An Improvement in Cork Handles for Bicycles and other Velocipedes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cork Handles for Bicycles and other
Velocipedes.
I, ALFRED HAWKESFORD, of 125, Steelhouse Lane, in the City of Birmingham,
Cork Manufacturer and Factor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
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This invention consists of the herein described improvement in cork handles for
bicycles and other velocipedes.
A cork handle of the kind herein referred to as heretofore usually made consists
of a piece of cork turned outside and bored inside to fit upon the handle bar of a
velocipede the said cork handle being usually strengthened by a metal ferrule at
one end and by a metal cap at the other end. It is well known that the said cork
handles often crack and break when in use and it is this defect which my said
invention is designed to overcome.
According to this invention I strengthen the said cork handles by lining them
with a stiff substance preferably thin metal fitting tightly inside the cork handle
and fixed therein by suitable cement or by other means or the said lining is not
cemented in. This metallic or other stiff lining is by preference an open jointed thin
sheet metal tube of the proper size to fit tightly in the cork handle and on the handle
bar; or the metallic lining may be made of wire or of a metal strip coiled into a
parallel coil to fit on the handle bar and in the cork haudle. Or instead of the
lining being metallic it may be made of stiff paper or cardboard or other suitable
substance.
Dated this 12th day of October 1893
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cork Handles for Bicycles and other
Velocipedes.
I, ALFRED HAWKESFORD, of 125 Steelhouse Lane, in the City of Birmingham,
Cork Manufacturer and Factor, 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 the herein described improvement in cork handles for
bicycles and other velocipedes.
A cork handle of the kind herein referred to as heretofore usually made consists
of a piece of cork turned outside and bored inside to fit upon the handle bar of a
velocipede the said cork handle being usually strengthened by a metal ferrule at
one end and by a metal cap at the other end. It is well known that the said cork
handles often crack and break when in use and it is this defect which my said
invention is designed to overcome.
According to this invention I strengthen the said cork handles by lining them
with a stiff substance preferably thin metal fitting tightly inside the cork handle
and fixed therein by suitable cement or by other means or the said lining is not
cemented in. This metallic or other stiff lining is by preference an open jointed
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page_text: thin sheet metal tube of the proper size to fit tightly in the cork handle and on the
handle bar; or the metallic lining may be made of wire or of a metal strip coiled
into a parallel coil to fit on the handle bar and in the cork handle. Or instead of
the lining being metallic it may be made of stiff paper or cardboard or other suitable
substance.
The accompanying drawings to which I will now refer, and on which the same
letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures, illustrate various
methods of applying my invention to the said cork handles.
Fig. 1 is a side and end elevation and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a cork
handle lined with an open jointed thin metal tube in accordance with this invention
which tube and the metal cap of the cork handle are shewn separate from the cork
part by Fig. 3;
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a cork handle strengthened by a coiled wire
lining in accordance with this invention;
Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of a cork handle strengthened by a coiled metal
strip in accordance with this invention and
Fig. 6 shews a cork handle strengthened by a paper canvas or other like lining.
A is the cork handle B is the usual metal end ferrule of the same and C is the
usual metal cap which is fixed to the closed end of the handle.
In the example of my invention shewn by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the cork handle lining
is an open jointed thin sheet metal tube 1 of the proper size to fit tightly in the
cork handle A and to fit on the handle bar this tube being by preference made
slightly larger at the open end d' than at the closed end which latter is by
preference soldered to the end cap C and then after the cork handle A has been
threaded on to the tube D, the end d' of the tube is turned over the ferrule B thus
firmly securing the handle A cap C ferrule B and inner tube D together. The
object of making the tube D open jointed is to allow of its opening slightly when
forced on to the handle bar.
In the examples of my invention shewn by Figs. 4 and 5 in which the cork
handle A is strengthened by the inner wire coil E (Fig. 4) or by the coiled metal
band E (Fig. 5) this coil E is made of a size to fit on the handle bar and also to
fit tightly in the cork handle A and the coil E is by preference secured in the
handle A by being soldered to the cap C and to the ferrule B.
In the example of my invention shewn by Fig. 6 in which the cork handle A is
strengthened by an inner lining F of stiff paper canvas or other like suitable
substance or substances the said lining is rolled up so as to form a thin stiff tube of a
size to fit on the handle bar and to fit in the cork handle A. and the lining F is then
secured in the handle A by being glued or otherwise cemented therein.
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. Strengthening a cork handle for bicycles or other velocipedes by a stiff lining
formed and fixed therein in any of the several ways substantially as herein before
set forth.
2. In the cork handle for bicycles or other velocipedes and in combination with
the end cap C and ferrule B of the same, the thin sheet metal strengthening lining D
fixed at one end to the end cap D and at the other end closed over the ferrule B
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the
accompanying drawing.
3. In a cork handle for bicycles or other velocipedes and in combination with the
end cap C and ferrule B of the same, the coiled wire or thin coiled metal strip
lining E fixed in the handle A so as to strengthen the same substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by Figs. 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
4. In a cerk handle for bicycles or other velocipedes and in combination with the
end cap C and ferrule B of the same, the paper canvas or other like strengthening.

page_text: lining F fixed in the cork handle A so as strengthen the same substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by Fig. 6 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of July 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.