Improvements in or in connection with the Handle-bars and Saddle Supports of Bicycles
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with the Handle-bars and Saddle
Supports of Bicycles.
CHARLES ALBERT CRANE 31 Warwick Square S.W. Doctor of Medicine do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To make use of the hollow of the handle bars of a bicycle as a receptacle for the
repairing outfit or other things. To hold a key or wrench a box wood tire lifter, a
tube of solution and india rubber to repair punctures. The celluloid oil bottle to be
cylindrical to fit into either bandle bar. The handles or grips to have a collar to
prevent them from slipping up the handle bars and the handle bar to be fitted with a
inetal cap or stopper or by means of a bayonet joint or screw or other means made
with a milled edge projecting one eighth inch beyond the handles. The same arrango-
ments to be applied to the saddle pin to enable it to be used for carrying a small box
of chalk and a piece of sand paper or any other requisite.
The rim of the handles to havo a slot out in corresponding with the slot cut in the
handle bars to admit the pin of the bayonet joint when that means of fastening the cap
is used. By giving a slight turn to the handles the joint is locked and the caps
prevented from falling off. The hollow of the handle bars to be used if preferred to
hold a cylindrical box to contain the repairing outfit. The length of the receptacle is
determined by the length of the wrench or key and is made by a diaphragm of cork
or wood or india rubber.
Dated this 20th day of & wernet 1891
Improvements in or in connection with the Handle-bars and Saddle
Supports of Bloyoles.
CHARLES ALBERT CRANE, 31 Warwick Square, London, S.W. Doctor of Medicine
do horoby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the saine is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
To make use of each hollow end of the handle bar of a bicycle as a receptacle for
the repairing outfit or other things: to hold a koy wrench or spanner, a tire lifter,
a tube of solution and a piece of india rubber to repair punctures and an oil bottle, or
other things. The length of the receptacle, to be determined by the length of the
wrench or key, is made by a diaphragm of cork, wood, or india rubber. The handle
bar may be of any shape.
The open ends of the handle bar to be fitted with a metal cap or stopper, with a
milled edge projecting one eighth of an inch and a bayonet joint or screw or other

page_text: means. The hollow of the handle bar to be used to hold a cylindrical or other shaped
box to contain the outfit if preferred. The handles or grips to have both end open one
of which ends to have a collar or rim making it the size of the internal measurement
of the handle bar to prevent the handles slipping up the handle bar when they are not
fastened or comented; a slot is cut in the rim to admit the pin of the bayonet joint,
a slight turn of the handle will lock the bayonet joint and prevent the caps from being
removed until the handles are turned round so as to bring the slot exactly in a lino
with the longitudinal slot in the handle bar and opposite the pin of the bayonet joint
of the cap or stopper: the position of the slot to be indicated by a mark on the handle;
the position of the pin is shown by a mark on the cap. The handles or grips may be
fastened by cement or otherwise and both the open ends may be the same size as there
would then be no need for tho collar or rim.
The ends of the horizontal bar of the saddle support to be fitted in the same way as
the handle bar to make a receptacle for other necessaries or requirements both ends
boing capable of being opened to facilitate removal of contents.
One end of a handle bar one inch in diameter will hold a spanner thirteen sixteenths
of an inch wide and four and a half inches or more in length with holes cut to fit the
unts on any machine and with one end of the spanner made as a screw driver also a
smaller spanner of less width, a tire lifter and a small tube of solution, all of which,
for convenience, are enclosed in a wash leather bag.
The other end of the handle bar to hold a cylindrical or other shaped bottle thirteen
sixteenths of an inch in its widost diameter.
The drawings hereto appended show
No. 1. Cap with pin to fit into
No. 2. Handle bar with bayonet joint.
No. 3. Diaphragm liniiting size of receptacle.
No. 4. Screw cap to fit into
No. 5. Handle bar.
No. 6. Handlo with slot to admit pin of cap.
No. 7. Wrench or spanner.
No. 8. Two hole spanner.
No. 9. Tire lifter.
No. 10. Tube of rubber solution.
No. 11. Oil bottle to fit into handle bar.
No. 12. Section of bandle bar showing contents inside and wash leather bag.
No. 13. The diaphragm.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. That make a receptacle for the outfit which is part of the bicycle and capable
of containing all the necessary outfit for repairs on the road side.
2. It does away with the unsightly bag
3. It decreases the weight to be carried.
or wallet.
4. It makes the handles safe as they cannot slip off on account of the projecting
ring of the caps.
5. I claim to make the handle bar a receptacle as described, by means of a cap and
diaphragm independently of the handles and I show how it can be done and what it
will contain by the drawings herewith.
Dated the Fourth day of February 1907