Improvements in Cycle Saddles and their Securing Attachments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th May, 1895--Accepted, 29th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Saddles and their Securing Attachments.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention has relation to the securing connections of cycle saddles, and also
to the frame-to-frame connections of them.
The first part of my invention, which relates to the connection means, has for
its object, a resilient or cushioned connection, that is, the saddle framing is secured
to an L-pin or pillar member through the intervention of an attachment, commonly
called a boss, which is made resilient by the interposition of rubber cushioning
blocks, which absorb or intercept concussion and tremor.
The second part of my invention, which relates to the frame-to-frame connection,
has for its object, a like resilient or cushioned connection, also made resilient
by the interposition of rubber cushioning blocks between the metallic parts.
By the first part of my improvements, the connection of the saddle to the boss,
and the boss to the L-pin or pillar member is made through the medium of
rubber cushioning blocks or springs arranged in the ways as hereinafter described.
Now according to one form of the said first part of my invention, the seat of a
saddle, which may be of the hammock or other type, is supported upon, or slung
from, the terminations of double rod members, running from fore to aft under
the seat of the saddle, and converging or spreading outwardly from front to rear,
so as to make the said rear ends form extended bearings or branched connections.
Threaded upon the middle parts of these separated frame members are two pairs
of eyed screw pins, with the stems hanging or directed downwards, and with a
rubber cushioning block, which may be stiffened by a thin metal facing washer,
threaded upon each of them, and coming up to the eye and frame rod member.
Threaded upon the shanks of the screw pins, and up to the first named rubber
blocks, which I will call the top blocks, is a bracket plate or frame, with eyed and
cupped sinkings at each corner, and with the middle part curved or cambered
downwardly to admit of tilt adjustment. Passed upon the ends of the eyed pins,
and up to the underside of the cupped and eyed parts of the bracket plate or
frame, are under rubber cushions or blocks, having metal stiffening washers
coming upon their undersides and followed up by screw nuts, by the screwing up
of which to a greater or less extent, the connection is made more or less resilient.
The rest sides of the upper cushion supports fit and seat themselves within the
cups of the plate or bracket, and so likewise do the topside faces of the lower
cushions, but to a less extent than the upper ones.
When the nuts are screwed up, resilient connection is made, whilst to neutralize
way, the outside crowns of the eyes of the eyed screw pins may have screw pegs
or receiving a bracing plate or plates, or stay washers, which come upon the
opsides of the rod frame inembers.
The boss or clip, which is loosely connected, may consist of an inverted U-shaped
rame, with the crossing bar, passing laterally across and over the inverted bow-
haped middle part of the plate or bracket, and with two gripping sections, having
emi-circular and opposed eyes, passed upon the legs of the frame, which are
crewed at their ends for nuts to take upon.
By screwing up the nuts, the semi-circular eyed sections are closed or brought

page_text: together upon an L-pin member, whilst the top section is also forced towards the
crossing bar of the frame, between which two latter parts, the inverted arch-
shaped bracket frame is gripped.
Thus, by screwing up the nuts upon the screwed ends of the legs of the frame,
the opposed gripping sections or cheeks are brought together and clamped upon
the horizontal member of the L pin, and at the same time, the bracket is clamped
between the top section and the crossing bar of the frame of the boss, hence the
securing of the saddle yielding support to the boss, and the boss to the L pin.
In carrying out another form of this part of my invention, the buffered clip
forming the resilient attachment may be constructed as follows
The frame rods pass between four or other number of pairs of rubber blocks,
which are encompassed by inverted U-shaped brackets, with flat tops and with
washers threaded upon the legs of the brackets and up to the underside of the
under cushions. Screw boxes having trunnion ends are fitted across the open
branches of the brackets, whilst the front and back pairs of the washer plates are
united by bars or stays, which run parallel to each other, and form the connection
means for the boss or clip.
Hanging screw pins pass through the said screw boxes, with their ends impinging
upon the undersides of the washers, so that on being screwed up, the framing rod
members, which may be of any construction, are gripped between the rubber
blocks, hence a resilient connection.
Instead of rubber cushioning blocks, I may employ metallic springs.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the particular form
of framing, nor to the curving of the plate or bracket, or the rods or stays, between
the separated cushioning clips, and further, I do not limit myself to the number
or disposition of spring or cushion clips, (which form yielding points, as well as
media for stopping off vibration) so long as cushioning expedients are intervened
between the naked metal parts of the connection.
