An Improved Method of Addressing Cycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd May, 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Addressing Cycles.
CHARLES EDWIN CORBITT, 57, Market Street, Chorley, County of Lancaster,
Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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I make a cycle handle of cork, wood, felt or any other material, I enlay the
above handle on the side which comes to the top with a length of celluloid, slate,
paper or any other suitable material of sufficient size to allow an address to be
written upon. The object of this invention is to do away with the trouble of
tying labels to cycles in case of railways or any other mode of travelling where it
is required they should be addressed.
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An Improved Method of Addressing Cycles.
I, CHARLES EDWIN CORBITT, of 57, Market Street, Chorloy, in the County of
Lancaster, Ironmonger, 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:-
The object of this invention is to do away with the trouble of tying labels to
cycles in case of travelling by road or rail, or in any case when the cycle or such
vehicle is required to be addressed.
In order that my invention may be better understood I have appended hereunto
a sheet of drawings upon which
Figure 1 is a side view of a cycle handle made according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a cross section of same on line 1, 2.
Figure 3 is a view of a modification of my invention & Figure 4 is a cross
section of same on line 3-4.
I make cycle handles A either of wood, cork felt or any other material and enlay
a strip of celluloid slate paper or other suitable material B of sufficient size to
allow an address to be written upon it as seen in Figure 1. This strip B may be
bedded between the two tips C, and D, and resting on the lining E of the handle
as seen in cross section Figure 2 or be simply attached by its two ends to the two
tips CD the outside material A being cut away to allow it to be inlaid or bedded
in.
In the modification as shewn in Figure 3 I fix a piece of transparent celluloid
or other suitable material F in such a manner that a piece of similar material or

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an ordinary address card G can be slid in underneath it. This card or slip G
resting either on the lining H of the handle A as seen in the cross section
Figure 4 or into a case made of the transparent material F.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
invention & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1st. A cycle handle having a piece of. celluloid or other suitable material B
inlaid or bedded in the material of which the handle is made as and for the
purpose herein set forth & shewn on the accompanying drawings.
2nd. A cycle handle having a piece of transparent celluloid or other suitable
material F fixed in the body of the handle for the purpose of holding a strip G
as & for the purpose herein set forth & shewn upon the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of May 1898.
CHARLES EDWIN CORBITT.