IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Richard Settle at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th February 1882.
EDWARD RICHARD SETTLE, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Velocipede
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in velocipedes, and relates to a
method of making the handle or steering bar of bicycles and other velocipedes
similarly steered easily detachable.
It refers principally to what is known as the "Stanley" head. On the upper
part of the bearing of the head is a flange having a half socket or seat to receive
the handle bar. A similar half or cap is formed to screw or bolt on to this, and
having a flange also to encircle the upper part of the bearing of the fork.
The handle bar being held in the hole or bed thus formed, the nut at the top
of the bearing is screwed down, and the screws also screwed down holding all
fast.
To release the handle bar the nut is unscrewed and the screws of the cap taken
out, when the bar is at once released.
It will be seen that the great feature of my Invention consists in the divided
socket as by such means a bent handle bar in one piece can be got in and out.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Richard Settle in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th August 1882.
EDWARD RICHARD SETTLE, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Velocipede
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in velocipedes, and relates to a
method of making the handle or steering bar of bicycles and other velocipedes
similarly steered, easily detachable.
It refers principally to what is known as the "Stanley "head. On the upper
part of the bearing of the head is a flange having a half socket or seat to receive
the handle bar. A similar half or cap is formed to screw or bolt on to this, and
having a flange also to encircle the upper part of the bearing of the fork. The
handle bar being held in the hole or bed thus formed, the nut at the top of the
bearing is screwed down and the screws also screwed down, holding all fast.
To release the handle bar the nut is unscrewed and the screws of the cap taken
out, when the bar is at once released.
It will be seen that the essential feature in my Invention is in the divided
socket, as, by such means, a bent handle bar in one piece can be taken out and put
in again with ease.
And in order that my Invention may be more clearly understood I will now
proceed to more fully describe the same by reference to the accompanying Sheet
.of.Drawings...
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of my socket complete.
Fig. 2 is an inside plan of the upper half, and
Fig. 3 an elevation of the top of the head.
A is the half socket or sent formed on or attached to the head B the corre-
sponding loose half slipping over the stem on the head C the nut and cap holding
B down D screws also assisting to secure saine.
Instead of the hole for the handle bar being cylindrical it might be of square or
other section.
Having now described my Invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed I would have it understood that what I claim as my Invention of
improvements in velocipedes is the construction of the steering heads of bicycles
and like velocipedes with a half socket or seat to receive the handle bar and with
a corresponding loose half socket or seat capable of being screwed or bolted over
the same, substantially as and for the purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Richard Settle, have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Third day of August in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
FTWADDY D SETTI T