Improvements in and relating to Cycle Handles and the like Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cycle Handles and the like
Articles.
I, JOHN SINCLAIR of 112 McLellan Street Govan, County of Renfrew, North
Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
It relates to cycles, velocipedes and such like articles and has for its object to
preserve their handles from breaking when struck against hard substances more
especially when accidentally thrown upon the ground.
In carrying out this invention in conjunction with cycle handles which are made
of cork I furnish the ends of each cork handle with metal ferules in the ordinary
manner, one of them being in the form of a ring in order that it may be slid upon
the handle bar and the other is in the form of a cap, covering the outer end of the
said bar.
This cap is made fast to a tubular metal sleeve which is inserted between the
cork handle and the handle bar. The cork handle is firmly adjusted to this metal
sleeve which in its turn is fitted firmly upon the handle bar.
To compensate for any possible inequalities in the handle bar I sometimes form
the metal sleeve with slits at intervals which enable it to yield as required and
I also construct the said sleeve of
adapt itself to the form of the said bar.
numerous metal strips arranged in tubular form and united to the cap or end ferule
but are not united to each other, strip to strip.
This sleeve may be made any length, long or short, either serrated or slit as
described or otherwise. It operates in a beneficial manner by preserving the cork
handle from breaking when the handle is struck violently upon the ground or other
obstacle in falling, as the force of the blow is received by the cap and sleeve
instead of crushing the cap upon the cork and breaking the latter.
The cap which is united to this lining sleeve may be solid in the centre or open
like an eyelet; adapting it for either completely covering over the end of the
handle bar or permitting the latter to protrude through it or be visible through it.
The foregoing description is confined for examples' sake only to handles made
Nevertheless my
of cork, these being the most popular kind in present use.
invention is applicable to any such handles when they are made of similarly
fragile substances.
D: Ninth dow of Nov 1894
JOSEPH LOCKWOOD,
263, Argyle Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Cycle Handles and the like
Articles.
I, JOHN SINCLAIR of 112 McLellan Street Govan, County of Renfrew, North
Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
It relates to cycles, velocipedes, and such like articles and has for its object to
preserve their handles from breaking when struck against hard substances more
especially when accidentally thrown upon the ground.
In carrying out this invention in conjunction with cycle handles which are made
of cork I furnish the ends of each cork handle with metal ferrules in the ordinary
manner, one of them being in the form of a ring in order that it may be slid upon
the handle bar and the other is in the form of a cap, covering the outer end of the
said bar.
This cap is made fast to a tubular metal sleeve which is inserted between the
cork handle and the handle bar. The cork handle is firmly adjusted to this metal
sleeve which in its turn is fitted firmly upon the handle bar.
To compensate for any possible inequalities in the handle bar I sometimes form
the metal sleeve with slits at intervals which enable it to yield as required and
adapt itself to the form of the said bar. I also construct the said sleeve of
numerous metal strips arranged in tubular form and united to the cap or end ferrule
but are not united to each, strip to strip.
This sleeve may be made any length, long or short, either serrated or slit as
described or otherwise. It operates in a beneficial manner by preserving the cork
handle from breaking when the handle is struck violently upon the ground or other
obstacle in falling, as the force of the blow is received by the cap and sleeve instead
of crushing the cap upon the cork and breaking the latter.
The cap which is united to this lining sleeve may be solid in the centre or open
like an eyelet; adapting it for either completely covering over the end of the
handle bar or permitting the latter to protrude through it or be visible through it.
The foregoing description is contined for example's sake only to handles made of
cork these being the most popular kind in present use. Nevertheless my invention
is applicable to any such handles when they are made of similarly fragile
substances.
This invention will be better understood if reference is made to the accompanying
drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 is a sectional view in elevation of a cycle handle made in accordance with
this invention and fitted upon a handle bar.
Fig. 2 is an external view in clevation of the handle shewn in Fig. 1.
Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of metal ferrules or sleeves described in this
Specification.
In Figs.
and 2 of the drawings the part marked A represents the cork or other
light and fragile substance of which the cycle handle or grip is made: B is the
handle bar C is a ring ferrule through which the handle bar passes and D is a
combined metal cap and sleeve such as is represented in Figs. 3 and 4.
When a cycle handle, constructed and fitted upon the handle bar as shewn in
Fig. receives a blow upon its outer end, d¹, the blow takes effect chiefly upon the
cap d', and the sleeve part d² and has little if any effect upon the part A. The
sleeve d² is sometimes a plain tube as shewn in Fig. 3 or slit up as shewn at d³ in
Fig. 4 for the purpose before explained.
Instead of the sleeve part consisting of a tube d² having short slits d³ formed in

page_text: it as shewn in Fig. 4 it is designed also- to be made with slits extending the full
length of the tube.
These improvements are designed for application not only to cycle handles but
to the handles of perambulators, bath chairs-propelling hobby-horses and other
articles of a like kind where the handles are liable to accident by falling or contact
with walls and hard substances.
I am aware that prior to my invention cycle handles have been made which have
had metal and other ferrules fitted upon their ends of various kinds so that it will
be understood that I do not claim such end ferrules broadly as my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
First. In a handle for a cycle or velocipede the combination therewith of the
sleeved ferrule D, 2, substantially as herein described, and shewn in Figs. 1 and 3
of the drawings, or any mere modification thereof for the purpose specified.
Second. In a handle for a cycle or velocipede the combination therewith of the
sleeved ferrule D, d², d³, substantially as herein described, and shewn in Figs. 1
and 4 of the drawings, or any mere modification thereof for the purpose specified.
Third. In a handle having a likeness to those of cycles or velocipedes the com-
bination therewith of a sleeved ferrule all substantially as herein described with
reference to the drawings, or any mere modification thereof for the purpose
specified.
Fourth. The improvements in and relating to cycle bandles and the like articles
all substantially as herein described and drawn for the purposes specified.
Dated this Seventh day of February 1895.
JOSEPH
LOCKWOOD,
263, Argyle Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.