Improvements in Handle Bars of Bicycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1898-Accepted, 20th Aug.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handle Bars of Bicycles.
1, DAVID FLEMING, 2, Erdington Villas, Tudorville, Ross, Herefordshire,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An appliance attachable to handle bars of bicycles by means of which they may
be protected from abrasion when resting against a wall or other object.
The appliance consists of a piece of rubber or other suitable material of any
convenient shape or size fixed to handle bar by means of spring clip, screws, or
other convenient fastening, & fixed in such a position that it will take the contact
when the bicycle is resting against a wall or other object.
The appliance may be formed of rubber in the shape of a ring & sprung into
position, or the ring may be split & afterward fastened together when in position
by cement, spring clip, or other suitable means; or the appliance may be made in
one piece with the handle.
I, DAVID FLEMING, of 2, Erdington Villas, Tudorville, Ross, Herefordshire,
Gentleman, 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:-.
My invention refers to an appliance for attachment to handle bars of cycles by
which they may be protected from abraision when resting against a wall or other
object.
The appliance consists of a piece of rubber or other suitable material of any
convenient shape or size fixed to the handle bar by means of spring clips, screws or
other convenient fastenings and fixed in such a manner that it will be in contact
with the brickwork when the cycle is resting against a wall or other object thus
preventing the handle bar from being scratched or damaged. The appliance may
be formed of rubber in the shape of a ring and sprung into position, or the ring
may be split and afterwards fastened together when in position by cement, spring
clips or other suitable means or the appliance may be made in one piece with the
handle.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried

page_text: into practise I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have fully
illustrated the nature of my said improvement.
Figure 1 is a part view of a machine shewing the application of my invention
to the handle bar.
Figure 2 is a section through the handle bar and ring.
Figure 3 is a similar section to Figure 2 but shewing a modification.
Figure 4 is an enlarged view of part of the handle bar with my pad A attached.
In carrying my invention into effect I attach a pad A of rubber or other suitable
material of any shape such as shewn by Figure 2 which is capable of being easily
placed on the handle B and being provided preferably with the thickened side a¹
which may be enlarged to cover a greater part of the handle as shewn at Figure 4
and which is placed in such a position on the handle bar that when the handle B
is placed against the wall, contact is taken by the pad or ring A and thus damage
to the handle B is prevented. I may cover a metal spring E with rubber as shewn
by by which means the pad is easily removable from the handle.
The rubber pad or ring may be fixed to the handle but I prefer to have it movable
as it enables the ring or pad to be moved to suit the various positions required and
I may vary the shape of the pad or ring without departing from the nature of my
said invention.
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:-
1st. In combination with a cycle handle bar the shaped rubber ring A sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and illustrated.
2nd. The spring pad such as shewn by Figure 3 for attachment to cycle handle
bars substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn.
Dated this 25th day of June 1898.
LEWIS WM. GOOLD,
Agent for Applicant, 5, Corporation Street, Birmingham.