Improvements in and relating to the Saddles of Cycles
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1899-Accepted, 9th Sept.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Saddles of Cycles,
I, JAMES MACMILLAN CUTHBERT, of 26, Maxwell Street, Dalbeattie, Kirkcud
brightshire, Road Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to the saddle
seat fittings of cycles, and comprises the fitting of rubber pads or springs or
pneumatic cushions or other resilient material or a combination of these to
prevent vibration and give a resilient vertical action to the seat.
In carrying these improvements into effect the saddle pin would be fitted with
a frame, comprising vertical cheeks and a horizontal longitudinal mid feather,
and in the hollow space thus formed rubber pads or other resilient material
would be fitted on the upper and under sides of the mid feather while an
inverted U shaped housing frame would be fitted over these, and the lower rubber
pads would be covered with a plate or plates and pressure adjustable screws.
The usual saddle would be attached to the housing frame in any ordinary
manner.
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W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
Improvements in and relating to the Saddles of Cycles,
I, JAMES MACMILLAN CUTHBERT, of 26, Maxwell Street, Dalbeattie, Kirkcud-
brightshire, Road Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being made to the
accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to the saddle
seat fittings of cycles, and comprises the fitting of rubber pads or springs or
pneumatic cushions or other resilient material or a combination of these to
prevent vibration and give a resilient vertical action to the seat.
In carrying these improvements into effect the saddle pin would be fitted with
a frame comprising vertical cheeks and a horizontal longitudinal mid feather,
and in the hollow space thus formed rubber pads or other resilient material
would be fitted on the upper and under sides of the mid feather while
inverted U-shaped housing frame would be fitted over these, and the lower rubber
pads would be covered with a plate or plates and pressure adjustable screws.
an

page_text: The usual saddle would be attached to the housing frame in any ordinary
manner.
sheet of
And in order that my said invention and the manner of carrying same into
practice may be properly understood I have hereunto appended a
explanatory drawings in which Figures 1 and 2 represent side and end sectional
elevations respectively showing the saddle fittings of a bicycle as arranged with
a pneumatic cushion according to my improvements; while Figure 3 shows same
with helical springs.
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Referring to these drawings:-As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the saddle Z is
attached to a housing frame a of channel shape, which would preferably be left
open at the upper half centre of the sides and at the ends a¹ to permit the pneu-
matic cushion d hereinafter described to expand through these apertures a¹.
frame is attached to the seat pillar spindle b¹, and recessed parts 63 at the ends
of this frame fit over. rubber pads c, or it may be helical springs, on the transverse
screwed bolts c¹, these bolts c¹ forming a centre core to receive and retain the
rubber pads c in proper position, while the screw pins e pass through holes in the
bolts cand raise and lower or adjust the frame a. The bolts pass through
holes in the lower part of the frame a. Between the horizontal plate or mid-
feather 63 of frame b and the top plate of housing frame a a pneumatic pad or
cushion bag d is fitted, and would be inflated through a tube d¹.
In the arrangement shown in Figure 3 helical springs are substituted for
the pneumatic pad d, these springs being loosely retained between a horizontal
top plate a and a bottom plate b by studs or projections d³, rubber washers d
being preferably interposed.
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 connection with the saddles of cycles, the arrangement comprising
pneumatic cushions or pads between upper and lower frames substantially as
set forth.
Second. In connection with the saddles of cycles, the arrangement comprising
springs between upper and lower plate surfaces, substantially as set forth.
Third. In connection with the saddles of cycles the arrangement comprising
resilient material on the upper and under surfaces of a horizontal plate or mi
feather, substantially as set forth.
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Fourth. The arrangement and combination of the parts of saddles for cycles
substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying
drawings.