If necessary, the bosses may be of any of my well-known universal types.
In carrying out the second part of my invention, relative to the frame-to-frame
connection, preferably form the primary or base framing from two upright strips
of metal, having pierced sides, and with the front connected to a lug or plate, and
with the sides running parallel to each other, and at short distances apart, and
being separated and kept in position by a segmental boss, so made that the same
forms an inside and cross stay and outside bracings, as hereinafter more fully
described.
Directed from the two opposite outer sides of the rear part of this said trussed
framing are two pairs of double-capped brackets, or two pairs of eyed and out-
standing brackets, cupped or sunken upon their opposite top and bottom sides, and
adapted to receive, or to form chambered seatings for, portions of rubber
cushioning blocks or pads, upon which the metallic framings and their connections
conie.
Thus, these eyed and double-cupped brackets receive rubber blocks upon their
top and bottom opposite sides, and through the middles of brackets and blocks
come eyed pins, through which the rods of the back underframings are threaded,
that is, the back underframing, which is attached to the skirting frame, commonly
called the back plate consists of a pair of depending and forwardly raking angle
rods, separated from each other by a space about equal to the distance between the
pairs of blocks, and having coiled loop springs at the angles, and with the
horizontal members of the said rods taking through eyes of the threaded pins,
screwed at both ends, and directed through both the top and bottom blocks and
the eyes of the back set of cupped brackets, and baving nuts taking upon
their ends.
The forward terminations of these angle rods, which are turned into eyes, have
threaded through them, and the front sets of locks and brackets, headed screw
pins, with nuts coming upon their ends.
The rubber blocks upon the topside of the back set are deeper than the

page_text: underneath ones of that set, whilst the top blocks of the front set are thinner than
the corresponding blocks thereunder.
The fastening connection of the back supporting framing with the base framing
is thus made, having resilient cushioning blocks between the opposed metallic
parts, which blocks, besides neutralizing tremor or vibration, also form extended
bearings and universal joints for the back of saddle, hence a resilient and universal
mounting.
The clip or boss consists of middle and bottom arch-shaped segments, and a
gapped top strap. The middle segments has opposite guide eyed lugs, and the top
strap has like eyed lugs, through which lugs, headed screw pins pass, and draw the
segments or sections of the clip upon the L-pin or pillar member, with the sides
of the trussed framing coming between the outside walls of the middle section and
the pins or bolts.
In making the connection of the front part of the framing to the tension and
underside of the peak, I proceed as follows
I take a horizontal rod, with the inner end, which is screwed, passing through
an eye in a hanging bracket secured to the underside of the front of the seat of
the saddle, and with the outer and middle parts of the said rod having depending
branches passing through the eyes of double cupped bearers or brackets, which
have rubber cushioning blocks located within the cupped seatings on their top and
bottom sides, and with screwed nuts taking upon the screwed ends of the said
branches.
These cupped bearers or brackets are supported by the sides of frame, which is
preferably double-sided.
If necessary, the front of the saddle may be supported from the upper members
or arms of levering loop coils, the ends of the lower arms of which are connected,
by clips or otherwise, to the fore part of the base or general supporting framing,
which may be fitted with yielding, connections and attachments as described.
Instead of the base framings being of a trussed construction, they may be made
of wire or rod metal, suitably connected with the cushion cups.
Dated this 17th day of August 1894.
vements in Cycle Saddles and their securing Attachments.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention has relation to the securing connections of cycle saddles, and also
to the frame-to-frame connections of them.
The first part of my invention, which relates to the securing connection means,
has for its object, a resilient or cushioned connection, that is, the saddle framing is
secured to an L-pin or pillar member through the intervention of an attachment,
commonly called a boss, which is made resilient by the interposition of rubber
cushioning blocks, which absorb or intercept concussion and tremor.
The second part of my invention, which relates to the frame-to-frame
connection, has for its object, a like resilient or cushioned connection, also made
resilient by the interposition of rubber cushioning blocks between the metallic
parts.
By the first part of my improvements, the connection of the saddle to the boss,

page_text: and the boss to the L-pin or pillar member is made through the medium of rubber
cushioning block or springs, arranged in the ways as hereinafter described.
