Improvements in the Handle Bars of Cycles and other Vehicles or Apparatus.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Handle Bars of Cycles and other Vehicles or
Apparatus.
We, ALFRED BLECHYNDEN of Roxburgh, Van Brugh Park Road West, Blackheath,
Kent, Engineer, and WILLIAM ARCHIBALD FRANCIS CRAWFORD-signing as
Crawford-Engineer, of 275 Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, Surrey, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the method of construction or mounting of handle bars
so as to prevent vibration being transmitted to the hands and arms. Various
arrangements for this purpose have heretofore been proposed, such for example as
by forming such handles of cork, felt, or other material, or by surrounding the
handle by a pneumatic cushion.
According to this invention it is proposed to secure the desired result by making
the handles of flexible material or by flexibly attaching them to the cross bar.
This may be effected in a variety of ways, such as by connecting the handles and
the cross bar by means of rubber or like distance pieces, washers, sleeves, or like
connections in such a manner that the vibrations of the cross bar are not appreciably
felt in the handles.
Improvements in the Handle Bars of Cycles and other Vehicles or
Apparatus.
We, ROBERT YOUNG MCINTOSH of 34 Dean Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Merchant,
and ELIZABETH CRASTER BLECHYNDEN of Roxburgh, Van Brugh Park Road West,
Blackheath, Kent, Widow, Executors of Alfred Blechynden of Roxburgh aforesaid,
deceased, and WILLIAM ARCHIBALD FRANCIS CRAWFORD-signing as W. Crawford-
Engineer, of 275 Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, Surrey, 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 :-
This invention relates to the method of construction or mounting of handles so
as to prevent vibration being transmitted to the hands and arms. Various
arrangements for this purpose have heretofore been proposed, such for example as
by forming such handles of cork, felt, or other material, or by surrounding the
handle by a pneumatic cushion.

page_text: According to this invention it is proposed to secure the desired result by making
the handles of flexible material or by flexibly attaching them to the cross bar.
This may be effected in a variety of ways, such as by connecting the handles and
the cross bar by means of rubber or like distance pieces, washers, sleeves or like
connections, in such a manner that the vibrations of the cross bar are not
appreciably felt in the handles.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 represents in section a handle attached to the cross bar by means of an
interposed connection of rubber, and
Fig. 2 represents the connection as being made by a spiral spring.
In each case A represents the handle, B the cross bar, and C the flexible
connecting piece, which in the case of rubber may be secured by cement, and in
the case of the spring by brazing, but the invention is not limited by any special
means of attachment.
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. The improvements in the handle bars of cycles and other vehicles or apparatus
consisting in flexibly attaching the handles to the cross bar or point from which
the vibration might be imparted, substantially as described.
2. The improvements in the handle bars of cycles and the like consisting in
connecting the handles to the ends of the cross bar by flexible distance pieces,
substantially as described.
3. The improved flexible handles for cycles and the like, substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated the 4th day of May 1897
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Chartered Patent Agent, 55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London,
For the Applicants.