Certain Improvements in or connected with Velocipedes and other Road Vehioles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements in or connected with Velocipedes and other
Road Vehioles.
I, WILLIAM RADCLIFF BIRT, Junior, of 4 High Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, India Rubber Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The first part of this invention has reference to pneumatic or air inflated tyres
for the wheels of velocipedes and other road vehicles, and the second part of this
invention has reference to the saddles or seats of velocipedes.
▲ pneumatic tyre of the class to which one section of the first part of this
invention relates consists of an inner air tube or inner air tubes adapted to be
inflated or deflated at will, and an india rubber and canvas insertion or other kind
of outer covering part which is secured to the trough section wheel rim by means
of two wires which are respectively fixed in the edges of the outer covering part and
which pass round the wheel rim. This first part of my invention consists of the
hereindescribed improved means for fixing the ends of these wires (or one end of
each of the wires) to the wheel rim so as to enable the outer covering part of the
tyre to be quickly removed from the wheel rim for repairing the air tube and so as
to be readily refixed to the wheel.
1 will describe this part of my invention as applying to one end of one of the said
wires, but it is to be understood that my invention can be similarly applied to both
ends of the wires.
According to one method of carrying out this part of my invention I make one
or more undercut, inclined or other notches in the edge of the wheel rim and I turu
the end part of the wire outwardly at about right angles with the wire so as to
form a peg or part projecting from the wire. Or this peg or part may be made
separate and fixed to the wire in any convenient manner.
When the said outer
covering part has been placod in position on the wheel rim the wire is pulled tight
round the wheel rim and the projecting peg end of the wire secured by being
placed in one of the said notches in the rim so as to engage therewith and the wire
may if desired be further secured by having a nut screwed thereon. By first
deflating the tyre the wires can be removed from the notches and the outer covering
can then be removed from the wheel rim. Or instead of a series of notches there
may be a series of holes in the wheel rim for the end of the wire to engage with.
Or the end of the wire may pass through a slot in the wheel rim this slot being
notched on one or both sides so as to hold the wiro either in combination with the
said aut or without the nut. In order to prevent the wire drawing through the
slot there may be a small plate or a piece of oross wire soldered or otherwise fixed
to the wire near the end thereof between the wire aud the wheel rim. Or iustead
of merely bending up the end of the wire to engage in the holes or notches as above
described, there may (at or near the end of the wire) be two or more side projecting

page_text: parts to take into the notch or notches hole or holes in the rim. These series of
projections can readily be formed on a metal blank which is brazed or otherwise
fixed to the end of the wire. Or the wires may be pulled up tight round the wheel
rim and secured by the end of the wire being left straight and screw threaded and
passed through an eye on the wheel rim and provided with a nut by which the wire
tight round the wheel rim. In this case in order to keep the
can be screwed ire at the bottom of the trough section rim the wire lins to
main portion of
pass under a pip or small projection or hook formed thereon. Or instead of
screwing the end of the wire itself a separate screw may be used either inside or
outside the rim which by an eye and hook connection or other connection is
connected to the wire. In order to permit of a free movement of this screw, the
eye on the rim through which the screw passes may be slotted.
According to another method of carrying out this part of my invention the wire
is notched or waved or crimped for a certain distance-from the end. This notched
waved or crimped part of the wire passes through a wire or other eye or loop or
under a book the shank of which eye, loop or hook is screw threaded and passes
through a hole or notched slot in the wheel rim to the outside thereof. By means
of a nut on the said shank this shank can be screwed up so that the eye loop or
book cramps or grips the wire firmly against the inside of the trough shaped rim,
the notches crimps or waves on the wire effectually prevent its drawing back
through the eye. By turning the nut in the opposite direction the grip of the eye
loop or hook on the wire is released and the wire can be withdrawn and removed.
Or the eye loop or hook may be soldered or otherwise fixed to the wire and pass
through notches in the wheel rim in any one of which the shank of the eye loop or
hook will engage when the wire is pulled tight.
Or the end of the wire may be bent into somewhat the shape of the letter S and
arranged for the looped parts to catch on to two pins or hooked or other projections
on the wheel rim.
When only one end of each of the wires is made for adjustably fixing to the rim
in any of the several ways above described, the other ends of the wires or other oud
of the wire may be fixed to the wheel rim in any convenient manner as by being
made in the form of a knob, head, or hook to engage in a hole in the wheel rim or
with another hook or eye or other part fixed or secured to the rim.
