Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 7th Jan., 1887.
We GEORGE SALTER of the Firm of George Salter and Company of West
Bromwich in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, and CHARLES JOHN HOLDSHIP
of West Bromwich aforesaid, Accountant Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to springs for supporting saddles and seats of bicycles,
tricycles and other velocipedes and wheeled vehicles; whereby the said springs are
made more yielding, and the comfort and ease of a rider or sitter of a seat or saddle,
greatly enhanced, as the spring is made mechanically certain in its action as herein-
after described.
Our invention consists essentially of a double volute spring, coiled in opposite
directions and joined or connected by a length of the single strip of steel from
which the said spring is made; so that the two evolved ends of the volutes or spiral
scrolls, which are removed from each other, are made continuous by a bridge or
horizontal length elevated above the scrolls; so that the strip from which the spring
is made, is so shaped or fashioned, that the volute scrolls which are at a distance, pass
or are joined to each other, by a horizontal length; in other words, the terminal ends
of the volute scrolls are made into the form of bushes or sleeves, and proceeding
from these bushed sleeves, the scrolls evolve, and terminate in the straight length
bridging between them.
This
The bushes of the volute ends are connected to a hanger bracket, by pins passing
through holes near the terminal ends of forks or arms made out of the opposite ends
of the hanger bracket. The middle of this hanger bracket is flat, for the affixing of
it to a velocipede back bone or frame, by a screw pin or by any other means.
hanger bracket is made from a flat strip of metal gapped at its ends, and the forks
between the gapped parts are turned or twisted at right angles, into carrier arms,
considerably broader than the thickness of the metal blank from which the hanger
bracket is nude.

page_text: The saddle or seat is secured to the spring by an ordinary cross or affixing bar
secured to the middle of the elevated length bridging or connecting the volute coils
with each other. Thus the saddle or seat rests upon the middle of a bridge or
platform kind of length supported at its ends by suspended volute springs, with their
terminal inner ends turned into bushes, which surround cross pins passing from the
opposite arms of the hanger bracket; so that the motion and weight of a rider or
sitter, compels the spring to collectively give in all directions. The sides of the
hangers are only a little broader than the spring itself.
The spring is made more yielding and compliant by splitting or partially splitting
the volute coils into two or more concentric coils, but joined to each other at the
extremities of the slits, so that no actual division of the band forming the spring
occurs, other than at the divided parts of the coils.
Although we have described that the volute coils are divided into two or a series of
narrow scrolls, by slitting the broader coil, yet if necessary the entire breadth of
the scroll may be employed without being slit.
The hanger bracket may have knuckles formed on the ends of the forked arms
instead of forming the necessary breadth for the eyes of the bearing crossing pins,
by twisting the metal at right angles.
GEORGE DALLER.
CHARLES JOHN HOLDSHIP.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham,
Agent to the Applicants.

