Improvements in or connected with Handle Bars of Cycles, and Fittings therefor.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Handle Bars of Cycles, and
Fittings therefor.
THOMAS WICKHAM Engineer and HENRY MARSHALL Bookkeeper both of
59 Murdock Road, Handsworth in the County of Stafford, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It is well known amongst cyclists that an efficient means has been wanting to
prevent a machine from back sliding and scratching the handle bar.
Our invention relates to a simple yet effective device affixed to the handle bar
of a machine which is invariably the first point of contact, and especially at the
bend thereof, when such machine is rested against a wall or other object. Much
damage is done to passages and rooms as well as the machine by the rubbing
of the handle bar thereon and such damage will be entirely obviated by our
protector.
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We carry our invention into effect preferably as follows:-We construct a
shield pad or protector of rubber or other material of a suitable size shape and
thickness which is made with a hole therein to slip or spring over the end of the
handle bar and be drawn into the desired position. That part of the ring which is
intended to protect the handle bar is preferably made thicker in substance or with
a projection or boss. In other cases to save trouble in removing the handles
attached to the handle bar we employ a spring metal clip, which may be lined with
suitable material to prevent scratching the plating, and be kept in position by a
small screw bolt or rivet and to such clip we attach by means of a metal cup or
other suitable arrangement a projection of rubber or other material. Other
methods may be adopted in place of the above such as a projection on a strap
fitted with suitable fastening means to keep the said projection in the desired
position, or the same effect may be obtained by fixing a projecting shield to the
handle bar, after a hole has been made therein, by a pin or other means.
Handle bars in the rough may be formed with a boss. of metal or other material
to act as a protecting pad, or partly of metal and partly of another material or
substance.
Dated this 26th den of January 1805
Improvements in or connected with Handle Bars of Cycles, and
Fittings therefor.
We,
THOMAS WICKHAM, Engineer and HENRY MARSHALL, Bookkeeper late
of 59 Murdock Road Handsworth Birmingham but both now residing at 9 Downs
Terrace, Murchison Road, Leyton Essex 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 relates to improvements in or connected with the construction of

page_text: a device for the prevention of damage to handle bars when resting against a wall
or other object.
We preferably carry our invention into effect in the following manner. From
suitable materials we mould or form a ring Fig. 1. having a boss projection or pad a
Fig. 3. The ring is intended to be drawn on to the handle bar B Fig. 3 and into
the required position so that the pad or boss may receive the weight of the cycle
when resting against an object, and preventing such cycle from slipping backward
Fig. 3. In order to facilitate the fixing of the protector to handle bars we
make it with a metal or other clip which may be of spring steel and lined
with a non-scratching material. In some cases we use a screw bolt and nut or
rivet to secure the clip C to the handle bar b Fig. 6. Preferably to such metal
clip we attach a boss of material or substance by means of rivets, screws, or by
stamping out an opening in the centre of the clip midway between the ends of the
clip, such opening being made with a suitable outward and upward flange Fig. 4.
Within this opening the boss with a similar flange is forced so that the two flanges
when fitted together prevent the boss from falling through Figs. 5 & 6.
The same result may be obtained by forming the clip in two halves, the ends
being bent at right angles and joined together by screws or suitable means.
The
top half may be pressed up to form a pad, or a pad or boss of felt or rubber let
in as before described, and each half being curved to a semi-circular shape
Fig. 7.
Other means may be adopted with a view to carrying the invention into
effect such as affixing a boss for the purpose stated by means of a stud inserted
into a hole in the handle bar Fig. 8.
Handle bars in the rough may be formed with the required projection or
depression in which a boss of suitable substance may be inserted.
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
1. A ring of elastic or suitable material formed with a projecting pad or boss
substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2.
2. The combination of such ring of suitable material in conjunction with a handle
bar as and for the purposes described & shown in Fig. 3.
3. The application of spring metal, metallic or other clips stamped with a
projecting boss substantially as described.
4. The application of clips formed to receive in or upon them projecting bosses
as and for the purposes described and shown in Figs. 4, 5 & 6.
5. The application of a suitable projection attached to the handle bar by means
of a plug screw or other article inserted therein substantially as described &
illustrated in Fig. 8.
6. The combination of a projection or depression formed in the handle bar to
receive a projecting pad substantially as described.
7. The application of protectors of suitable materials or substances in combination
with handle bars in manner described substantially as set forth.
Dated this 24th day of October 1895.
THOMAS WICKHAM.
H. MARSHALL.