Year: 1896

page_text: I, JABEZ WILLIAM WEDDERBURN, of 130 Hill Street, Peckham, London, S.E.
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in cycle handles, and has for object to
provide such handles which shall be (1) durable in wear, (2) possessed of the
requisite resiliency, (3) cool to the hands of the rider, (4) capable of efficient
ventilation, and (5) of such construction that no vibration is experienced.
In accordance with this invention the handles proper, that is to say, the parts
held in the hands of the rider of the cycle may be covered with cork, rubber, felt,
leather, metal, or any other suitable material, which is placed upon a tube or
sleeve slipping on to the handle bar, in strips or sections either longitudinally from
end to end of the handle proper, or in circular or other shaped rings or segments
around the outer circumference of the handle. The handle tube or sleeve (fitting
on to the handle bar) may be formed with circumferential or longitudinal ribs
between which the cork, felt, or other packing, may be placed, or it (the packing
aforesaid) may be placed in grooves formed in the handle tube or sleeve so that
there are arranged alternately strips of the cork, felt, leather, or other packing,
and spaces through which air may pass.
To afford perfect ventilation to the handle the packing strips may, in lieu of
being placed in grooves or between ridges formed in or upon the handle tube as
aforesaid, be carried each strip in a separate metal or other dish which is connected
at its ends to the handle tube or sleeve but which between such ends is raised
from the handle tube and permits a circulation of air between the tube and the
dish or container of the packing strip. Or, in a cheap form of manufacture
I may simply. attach strips or pieces of cork or other suitable material longitudinally
or circumferentially around the plain handle tube or sleeve at desired distances
apart so as to leave spaces or grooves between said strips.
The ends of the bandle may be fitted with ferrules or caps of any convenient or
suitable material or make.
Cork handles constructed in accordance with this invention are much less costly
in manufacture than those hitherto made as much of the cork now wasted may be
utilized; whilst for comfort to the rider the handle constructed as above described is
unsurpassed-one important feature being that the cork (when that material is used
as a packing) will not break as so frequently, and almost invariably, occurs with
ordinary cork handles.
Dated this 6th day of October 1896.

page_text: Improvements in Cycle Handles.
I, JABEZ WILLIAM WEDDERBURN, of 130 Hill Street, Peckham, London, S.E.
Engineer, 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, that is to say:-"
This invention relates to improvements in cycle handles, and has for object to
provide such handles which shall be (1) durable in wear, (2) possessed of the
requisite resiliency, (3) cool to the hands of the rider (4) capable of efficient
ventilation, aud (5) of such construction that no vibration is experienced.
In accordance with this invention the handles proper, that is to say, the parts held in
the hands of the rider of the cycle may be partly covered with cork, rubber, felt,
leather, metal, or any other suitable material, which is placed upon a tube or sleeve
(slipping on to the handle bar) in strips or sections either longitudinally from end to
end of the handle proper, or in circular or other shaped rings or segments around
the outer circumference of the handle. The handle tube or sleeve fitting on to
the handle bar may be formed with circumferential or longitudinal ribs between
which the cork, felt, or other packing, may be placed; or it (the packing aforesaid)
may be placed around, and attached to, (by glue or otherwise,) the plain handle
tube in strips at desired distances apart so as to leave spaces or grooves between
said strips for the purposes of ventilation.
To afford perfect ventilation to the handle the packing strips may be carried
each strip in a separate metal or other dish which is connected at its ends to the
handle tube or sleeve, but which between such ends is raised from the handle tube
and permits a circulation of air between the tube and the dish or container.
And in order that this invention may be fully understood I will describe same
with reference to the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of my ventilated cycle handle; Fig. 2 a side
sectional elevation of same; and Fig. 3 a central cross section of the same.
Fig. 4 is a cross section of the handle tube or sleeve formed with projecting ribs
in which the strips of packing are slipped & held, the arrangement being a
modification of that shewn in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.
Fig. 5 is a further modification (iu cross section) in which the packing strips are
simply cemented or glued to the handie sleeve or bush; and
Fig. 6 shews how the packing strips may be arranged circumferentially around
the handle sleeve or bush in lieu of longitudinally as shewn in the other figures.
Similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout
a is a metal or other tube forming the handle sleeve or bush; and which slips on
the end of the handle bar b cf the cycle. In Fig. 2 the handle is shewn as partly
slipped on the handle bar c. Figs. 1, 2, and 3, are the metal or other dishes or
containers connected at their ends e to the handle tube or sleeve a, but being
raised between such ends c¹ sufficiently to allow an air passage d to be formed.
These dishes or containers are spaced sufficiently apart, around the tube, to permit
of the channels e being formed through which the air enters to the spaces d between
the dishes c and the tube a.
ff are strips of cork, felt, leather, or other suitable material, fitted in the dishes
or containers c as shewn in Figs. 1, 2, & 3, or affixed to the tube a as shewn in
Figs. 5 and 6, gg Fig. 4 are ribs or projections formed upon the tube a into which
the packing strips may be slipped when so desired, the air channels e then
forming the ventilating medium (see also Figs. 5 & 6). h h are caps or ferrules
fitted at ends of the handle which may be of any desired or convenient shape,
make, and material.

page_text: Cork handles constructed in accordance with this invention are much less costly
in manufacture than those hitherto made as much of the cork now wasted may be
utilized, whilst for comfort to the rider the handle constructed as above described
is unsurpassed-one important feature being that the cork (when that material is
used as a packing) will not break as so frequently and almost invariably occurs
with ordinary cork handles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvements in cycle handles substantially as hereinbefore described
and shewn.
2. In cycle handles the combination with a metal or other tube or sleeve (fitting
upon the handle bar) of longitudinally or circumferentially arranged strips of
suitable packing material spaced at intervals apart to form air channels or passages.
for the purpose of obtaining a well ventilated handle; substantially as herein before
described and shewn.
3. In cycle handles in which the cork, felt, leather, or other suitable packing is
arranged in strips upon a tube or sleeve (fitting upon the handle bar) and at
intervals apart, the dishes or containers for said packing strips constructed and
arranged so as to permit free passage of air between said dishes or containers and
the handle tube or sleeve for the purpose of obtaining perfect ventilation of the
handle; substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn.
4. In cycle bandles the tube or sleeve a (fitting on handle bar 6); the dish or
container c attached at ends o¹ to the tube a and having air space d between dish o
and tube a with air channels e between the dishes or containers o; the cork, felt,
or other suitable packing arranged in strips f around the handle; and the ferrules
or caps ; combined, constructed, arranged, and operating, substantially as and
for the purposes herein before set forth and described.
Dated this 5th day of November 1896.
JABEZ WILLIAM WEDDERBURN,
Per Geo. Coxhead.