Improvements in Clips for Farts of cycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Clips for Farts of cycles.
I, ROBERT ALFRED MARPLES of Merridale, Oakfield Road, Selly Park, near the
City of Birmingham, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to what are known in commerce as lug clips for cycles,
and consisting of an encircling band clip or split lug, with the free ends drawn
up by a screw pin, whereby its bore is gathered in, and parts enclosed within or
embraced by it are clamped or held in certain positions, said clips being used for.
clamping seat pillars, as ball head clips for securing the stems of handle bars
within the upper ends of steering pillars for attaching brake levers, bells and the
like to handle bars and a variety of other purposes in connection with cycles.
I will describe my invention in connection with a ball head clip. Thus I take
a circular band clip with its free cuds terminated by lugs or thickened portions,
which are bored longitudinally in their axial directions with plain holes with
the extreme forward end of the hole in the right hand side lug throttle or having
at its entrance, an annular collar, of 'an inside bore equal to the diameter of the
headed drawing-up pin, whose fore end is screwed whilst its shank is left plain.
Fitting within the counterbored holes in the lugs, are two cylindrical_and
excentrically bored bushes, sleeves or linings, the right hand one plain, and the
left hand one screwed or partly screwed, whilst the inner sides of the opposed
ends are quadrant-gapped, forming, when coming together, a chord or part of a
circle of slightly less radius than the body of the clip, and which, when in
position, come within the gap or space between the lugged ends of the clip. The
collar or lip at the throttled end of the right hand lug, overhangs the bush and so
gives a neat appearance and also forms an abutment for that end of the said
bush.
In operation, the clip is placed around the upper end of the inner sleeve or
steering pillar of a ball head and the stem of the handle bar within the said
sleeves; then place the screw through the knuckle lugs and the bushes located
therein, when the rotation of the same into the left hand lug draws the sides of
the clip together and also, at the same time, brings the opposed ends of the bushes
into closer proximity, with their part-circular gaps impinging around the member
or part to be clipped, in common with the inside walls of the band.
The application, of my invention to seat pillar clips brake lever clips and other
parts of cycles differs in no essential particular from its application to a ball
head lug as herein described.
Vaxombor 1896
ROBERT ALFRED MARPLES,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: I, ROBERT ALFRED MARPLES of Merridale, Oakfield Road, Selly Park, near the
City of Birmingham, Electrical 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:-
This invention relates to handle bar and other clips for cycles, usually consist-
ing of an encircling band clip or split lug, with the free ends drawn up by a screw
pin, whereby its bore is gathered in, and parts enclosed within or embraced by it
are clamped or held in certain positions.
I will describe my invention in connection with a handle bar clip for securing]
the stem of a handle bar within the upper end of a steering pillar, although my
improved clip is applicable for attaching brake levers, bells and the like to handle
bars and a variety of other purposes in connection with cycles.
My improved clip is illustrated, in side elevation in Figure 1, and in section,
applied to upper end of a steering pillar, in Figure 2, whilst Figure 3 is a topside
plan of the same and Figure 4 is a horizontal section of the same upon the dotted
line, Figure 2.
.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
The body a, of the clip is in the form of a continuous band a', having a lug or
thickened part a², running across the width of the one side of the same, which lug
is cylindrically bored out from end to end forming a plain hole a³, of an internal
diameter equal to the diameter of the circular sectioned head b', of the drawing-
up screw b, located in the said hole ³, and whose extreme end 2, is screwed, and
takes the nut, whilst the shank is plain and receives a threaded-on and
excentrically bored bush or cylindrical block d. This block d, and the head b¹,
of the screw are both quadrant gapped or formed with gripping or bearing faces
at d, 63, which together constitute au arc or part of a circle capable of being
contracted to a less radius than the body of the clip. When the block and pin
are in position, these gripping faces or impingements are presented inwardly
and lie in the gap or space at that part of the clip where the vertically bored body
part is intersected by the transverse bore of the lug, and come or bear upon the
adjacent outside surface of the upper end of the steering pillar to be contracted
or gathered around the end of the handle bar stem socketting therein.
In operation the clip is placed around the split upper end of the inner sleeve
or steering pillar of a ball head and the stem of the handle bar is socketted into
the said sleeve. The screw is then passed into the hollow lug from one end and
the excentrically bored block or bush is introduced onto the shank of the said
pin from the other end and the nut c, is run onto the wormed part of the screw.
The screwing of this nut fully home brings the opposed ends of the bushes into
closer proximity, and causes their part-circular gaps or bearing faces to impinge
around and grip the end of the steering pillar to be clipped, which is contracted
to a corresponding extent around the handle bar stem.
According to a modified form of my invention, I take a circular band clip with
its free ends terminated by lugs or thickened portions, which are bored longi-
tudinally in their axial directions with plain holes, with the extreme forward
end of the hole in the right hand side lug throttled or having at its entrance, an
annular collar, of an inside bore equal to the diameter of the headed drawing-up
pin, whose fore end is screwed whilst its shank is left plain. Fitting within the
counterbored holes in the lugs, are two cylindrical and excentrically bored

page_text: bushes, sleeves or linings, the right hand one plain, and the left hand one
screwed or partly-screwed, whilst the inner sides of the opposed ends are quadrant
gapped, forming, when coming together, a chord or part of a circle of a slightly
less radius than the body of the clip, and which, when in position, come within
the gap or space between the lugged ends of the clip. The collar or lip at the
throttled end of the right hand lug, overhangs the bush and so gives a neat
appearance and also forms an abutment for that end of the said bush.
In operation, this clip is placed around the upper end of the steering pillar
and the stem of the handle bar is then placed in position. The screw is thon
passed through the knuckle lugs and the bushes Iccated therein, when the
rotation of the same into the left-hand lug draws the sides of the clip together,
and also, at the same time, brings the opposed ends of the bushes into closer
proximity and causes their part circular gaps to impinge around in the member
or part to be clipped in common with the inside walls of the band.
The application of my invention to brake lever clips and other parts of
cycles differs in no essential particular from its application to a handle bar clip
as herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
First. A cycle handle bar or other clip, comprising a continuous band having
a sleeve or bored lug upon one side, within which is located a head screw pin
and a loose block or bush threaded over the shank of the said pin, on the extreme
end of which a nut is screwed and impinges on the loose block, whose inward
presented part, together with the like presented part of the pin head, are
concaved or have gripping faces, substantially as and for the purpose as described
and set forth in Figures 1 to 4.
Secondly. The improvements in the arrangement and combination of the parts
of clips for use on parts of cycles, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 6th day of August 1897.
ROBERT ALFRED MARPLES,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.