Improvements relating to Cycle and like Handles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cycle and like Handles.
We, JOSIAH COOPER, FRANCIS GEORGE BENSLY, and COOPER & COMPANY
(Birmingham) LIMITED, all of the Felt Works, Little King Street, in the City
of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to cycle and like handles,
our object being to provide for the more effectual attachment and for the
strengthening of the metallic caps and ferrules on the ends of such handles.
In the application of our invention to the fixing of a metallic cap to a felt
or felt covered handle for a cycle we make the external diameter of the outer
end of the handle slightly larger than the internal diameter of the cap, but by
slitting the handle end in any convenient manner we are enabled to force it
tightly within the cap. After inserting the handle end within its cap a metallic
tubular or other suitable plug placed within the handle is forced into the cap,
and the end of the handle is wedged between the inner surface of the cap and
the adjacent surface of the plug. The cap is thus rigidly secured to the outer
end of the handle and is effectually stiffened or strengthened by the plug fitting
tightly within it as described.
The circular edge at the inner end of the cap is spun or otherwise forced over,
before the cap
placed on the handle, to form an annular burr or projection
which becomes bedded in the felt when the handle end is forced tightly within
the cap and the plug is driven home.
In fixing the metallic ferrule upon the opposite end of the handle we prefer-
ably split such end, the external diameter of the handle being made slightly
larger than the internal diameter of the ferrule to be fitted thereon. The fer-
rule after being placed over the handle end is subjected to the action of a punch
or other suitable tool which closes in the turned over outer end of the metal
thereby clamping the edge of the handle and also forcing the felt on to the
burred in edge at the inner end of the ferrule.
We apply our invention to cycle and like handles of different forms as con-
structed to meet varying requirements.

page_text: of Birmingham, Manufacturers, 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:―
This invention consists of improvements relating to cycle and like handles,
our object being to provide for the more effectual attachment and for the
strengthening of the metallic caps and ferrules on the ends of such handles.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to.-
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 an end elevation of a felt covered
cycle handle prior to its being fitted with our metallic cap and ferrule.
Figures 3 and 4 illustrate respectively by an end elevation and sectional plan
the metallic cap, Figures 5 and 6 illustrate in a like manner the metallic tubular
strengthening plug, and Figure 7 and 8 the ferrule for the inner end of the
handle.
Figure 9 is an elevation with half in section of the complete handle.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts:-
In the application of our invention to the fixing of a metallic cap as A to a
felt or felt covered handle B for a cycle, we make the external diameter of the
outer end as B¹ of the handle slightly larger than the internal diameter of the
cap A, but by splitting the handle end in any convenient manner, preferably
in four places as illustrated, we are enabled to force it tightly within the cap.
After the insertion of the said handle end B₁ within the cap A a suitable plug,
preferably of a metallic tubular form as C (Figures 5 and 6) is placed within the
handle B and forced into the cap, and the end B of the handle is thereby
wedged between the inner surface of the cap and the adjacent surface of the
plug. The cap is thus rigidly secured to the outer end of the handle and is
effectually stiffened or strengthened by the plug fitting tightly within it as
described.
The circular edge of the inner end of the cap A is spun or otherwise forced
over (as shown at Figure 4) before the cap is placed on the handle, to form an
annular burr or projection b which becomes embedded in the felt when the
handle end is forced tightly within the cap and the plug is driven home.
In fixing the metallic ferrule D upon the opposite end B2 of the handle we
preferably slit such end, in the same manner as with the end B¹, and the
external diameter of the handle is made slightly larger than the internal dia-
meter of the ferrule to be fitted thereon. The ferrule after being placed over
the handle end is subjected to the action of a punch or other suitable tool which
closes in the turned over end d of the metal thereby clamping the edge of the
handle, and also forces the felt on to the burred in edge di at the inner end of
the ferrule.
By our invention we are enabled to very effectually attach handle caps and
ferrules in position without the use of glue or cementing material.
We employ our invention to cycle and like handles of different forms as con-
structed to meet varying requirements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The improved means for attaching caps and ferrules to the ends of cycle
and like. handles, comprising the making of the external diameters of such ends
slightly larger than the internal diameters of the caps and ferrules, slitting such
ends and fitting them tightly in their proper positions respectively within the
cap and the ferrule and forcing or embedding the burred edges formed on the
latter parts into the felt or other material of the handle, substantially as
described.
2. In cycle and like handles, the combination with the cap fitted upon the

page_text: outer end of the handle with a plug fitting tightly within its interior, substan-
tially as and for the purposes described.
3. The improved cycle handle having a metallic cap as A and a ferrule as D
secured and strengthened substantially as described and as illustrated.
1000
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.