Now according to one form of the said first part of my invention, the seat of a
saddle which may be of the hammock or other type, is supported upon, or slung
from, the terminations of double rod members, ruuning from fore to aft under the
seat of the saddle, and converging or spreading outwardly from front to rear, so as to
make the said rear ends form extended bearings or branched connections. Threaded
upon the middle parts of these separated frame members are two pairs of eyed
screw pins, with the stems hanging or directed downwards, and with a rubber
cushioning block, which may be stiffened by a thin metal facing washer, or a keep
grooved washer threaded upon each of them, and coming up to the eye and frame
rod member.
Threaded upon the shanks of the screw pins, and up to the first named rubber
blocks, which I will call the top blocks, is a bracket plate or frame, with eyed and
cupped sinkings at each corner, and with the middle part curved or cambered
downwardly to admit of tilt adjustment. Passed upon the ends of the eyed pins,
and up to the underside of the cupped and eyed parts of the bracket plate or frame,
are under rubber cushions or blocks, having metal stiffening washers coming upon
their undersides and followed up by screw nuts, by the screwing up of which to a
greater or less extent the connection is made more or less resilient.
The rest sides of the upper cushion supports fit and seat themselves within the
cups of the plate or bracket, and so likewise do the topside faces of the lower
cushions.
When the nuts are screwed up, resilient connection is made, whilst to neutralize
sway, the outside crowns of the eyes of the eyed screw pins may have screw pegs
for receiving a bracing plate or plates, or stay washers, which come upon the
topsides of the rod frame members. The boss or clip, which is loosely connected,
may consist of an inverted U-shaped frame, with the crossing bar, passing laterally
across and over the inverted bow-shaped middle part of the plate or bracket, and
with two gripping sections, having semi-circular and opposed eyes, passed upon the
legs of the frame, which are screwed at their ends for nuts to take upon.
By screwing up the nuts, the semi-circular eyed sections are closed or brought
together upon an L-pin member whilst the top section is also forced towards the
crossing bar of the frame, between which two latter parts, the inverted arch-shaped
bracket frame is gripped.
Thus, by screwing up the nuts upon the screwed ends of the legs of the frame,
the opposed gripping sections or cheeks are brought together and clamped upon the
horizontal member of the L pin, and at the same time the bracket is clamped
between the top section and the crossing bar of the frame of the boss, hence the
securing of the saddle yielding support to the boss, and the boss to the L pin.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a cycle saddle connected to
the boss through the medium of a flexible connection made according to my
improvements.
Figure 2 represents a cross section of the said connection upon the dotted line
Figure 1, showing the relative dispositions of the parts, and also the cupped seatings
in elevation.
Figure 3 represents an underside plan of Figure 2, with the end parts of the
framings (which constitute no part of the invention) broken away.
Figure 4 shows an elevation of the boss separately.
a is the saddle seat, 6 are frame rod members passing through eyes c¹, in two pairs
of eyed and hanging screw pins c, each of which have nuts c³, on their lower screwed
ends, and pass through upper and lower cushioning blocks d, d' stiffened by cupped
or plain stiffening washers d², and with the inner presented faces of the said blocks
taking and seating themselves within cups 12, of bracket bearing ends f¹, of a
bracket, with the middle or frame part ³, made inverted arch shaped in order to
give tilt when adjusted upon the boss g. The said boss consists of an inverted
U-shaped frame 3, having the ends g³, of the legs g², screwed for taking screw

page_text: nuts g, h, h¹ are gripping sections, with eyed lug ends ³, and concaved semi-
circular seatings h³.
d³ are top washers, having keep grooves d', directed across their outer faces,
alike unto and coincident with keep grooves d, formed in the washer ends de
of cross bracing stays d', having eyes do, taking over the screwed end extensions e
of the eyes c', and upon which come the nuts d'. The bracket eyes c¹, and the
washers d³, have middle clearances do, whereby rubber joints are formed and the
contact of metal to metal is prevented.
,
In carrying out another form of this part of my invention, the buffered clip
forming the resilient attachment may be constructed as follows
The frame rods which have webbed attachments pass between four or other
number of pairs of rubber blocks, which are encompassed by inverted U-shaped
brackets, with flat tops and with washers threaded upon the legs of the brackets
and up to the underside of the under cushions. Screw boxes having trunnion ends
are fitted across the open branches of the brackets, whilst the front and back pairs
of the washer plates are united by bars or stays, which run parallel to each other,
and form the connection means for the boss or clip.
Hanging screw pins pass through the said screw boxes, with their ends impinging
upon the undersides of the washers, so that on being screwed up, the framing rod
members, which may be of any construction, are gripped between the rubber blocks,
hence a resilient connection.
