Improvements in the Mode and Means for Mounting and Securing Cycle Handle Bars or Handles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1896-4ccepted, 18th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode and Means for Mounting and Securing
Cycle Handle Bars or Handles.
We, GEORGE GILBERT, Works Manager and EDWARD MUSHING General
Manager of The Centaur Cycle Co. Lt. West Orchard Coventry in the County
of Warwick, 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 :-
Our invention relates to "Improvements in the mode and means for mounting
and securing cycle handle bars or handles" so that they may be very readily
adjusted in the socket head which carries the handle bar. Our previous invention
for which Letters Patent was granted and dated the 26th day of September 1895
and numbered 18,004 had the same object in view and the Specification of this
Patent explains and sets forth our improvements up to that time. There was
however according to our old patent some difficulty in getting to the adjusting
nut a8 at the bottom of the handle stem A which our present invention overcomes
and which we will now explain.
In order that we may the better explain and make known our present improve-
ments we have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which we
have illustrated an example of our new mode of screwing the handle bar so that
it can be adjusted without removing the handle stem A out of the steering head.
For conveniance of identification the letters upon the accompanying drawings
agree as far as possible with the letters used upon the drawings accompanying our
previous specification herin before referred to.
Figure 1. is a front elevation of the handle bar B and handle stem A connected
and locked together.
Figure 2. is a plan and part section of the same handle bar B. and showing also
our new projection E from which the handle bar B is locked.
Figure 3. is a perspective view of the socket head of the handle stem A. with
the middle portion a² removed.
Figure 4 is the middle portion a' shown in perspective.
Figure 5. is the washer a' and Figure 6 is the set screw a
When the handle stem A has its jaws a¹ and a fixed thereupon as seen at
Figures 1. & 2. and the middle portion a² of the socket is in position as seen in
the plan Figure 2. the handle bar B may be threaded through the three eyes a¹,
a and a3 as a fair fit.
It will be observed that a boss E is a part of a¹ and a3 as the head of stem A
and is internally made sufficiently large to receive the projection a' on a² and at
Figure 2 a² and as are shown in their position and in black section. When the
handle bar B has been adjusted into its right position through the eyes a¹, a² and a³
the washer a is placed over the boss E on the edge e and the set screw a³ is
screwed into as. By this means the eye a² tightens and locks the handle bar B
most firmly and effectively and yet this arrangement admits of the quickest
readjustment by simply easing the set screw as when the handle bar B may be
turned round so as to bring the handles into any desired relationship to the rider.
The boss E or its equivalent may of course be fixed in various positions to answer
substantially the same purpose.

page_text: Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improvements in the mode and means for mounting and securing cycle
handle bars or handles by means of a divided socket a', a², as having a boss E or
its equivalent to receive the projection a for tightening the part a2 by means of
the set screw or its equivalent a substantially as herein set forth and shown upon
the drawings.
Dated this 6th day of June 1896.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.