The trough section wheel rim may be grooved or recessed where the wires are so
that they will not project against the air tube.
Where there are any of the said holes slots or notches in the wheel rim the latter
may be strengthened by a plate or plates soldered thereto.
Or instead of making notches in the wheel rim for the peg ends of the wires to
cugage with as above described there may be projecting bends knobs or hooks fixed
on tho rim and at any convenient part thereof for the ends of the wires to engage
with; and that part of the wheel rim where the beads, knobs or hooks are fixed
may be indented so that the beads kuobs or hooks will not project beyond the face
of the rim.
The second section of the first part of my invention consists of the following
improved construction of pneumatic tyre
provide a continuous inner air tube for the tyre with the usual means for
inflating or deflating the same. This inner air tube is contained in an outer
covering part which may be of the kind hereinbefore referred to made with wires
in the edges or without the said wires in the edges or the edges may overlap round
the inner air tube. At each of the two sides of the inner air tube I fix by solution
or otherwise a strip of rubber or canvas or other suitable material which two strips are
also fixed by solution or otherwise to the inside of the outer covering part thus forming
an air tight space between the larger half of the inside of the outer covering and
the inner air tube. When the tyre is first used on the machine this air space
between the outer cover and the air tube is to be inflated which has the offect
of collapsing the inner air tube into the wheel rim then when the outer covering
portion is punctured the inner air tube is inflated so as to fill the outer portion in the

page_text: usual way. The tyre can thus be punctured twice so as to collapse before it needs
repairing.
The second part of this invention cousists of the hereindescribed improved
construction of pneumatic saddle or seat for velocipedes which is so designed as
to absorb vibration. One method of carrying out this part of my said invention
is as follows:-I provide a top leather covering part which may be of any ordinary
kind with the usual stretching frame underneath. Under the said frame I provide
a light metal plate, or the frame itself may form this plate, of suitable shape
which bears upon an air inflated cushion or upon two or more air inflated cushions
and bolow this cushion or those cushions there is another similar plate which is
fixed to or adapted for fixing to the usual piece or stein which secures the saddle
to the machine. These two plates are or may be laced or strapped or otherwise
connected together round their edges. These edges of these plates are or may be
rounded by being turned up to present a rounded surface to the air cushion or
cushions. The air cushion or cushions may each consist of an india rubbor or
other air bladder with or without a valve and tube for inflating the same and with
or without a separate outer covering part. In order to prevent the saddle rolling
on the nir cushion or air cushions the ends of the saddle frame may be gaided so as
only to move up and down vertically or nearly so. The said plates are by
preference lined with cloth or rubber insertion to afford a better grip on the
air cushion and prevent the same slipping about; or for the same purpose the
air cushion or cushions may be fixed to the plates by solution or by other means.
So as the better to enable the air cushion or cushions to maintain its or their
form under an uneven pressure the said air cushion or cushions may each be made
in separate sectious or compartments. The said pneumatic saddlo may either be
connected at the front and back to an under frame by coiled wire suspension springs
straps or links or these may be dispensed with.
Instead of employing only one plato above and one plate below the air cushion
or air cushions as above described I may employ two or more plates above or
below the air cushions. For instance I maj uso three air cushions which may be
in the form of ordinary inflated india rubber balls but of stronger material, one of
these balls being at the front and two at the back of the saddle. Each of these
cushions has two separate plates one above and the other below the cushion. The
plates are domed or otherwise shaped to conform with the cushions. The upper
plates are fixed to the saddle frame by any convenient means as by studs ou
the plates around which the wire frame of the saddle is coiled; and the bottom plates
aro also fixed to a fraine or plate adapted for attachment to the velocipede. Those
air cushious may either be entirely separate from each other or connected together
by air tubes so that they can all be inflated or deflated at the same time.
Instead of using metal plates as above described I may have woven wire
parts of similar shape to the plates and serving the purposes of the plates as
above described.
Dated this 1st day of February 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements in or connected with Velooipedes and other
Road Vehicles.
I, WILLIAM RAdoliff Birt, Junior, of 4, High Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, India Rubber 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 :—
The first part of this invention has reference to pneumatio or air inflated tyres

page_text: for the wheels of velocipodes and other road vehicles, and the second part of this
invention has reference to the saddles or seats of velocipedos.
