Improvements in Cycle or Bicycle Saddles and their Supports.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Cycle or Bicycle Saddles and their Supports.
JOHN CRAWFORD MOORE, The Meads, Eastbourne, Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention has for its object a more comfortable saddle for a cycle or bicycle.
The usual post or pillar for a cycle or bicycle is formed in the shape of a cross
or T. The saddle is clamped on the crosspiece and by means of a bolt and screw
is adjusted thereon backwards and forwards. I dispense with this crosspiece and
instead clamp the spring or springs of the saddle to the post or support and adjust
the spring or springs on the post by means of any of the well known ways of binding
together. In forming the spring of this saddle I take a straight piece of steel
or other suitable wire or rod of the desired length. A few inches from the end I
form a coil or coils which ends in or near the centre. I then carry the rod or
wire a short distance to one side and there form another coil or coils opposite
and about parallel with the first, beginning in the centre. I then carry the wire
from the latter coil or coils in line with the end I began with.
These two tails of this wire are straight and parallel and are the parts adjusted
on the post backward and forward. To form that part of the saddle called the
tension wire or wires which support and keep the leather or other covering tight,
I carry a rod or wire from front to back and then from back to front of the saddle.
In shaping this wire I form two coils opposite each other at a suitable point near
the centre on which I balance the saddle on pivots on the coils on the spring. The
two ends of the tension rod or wire at front I form into two circles and lay one on
the other in such a manner that a tension thumbscrew can pass through them.
If desired I may form the rib. of the saddle at the back on this tension rod or
wire. To keep the leather or covering tight on this saddle I make a U-shaped
piece of metal with.two threaded holes near the end to take the threads of the
thumbscrew. This is made to fit over the two circles formed on the ends of the
tension wire and arranged so that the thumbscrew will pass through the circles
and screw into the threads in the metal. This thumbscrew has a shoulder which
engages with a
clip made fast to the saddle covering. By turning this thumbscrew
the tension of the covering of the saddle can be adjusted or made tight or slack
on the tension wires.
I now place the coils near the centre of the tension wire, alongside the coils
near the centre of the spring rods. I pass a bolt through the centre of all the coils
and pivot the tension wires and the spring wires together for the purpose of tilting
it to suit the rider. A thumbscrew connects the tension rod and spring rod
together either behind the pivot, or connection of the two, or in front, as desired.
This thumbscrew is moveably connected to the suitable wire and screwed to the
other wire at the most convenient part for tilting in such a position that the rider
can turn the screw with his finger and thumb when in motion.

page_text: I may make use of a worm eccentric, or quadrant, for this purpose, and instead
of wires I may make use of flat single springs with coils thereon.
Dated the Fourth day of October 1897.
JOHN CRAWFORD MOORE, The Meads, Eastbourne, Engineer, 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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This invention has for its object a more comfortable saddle for a cycle or bicycle.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my complete cycle saddle on the pillar. Fig. 2 is
a rear elevated view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the blocks con-
necting the pillar F with the saddle. Fig. 4 is a plan view and an elevated side
view of the washers I make use of. Fig. 5 is an elevated view of the adjusting
screw and its connections. Fig. shows the U shaped plate L. Similar letters
refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
Referring to Fig. 1 instead of using the T piece for supporting the saddle on,
I use a straight tube F with the blocks C bolted on its upper part by bolt E, these
two blocks in Fig. 3 are hollowed out at C2 in an oval or round form so as to fit
neatly on F they also have a groove or bed C on each side for the wires A Fig. 1
to lie in. A hole passes through the blocks C and pillar F to take E bolt. The
washers M Fig. 4 are placed under the head of E at both ends, with the curved
clip over the wire A to hold it in position. When the bolt E is screwed tight
the wire being a little above the surface in C¹ it is held firm and when E is slack
the wire A can be adjusted backward or forward on C.
A is a spring wire coiled to nearly a centre at both ends sufficient for D bolt
to pass through H is a plate folded over A with a screwed hole passing through
both ends to engage with the threaded rod G Fig. 1, 2 & 5. The A wire is parallel
at the sides. The B or tension wire is made in the usual way under the peak of
the saddle by folding it and placing an adjustable screw in the fold to engage
with the leather and tighten it. B is then carried back to the coils on A where
it is only wide enough to go in between Fig. 1.. It is then carried to the rear
where both ends are coiled once to take K, Fig. 1, & 2, and then carried up as
shown in these two figures and coiled to carry the bolts J which hold it fast to
the rib of the saddle O. K is a flat piece of metal round at its ends to engage
with B, it has a hole in its centre large enough to engage with G which has a
shoulder as shown in Fig. 2 on the upper side of K and a nut or collar locked on
the lower side so as to give it a moveable connection thereon. The other end
of G is screwed into the folded plate H on A. It will now be seen that by placing
the U shaped plate L Fig. 6 between the two wires B and the washers M with
the clips over B and then the two coils of A one on each side on the top of M
and by placing the bolt D in the fold of L under B, I form a tight hinge when D
is screwed up and when slack B is adjustable on A by its sliding on L as shown
in Fig. 6.
Having a movable hinge at D by turning G with the hand the screw in H will
tilt the saddle as required while the rider is seated and in motion. K and H
being pivotally connected to A and B it is impossible for G to get locked in its
connections. I do not confine myself rigidly to the annexed drawings or forms
of construction unless those herein specially claimed.

page_text: 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:
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1. In a cycle or bicycle saddle the use of a thumbscrew or threaded rod G in
combination with two wires A and B pivotally connected at D. Said thumbscrew
being movably connected to one of these wires such as shown at K and adjustably
connected to the other with a screw & thread such as shown at H for the purpose
herein set forth and as described and illustrated.
2. In a cycle or bicycle saddle two wires A and B movably connected on one
side of the post F and adjustably connected on the other side such as herein
described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
3. In a cycle or bicycle saddle the means of connecting the wires A and B
with plate L and K and the threaded loop H for the purpose herein set forth and
as described and illustrated.
4. In a cycle saddle the blocks C in combination with the post F the adjustable
wire A and the bolt E for the purpose herein set forth and as described and
illustrated.
5. The combination of all the various parts of my invention substantially as,
and for the purpose herein set forth described and illustrated.
Dated this 4th day of July 1898
JOHN CRAWFORD MOORE.