Improvements in the Pads of Trusses, the same being applicable to the Seats of Cycles, Horse Saddles, and other articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Pads of Trusses, the same being applicable to
the Seats of Cycles, Horse Saddles, and other articles.
I, JOHANNES AVETICIAN CALANTARIENTS, Doctor of Medicine, of 15 York
Place, Scarborough in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its chief object the construction of a pad for trusses, which,
whilst affording the required support, shall admit of the freest possible ventilation,
thus allowing the perspiration to escape freely, & keep the body cool and
confortable, and free from the objectionable smell of accumulated perspiration both
in the truss and the body.
I attain this object by constructing the pad in the form of a shell, the walls of
which are made of metallic wires of required fineness, so woven together as to
form fine meshes like filigree work. This is attached to the spring by suitable
means. The pads can be made of any required shape, and either rigid, or so
formed as to possess springiness, either in the side touching the body, or that facing
the spring, or both.
Saddles for cycles and horses can be made in a similar manner to afford a cool
seat, and likewise chairs, etc., for use in hot countries or hot weather.
The wire-work can be galvanised, or electro plated with silver; nickel, or other
substance, or covered with preservative solutions.
Dated 22nd day of October 1894.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Pads of Trusses, the same being applicable to
the Seats of Cycles, Horse Saddles, and other articles.
I JOHANNES AVETICIAN CALANTARIENTS, Doctor of Medicine, of 15 York
Place, Scarborough in the County of York, 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 :-
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My invention has for its chief object the construction of a pad for trusses, which,
whilst affording the required support, shall be light, self-adapting to the contour
of the body, cool, and cleanly; the invention, however, relates also to sitting
surfaces, such as cycle and riding saddles.
1 attain this object by constructing the pad in the form of a thin shell, the
walls of which are made either of metallic wires of the required fineness and elasticity
so woven together as to form fine meshes, or of very thin sheet metal of the
required shape, very minutely and closely perforated. I attach this shell to a
framework and the spring in any suitable manner.
In the accompanying drawing, I have shown my invention as applied to the
spring of a truss.

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Fig. 3 is a back view.
A represents the framework, consisting of an oval rim, of sheet metal, doubled,
and flared slightly outwards in the manner shown at FF.
The rim A carries at its short, diameter, a.semicircular, flat bridge of metal B, and
also an angular bridge C. In the bridge piece C, in the centre of the pad, is a
screw-hole D. On the bridge Bitbere, are several boles E E drilled in a semi-
circle of which the centre is D. Those at the ends of the semicircle are on a line
with D, and therefore with the short diameter of the pad, the one in the centre of
the bridge along the long diameter, and the rest intermediate and at equal distances
from one another.
Gis a sheet of wire gauze or perforated metal; blocked, or formed into the
proper shape of a pad. The edges of.this ishell, are inserted within the rim of the
frame A, and there fastened.
.S.represents the spring of the truss, which is attached to the pad at the centre D
by the stud screw H, and at E. by the flat headed screw, I.
The object of the number, of screw holes E E E is to enable the direction of the
pad, to the spring to be altered, and regulated.to. a nicety, as required;, by putting
the screw I through the spring and any one of the E's to the right, or to the left,
according as it is required for the right or left side of the body.
The size and shape, of the pad, and the proportion of its parts, might be varied
to suit different requirements. The, circumference of the, rim of the frame-
..work, instead of being made double, might be made.,,single, and the shell soldered
to it; or the shell might be soldered to a narrow flat ring, about the same size as
the rim, and this fixed to the framework by means of small screws or, rivets, the
edge of the framework being slightly turned over it, so as to hide, it, and give it a
smooth edge.
When the shell is made of this, perforated metal, I sometimes punch out parts of
it, at intervals, near the circumference, so as to increase its elasticity or springiness.
The shell or framework, in this case, might be made of one piece, if found
convenient or economical. I make my truss pad of any material that answers the
requirements, such as iron or steel, or brass, or aluminium or its alloys, for the
framework, and for the slide, very fine tempered steel or other metallic wire woven
into a fine meshed gauze, or thin sheet of steel or aluminium, or alloy of aluminium
with platinum or silver, or other metal struck up in dies. Ebonite and cellulite of
different kinds might also be made use of for both purposes, by themselves, or in
conjunction with metal, such as a perforated metal or wire gauze shell fixed on
ebonite or cellulite framework, &c., in which B and C, might be of metal, for
security.
The metallic parts liable to corrode I galvanize or electroplate-with nickel
silver, or other substance, or cover them with preservative solutions.
I sometimes make the shell of soft, wire gauze, and to enable it to keep its shape
and be springy, I place in it a tempered steel wire spring, coiled to its shape, and
fix it to the framework.
From the nature of the materials, and, the method of construction, the shell has
sufficient springiness, but should further elasticity be desired, I--would make the
angular bridge C of tempered steel, thin enough in the arms to answer the
purpose.
The wire, before being woven into a gauze, might be made minutely. wavy on
one plane, so as to give it additional springy qualities, which will be specially
useful for constructing the seats of saddles for cycles and horses, and for the
bottoms of chairs and similar purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained, the nature of the. said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, L,declare, that what I
claim is:
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In the construction of the pads of trusses and the seats of cycle and riding

page_text: saddles, the employment of an elastic shell of wire gauze, or perforated sheet
metal, in conjunction with a rigid frame, substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1895.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.