A pneumatic tyre of the class to which the first part of this invention relates
consists of an inner air tubo or inner air tubes adapted to be inflated or deflated at
will and an india rubber and canvas insertion or other kiud of outer covering part
which is secured to the trough section wheel rim by means of two wires which are
respectively fixed in the edges of the outer covering part and which pass round the
wheel rim. This first part of my invention consists of the herein described
improved means for fixing the ends of these wires (or oue end of each of the wires)
to the wheel rim so as to enable the outer covering part of the tyre to be quickly
removed from the wheel rim for repairing the air tube and so as to be rondily,
refixed to the wheel.
I will describe this part of my invention by referring to Figs. 1 to 20 of the
accompanying drawings and as applying to both ends of ouly one of the said wires
but it is to be understood that my invention is similarly applied to both of the wires
and either to one or both ends of the same. The same letters of reference indicate
the same or corresponding parts in Figs. 1 to 20 both inclusive.
.
According to one method of carrying out this part of my invention as illustrated
by Figs. 1 and 2 I make the wheel rim A with two undercut inclined or other
notches bb for the ends co' of the wire C to engage with these ends c¹³ being i
turned outwardly at right angles with the wire so as to form a peg or part
projecting 'from the wire. When the outer covering part D has been placed in
position on the wheel rim as shewn in Fig. 1 the wire C is pulled tight round the
wheel rim and the projecting ends co' of the wire are secured by being placed in
the notches in the rim so as to engage therewith (as shown in Fig. 2) and the
wire may if desired be further secured as in Fig. 2 by having a nit e screwed
thereon, or by a cotter pin. By first deflating the tyre the ends c c of the wire C
can be removed from the notches b and the outer covering can then be expanded
and removed from the wheel rim. By making the rim, with slots 6 instead of with
holes as heretofore for the ends e¹ of the wire C to engage with the said wire C
can be more readily attached to or detached from the rim.
Instead of there being two notches 66 in the wheel rim A. for the ends c' of
the wire C to engage with I may use in the said rim two or more of the notches b
for cach end of the wire as shown for instance by Fig. 3 where there are three of
the notches b for each end of the wire so that if the wire is not sufficiently tight 3
when the enda e' are engaging in the nearer notches then one end of the wire or
both ends of the wires can be moved into the next notch or notches so as to tighten
up the wire somewhat. Instead of the peg ends c'e' of the wire being formed by
bending up the ends of the wire at right angles as shewn in Fig. 1 these pegs or
parts
may as shewn in Fig. 4 bo made separate from the wire and fixed thereto 4
by brazing or by any other convenient means and if desired be formed with a small
knob e as shewn in Fig. 4.
Instead of making the notches in the wheel rim for the ends of the wire to
engage with the end of the wire inay pass through a slot F (see Fig. 5) made with
one or more notches at the side so as to hold the end of the wire C either in
combination with a nut such as e (Fig. 2) or without the nut., When the ends of
the wires C are made knobbed as shown for instance by Fig. 4 or by Fig. 6 then
the slot or slots F have to be made with an enlargement such as at one end to
permit of the knob c passing therethrough. Fig. 7 shews a portion of a wheel
rim with another form of slot which I use for the knobbed ends of the wire C to 5
engago with.
In order to prevent the wire C drawing through the slot F there may as shown
by Fig. 8 be a small plate such as cor a piece of cross wire c as shewu by Fig. 9
soldered or otherwise fixed to the wire near the knobbed or other end of the
wire and between this end and the wheel rim A.
Or instead of merely bending up the end of the wire C to engage in the slots or
notches as above described there may (as shewn in Fig. 10) at or near the end of
5

page_text: the wire C bo two or more side projecting parts such as cº to take into the nutches
or slots in the rim and thus afford a firmer hold. Theso series of projections can
readily be formed on a metal blank e as shewn in Fig. 10 which is brazed at to
the end of the wire C. When the wire C is made with one or more of the side
projections these sido projections may engage in corresponding holes such as
those marked large F in Fig. 11.
Or when the wires have been pulled up tight round the whool rim A one or
both ends of the wire may be secured by being left straight and screw threaded
and passed through an eye a¹ fixed on the wheel rim as shewn in Fig. 12 and
provided with a nut e' threaded on the wire C by which the wire can be screwed
up tight round the wheel rim. In this case in order to keep the main portion
of the wire at the bottom of the trough section rim A the wire passes from the
inside to the outside of the tyre through a small notch such as aª therein.
