Improvements.in: Handle Bars of Cyoles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr.,
4005
Complete Specification Left, th Dec., 1895 Accepted; 11th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left; 9th Dec., 1895 Accepted; 11th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improvements.in: Handle Bars of Cyoles.
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I, RÓBERT FREDERICK HALL of Ferndale, Moseley, near the City of
Birmingham, Managing Director of the Cycle Components Manufacturing
Company, Limited, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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My invention has relation to the handle-bars of safety and other cycles, and
particularly those which are curved. or have curved ends, and has for its object,
adjustability and detachability.
According to my improvement or improvements, the-said.. handle-bars are:
circularly-adjustable about the summit of, the steering post, as well as being
detachable.
By such circular-adjustment about a fixed point, the handle-bar admits of
being set and affixed at any angle, according to the requirements of a rider..
In carrying out one form of my improvements, the upper or handle bar end of
the steering-post has, or is provided with an eyed and split, bracket, sleeve-lug or
band-clip, laterally adjustable, and lengthwise interiorly fluted, and adapted to
take upon and clip, a like fluted and slightly enlarged middle part, of a handle
bar..
One end of the split bracket is fast to the post and the other end free with an
adjustable clearance left-between them...
The free end has a screw or set pin through it, and with the end of the said pin
taking and screwing into a tapped hole in the solid metal of the fast, part opposite
to the said free ends..
By tightening the.a
e.screw pin, the split parts are drawn together and the bracket.
made fast to or upon the handle bar middle part.
To angularly adjust the handle-bar ends or baudles relative to the post or
machine, loosen, the set or screw pin, when the split of the clip will open, then
adjust the bar circularly and re-tighten up the screw pin...
If, the handle-bar requires to-be removed, then slip the same from, out the
bracket; or in connecting or fitting up the bar to the post, thread the same through
the eye of bracket, when its bore is expanded and afterwards screw up the pin...
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As a modification, the inside of the split-bracket may be plain or roughened, or...
it may be plain faceted, or of any other suitable figure suitable for taking upon
the bandle bar, whose middle part is preferably circularly raised-or collared.
As a still further form of my invention, both the fast and free ends of the clip
may have lugs through holes in which a bolt passes.
Dated this 25th day of April 1895:

page_text: Improvements in Handle Bars of Cycles.
I, ROBERT FREDERICK HALL of Ferndale, Moseley near the City of
Birmingham, Managing Director of the Cycle Components Manufacturing
Company, Limited, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the saine is to be performed; to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention has relation to the handle bars of safety and other cycles, and
particularly those which are curved or have curved ends, and has for its object,
adjustability and detachability.
According to my improvement or improvements, the said handle-bars are
circularly-adjustable about the summit of the steering post, as well as being
detachable.
By such circular-adjustment about a fixed point, the handle-bar admits of
being set and affixed at any angle, according to the requirements of a rider.
In carrying out one form of my improvements, the upper or handle bar end of
the steering post has, or is provided with an eyed and split bracket, sleeve-lug or
band-clip, laterally adjustable, and lengthwise interiorly fluted, and adapted to
take upon and clip, a like fluted and slightly enlarged middle part, of a handle
bar.
One end of the split bracket is fast to the post and the other end free with an
adjustable clearance left between them.
"The free end has a screw or set pin through it, and with the end of the said pin
taking and screwing into a tapped hole in the solid metal of the fast part opposite
to the said free end!
By tightening the screw pin, the split parts, are drawn together and the bracket
made fast to or upon the handle-bar middle part.
To angularly adjust the handle-bar ends or handles relative to the post or
machine, loosen the set or screw pin, when the split of the clip will open, then
adjust the bar circularly and re-tighten up the screw pin.
If the handle-bar requires to be removed then slip the same from out the bracket;
or in connecting or fitting up the bar to the post, thread the same through the eye
of bracket, when its bore is expanded, and afterwards screw up the pin.
As a modification, the inside of the split-bracket may be plain or roughened,
or it may be plain faceted, or of any other suitable figure suitable for taking upon
the handle bar, whose middle part is preferably circularly raised or collared.
As a still further form of my invention, both the fast and free ends of the clip
may have lugs through holes in which, a bolt passes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an adjustable and a
detachable handle bar carried by the steering post, and. made according to my
improvements.
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Figure 2 is a cross section of Figure 1 on the dotted line and upon an
enlarged scale, whilst Figure 3 is a front elevation of the middle part of the
handle bar and Figure 4 represents a cross section thereof.
Figure 5 is a front elevation of the summit of the steering
split lug, and
post, showing the
and Figure 7 is a
removed.
Figure 6 is a cross section of Figure 5 on the dotted line
like section as Figure 2 but with the detachable handle bar part
Figure 8 is an end elevation of the bar and post Figure 1, showing how the
handle bar is capable of being angularly adjusted, the dotted lines represents another
fixed position which the handle bar may take.
a is the steering post, terminated by an eyed and split bracket b, with its inside
surface b¹ Aluted, and with the split b³, drawn together by a screw pin taking
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page_text: through a hole in the free end lug extension 6, and into a screwed hole 6, in
the fast lug extension b. d is the fluted or shaped middle of the handle bar d,
fluted to the inside contour b¹ of the bracket clip b, so that assuming that the split
bracket is open, or the sides expanded, then by threading the bar through it, with
its middle lying in the socket, and then screwing home the screw pin, the bracket
clip is closed upon the handle bar, and the latter fixedly secured in any adjusted
position to which it may have been set.
Figure 9 represents a modified form of my invention, with the opposed gripping
surfaces of the parts, made plain or roughened only.
a is the post, b the clip, e the screw bolt and the plain or roughened inside
of the clip, and d the plain or roughened outside of the handle bar middle
part d. bare lug extensions, with holes 6 through them, wherethrough a
bolt c, takes and which are drawn together by the screwing up of a nut.c', on the
screwed end of the said bolt.
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 :-
First. In handle bars of cycles, making the same circularly and angularly
adjustable as well as detachable, substantially as and for the purpose described and
set forth.
Secondly. In cycles, providing the steering post with an inside fluted or plain
eyed and split bracket or lugged sleeve, adapted to clip and be made fast upon a
like shaped or plain middle part of a handle bar through the medium of a screwed.
pin, bolt or eqvivalent, whereby the said handle bar, which may be detachable,
admits of an angular adjustment, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 7th day of December 1895
ROBERT FREDERICK HALL,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.