Improvements in Bicycles, Tricycles and other Velocipedes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1897-Accepted, 7th Aug., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bicycles, Tricycles and other Velocipedes.
We WALTER JOHN LLOYD and WILLIAM PRIEST of The Quadrant Cycle Company
Limited of Sheepcote Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick Velocipede
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in constructing the handle bars of bicycles, tricycles and
other velocipedes and parts connected therewith in the manner hereinafter described,
whereby the handle bar inay when the velocipede is not in use be turned into a nearly
vertical plane and the velocipede may be conveniently supported against a wall and
the space occupied by the said velocipede largely reduced.
When the velocipede is about to be used the handle bar is readily restored and
rigidly fixed in its horizontal position.
We will describe our invention in connection with a safety bicycle.
Instead of connecting the handle bar rigidly to the handle bar stem as usual, we
effect the connection of these parts in the following manner.
We form the head of the handle bar stem of a fork shape and we joint the middle
of the handle bar to the inner sides of the top of the branches of the fork by a cross
pin or axis. The middle of the handle bar has a strong lug carrying at its underside
a tube, two or three inches long. This tube has at its bottom a projection which
when the handle bar is in its normal position seats itself in a recess formed at the
bottom of the Landle bar stem fork.
The handle bar stem at the part immediately below the fork has a screw thread on
which a screw ring with a milled flange works. The upper part of the interior of the
said screw ring is not threaded but has an inclined or conical figure, its greatest
diameter being at top. When the handle bar is in its normal position, the said screw
ring on being screwed home, that is, raised to its fullest extent its inclined or conical
interior bears upon the projection at the bottom of the tube carried by the handle
bar lug and forces the said projection to its seat at the bottom of the fork and holds
it there so tightly as to give perfect rigidity to the connection of the handle bar and
handle bar stems.
The unscrewing or withdrawing of the said screw ring liberates the handle bar and
permits it to be turned into a nearly vertical plane as hereinhefore described. If
thought desirable the screw ring described may be locked in its raised position by a
spring snap or cther fastening, and instead of fixing the handle bar in position by
means of the screw ring herein before described, the projection at the bottom of the
tube carried by the lug of the handle bar, may be firmly fixed in its seat at the bottom
of the fork by a spring snap or other fastening.
Dated this Ninth day of October 1896.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We, WALTER JOHN LLOYD, and WILLIAM PRIEST, of The Quadrant Cycle Company
Limited, of Sheepcote Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Velocipede
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner
the saine is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
Our invention consists in constructing the handle bars of bicycles, tricycles and
other velocipedes and parts connected therewith in the manner hereinafter described,
whereby the handle bar may when the velocipede is not in use be turned into a nearly
vertical plane and the velocipede may be conveniently supported against a wall and
the space occupied by the said velocipede largely reduced.
When the velocipede is about to be used the handle bar is readily restored and
rigidly fixed in its horizontal position.
We will describe our invention in connection with a safety bicycle.
Instead of connecting the handle bar rigidly to the handle bar stem as usual, w
effect the connection of these parts in the following manner.
We form the head of the handle bar stem of a fork shape and we joint the middle
of the handle bar to the inner sides of the top of the branches of the fork by a cross
pin or axis. The middle of the handle bar has a strong lug carrying at its undersid
a tube, two or three inches long. This tube has at its bottom a projection which
when the handle bar is in its normal position seats itself in a recess formed at the
bottom of the handle bar stem fork. The handle bar stem at the part immediately
below the fork has a screw thread on which a screw ring with a milled flange works..
The upper part of the interior of the said screw ring is not threaded but has an
inclined or conical figure, its greatest diameter being at top. When the handle bar
is in its normal position, the said screw ring on being screwed home, that is, raised to
its fullest extent, its inclined or conical interior bears upon the projection at the
bottom of the tube carried by the handle bar lug and forces the said projection to its
seat at the bottom of the fork and holds it there so tightly as to give perfect rigidity
to the connection of the handle bar and handle bar stem.
The unscrewing or withdrawing of the said screw ring liberates the handle bar and
permits it to be turned into a nearly vertical plane as hereinbefore described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in perspective a portion of a
lady's safety bicycle provided with a handle bar constructed according to our invention
the said handle bar being in its normal position, that is its horizontal position for
use; Figure 2 represents the same with the handle bar in the nearly vertical position
into which it is turned when the bicycle is not required for use and it is desired to
lean the other bicycle against a wall or other vertical support. Figures 3 and 4.
represent respectively in front elevation and vertical section a portion of the handle
bar and handle bar stem when the same are in position for use and Figures 5 and 6
represent the same with the handle bar in its nearly vertical position; Figure 7 is a
side elevation of Figure 5.
Figures 3 to 7 both inclusive are drawn to a larger scale than Figures 1 and 2.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawing.
a, a is the handle bar jointed by means of the screw pins c, c to the forked
part b1, b of the handle bar stem b so as to be capable of angular motion in the said
fork b¹, b¹ as will be understood by reference to the several Figures of the Drawing.
The handle bar has at its middle a short downwardly projecting tube a¹ terminating
in a slightly conical projection a' which occupies when the handle bar is in its normal

page_text: position the recess at the bottom of the fork 61, 61. The part 6 of the handle bar
stem is screw threaded and on the said screw threaded portion the milled screw
collar or nut d is screwed. The mouth or upper end of the screw collar d is conical
internally and in the normal position of the parts fits or bears against the conical
projection a², of the tube a¹ and secures the rigid fastening of the handle bar in its
horizontal position.
When it is desired to turn the handle bar a from the position which it occupies in
Figure 1 to the position which it occupies in Figure 2 it is only necessary to turn the
screw collar d in the direction proper to lower it on the handle bar stem as
represented in Figures 5, 6, and 7 when the projection a' is released and by
depressing the handle most distant from the projection a the handle bar assumes the
nearly vertical position represented in Figure 2. In this position of the handle bar
the bicycle occupies less space when leaned against a wall or other vertical support
than when the handle bar is in its normal position.
If thought desirable the screw ring described may be locked in its raised position
by a spring snap or other fastening.
Instead of fixing the handle bar in position by means of the screw ring or collar d
herein before described and represented the projection at the bottom of the tube,
carried by the lug of the handle bar, may be firmly fixed in its seat at the bottom of
the fork by a spring snap or other fastening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim as our invention of; is :-
"Improvements in bicycles, tricycles and other velocipedes: "-
Constructing and arranging or combining the parts of the handle bars of bicycles,
tricycles and other velocipedes in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawing; that is to say, making the top of the handle bar stem
forked and jointing the handle bar to the said forked stem so that it is capable of
being turned into a nearly vertical plane, the handle bar being rigidly locked when
in its normal or horizontal position by a screw collar on the handle bar stem
engaging with a projection on a downwardly projecting tube at the middle of the
handle bar or by a spring snap or other fastening substantially as described and
illustrated.
Dated the Ninth day of June 1807
WALTER JOHN LLOYD.
WILLIAM PRIEST.