Or instead of screwing the end of the wire C itself a separate screw such as G
may be used (see Fig.-13) outside the rim A which by an eye and hook
connection or other connection is connected to the wire C. In order to permit
of a free movement of this screw, the eye a' on the rim through which the scrow G
passes may be slotted.
According to another method of carrying out this part of my invention the
wire C is notched or waved or crimped for a certain distance from one or both
ends as shewn in Fig. 14. This notched waved or crimped part of the wire
passes through a wire eyo or other eye or loop I or under a hook the shank of
which eye, loop or hook is screw threaded and passes through a hole or notched
slot in the wheel rim A to the outside thereof. By means of a out on the
shank this shank can be screwed up so that the eyo loop or hook I cramps or
grips the wire C firmly against the inside of the trough section shaped rim A
aud the notches crimps or waves on the wire effectually prevent its drawing back
through the eye. By turning the nut e¹ in the opposite direction the grip of the
eye loop or hook on the wire C is released and the wire can be withdrawn and
removed. The wire is by preference bent into an eye c' at the extreme end
to facilitate pulling up and holding the wire tight whilst the nut e¹ is being
screwed up.
Or us shewn in Fig. 15 the eye loop or hook I may be used with plain straight
wire, the shoulder on the wire forming a stop to prevent the wire pulling back
through the eye I.
Or as shewn by Fig. 16 the end o¹ or ends c¹ c' of the wire C may be bent
into a double loop and arranged for one of the looped parts to catch on to the
pinj, or on to a hook or other projection on the wheel rim.
Or as shown by Fig. 17 one end of the wire or wires may be fixed to the
wheel rim in any convenient manner as by being made in the form of a knob o'
(Fig. 17) or as a hook to engage in a slot as in the rim the other end of
the wire or wires being made adjustable in any of the ways above described. Or
as shown in Fig. 18 one or both ends of the wire C may engage with a hook
such as secured to the rim by passing through two holes in the rim and by
'a uut e' screwed on the longer end of the same and with this hook k I may use
a wire C Fig. 18 made with the small projections & along one or both sides.
The trough section wheel rim may be grooved or recessed where the wires are
so that they will not project against the air tube.
Where there are any of the slots or notches in the wheel rim A. the latter
may be strengthened by a plate or plates such as K Fig. 19 soldered thereto.
Or instead of making notches in the wheel rim for the peg ends of the wires
to engage with as above described there may be projecting beads knobs or hooks
fixed on the rim A and at any convenient part thereof for the hooked looped
ends of the wires C to engage with; and that part of the wheel rim A where
the bends knobs or hooks are fixed may as shewn in Fig. 20 be indented at a³ so
that the beads kuobs or hooks will not project beyond the face of the rim.

page_text: It is to be understood that this first part of my said "invention liereinbefore
described applies both to those wires which are made to he drawn out of or pushed
into the outer covering and to those wires which cannot be so drawn or pushed.
The second part of this invention which is illustrated by Figs. 21 to 26 of the
accompanying drawings consists of the herein described improved construction of
pneumatic saddle or seat for volocipedes which is so designed as to absorb vibration.
One method of carrying out this part of my said invention is illustrated by Figs. 21, 22,
23 and 24 of which Fig. 21 represents in part section a velocipede saddle constructed
according to my invention. Fig. 22 shows the indiarubber air bladder of the same
separately and Fig. 23 shews a modified form of the said air bladder mado in two
separate parts and Fig. 24 is a part sectional view of a modified form of velocipedę
saddle constructed according to my invention.
In this form of my invention I provide a top leather covering part L which may
be of any ordinary kind with the usual stretching frame such as that shewu and
marked M underneath. Fixed to the frame is a plate N¹ of suitable shape
which bears upon an air inflated cushion O (or instead of the largo cushion O two
or more smaller cushions occupying the same space may be used) and below this
cushion or these cushious there is another plate N' which is adapted for fixing in
the usual way to the usual piece or stem (not shewn upon the drawing) which
secures the saddle to the machine. These two plates N¹ N' may as shewn in
Fig. 24 be laced or strapped together round their edges or as shewn in Fig. 21 the
said plates may not be laced together. The edges of these plates N' N³ are or
may be rounded by being turned up to present a rounded surface to the air
cushion O or air cushions. The air cushion O (or cushions) consists of an india-
rubber or other air bladder such as that shewn by Fig. 22 and marked o¹ with an
ordinary valve such as o' for inflating the same and made with a separate onter
covering part O Fig. 21 of canvas or other suitable fabric. When the velocipede
waddle above described is in use the air cushion O or air cushions absorbs or absorb
the vibration.
