Improvements in the Handles of Velocipedes and Parts connected with the said Handles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Handles of Velocipedes and Parts connected
with the said Handles.
I, FREDERICK JOHN OSMOND, of Perry Hall, Bromsgrove, in the County of
Worcester, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to the handles of velocipedes and parts connected
therewith and consists of the construction and arrangement or combination of
parts hereinafter described whereby the handles may be readily adjusted, that
is, may be converted at the pleasure of the rider into dropped handles, or flat or
approximately flat handles, or upturned handles.
In constructing handles according to my invention I form the head of the
handle bar stem into a tubular clip the axis of which is horizontal. In the said
tubular clip I fit, a bush preferably of steel, having a series of longitudinal slits
extending nearly from end to end, alternate slits opening at opposite ends of the.
bush. The said steel bush has screw threaded holes at opposite ends the axes of
the said holes making a very obtuse angle with each other. The handle bar is
made in two halves or parts the inner ends being screw threaded and inserted in
the ends of the slit steel bush. The ends of the steel bush are preferably
at right angles to the axes of the screwed holes in the said bush.
From the description herein before given it will be understood that the two
parts of the handle bar can be adjusted, by screwing in the slit steel bush and
the slit steel bush can be adjusted by an angular motion in the tubular clip
at the head of the handle bar stem.
The parts are locked in position after adjustment by the screwing home of a
screw pin by which the tubular clip referred to is made to grip the slit steel
bush, the tightening of the clip simultaneously effecting the contraction of the
bush on the screwed inner ends of the. two parts of the handle bar and thus
fixing the handles firmly in the positions to which they have respectively been
brought.
as tandem or triplet
In applying my invention to multi-cycles such for example
bicycles the tubular clip herein before described for the rear handle or handles
may be situated at any desired point in or on the top horizontal tube of the
multi-cycle frame.

page_text: Improvements in the Handles of Velocipedes and Parts connected
with the said Handles.
I, FREDERICK JOHN OSMOND, of Perry Hall, Bromsgrove, in the County of
Worcester, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 reference to the handles of velocipedes and parts connected
therewith and consists of the construction and arrangement or combination of
parts hereinafter described whereby the handles may be readily adjusted, that
is, may be converted at the pleasure of the rider into dropped handles or flat or
approximately flat handles, or upturned handles.
In constructing handles according to my invention I form the head of the
handle bar stem into a tubular clip the axis of which is horizontal. In the said
tubular clip I fit a bush, preferably of steel, having a series of longitudinal slits
extending nearly from end to end, alternate slits opening at opposite ends of the
bush. The said steel bush has screw threaded holes at opposite ends, the axes of
the said holes making a very obtuse angle with each other. The handle bar is
made in two halves or parts the inner ends being screw threaded and inserted in
the ends of the slit steel bush. The ends of the steel bush are preferably
at right angles to the axes of the screwed holes in the said bush.
From the description herein before given it will be understood that the two
parts of the handle bar can be adjusted, by screwing, in the slit steel bush. and
the slit steel bush can be adjusted by an angular motion in the tubular clip
at the head of the handle bar stem.
The parts are locked in position after adjustment by the screwing home of a
screw pin by which the tubular clip referred to is made to grip the slit steel
bush, the tightening of the clip simultaneously effecting the contraction of the
bush on the screwed inner ends of the two parts of the handle bar and thus
fixing the handles firmly in the positions to which they have respectively been
brought.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings represent in side elevation and
plan respectively a bicycle handle constructed according to my invention.
Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 represent parts of the said handle drawn to a larger
scale than Figures 1 and 2.
Figures 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 represent the said bicycle handle in various
other positions to which it can be adjusted the said Figures 9 to 14 both, inclusive
being drawn to the same scale as Figures 1 and 2.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawings,
a is the handle bar stem and a the tubular clip constituting the head of the
same the said tubular clip being tightened and relaxed by the action of the screw
bolt and nut b, b2 (see the side elevation Figure 3, back elevation Figure 4 and
plan Figure 5).
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c is the elastic bush (shown detached in plan in Figure 6 and horizontal and
cross section respectively in Figures 7 and 8) fitted into the tubular clip a².
the opposite ends of the elastic bush e are the inclined screw threaded holes c², c²
(see Figure 7) in which the screwed ends of the two parts d, d of the handle
bar take.
Handles of the kind described and illustrated are capable of being brought into

page_text: nearly any position to suit the convenience of the rider. The adjustment is effected
by first slightly unscrewing the screw nut b by which the grip of the clip a³ on
the elastic bush c and also the grip of the elastic bush c on the screwed ends of
the parts d, d of the handle bar is relaxed and the turning or rotation of the said
parts together or independent of each other permitted. It will be understood that
by the turning of the elastic bush c in the clip a the handles are carried round
out of position for use.
The elastic bush c is turned into such a position that on subsequently turning
the parts d, d of the handle bar independent of the elastic bush c for the purpose
of bringing the handles into position for use the said handles will occupy the
position desired. For example in Figures 1 and 2 I have represented the handles
in the position commonly called "flat handles and in Figures 9 and 10 I have
again represented the said handles as "flat handles," the handles in Figures 1
and 2 being forward and the handles in Figures 9 and 10 being backward.
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In Figures 11 and 12 the said handles are turned so as to occupy the position
in which they are termed raised" or "upturned "handles and in Figures 13
and 14 I have represented the position of the said handles changed into that in
which they are commonly called "dropped handles."
The change from the position Figures 1 and 2 to that represented in Figures 9
and 10 is effected by turning the elastic bush through a semi-rotation and
turning the parts d, d of the handle bar back independent of the elastic bush e
into their position for use when the clip a² is tightened and the parts re-fixed.
The change from the position Figures 9 and 10 to that represented in Figures 11
and 12 is effected by turning the elastic bush e through a quadrant and then
bringing the handles into their proper position independent of the elastic bush_c;
and the change from the position represented in Figures 11 and 12 to that
represented in Figures 13 and 14 is obtained by turning the elastic bush e through
a semi-rotation and subsequently adjusting the position of the handles for use.
will he understood that the positions of the handles represented
Figures 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 are only examples of the many positions
to which the handles may be adjusted as it will be readily understood that they
may be made to occupy any position intermediate between those represented.
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Although I have represented the holes, in the elastic bush e screw threaded
for receiving the screwed ends of the handles yet I wish it to be understood that
the ends of the handles may be plain or merely roughened to increase the bite
or grip of the elastic bush upon them.
In applying my invention to multi-cycles such for example as tandem or triplet
bicycles the tubular clip herein before described for the rear handle or handles may
be situated at any desired point in or on the top or other horizontal or other tube of
the multi-cycle frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "
Improvements in the handles of velocipedes and parts connected
with the said handles": -
Making the handle bar of velocipedes in two parts or halves the ends of which
take in holes, preferably screwed holes, in an elastic bush, the axes of which holes
are inclined to one another the said elastic bush being situated in a clip surmount-
ing the head of the handle bar stem or attached to a frame tube substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 14th day of October 1898.
FREDERICK JOHN OSMOND.