Improvements relating to the Arrangement of Steering and Regulating Handles for Motor Cycles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 13th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1900
PROVIDIONAL DIECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Arrangement of Steering and
Regulating Handles for Motor Cycles.
I, BORIS LOUTZKY, of 49, Französische Strasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Ger-
many, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a steering and regulating hand lever arrangement
for motor cycles forming an attachment to and turning with the handle bar.
The defects inherent in the various arrangements which have heretofore been
adopted for starting and stopping the motor and for steering the same are well
known and these defects are still further increased by not having the arrange-
ments secured to the handle bar.
The object of my improved arrangements to place all the hand levers within
easy reach of the handle of the vehicle.
The
A number of divided or half-tubes are arranged to slide telescopically one in
the other. The said tubes run in grooves on the steering post and are only
capable of sliding but cannot turn thereon and they therefore turn with the
steering post. Each tube has a neck formed upon it, terminated by two flanges.
In each of these necks a lifting fork engages which forms part of a lever extend-
ing rearwardly to the upper frame tube of the cycle, the connection rod of each
lever moving parallel with this upper tube. The necessity for adopting this
arrangement will be readily understood, when it is remembered that the steer-
ing bar turns round while the levers have to act upon the fixed motor.
raising or lowering of the neck is effected by hand levers, which are connected
to the handles and directly communicate to the parts fixed to the frame and
thus enable the steering, regulating of speed, and the like, to be effected with-
out having to remove the hands from the handle bar of the machine. This is
rendered possible by providing both the hand lever and the other lever which
extends rearwardly to the upper frame tube of the cycle with two studs engag
ing the neck and participating in the sliding movement of the latter but without
revolving therewith. The arrangement of driving the tubes into halves and
making them to slide telescopically enables a greater number of lever systems
to be adopted.
one before
The improved arrangement therefore supplied a want which no
has solved, viz. to have within reach of the handles a number of hand levers
which, while turning with the handle bar, can be adjusted to effect the various
functions necessary in driving and steering the motor. Thus by operating one
or other of these hand levers the ignition and the admission, of the mixture,
the controlling of the inlet and so on, can be effected without interference from
the handle bar.
Dated thin 17th dove of Amil 1900
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: or other of these hand levers the ignition and the admission of the mixture,
the controlling of the inlet and so on, can be effected without interference from
the handle bar.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
In motor cycles an arrangement for steering and regulating the speed charac-
terized by the arrangement of a number of divided tubes on the steering post
capable of sliding telescopically thereon and having flanged necks into which engage
studs provided on hand levers attached to the handle bar and other studs on
the levers leading to the motor, the object being to enable the levers to partici-
pate in the sliding but not in the rotating movement of the tubes, substantially
as and for the purpose described.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.