of the said spring arm g now holds the handle firmly in its turned back
position.
kis the lever by which the brake is operated, the said lever being jointed to one
end of the fixed tubular collar or bearing 6 in which the bar handle turns.
Instead of making the whole of the cranked bar handle capable of swivelling
through a semi circle or nearly a semi circle as described and illustrated, about one
half only of the bar handle may be made capable of the said swivelling motion, the
other part of the handle being fixed. The brake lever is situated near the fixed part
of the bar handle.
This modification is represented in front elevation in Figure 7; end elevation in
Figure 8 and plan partly in longitudinal section in Figure 9; a is the fixed cranked
part of the handle made in one piece with or secured to the tubular bearing 6 carried
by the fork c of the pedestal da is the movable or swivelling part or half of the
handle, the straight part a of which works in the tubular bearing b in which bearing
it is capable of a semi rotation in one or other direction, the motion of the said half
handle a², a being limited by a pin and slot and locked by the spring arm g as before
described with respect to the first described arrangement of bar bandle.
When the tricycle is in use the movable part a², a³ of the handle occupies the position
represented in Figures 7, 8 and 9. When it is wished to mount on or dismount from
the seat the movable part a², a³ of the handle is turned through a semi circle into
the position indicated in dotted lines in Figures 8 and 9.

page_text: Instead of giving the bar handle the angular figure described and represented it
may have a curved or bow figure; and instead of fastening the bar handle or the
movable part of the bar handle in its position for use by a locking spring arm,
other equivalent arrangements such for example as a spring bolt may be used for that
purpose.
Although we have described and represented our invention as applied to a tricycle
yet our said invention may also be applied to bicycles and velocipedes other than
tricycles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as our Invention of "Improvements in the bar handles of bicycles tricycles and other
velocipedes."
First Making bar handles, the ends of which are cranked or bent at an obtuse
angle with the middle straight part, or bar handles having a curved or bow figure,
capable of a semi rotation or nearly a semi rotation in one or other direction in a fixed
tubular collar or bearing carried by the pedestal or handle support of the velocipede,
the said bar handle when turned back or away from its normal position increasing the
distance between the said handle and the seat or saddle and thereby facilitating the
mounting of the rider on or dismounting from the seat or saddle substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 and 6 of the
accompanying Drawings.
Secondly Making one half or about one half of the cranked or curved bar handle
capable of a semi-rotation or nearly a semi rotation instead of the whole of the said
handle substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 7, 8 and 9 of
the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly Limiting the motion of the bar handle or the movable part of the bar
handle in its tubular collar or bearing by means of a stop or pin and slot as described
and illustrated and locking the bar handle or movable part thereof in its normal
position or in its turned back position by means of a spring arm or by a spring bolt
or other equivalent locking arrangement substantially as hereinafter described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Fifth day of July 1887..
WALTER JOHN LLOYD.
WILLIAM PRIEST.