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Application filed July 23,1892, Serial Ho, 441,063, (Ho model,)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Alexander Straus, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State 5 of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cycle-Handles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to io which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention is fully shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a side view of the handle, fixed upon the handlebar. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal 15 section of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3—3 Fig. 1.

The object of the invention is to produce a handle that shall be light, sufficiently strong, clean and durable, that shall resist slipping 20 of the hand and shall impart to the hand little or no odor of rubber or other material.

In the drawings, A is the handle bar and B a handle thereon. The latter consists of pieces of cork to be united by a cement, pref25 erably composed of rubber and ground or comminuted cork, the smooth outer faces of the pieces C C form portions of the general outer surface of the handle and the cement between said pieces makes up the remainder 30 of said surface. The pieces C C may extend inward to the handle bar, but this is not essential. To form the handle the smooth outer faces of the pieces C, C are pasted to the inner face of a strong mold, and the cem35 ent is then forced in, fillingall the interstices and the whole is subjected to strong pressure. This completes the handle and it is then removed from the mold and cemented to the handle bar.

Now cork is especially adapted for handles in that it is clean, light and inodorous, and will not transmit the small and most disagreeable vibrations, and in that it is velvety to the touch and resists slipping of the hand quite as well as rubber. But cork alone is expensive and is not as tough as it is desirable to have the material of which a handle is composed. If rubber and ground cork be molded into a handle the product loses some of the disadvantages of solid cork, but only 50 the salient points of the comminuted cork reach the surface and therefore the hand comes in contact with rubber, for the most part. But if the handle be formed as set forth, nearly the whole outer surface is of 55 cork, the handle is nearly as light as solid cork, has more than the cork’s elasticity, and yet the strain imparted by the hand is in no case applied to a piece large enough to be broken thereby; and for analogous reasons 60 the handle is not easily injured by blows or rough usage. In short rhe handle has practically all the advantages of cork and of rubber and has none of the disadvantages of either. . 65

The internal portion of the handle may have a smaller proportion of comminuted cork or may be entirely of rubber of other cement material, or may be entirely of cork, the indispensable requisite being that the hand- 70 pressed surface should be, entirely or approximately, all of cork. The construction set forth, however, has decided advantages over all others and is therefore preferable.