In order to prevent the saddle rolling on the air cushion O or air cushions the
ends of the saddle frame M may be guided for instance as shown by Fig. 24 by
means of the vertical guides m² m² m² which are fixed to the frame M and adapted
to slide up and down in bosses a¹ in the bottom plate N' so that the frame M with
the upper leather covering part L will only move up and down vertically or nearly so.
The said plates N' N' may be lined with cloth or rubber insertion to afford a better
grip on the air cushiou O aud prevent the same sliding about; or for the same
purpose the air cushion Oor air cushions may be fixed to the plates N' N' by
solution or by being rivetted thereto or by other means.
So as the botter to enable the air cushion O or air cushions to maintain its or their
form under uneven pressure the said internal indiarubber air bag may be made in
separate pieces for instances in two separate pieces o³ of as shewn by Fig. 23 each
provided with its valve o' for attachment to the air pump. The said frame M' of
the pneumatic saddle may either be connected at the front and back to an under
frame such as P which is of a kind well known by coiled wire suspension springs
such as qª 9º 9³ (Fig. 21) or (as shewn in Fig. 24) these springs and under frame P
may be dispensed with.
Instead of employing only one plate above and one plate below the air cushion or
air cushions as above described and shown in Figs. 21 and 24, I may employ two
or more plates above and below the air cushions. For instance as shewn by
Figs. 25 and 26 which represent one form of my improved pneumatic saddle in
sectional side elevation and in inverted sectional plan respectively I may use three
air cushions marked respectively O'O'O' which may be in the form of ordinary
inflated india rubber balls but of stronger material, one of these balls O' being at
the front and the other two 0° 0' at the back of the saddle. Each of theso
cushions has two separate plates (marked respectively N' N') one N' above and
the other N' below the cushion. The plates N' N' are domed or otherwise shaped

page_text: 10 conform with the cushions. The upper plates N' are fixed to the saddle-
frame M by any convenient means as by a stud r on each plate around which the wire-
frames M of the saddle is coiled; and the bottom plates N' are also fixed to
a frame or plate such as P adapted for attachment to the velocipede. These air
Bushions may either be entirely separate from each other as shewn and each
provided with an air valve o' or made without air valves or they may be connected
together as by the air tubes shewn dotted in Fig. 26 so that they can all be
inflated or deflated at the same time. It will be evident that without departing.
from the nature of this part of my said invention the number of the air balls and
their plates may be increased. The top plate N' of each of the air balls is secured.
to the corresponding bottom plate N' by lacing round the edges as shown or by
straps threaded through holes in.both plates.
Instead of using metal plates as above described and shown in Figs. 25 and 26
I may have woven wire parts of similar shape to the plates and serving the
purposes of the plates as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my suid inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I am aware
of the Specification of Patent No. 4905, A.D. 1892 granted to Granville Hawley
Egerton Cooke and Thomas Cooke and I lay no claim to anything which is both
described and claimed therein; but what I claim is :-
1. In a combined wheel rim and pneumatic tyre of the kind herein reforred to in
which the outer covering of the tyre is provided with two wires encircling the
wheel rim said wires being free to be pushed in or drawn out of the tyre, securing
the overlapping ends of the said wires to the wheel rim by the said ends being
bent or formed as pins engaging in inclined or undercut notahes such as bb in the
wheel rim substantially as hereinbefore described and shown by Figs. 1 and 2 of
the accompanying drawings.
2. In a wheel rim adapted for fixing to a pneumatic tyre of the kind herein
referred to in which the outer covering of the tyre is secured to the wheel rim by
two wires in the edges of the outer covering encircling the wheel rim and at their
ends adapted to engage in notches in the same, making the wheel rim with two or
more of the said notches for one or both ends of the said wire or wires so as to allow
of tightening up the wires, substantially as hereinbefore set forth and shewn by
Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings.
3. In a wheel rim adapted for fixing to pneumatic tyres of the kind herein
reforred to in which the outer covering of the tyre is secured to the wheel rim by
two wires in the edges of the outer covering encircling the wheel rim, making the
wheel rim with one or more slots such as provided with one or more notches
such as for the ends of the said wires to engage with and with or without end
calargements such as for the enlarged ends of the wire to pass through,
substantially as hereinbefore set forth and shown by Figs. 5 and 19 of the
accompanying drawings.
