Improvements in the Apparatus for Attaching the Handles of Bicycles, Tricycles, and Velocipedes to the Handle Bars thereof.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1887.
Complete Left, 18th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 19th Apr., 1887.
Improvements in the Apparatus for Attaching the Handles of
Bicycles, Tricycles, and Velocipedes to the Handle Bars thereof.
I WILLIAM HARVEY SMITH of George Hotel Yard, Bradford, in the County of
York Cycle Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in the means of attaching the
handles of bicycles, tricycles, and velocipedes, to the handle bars thereof, and has for
its object the arrangement of the apparatus in such a manner, that the handles may
be set at various angles to suit the requirements of the rider.
I accomplish my object by attaching to each end of the handle bar, a bent arm, free
to revolve on the axis of the former, but which can be firmly secured at any position
around such axis. On this bent arin I place a bush or nut, to which the handle is
attached at an angle that brings the handle on the same line as the handle bar. The
bush or nut revolves on this angular axis, and can be secured at any position around
the same, by which means I am onabled to secure the handle at any angle to the
handle bar, described by the half of a sphere.
In place of the bent arm, I can substitute two pieces of metal, held together by a
set screw or other means, so placed that one of them is free to revolve on the axis of
the handle bar, while the other is free to revolve on an axis at an angle to the handle
bar. To this latter I attach the handle in such a position as to bring the handle in a
line with the handle bar, and means are provided, as in the former case, for the handle
being firmly secured in any position around these two axes.
Doted this 18th day of January 1887
JAMES S. CRITCHLEY,
Agent.

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Bicycles, Tricycles, and Velocipedes to the Handle Bars thereof.
I WILLIAM HARVEY SMITH of George Hotel Yard Bradford in the County of
York Cyclo Agent 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 relates to certain improvements in the means for attaching the
handles of bicycles tricycles and velocipedes to the handle bars thereof, and has for its
object the arrangement of the apparatus in such a manner, so that the handles may
be set at various angles to suit the requirements of the rider.
My invention consists in attaching the handles to the handle bar or bars, as the case
may be so that they can revolve on two axes, namely on theaxis of the handle bar itself,
and on an axis at an angle to the handle bar, and providing means for the rigid
securing of the handles in any position described around these two axes.
In order that my invention may be more clearly defined I append a sheet of
drawings.
Fig. I represents a front view of an end of a handle bar with my improved
apparatus attached, Fig. 2 an end view with the handle at an angle to the handle bar,
Fig. 3 a section on line ab and Figs. 4 & 5 are details.
The letter A indicates an end of a handle bar of a bicycle tricycle or velocipede,
which I terminate in a flange B, the other end of the handle bar A or other handle bar
as the case may be, being treated in same manner, the outside face of which is serrated
and interlocked by means of the union nut C and lock nut C, with the serrated face
of the projection D of the ball E, to which latter the handle F is attached. The ball E
is split into two halves at an angle to the handle bar A and handle I, the latter
being fixed to one portion, while the other portion is attached to the handle bar A by
the union nut C as above mentioned, and the two halves are held together by means of
the bolt G and nuts G₁, the faces in contact being serrated so that the two halves can
be rigidly held together. The serrated faces above named can be left plain, but the
serrations very materially add to the efficiency of the apparatus.
By loosening the nuts C and C, and the nuts G the handle F can revolve on the
axis of the bolt G which is at an angle to the handle bar A, and also revolve on
the axis of the handle bar itself, and be rigidly fixed at any point in the circles
described around these two axes, or in other words at any angle to the handle bar A
in the half of a sphere described from the centre of the split ball E.

page_text: Figs. 6 & 7 show the handle F to be capable of revolving with the bush H around
the axis at an angle to the handle bar A of a bent arm J the portion of the latter
around which the bush II revolves being made slightly conical, the hollow of the bush H
being also made to correspond. The bent arim Jis attached to the handle bar A
by means of a union nut K encircling a portion of the ball L to which the bent arm J
is fixed, and which revolves on the axis of the handle bar A, the flange M at the end
of the latter being hollowed out to receive the ball L, and the handle F is so
attached to the bush H as in one position to be on the same axis as the handle
bar A, while by means of the nut N and set screws P, the handle F can be rigidly
fixed in any position around the angular axis of the bent arm J, the conical shape
of the latter tending to keep the handle F more secure, and the motion around the
axis of the handle bar A is the same as in the former case.
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:
The revolving and securing of the handles of a bicycle tricycle or velocipedo around
the axis or axes of the handle bar or bars to which they are attached, and around
an axis or axes at an angle to such handle bar or bars substantially in the manner as
shown and described and for the purpose herein set forth.