page_text: Tricycles, and other Wheeled Vehicles.
We GEORGE SALTER of the Firm of George Salter and Company of West
Bromwich in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, and CHARLES JOHN HOLDSHIP
of West Bromwich aforesaid Accountants Clerk do hereby declare the nature of said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS FOR THE SADDLES OR SEATS OF BICYCLES,
TRICYCLES AND OTHER WHEELED VEHICLES," 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 springs for supporting saddles and seats of bicycles,
tricycles and other velocipedes and wheeled vehicles; whereby the said springs are
made more yielding, and the comfort and ease of a rider or sitter of a seat or saddle,
greatly enhanced, as the spring is made mechanically certain in its action as
liereinafter described.
Our invention consists essentially of a double volute spring, coiled in opposite
directions and joined or connected by a length of the single strip of steel from which
the said spring is made; so that the two evolved ends of the volutes or spiral scrolls,
which are removed from each other, are made continuous by a bridge or horizontal
length elevated above the scrolls; so that the strip from which the spring is made, is
so shaped or fashioned, that the volute scrolls, which are at a distance pass or are
joined to each other by a horizontal length; in other words, the terminal ends of the
volute scrolls are made into the form of bushes or sleeves; and proceeding from
these bushed sleeves, the scrolls evolve, and terminate in the straight length
bridging between them.
This
The bushes of the volute ends are connected to a hanger bracket, by pins passing
through holes near the terminal ends of forks or arms made out of the opposite ends
of the hanger bracket. The middle of this hanger bracket is flat, for the affixing of
it to a velocipede backbone or frame, by a screw pin or by any other means.
hanger bracket is made from a flat strip of metal gapped at its ends, and the forks
between the gapped parts are turned or twisted at right angles into carrier arms,
considerably broader than the thickness of the metal blank, from which the hanger
bracket is made.
The saddle or seat is secured by an ordinary cross or affixing bar secured to the
middle of the elevated length, bridging or connecting the volute coils with each
other. Thus the saddle or seat rests upon the middle of a bridge or platform kind
of length supported at its ends by suspended volute springs with their terminal inner
ends turned into bushes, which surround cross pins passing from the opposite arms of
the hanger bracket; so that the motion and weight of a rider or sitter, compels the
spring to collectively give in all directions. The sides of the hangers are only a
little broader than the spring itself.
The spring is made more yielding and compliant by splitting or partially splitting
the volute coils into two or more concentric coils, but joined to each other at the
extremities of the slits, so that no actual division of the band forming the spring
occurs, other than at the divided parts of the coils.
Although we have described that the volute coils are divided into two or a series
of narrower scrolls, by slitting the broader coil, yet if necessary the entire breadth
of the scroll may be employed without being slit.
The hanger bracket may have knuckles formed on the ends of the forked arms
instead of forming the necessary breadth for the eyes of the bearing cross pins, by
twisting the metal at right angles.

page_text: We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings,
the manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, a velocipede saddle spring, constructed
according to our invention. Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same
on the dotted lines A B figure 3, which is an underside view of the said spring.
Figure is a transverse section upon the dotted lines CD figure 2, showing the
inner volutes and top-side plan of hanger bracket. Figure 5 shows a modification
in which the hanger bracket is bent downwards at or about its middle, so as to
lower its point of connection with a machine.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1, 2, 3 4
and 5 of the Drawings.
a a are two volute springs coiled in opposite directions, and joined or connected
together by a bridge or horizontal lengtli elevated above the said volute ends or
scrolls, and which said scroll or volute ended spring, is made from a single piece or
length of strip or sheet steel.
The evolved ends or scrolls a, are partially split or divided into two concentric
coils a² ², and joined together at the inner bushed or central parts a³, and at the
outer scroll parts a. This splitting or subdividing of the evolved ends, gives
increased flexibility or yielding to the spring.
e is the hanger bracket, made from a flat strip of sheet metal, gapped at its ends
into fork like parts 22, which constitute carrier arms for supporting the inner or
bushed ends of the spring, and which said ends or carrier arms are twisted or
turned at right angles to the plane of the other part, and which said arms are
connected to the inner or bushed parts of the evolved ends, by cross pins or screws d.
When in use, a saddle or seat is secured upon the top of the elevated length b,
while the hanger bracket part 3 is secured to the framing of a machine, by screw
pins, or other ineans.
Figure
represents in side elevation, and figure 7 an underside view of a spring
in which the evolved or volute ends are plain, or without being partially split or
divided, as in the preceding figure.
The splitting or dividing of the evolved or volute ends can be equally applied to
springs provided or having one coil instead of two, as before described.
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—
First. A saddle or seat supporting spring, for bicycles, tricycles and other
wheeled vehicles, consisting essentially of two volute springs or evolved ends a a,
coiled in opposite directions, or in the same direction, and connected together by
an elevated part or bridge; and which said spring (preferably made from a
single length of strip steel) is supported by a hanger bracket, whose ends
are gapped or forked, and connected to the bearing holes of the evolved parts, by
pins or screws, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly Splitting or partially dividing the evolved ends, or the volute coils
(or coil) of velocipede, saddle or seat springs, substantially as and for the purpose
herein described and set forth.
Thirdly Making saddle or seat springs as herein described, from strip or sheet
metal, with its ends or forked parts turned or twisted at right angles to the other or
middle part.
GEORGE SALTER