Improvements in Clips or Clamps for Attaching Saddles and their Springs to their Supports for Cycles or Velocipedes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1894-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips or Clamps for Attaching Saddles and their
Springs to their Supports for Cycles or Velocipedes.
We HENRY SHELDON and CHARLES SHELDON trading as Sheldon and Sons,
Corporation Street Walsall, Workers in Leather do hereby declare the nature of
our said invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in clips or clamps for attaching saldles
and their springs to their supports, for cycles or velocipedis conscructed of inetal
and in a more simple and efficacious manner than hitherto.
We will describe our invention thus-We form a "saddle" plate to fit upon.
the upper surface of the support (usually tubular for lightness and of a 7 form, and
carried by the framing of the machine as is well known) and occupies about one
half of its circumference, each side of this plate projects and is slotted, and this forms
upon each side two arms or projections whose edges are upturned, thus forming on.
each side of the "saddle" plate two claws which receive the two sides of the
spring, there is sufficient space in each slot and between each side of the spring
to admit of a clawpin (similarly formed to the claws on the saddle plate) being
passed through and this is screwed at its lower end, a cross plate fits the lower
part of the support and being provided with two holes one at each end admits
of the screwed ends of the two clawpins passing through and upon the screwed.
parts is fed screwed nuts.
It will be understood by the above that the two claws of the saddle plate on
each side, clip each side of the spring from underneath, and the two clawpins one on
each side, clip each side of the spring from the top, the pressure is regulated by the
power of the nuts which is a direct pressure, by removing the screwed nuts the
parts are separable.
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1000
THOS.
KENDRICK,
Victoria Chambers, Martineau Street, Birmingham, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips or Clamps for Attaching Saddles and their
Springs to their Supports for Cycles or Velocipedes.
We, HENRY SHELDON and Charles SHELDON, trading as Sheldon and Sons,
Corporation Street, Walsall, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to metallic clips or clamps for securing saddles and their
springs to their supports, as employed to cycles. To effect this we form a saddle
plate which fits upon the upper surface of the support usually of a 7 form and
tubular, fixed to the framing of the machine. This plate projects on each side and
is slotted forming two arms with upturned edges on each side and are termed claws,
and which receive the two sides of the spring; two claw pins one on each side pass
through holes at the ends of a cross plate, which fits the lower part of the support,
the grip being effected by the employment of screwed nuts thereto.
And in order that this our said invention may be more fully understood, we shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose we shall refer

page_text: to the several figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed, the same letters of
reference indicating corresponding parts throughout all the figures.
Fig. 1 is a view side elevation shewing our "Improved clip or clamp fixing the
saddle spring (which carries the saddle) to the support, such as is employed to
cycles or velocipedes."
Fig. 2 is a plan view of same.
Fig. 3 is an end view elevation of same.
a is the saddle plate, fitting upon the upper surface of the support b, c are the
slots on each side forming the arms or projections d, two upon each side, with
upturned edges, thus forming claws, which receive the two sides of the spring as e,
g is the claw pin passing through the slots c, c, and engaging the upper surface of e,
the end of same is passed through holes i in the cross-plate h, and the ends of g
being screwed at j receive the screwed nuts / for firmly securing the same.
The above being our said invention we wish it to be observed, that we do not
limit ourselves to the precise details as shewn on the sheet of drawings but that we
may vary or modify the same without departing from the principle of our said
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1st. In a metallic clip or clamp for attaching saddles and their springs to their
supports for cycles, a saddle plate a with slots c, with the arms d, forming claws to
receive e. The claw pins g in connection with a, for binding e, by means of the
screwed ends j passing through i in h the cross plate and the power of e thereto,
substantially as herein before set forth and described.
2nd. The general construction and combination of parts as herein before described
in the foregoing Specification, and illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated 3rd July 1894.
THOS. KENDRICK,
3, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent for said Applicants.