Patent ID: 9738340
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B62J

Claim:
1. A shell for a bicycle saddle, comprising: a flat body provided with a top surface, a bottom surface, a groove through the top surface and the bottom surface, a narrow anterior portion for fitting between a cyclist's crotch, a wide posterior portion for supporting the cyclist's buttocks, and two sockets for insertion of a supporting frame, wherein, the narrow anterior portion has a front edge; the wide posterior portion has a rear edge and two lateral edges extending from two ends of the rear edge substantially toward the front edge; the body is defined with an imaginary longitudinal axis which substantially passes through the front edge, the rear edge and the groove and divides the wide posterior portion into a left region and a right region, wherein the groove is provided at the wide posterior portion and the narrow anterior portion with a longitudinal section, an extending section and a transverse section, the longitudinal section having a front end, a rear end, and a same width from the front end to the rear end, and extending from the front end substantially along the imaginary longitudinal axis toward the rear edge to the rear end, the extending section extending from the front end of the longitudinal section substantially along the imaginary longitudinal axis to the narrow anterior portion, and the transverse section extending from the rear end of the longitudinal section to the left region and the right region of the wide posterior portion toward two directions not perpendicular to the imaginary longitudinal axis to depart from the front edge so that the wide posterior portion has two elastic wings adjacent to the longitudinal section of the groove and each of the elastic wings has a straight inner side, wherein the transverse section further has a convex edge facing the rear end of the longitudinal section so that the wide posterior portion has a convex sheet protruding toward the rear end of the longitudinal section, wherein the narrow anterior portion and the wide posterior portion are separated by an imaginary boundary line, and the extending section of the groove is decreasing in width substantially from the imaginary boundary line toward the front edge, and wherein the two sockets are located at the left region and the right region of the wide posterior portion respectively; each of the sockets has a connecting sheet connected with the rear edge and one of the lateral edges of the wide posterior portion and extending to a position under the bottom surface, and an insertion block connected with the connecting sheet; an open chamber is provided between the connecting sheet and the insertion block of each of the sockets and the bottom surface.