AN IMPROVE- OR IMPROVEMENTS IN TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES to be as MENT follows:-
Year: 1885

page_text: We WALTER JOHN LLOYD and WILLIAM PRIEST both of Quadrant Works
Sheepcote Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers and
Copartners do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
OR IMPROVEMENTS IN TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES to be as
MENT
follows:-
"
Our invention has reference to those parts of tricycles and other velocipedes by
which the vehicle is steered and the rider supported and steadied and consists in
constructing and combining the said parts in the manner hereinafter described.
We will describe our improvements as applied to a tricycle.
We use in front of the rider a fixed cross bar handle which is secured to the
framing of the tricycle by a vertical pillar on the top of which the said cross bar
handle is affixed but instead of constructing the gripping ends of the handle alike
as usual we make the right hand end of the cross bar handle serve both to assist
in supporting and steadying the rider and to steer the tricycle. For this purpose
we crank or bend downwards the steering or right hand end of the fixed cross bar
and in the said cranked part we place a handle in a line with the handle at the
other or left hand end of the bar. The free or outer end of the cranked part of
the cross bar is made into a bearing in which the stem of the steering handle turns
the said stem of the steering handle having the same configuration as the cranked
part of the cross bar in which it is situated. The steering handle described is
connected to a vertical rod the lower end of which carries a pinion which gears
with a rack bar connected with the steering wheel of the tricycle. By turning the
steering handle at one end of the fixed cross bar through the desired angle the
requisite motion is transmitted through the gearing described to the steering
wheel. The cross bar handle may either be rigidly fixed to the upright or it may
be made capable of aliding vertically in the said upright so as to adjust the vertical
height of the said handle. When the handle is made adjustable as last described
the connecting rod of the steering mechanism is also made adjustable.
By the use of the fixed crossbar handle described the rider can support himself
with great steadiness and securily and by the combination therewith of the
steering handle described the rider has perfect control over the steering of the
tricycle and the steering is rendered very efficient.
Our invention is also applicable to velocipedes having more than three wheels.
Dated this sighteenth daw of Iun 100

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in Tricycles and other
Velocipedes.
We WALTER JOHN LLOYD and WILLIAM PRIEST both of Quadrant Works
Sheepcote Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers and
Copartners, 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:-
Our invention has reference to those parts of tricycles and other velocipedes by
which the vehicle is steered and the rider supported and steadied and consists in
constructing and combining the said parts in the manner herein after described.
We will describe our improvements as applied to a tricycle.
We use in front of the rider a fixed cross bar handle which is secured to the
framing of the tricycle by a vertical pillar on the top of which the said cross bar
handle is affixed but instead of constructing the gripping ends of the handle alike
as usual we make the right hand end of the cross bar handle serve both to assist in
supporting and steadying the rider and to steer the tricycle.
For this purpose we crank or bend downwards the steering or right hand end of
the fixed cross bar and at the said cranked part we place a handle in a line with
or at right angles to the handle at the other or left hand end of the bar. The free
or outer end of the cranked part of the cross bar is made into a bearing in which
the stem of the steering handle turns, the said stem of the steering handle having
the same configuration as the cranked part of the cross bar at which it is situated.
The steering handle described is connected to a vertical rod the lower end of which
carries a pinion which gears with a rack bar connected with the steering wheel of
the tricycle.
By turning the steering handle at one end of the fixed cross bar through the
desired angle the requisite motion is transmitted through the gearing described to
the steering wheel.
Figure 1 represente in side elevation a portion of a front steered tricycle
containing our invention and Figure 2 represents a front elevation of a portion of
the same looking towards the front steering wheel.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both Figures.
a is one of the travelling or driving wheels of the tricycle, the other travelling
wheel being omitted, and b is the front steering wheel; c is the seat rod or pillar
supporting the seat in the usual way; d is the fixed cross bar handle secured to
the vertical pillar e on the framing. The left hand end of the cross bar & has upon
it the ordinary handle d but the right hand or steering end is cranked or bent
downwards at f. At the cranked end f of the bar handle d a handle or grip d
is situated and works which handle d³ serves to assist in supporting and steadying
the rider and also to steer the tricycle. The stem d of the steering handle d³ is
capable of turning in a collar or bearing g at the end of the cranked part f of the
cross bar d and the said steering handle d³ is connected to the vertical rod h, the

page_text: lower end of which carries a pinion which gears with the rack bar i connected
with the steering wheel b.
The steering handle & may either be situated in its normal or gripping position
at right angles to the cross bar d as represented in continuous lines in the Drawing,
or in a line with the other gripping handle d' at the left hand end of the cross bar
as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2. When the tricycle is travelling in a
straight path the steering handle do occupying either of the two positions described
is gripped by the right hand of the rider while the handle d' is gripped by the left
hand of the rider for supporting and steadying the said rider. When it is wished
to steer the tricycle, the steering handle is turned in the proper direction.
through the required angle to cause the tricycle to travel in the required path,
the partial rotation of the said handle d³ being transmitted through the rod h and
its pinion and rack bar i to the steering wheel b as before described.
The cross bar handle d may either be rigidly fixed to the upright e or it may be
made capable of sliding vertically in the said upright so as to adjust the vertical
height of the said handle. When the handle is made adjustable as last described
the connecting rod h of the steering mechanism is also made adjustable.
By the use of the fixed cross bar handle described and represented, the rider
can support himself with great steadiness and security and by the combination
therewith of the steering handle the rider has perfect control over the steering
of the tricycle and the steering is rendered very efficient. Our invention is
applicable to velocipedes having more than three wheels as well as to tricycles as
herein described and illustrated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that
we claim as our invention of "An improvement or improvements in tricycles and
other velocipedes
و"
Cranking or bending downwards the right hand end of the cross bar handle of
the velocipede and placing at the said cranked part a steering handle constructed
and arranged as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing, the said steering handle serving both to steer the velocipede and to
assist in supporting and steadying the rider..