Improvements in Handles of Velocipedes and similar Handles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Applicatior, 1st Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles of Velocipedes and similar Handles.
We FREDERICK HENRY AYRES, of 111 Aldersgate Street, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, and EDWARD GRIMSDELL of 44 Buckhurst Street,
Cambridge Road, Mile End, in the County of Middlesex, Wood Turner, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the manufacture of improved handles for
velocipedes, whether bicycles, or tricycles, or other kinds of cycles requiring such
handles and also handles for similar uses.
The improved handle is formed as a hollow cylinder generally closed at one end,
so that it may be slipped on to one end of a handle bar or lever.
The foundation of this closed cylindrical part is at present sometimes formed of
cork or wood, with caps, or ferules, of celluloid, xylonite, or other material suited
to taste or requirement, but such construction is faulty and unsatisfactory owing to
the liability of the cork, especially, to crush up; and the greater amount of cork
required, or the cost of turning the wood to form, increases the expense.
According to our present invention we form the body of the handle, or the
internal cylinder of millboard, roll, or like paper, or pulp material wound, or
produced from half stuff, pulp or the like in usual manner when making rolls and
upon this roll body we slide the cork grip portion of the handle, then we lock it in
place by passing other ferules or short cylindrical pieces of card or like roll over
the projecting ends of the body roll, as filling pieces and then we cover these caps
or ferules with other caps or ferules of celluloid, or like material of an ivory
appearance, or equivalent ornamental character.
The cork grip part and the card roll pieces we fasten together with glue or
equivalent cement and the celluloid pads and the cork we unite by the use of
cement such as is used by celluloid manufacturers for uniting that substance and
known in that trade; the whole forming a cheap light and very strong handle-
device.
Improveme
velocipedes
We FREDERICK HENRY AYRES, of 111 Aldersgate Street, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, and EDWARD GRIMSDELL of 44 Buckhurst Street,
Cambridge Road, Mile End, in the County of Middlesex, Wood Turner 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 has for its object the manufacture of improved handles for

page_text: velocipedes, whether bicycles, or tricycles, or other kinds of cycles requiring such
handles and also handles for similar uses.
The improved handle is formed as a hollow cylinder, generally closed at one end,
so that it may be slipped on to one end of a handle bar or lever. The foundation
of this closed cylindrical part is at present sometimes formed of cork, cork
compositions, leather or wood, with caps, or ferrules, of celluloid, xylonite, or other
material suited to taste or requirement, but such construction is faulty and
unsatisfactory owing to the liability of the cork or its substitutes, especially, to
crush up; and the greater amount of cork required, or the cost of turning the wood
to forin, increases the expense.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an external view of a handle according to our present invention.
Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.
Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are details to be described.
According to our present invention we form the body of the handle, or the
internal cylinder a of millboard, strawboard, roll, or like paper, or pulp material
wound or produced from half stuff, pulp or the like in usual manner when making
rolls and upon this roll body or liner we slide the cork grip portion of the handle,
then we lock it in place by passing other ferrules c c or short cylindrical pieces of
card or like roll over the projecting ends of the body roll a, as filling pieces and
then we cover these caps or ferrules with other caps or ferrules of celluloid d, d¹,
or like material of an ivory appearance, or equivalent ornamental character. The
cork grip part. and the card roll pieces we fasten together with glue or equivalent
cement and the celluloid pads and the cork we unite by the use of cement such as
is used by celluloid manufacturers for uniting that substance and known in that
trade; the whole forming a cheap light and very strong handle device.
The millboard, strawboard or like half stuff liner or filling may be covered with
cork, corkine, wood, leather or other substance liable by itself to be split by the
crushing pressure of the hand or by fall of the machine or like blow.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
In a handle for a bicycle, or other velocipede, or like handle, the use of a hollow
lining cylinder or roll of miliboard or like pulp material within a cork or other
suitable hand grip and preferably having filling or locking pieces over the ends
of the lining cylinder and within the usual ferrules with the aid of suitable glue or
cement all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 20th day of December 1896
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.