4. In a combined wheel rim and pneumatic tyre of the kind herein referred to in
which the outer covering of the tyre is provided with two wires encircling the
wheel rim, securing the overlapping ends of the said wires to the wheel rim by the
ends of the wires being bent and knobbed and engaging in slots such as Fin
the wheel rim substantially as heroinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 7
and 17 of the accompanying drawings.
5. In a pneumatic tyre of the kind heroin referred to in which the outer covering
of the tyre is secured to the wheel rim by two wires in the edges of the outer
covering enciroling the wheel rim and the ends of the same adapted to engage in
slots in the wheel rim, making each of the said turned up ends with a plate such
as e Fig. 8 or with a cross wire c Fig. 9 to take under tho said slots and provent
the wire drawing through the same substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to Figs. 8 and 9 of the accompanying drawings.
"

page_text: 6. In a pneumatic tyre of the kind herein referred to in which the outer covering
of the tyre is secured to the wheel rim by two wires in the edges of the onter
covering encircling the wheel rim and at their ends adapted to engage in notches
or slots in the wheel rim, making the end or ends of the wires with two or more
side projections such as e to engage in corresponding slots notches or holes in the
wheel rim substantially as herein before described with reference to Figs. 3, 5, 10,
11 18, and 19 of the accompanying drawings.
7. In a combined wheel rim and pneumatic tyre of the kind herein referred to in
which the outer covering of the tyre is provided with two wires encircling the
wheel rim, scouring the overlapping ends of the said wires to the wheel rim by one
or both of the said ends being screw threaded (Fig. 12) or provided with separate
screws G (Fig. 13) passing through eyes such as a' fixed on the wheel rim and
furnished with nuts for tightening up the wires substantially as hereinbeforu
described and shewn by Fig. 12 and by Fig. 13 of the accompanying drawings.
8. In a pueumatic tyre of the kind herein referred to in which the outer covering
of the tyre is accured to the wheel rim by two wires in the edges of the outer
covering encircling the wheel rim, making one or both end portions of the wire or
wires crimped or waved and provided with means substantially as hereinbofore
described for clamping the crimped or waved portion of the wire to the wheel rim
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figs. 14 and 18 of the
accompanying drawinge.
9. In a pneumatic tyre of the kind herein referred to in which the outer covering
is provided with two wires encircling the wheel rim, securing the overlapping onds
of the wires to the wheel rim by tho said ends being threaded through sorowed eyes
such as I by which the wire is clamped to the rim the said wires being made with
'looped ends such as o' for pulling up the wires substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by Figs. 15 of the accompanying drawings.
10. In a pneumatic tyre of the kind herein referred to in which the outer covering
is provided with two wires encircling the wheel rim, securing the overlapping ends
of the said wires to the wheel rim by the said ends being formed as double loops
adapted to engage with pins hooks or the like fixed to the wheel rim either inside
or outside theroof substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figs. 16
and 20 of the accompanying drawingɛ.
11. In a velocipede saddle the use of an inflated cushion or inflated cushions
arranged in any of the ways substantially as herein before set forth between plates
under the leather seat part of the saddle to absorb vibration.
12. In a velocipede saddle and in combination with the upper leather sent part
Buch na L thereof provided with stretching frame carried by tension springs from
an under frame, the employment of one or more air inflated cushions such as O
between the plates on the stretching frame and on the under frame for absorbing
vibration, substantially as herein before described with reference to Figs. 21, 22,
and 23 of the accompanying drawings.
13. In a velocipede saddle and in combination, the upper leather seat part such
as L thereof provided with stretching frame made with bearing plate adapted to
bear upon one or more air inflated cushions, the air inflated cushion or cushions
fitting between the said bearing plate and a bottom bearing plate adapted for
fixing to the piece or seat post of a velocipede, means for securing the two
bearing plates and cushion or cushions together, the whole forming a pueumatic
saddle substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Fig. 24 of the
accompanying drawings; whether the said top plate is made with or without
means for guiding it vertically from the bottom plate as set forth.
14. In a velocipede saddle the use of air inflated ball like cushions arranged
between domed or like plates or woven wire parts under the leather sent part
of the saddle and fixed respectively to the stretching frame and to the under-
frame for the purpose and substantially as herein before described with reference
to Figs. 25 and 26 of the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 15. A velocipede saddle made with air inflated cushions and constructed and
arranged substantially as hereinbofore described and shewn by Figs. 25 and 26 of
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of December 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,.
Agent for the Applicant.