Improved Handle Bar for Cycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application 19th Nov. 1897
Complete Specification Left. 12th Aug., 1898-Accepted. 8th Oct.. 1898
Complete Specification Left. 12th Aug.. 1898-Accepted. 8th Oct., 1898
Improved Handle Bar for Cycles.
We, ALFRED WILLIAM WATERS, of Number 866, Palmerston Avenue, in the City
of Toronto, in the County of York. and Province of Ontario, Canada, Super-
intendent, and LAMBERT VICTOR DUSSEAU, of Number 108, Seaton Street, in the said
City of Toronto, Secretary-Treasurer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
The object of the invention is to devise a handle bar which, while very neat in
appearance, may be easily and quickly adjusted to give the grips any desired
position with regard to the handle bar stem, and it consists, essentially, in forming
a threaded sleeve at the upper end of the handle bar stem and in connecting to the
centre of the handle bar a threaded sleeve adapted to be screwed through the sleeve
on the handle bar stem, locking nuts being screwed upon the ends of the sleeve on
the handle bar which are of less diameter than the middle portion and differently
threaded, substantially as hereinafter more particularly described.
Figure 1, is a perspective view of the improved handle bar.
Figure 2, is a side elevation of the same, partly in section and on a somewhat
larger scale.
Figure 3, is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the clamp of full size.
In the drawings, like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the
different figures.
A, is the handle bar stem, and B a sleeve formed on or secured to its upper end.
This sleeve has a screw thread a cut therein.
C, is the handle bar provided with the grips D. To the centre of the handle bar
is connected a sleeve E, comprising the middle portion b, and the ends c of less
diameter than the middle. The middle portion b, of the sleeve has preferably a
left hand thread cut thereon, and the ends c right hand threads of similar or
different pitch. Upon the ends of the sleeve E, are screwed locking nuts F
and G, which are provided with milled edges to afford a grip to the fingers, or if
desired, with holds for a spanner as indicated in Fig. 1.
When the handle bar is in use, the sleeve E, is screwed through the sleeve B,
and the nuts F and G, tightened. If it be desired to set the handle bar to any
desired position, both the nuts F and G are loosened, and the handle bar place l
in a position a few inches above that it is desired to occupy when in use, as indicated
in Fig. 2. The nut F, is then tightened up by hand, and the handle bar firmly pushed
down to the position it is to occupy when in use, as shown in full lines in Fig. 2.
The nut F and the end of the sleeve E, are then so securely jammed together that
the handle bar cannot be raised by any upward pressure put upon it while riding.
As an additional precaution, however, the nut G is tightened up by hand after the
handle bar has been adjusted. The handle bar is so curved that it can be used as
a drop bar, as shown in the drawings or turned right over in the direction
indicated by arrow in Fig. 2. When the handle bar is so turned, the nut G,
becomes the locking nut, and the nut F, the safety nut.

page_text: We describe the middle of the sleeve as being formed with a left hand thread and
the ends with a right hand thread, but this of course might be reversed, or even two
similar threads of different pitch used, provided it be, so arranged that the forcing
downward of the handle bar after the nut has been set, will jamb the two together.
From the above description it will be seen that a very neat and simple handle
bar adjustment has been devised by means of which the handle bar may be quickly
and securely set with the grips in any desired position in relation to the handle
bar stem.
Improved Handle Bar for Cycles.
We, ALFRED WILLIAM WATERS, of 866, Palmerston Avenue, of the City
of Toronto, in the County of York and Province of Ontario, Canada, Super-
intendent, and LAMBERT VICTOR DUSSEAU, of 108, Seaton Street, of the said City
of Toronto, Secretary Treasurer, 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:
The object of the invention is to devise a handle bar which, while very neat in
appearance, may be easily and quickly adjusted to give the grips any desired
position with regard to the handle bar stem, and it consists, essentially in forming
a threaded sleeve at the upper end of the handle bar stem and in connecting to the
centre of the handle bar a threaded sleeve adapted to be screwed through the sleeve
on the handle bar stem, locking nuts being screwed upon the ends of the sleeve on
the handle bar which are of less diameter than the middle portion and differently
threaded, substantially as hereinafter more particularly described and then
definitely claimed.
Figure 1, is a perspective view of my improved handle bar.
Figure 2, is a side elevation of the same, partly in section and on a somewhat
larger scale.
Figure 3, is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the clamp, of full size.
In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the
different figures.
The drawings referred to are the same as those filed in the Provisional Application.
A, is the handle bar stem, and B, a sleeve formed on or secured to its upper end.
This sleeve has a screw thread a cut therein.
C, is the handle bar provided with the grips D. To the centre of the handle bar
is connected a sleeve E, comprising the middle portion b, and the ends c of less
diameter than the middle. The middle portion b of the sleeve has preferably a
left hand thread cut thereon, and the ends e right hand threads of similar or
different pitch. Upon the ends of the sleeve E, are screwed locking nuts F,
and G, which are provided with milled edges to afford a grip to the fingers, or if
desired, with holds for a spanner as indicated in Fig. 1.
When the handle bar is in use, the sleeve E, is screwed through the sleeve B,
and the nuts F, and G, tightened. If it be desired to set the handle bar to any
desired position, both the nuts F, and G, are loosened, and the handle bar placed
in a position a few inches above that it is desired to occupy when in use, as indicated

page_text: in Fig. 2. The nut F, is then tightened up by hand, and the handle bar firmly pushed
down to the position it is to occupy when in use, as shown in full lines in Fig. 2.
The nut F, and the end of the sleeve E, are then so securely jambed together that
the handle bar cannot be raised by any upward pressure put upon it while riding.
As an additional precaution, however, the nut G, is tightened up by hand after the
handle bar has been adjusted. The handle bar is so curved that it can be used as
a drop bar, as shown in the drawings, or turned right over in the direction
indicated by arrow in Fig. 2. When the handle bar is so turned, the nut G,
becomes the locking nut, and the nut F, the safety nut.
The middle of the sleeve is described as being formed with a left hand thread and
the ends with a right hand thread, but this of course might be reversed, or even two
similar threads of different pitch used, provided it be so arranged that the forcing
downwards of the handle bar after the nut has been set, will jamb the two together.
From the above description it will be seen that there has been devised a very neat
and simple handle bar adjustment by means of which the handle bar may be quickly
and securely set with the grips in any desired position in relation to the handle
bar stem.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:―
1. In a cycle, a handle bar stem and a screw threaded sleeve secured to its upper
end, in combination with a handle bar having a similarly threaded sleeve on its
centre and screwed within the first named sleeve, and a nut adjustable upon the end
of the sleeve on the handle bar, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
2. In a cycle, a handle bar stem and a screw-threaded sleeve secured to its upper
end, in combination with a handle bar having a screw threaded sleeve connected to its
centre, one end of which is of less diameter than and threaded differently from the
middle; and a nut screwed upon the said end, substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
3. In a cycle, the handle bar stem A, and the sleeve B, secured thereto and having
a left hand thread a cut therein, in combination with the handle bar C; the
sleeve E, secured thereon comprising the left hand threaded middle portion band
the right hand threaded ends c; and the nuts F, and G, screwed upon the said ends,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 11th day of August 1898