Improvements in or relating to Removable Handle Bars and Appurtenances for Cycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Removable Handle Bars and
Appurtenances for Cycles.
A communication from CASPER FREDERIK SVENDSEN, of 6 Borgergade,
Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark.
1, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The present invention relates to a removable handle bar and appurtenances
for cycles, which bar, when the cycle is not to be used, can be removed and be
easily put on again, when the cycle is to be used.
The handle bar is provided on its underside with a cylindrical neck which is
placed on the head of the front fork and is kept in place by a catch placed inside
the said front fork, or by a pin passing through the handle bar neck and the
fork tube.
Under the pin is a head arranged on the spring, which passes through the wall
of the tube to the outside; when this pin is pressed, the connection between the
said neck and the head of the front fork is released and the handle bar can be
taken off.
The head need not necessarily be fixed to the spring but can for instance be
made conical and arranged loose in a hole of the front fork tube.
When the machine has a brake a similar arrangement is used for permitting the
brake rod to be coupled and uncoupled.
Dated this 26th day of February 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Removable Handle Bars and
Appurtenances for Cycles.
A communication from CASPER FREDERIK SVENDSEN, of 6 Borgergade,
Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT formerly of 323 High Holborn but now
of 111 Hatton Garden in the County of Middlesex, Chartered Patent Agent
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 present invention relates to a removable handle bar and appurtenances for
cycles, which bar, when the cycle is not to be used, can be removed and be easily
put on again, when the cycle is to be used.
The accompanying drawing shows partly in elevation and partly in section the
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page_text: upper end of the steering tube of a bicycle and a portion of the handle har
extending therefrom, together with adjacent parts of the brake lever and brake
rod, the connection of the handle bar with the steering tube and of the brake
lever with the brake rod being constructed according to this invention.
The handle bar A is provided at its under side with a cylindrical neck B which
is placed over the head of the steering tube C and is kept in place thereupon by a
spring catch D placed inside the steering tube C and provided with a pin a
passing through the fork tube or steering tube C and through the neck Bas
shown.
Below the pin a is a head arranged on the spring catch D, this head passing
through the wall of the tube C to the outside; when this head is pressed, the
connection between the neck B and the head of the front fork or steering tube C is
released and the handle bar can be lifted off.
The head need not necessarily be fixed to the spring notch D but could for
instance be made conical and arranged louse in a hole of the front fork tube C.
When the machine has a brake a similar arrangement is used for permitting the
brake rod to be coupled and uncoupled from the brake lever, the arrangement
employed being similar to that used for connecting the head of the tube C with
the neck B, but being on a smaller scale as shown; in this brake connection E is
a socket carried by the brake lever F, and G is the brake rod, I being a spring
catch within the brake rod to connect it with or disconnect it from the socket E
carried by the brake lever F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what
manner the same is to be perforined, I declare that what I claim is;-
1. In cycles a removable handle bar having at its under side a neck which
receives the upper end of the steering tube and is connected to it by a catch
such as D arranged to be operated from outside to break the connection when
desired.
2. The combination and arrangement of paris constituting a removable handle
bar and its appurtenances for cycles substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 11th day of September 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.