An Improved Device for Attaching and Adjusting Handle Bars, Saddles, and the like to Velocipedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 15th July, 1898-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Attaching and Adjusting Handle Bars,
Saddles, and the like to Velocipedes.
We, JOSEPH WHITELEY, and HARRY WHITELEY, of 87, Cape Hill, Smethwick,
County of Stafford, Cycle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates as hereinafter described to an improved device for attach-
ing and adjusting handle bars, saddles, and the like to velocipedes and has
for its object to provide means whereby the handle bar or saddle may be easily
and firmly attached, and the height adjusted in a simple and efficient manner.
In carrying our invention into effect as applied to the handle bar we provide a
tubular support or T piece semicircular in form or concave equal or nearly equal
to the diameter of the handle bar which rests therein. We provide a semicircular
cap of the same size as the cross piece and nearly equal to the half of the handle
bar, and a concave block to fit the lower or slit end of the tube to which we attach
a long screw stud projecting from the apex of the cone and extending to the said
tube and the outside of the handle bar, the end of which passes through the cap
aforesaid and is furnished with screw nut or its equivalent. On attaching the bar
to the ball head the screw. nut is released and the handle bar placed in the con-
cave part of the T piece, the cap being placed on top and the slit tube let down
the ball head, when in its desired position the nut is tightened up drawing the
cone up the slit tube, expanding it in the ball head tube thus firmly securing it
in place and at the same time fixing the bar in the head. Our invention may in
a like manner be applied to the attachment of saddles and the or T tube or
seat pillar, or seat pillar to the main tube or support.
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WILLIAM HENRY BARAOLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants.
An Improved Device for Attaching and Adjusting Handle-bars,
Saddles, and the like to Velocipedes.
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We, JOSEPH WHITELEY, Cycle Maker, and HARRY WHITELEY, both of Cape Hill,
Smethwick, in the County of Stafford, Cycle 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:
Our invention has for its object an improved device for attaching and adjusting
handle bars, saddles and the like to velocipedes by which means are provided

page_text: whereby the handle bar or saddle may be easily and firmly attached and the
height adjusted in a simple and efficient manner.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereto a sheet of drawings upon which we have fully
illustrated the nature of our said invention.
Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation through the head of an ordinary safety
bicycle with our invention applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a similar sectional elevation through the seat pillar tube.
Figure 3 is a section through the outer tube in Figure 2 but shewing the split
tube in elevation.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section shewing the application of our invention to the
attachment of the frame tubes to the lugs.
In carrying our invention into effect as applied to the attachment of the handle
bar we provide the handle support A having at its top the T piece a² which is
formed of semicircular shape to receive the handle bar which rests therein, a
similar cap a being placed on the top of same. The tube A is split at its
lower end a and the cone shaped block B is provided to fit in this lower end.
This block B is provided with the rod which passes up through the head and
through holes c¹ which are formed in the handle bar C and is provided with the
screwed end 62 and nut E by which the cone B is drawn up into the split end a¹
of the tube A expanding the same tightly against the ball head tube F and thereby
firmly securing the two together and at the same time securely fixing the handle
bar C to the head of the tube A. The attachment to saddle pillars F is the same
but in this case the screw rod passes through any suitable portion H of the base
of the saddle, a slot being provided for the backward and forward adjustment.
In the case of the attachment of the frame tubes J to the lugs K the rod b' is
screwed at and passes through the cone thimbles B being provided with the
nuts E so that by the tightening of the nut, the thimbles are drawn into the ends
of the tubes J which are split at j₁ to receive them and are expanded against the
lugs K thus providing a strong attachment between the frame tubes and lugs. It
will be seen that the height of the handle bar can readily be adjusted without dis-
turbing the ball head and that the handle bar can be reversed so that in the case
of drop handles they may be used high or low.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
we claim is-
1st. In an improved device for attaching and adjusting handle bars saddles
and the like to velocipedes the split ended tube A or J in combination with conical
blocks or thimbles B operated substantially as herein set forth and illustrated on
the accompanying drawings.