Improvements in or relating to the Handle Bars of Cycles, Motor Cars, Bath Chairs, and other Vehicles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb., 1898-Accepted, 3rd May, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Handle Bars of Cycles, Motor
Cars, Bath Chairs, and other Vehicles.
We, JOHN FREDERICK SARGEANT, of Holly Bank, Bracknell, in the County of
Berks, Solicitor, and FREDERICK LONGHURST, of Ascot, in the County of Berks,
Cycle Agent, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to that class of handle bar which is utilised for carrying
or acting as a pump or inflator for pneumatic tyres and consists in providing such
articles with an efficient means whereby the inflator or the inflator portion of the
handle bar may be more readily disconnected for use, a portion of such means being
applicable for use as a spanner or luggage carrier and the handle bar as a whole
capable of containing or accommodating the tools, oil can and other necessary
accessories to cycles, motor cars, bath chairs, and other vehicles.
According to our invention we provide the bolt, which causes the clip to retain
the detachable portion of the handle bar, with a lever pivoted or hinged thereto
by a thumb screw or other ready means of connection. This lever preferably takes
the form of a flat bar suitably notched to act as a spanner and provided with slots
through which straps may be passed to secure luggage on the handle bar. The free
end of the lever is secured in position, when the clip bolt has been adjusted, by a
fork between the limbs of which the lever is held, or by other suitable means.
The ends or handles of the handle bar are provided with sliding drawers or trays
in which useful accessories such as oil can, repair outfit, wrench, and the like may
be placed, the drawers or trays not being capable of being wholly withdrawn.
The lever may also be utilised to act as an auxiliary fastening for the handle bar
in combination with the clip, the ends of the lever being provided with notches,
holes, projections, or other means of attachment with corresponding hooks, pins,
recesses or forks or the like secured to both portions of the handle bar.
TO.1 .. 1907
Improvements in or relating to the Handle Bars of Cycles, Motor
Cars, Bath Chairs, and other Vehicles.
We, JOHN FREDERICK SARGEANT, of Holly Bank, Bracknell, in the County of
Berks, Solicitor, and FREDERICK LONGHURST, of Ascot, in the County of Berks,

page_text: Cycle Agent, do hereby declare the nature of our said 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 that class of handle bar which is utilized for carrying or
acting as a pump or inflator for pneumatic tyres, and consists in providing such
articies with an efficient means whereby the inflator, or the inflator portion of the
handle bar, may be more readily disconnected for use, a portion of such means
being applicable as a spanner and a luggage carrier, and the handle bar as a whole
is made capable of containing or accommodating the tools, oil can, and other
necessary accessories to cycles, motor cars, bath chairs and other vehicles.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which
similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the improved handle bar.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the central portion of the same.
Fig. 3 is a section on the line ab of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a section on the line cd, and
Fig. 5 is a section on the line ef of Fig. 1.
The handle bar is divided at or near the centre into two parts 7 and 8, the end 7
of the bar being fixed to the T head 9 of the steering tube, in the usual manner,
the other end 8 being detachable. This arrangement may be reversed. 10 is the
bolt which causes the clip to retain the detachable portion 8 of the handle bar. The
bolt 10 is formed with a deeply grooved head 11 for receiving a lever bar 12, pivoted
to the bolt head 11 by means of a thumb-screw 13, or other ready means of con-
nection. This lever 12 preferably takes the form of a flat bar, suitably notched and
perforated to act as a spanner and provided with slots 14, 14, through which straps
may be passed to secure luggage to the handle bar.
The outer ends of the lever bar 12 are supported by clips 15 and 16, as shown,
the extreme ends being formed with flanges 18, 18. 19, is the usual key or feather
integral with the bar 8 for securing rigidity when clamped to the bar 7.
The functions of the lever bar 12 are as follows:-By pivoting the bar 12 upon
the centre 13, the two ends are released from the clips 15 and 16. It may then be
used as a lever to slacken the screw 10, when the bar 8 may be drawn away with
the pump or inflator 17, (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1) and may in like manner
be used for replacing and fixing the bar 8. In case the rider should neglect to
clamp the two parts of the handle bar by means of the clamping screw 10, the
flanges 18 act as an auxiliary fastening to secure the union of the bars 7 and 8 in
the required position. The lever bar is also applicable as a lever spanner and a
luggage carrier.
The ends or handles of the handle bar are provided with sliding drawers or
trays, 20 in which useful accessories such as oil can, repair outfit, wrench, and
the like may be placed, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1; these drawers or trays
are prevented from being wholly withdrawn, by projecting studs fitted in the
handles.
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 handle bar for cycles, motor cars, bath chairs and other vehicles, which
is utilised for carrying or acting as a pump or inflator for pneumatic tyres, the com-
bination therewith of a detachable lever bar 12, pivoted at 13, to the improved
bead 11 of the clamping screw 10, whereby additional power is obtained for operating
the clamp, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In a handle bar for the purposes aforesaid, the construction and utilization of
the lever. bar 12 as and for a spanner, substantially herein before described.
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3. In a handle bar for the purposes aforesaid, the construction and utilisation

page_text: of the lever bar 12. as and for a luggage carrier, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
4. In a handle bar for the purposes aforesaid the combination therewith of
sliding undetachable drawers or trays 20 for containing useful accessories,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
5. The improved handle bar and attachments or fittings therefor, substantially
as described.
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