Figure 5 represents a saddle provided with a buffered attachment clip or frame
connection made according to this last described form of my invention.
Figure 6 shows an underside plan of a part of the framing with the end connection
parts broken away.
Figure 7 is a cross section of Figure 5 upon the dotted line A.
a is the seat of the saddle, with both sides of the frame rod members b, (which
have webbed attachments 6) passing through or coming between top and bottom
buffering blocks d, d' located within or encompassed by inverted flat-topped
U-shaped brackets c, with bearing washers e', threaded upon the legs ², up to the
undersides of the under cushions. Screw boxes c³, provided with trunnion ends c*,
are fitted or disposed across the open branches of the brackets, whilst the rear
and foremost pairs of hearing washers care braced or united together by stay
bars c, whilst the component parts are drawn up tight by the screwing up of the
bolts c*.
Instead of rubber cushioning blocks, I may employ metallic springs, and I
wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the particular form of
framing, nor to the curving of the plate, or bracket, or the rods or stays, between
the separated cushioning clips, and further, I do not limit myself to the number or
disposition of spring or cushion clips, (which form yielding joints, as well as
media for stopping off vibration) so long as cushioning expedients are intervened
between the naked metal parts of the connection.
If necessary, the bosses may be of any of my well-known universal types.
In carrying out the second part of my invention, relative to the frame-to-frame
connection, I preferably form the primary or base framing from four wires disposed
two-high upon either side and with the front connected to a lug or plate, and with
the sides running parallel to each other, and at short distances apart, and being
separated and kept in position by a segmental boss, so made that the same forms
an inside and cross stay and outside bracings.
Directed from the two opposite outer sides of the rear part of this said framing
are two pairs of double-cupped brackets, or two pairs of eyed and outstanding
brackets, cupped or sunken upon their opposite top and bottom sides, and adapted
to receive, or to form chambered seatings for portions of rubber cushioning blocks
or pads, upon which the metallic framings and their connections come.
Thus, these eyed and double-cupped brackets receive rubber blocks upon their
top and bottom opposite sides, and through the middles of brackets and blocks
pins pass.

page_text: Figure 8 represents a saddle provided with yielding frame-to-frame connections
made in accordance with this part of my invention.
Figure 9 represents a section of the framing upon the dotted line B Figure 8,
looking rearwardly.
Figure 10 represents an underside plan of the rear part of Figure 8, showing the
dispositions of the wire or rod frame members.
a is the saddle and b, b' are the framing members, with the upper ones,
terminating in the head of a screw pin bracket c passing through top and bottom
rubber blocks d, d', (which have washers d') and through an eye 6, of the fore
parts 63, of the framing rods b'. The opposed faces of these blocks have reduced
seatings d³, which take into the inside of the said eye b³, and prevent the contact of
the metal of the pin c, with the metal of the eye b³. The rear parts of the top
bars b, of the framing, which have loop coils 6, are attached at 6, to the skirting
plate 66, and are supported by rubber blocks d', d, each taking into cups 67, 68,
respectively of brackets 6, 610, having standing pins 6, passing through the said
blocks and through washers 61, and 613, which have clearances 6. The cupped
bracket, has also a clearance 615, to prevent the contact of metal to metal.
The rubber blocks upon the topside of the back set may be deeper than the
underneath ones of that set, whilst the top blocks of the front set may be thinner
than the corresponding blocks thereunder.
The fastening connection of the back supporting framing with the base framing
is thus made, having resilient cushioning blocks between the opposed metallic parts,
which blocks, besides neutralizing tremor or vibration, also form extended bearings
and universal joints for the back of the saddle, hence a resilient and universal
mounting.
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:-
First. In rubber supported framings of cycle saddles, seating the rubber cushioning
blocks, joints or connections within cupped bearers, brackets or rests, substantially
as described and set forth.
Secondly. In rubber supported framings of cycle saddles, seating the rubber
cushioning blocks, joints or connections within cupped bearers, brackets or rests
having middle pin clearances, whereby complete isolation of metal from metal is
attained and a free movement of the connection pins is acquired, substantially as
described and set forth.
Thirdly. Resilient attachment connections for cycle saddles, constructed and
arranged substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7.
Fourthly. A resilient frame-to-frame connection for cycle saddles, constructed
and arranged substantially as described and set forth in Figures 8, 9 and 10.
Dated this 10th day of May 1895.
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