Handle Bar for Velocipedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th June, 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1897
Handle Bar for Velocipedes.
We, AUGUST LICHTENBERG and EMIL MÜLLER, of Rathenow, Germany,
Bicycle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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One of the most troublesome defects experienced by cyclists is that the height
and breadth of the handle bar seldom corresponds to the proportions of their body.
Various devices have been heretofore designed for the purpose of adjusting handle
Lars to any suitable height, but owing to their defective construction these devices
were unsuitable to remedy such defects, while the chief difficulty due to the
invariableness of the width of the handle bar could not be overcome.,
The object of this invention is to devise a handle bar which will remedy these
defects and will be accordingly adjustable in height as well as in width without
the use of screws. The characteristic feature of this handle bar is that its
different parts are arranged to telescope one within the other and to be fixed in any
desired position by spring catches.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a front view and Figure 2 a plan of
our improved handle bar, while Figures 3 and 4 show details thereof.
Each handle bar consists, as is well known, of the vertical tube or upright A
and the horizontal bar B. According to this invention however this horizontal
bar B consists of a central tube a wherein can telescope the tubes 6 carrying the
handles. The vertical upright A consists of the tube c connected with the tube a
and likewise capable of telescoping in the tube d. Spring catches such as C
permit to fix the different tubes in any desired position. The same consist of a
flat spring which is fixed as shown in Figure 3 in the tubes 6 and c. At their
free ends each flat spring carries a stud or pin f projecting through the hole h
out of the tube b and capable of springing into one of the holes f of the tube a
according to the position of this tube so as to firmly hold the latter in such
position. As shown at Figure 1 a number of holes e are provided at suitable
intervals.
To prevent the tubes a and b or c and d from rotating relative to one another,
the tube a and d possess feathers i which engage the grooves k of the tubes band c
respectively.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is: -
CLAIMS.
First. A handle bar for velocipedes characterized by its adjustability in height
as well as in width.
Second. In handle bars for velocipedes such as above claimed the telescopic
arrangement of the various parts which are secured in the required position by
Spring catches.

page_text: Third. In handle bars for velocipedes such as above claimed, the method of
securing the parts a bed which telescope within one another so that they may
not turn one in the other by means of a feather i and a groove k, while studs or
pins ffixed to the flat springs g spring into holes e and thus secure the tubes in
their various positions.
Datod this 10th day of June 1897
GEORGE
BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.