Handle for cycles, motor Cars, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left 27th Mar 1000_
Accented
5th Mou
1000
Date of Application, 27th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left 27th Mar 1900 Accepted, 5th May, 1000
Handle for cycles, motor Cars, and the like.
I, GEORGE DUCKWORTH ROBERTS, of 186, Hyde Road, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Pattern Card Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention is for an improvement in the handle bars of cycles and for like
uses. The object of my invention is to provide ventilation between the handle
and the hand during the time the handle is held by the rider when steering the
machine or for other purposes.
According to this invention I fit on the end of the handle bar of a cycle or
other machine a metallic handle (preferably aluminium) whose internal diameter
is larger than the handle bar to which it is fitted and provided with air passages
which are obtained by forming apertures around the circumference of the handle;
the said apertures are or may be produced by pressing the metal inwards at an
angle, the parts pressed inwards causing the air to be deflected and vary the
circulation.
The metal at the inner and outer ends of the handle is pressed inwards in a
corrugated form so as to provide supports by which the handle is fitted to the
handle bar of the machine, or to a tube that may be cemented to said handle
bar. The aforesaid handle may be covered with felt, cork, or other material
having holes corresponding with the apertures herein before described in the
metallic handle.
By these means the hand remains dry when cycling and gloves if worn are
not injured by perspiration.
Dated this 26th day of June 1899
An Improved Handle for Cycles, Motor Cars, and the like.
I, GEORGE DUCKWORTH ROBERTS, of 186, Hyde Road, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Pattern Card Maker, 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 is for an improvement that is applicable to the handle bars of
cycles and like uses. The object of my invention is to provide ventilation
between the handle and the hand during the time the handle is held by the
rider when steering the machine or for other purpose.
LD077

page_text: In the accompanying drawing to which I hereinafter refer. Fig. 1 is a longi-
tudinal section of iny improved handle and Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same
on line A-A.
Figs. 3 to 6 are like sections of modifications of my invention. In these views
similar letters refer to similar parts.
According to this invention I fit on the end of the handle bar of a cycle or
other machine a handle as a either metallic (preferably aluminium) or other
material whose internal diameter is larger than the handle bar e to which it
is intended to be fitted and provided with air passages as which are obtained by
forming apertures as d and around the circumference of the handle; the
apertures are or may be produced by pressing the metal or material inwards
at an angle as in Fig. 1 the parts pressed inwards causing the air to be deflected
and vary. the circulation. The metal or material at the inner or at both ends
of the handle is pressed so as to produce a corrugated form as e and provide
supports by which the handle is fitted to the handle bar g of the machine, or to
a tube that may be cemented to the handle bar, and form air passages d¹.
In Figs. 3 to 6 the handle is shown secured to the handle bar at the
outer end by being screwed to a plug as f or to 11 tube as f
that is inserted and cemented or otherwise secured to the handle bar. The inner
end of the handle is supported by the parts el being pressed in, which also form
the apertures and is provided with a cap with openings therein corresponding
with the apertures in the end of the handle; said cap is formed so that it may be
turned round and the apertures in the handle closed by the blanks in the cap
when it is preferred to limit the circulation of the air through the..handle.
Spirals may be formed within the air passages as in Fig. 3 to direct the air
current around the handle. The aforesaid handle may be covered with felt,
cork, or other material having holes therein corresponding with the apertures
in the handle hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is
1. A handle for cycles, motor cars and the like that is of larger internal diameter
than the handle bar to which it is applied and to which it is fitted by sections of the
metal or material being pressed in at either the inner or both ends forming air
passages at through which the air is caused to circulate by passing through
apertures as in the circumference of the handle, substantially as and for the
purpose herein before described.
2. The combination with a handle as a of a cap as on the end of the handle
by which the circulation of the air through the handle may be limited or reduced
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated this 26th day of March 1900
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.