Improvements in Pillars or Supports for Carrying the Seats or Saddles of Velocipedes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 27th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pillars or Supports for Carrying the Seats or
Saddles of Velocipedes.
I, GEORGE LEONARD MORRIS of 16, Well Street, Gray's Inn Road, in the Parish of
St. Andrew's Holborn, Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of pillar or support for carrying
the seats or saddles of velocipedes, and it has for its object enabling the saddle clip to
be mounted either directly on the vertical part of the said support or fore or afi of it.
My improved seat pillar consists of two essential parts, a vertical stem adapted to
be fixed to the frame of the machine and a horizontal arm adapted to be fixed to the
vertical stem. This vertical stem is reduced in size at its top end to adapt it to receive
either the ordinary saddle clip or the horizontal arm. The horizontal arm has a split
socket formed at one end to adapt it to be fixed to the vertical stem. This split socket
may be contracted by the usual transverse screw or by means of the clip by which the
saddle is attached to the arm.
As a modification the end of the horizontal arm may be made in the form of a pin
adapted to pass through a transverse hole in the vertical pillar and to be fixed thereto
by means of one or more nuts.
By varying the angle of the top part of the vertical stem with its lower part the
angle which the horizontal arm makes with the vertical stem may be varied as
desired.
As a further modification the horizontal arm may have a plain eye at its end
adapted to fit over or on to the reduced part at the top of the vertical stem and to be
fixed thereto either by means of a nut or by means of an expanding cone operated by
a screw.
is foth duy
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Pillars or Supports for Carrying the Seats or
Saddles of Velocipedes.
I, GEORGE LEONARD MORRIS of 16, Wells Street, Gray's Inn Road, in the Parish of
St. Andrew's Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Cycle 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:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of pillar or support for carrying

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two pieces one forming the vertical part and the other the horizontal part and in so
attaching the horizontal part to the vertical part. that it may be removed altogether to
allow the saddle to be mounted directly on to the vertical part, or it may be mounted
on the vertical part so as to extend either to the front or rear thereof, the object being
to enable the saddle to be mounted either directly over the vertical part of the said
support or in front or to the rear of it.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates-by way of example-some methods
of carrying this invention into practical effect :-
Figures 1, 2 and 3 are views in side elevation showing my improved seat pillar
arranged to carry the saddle directly over the pillar, forward of the pillar, and to the
rear thereof, respectively.
Figures 4 and 5 are broken views in side elevation and plan respectively of a
modification.
Figure 6 is a broken view of a modification of the construction shown by Figures 4
and 5.
Figures 7, 9 and 11 are views showing other forms my invention may assume, and
Figures 8, 10 and 12 are views showing modifications of the constructions shown by
Figures 7, 9 and 11 respectively.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
My improved seat pillar consists of two essential parts, a stem A adapted to be
fixed to the frame of the machine and an arm B adapted to be fixed to the top of the
stem A. The top end a of the stem A is preferably reduced to the same size as the
arm B so that it can receive either the saddle clip or the arm B. As an alternative
construction the stem A may be made of the same diameter as the arm B in which
case a small dowel pin a' or its equivalent is fixed to the stem A for the socket B¹
of the arm B to rest on.
The socket B formed at one end of the arm B is preferably of the split type having
either ears or lugs on its split side as shown by Figures 2 and 3, or being split
towards the length of the arm as shown by Figures 4, 5 and 6. In both cases the
split socket is contracted by means of a transverse bolt C.
As a modification the end of the arm B may be made in the form of a pin b¹ adapted
to pass through a transverse hole in the stem A and to be fixed thereto by means of a
nut as shown by Figures 7 and 8.
As a further modification the arm B may have a plain eye B' adapted to fit on to
the top of the stem A and be fixed thereto by means of a nut a2 threaded on a reduced
extension a thereof as shown by Figures 9 and 10, or by means of a coned pin a
threaded into the upper part of the stem A which is split in one or more places to
allow it to expand by the action of the coned pin a³.
The socket B' or the pin 6' may either be set in line with the arm B as shown by
Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11; or at an angle therewith as shown by Figures 6, 8,
10 and 12 so that the said socket or pin as the case may be fits squarely on to or into
the stem A.
It will be seen that by this construction the arm B maintains its horizontal position
whether placed to the front or rear of the stem A, all that is necessary in altering the
arm from one position to the other being to turn the said arm over so that what is its
under side in one position becomes its upper side in the other position, and vice versa.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
(1.) The improved seat pillar for velocipedes constructed arranged and adapted to
operate substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
(2.) In a seat pillar for velocipedes consisting essentially of a stem such as A and
of an arm such as B, mounting the arm B on the stem A in the manner hereinbefore

page_text: set forth so that it can be placed either fore or aft of the said stem without destroying
its horizontal position or be removed altogether to allow of the saddle being mounted
directly on to the stem A.
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.