Improvements in Handles for Cycles, applicable also to other similar purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Cycles, applicable also to other
similar purposes.
I GEORGE HARRY WILLIAM DAVIS, trading as G. H. W. Davis & Co. of
Edgbaston Works Gough Road, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Lamp
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object improvements in handles for cycles applicable
also to other similar purposes, by which a firmer grip for the hand is obtained with
great strength and with little or no liability to breakage which is the great fault
of cork handles as at present largely used.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood, and more easily carried
into practical effect, I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings showing several
examples of the same but it must be understood that I do not confine myself either
to the general configuration, or to the patterns shown as these may be greatly
varied without departing from the spirit of the invention.
Figure 1. is a view of the wood or other skeleton A which forms the foundation
of my handle.
Figure 2. is a view of the handle when covered with the casing B according to
my invention.
Figure 3. is a view of a handle made in its exterior or B part from whale bone as
will be hereafter more fully explained.
My handles are manufactured from a frame or foundation A as seen at Figure 1.
and internally bored to fit upon the handle tube and a groove or neck al is made
into which the cap a² is secured by turning the edge of the cap into the same so
that it will not come off. The ferrule a Figure 3. may be fastened on the
foundation A in like manner but sometimes there is only an outside cap and no
ferrule sometimes there is neither cap nor ferrule but generally a cap is preferable.
This foundation I generally make of timber though it may be of other material
suitable for the purpose such for instance as papier mache. I then cover the
foundation A with the exterior or cover B by plaiting, weaving, or braiding the
covering thereupon very tightly and this may be done either by hand or in a
machine. The covering B as seen at Figure 3. is made from strips of whale-bone
say black & white which looks very pretty and makes a beautiful handle which
can be held very firmly and it is lasting though dear in first cost. Generally for
ordinary cycle and other use such for instance as perambulator handles it is
sufficient to make the covering B from cotton or thread or silk though I may use
coated wire, cat gut, split cane, wicker, india rubber, or other material, but it must
be of such material as will bear to be plaited or crossed under & over as shown so
as to securely lock the covering B upon the skeleton A most firmly. When the
cap a is put on the outer end and the ferrule a on the inner end the appearance
is very pretty as any colours may be used for the part B and the covering may be
in any desired pattern.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in handles for cycles applicable also to other similar

page_text: purposes such for instance as perambulators and consisting of a body part or
foundation A covered with the plaited or woven covering B and either with or
without caps or ferrules substantially as and for the purpose set forth and shown
by Figures 1. to 3. on the drawings.
Dated this 15th day of June 1896.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.