Improvements in Velocipede Saddles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Velocipede Saddles.
1, JOHN BOLTBEE BROOKS, of Great Charles Street in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This invention relates to the construction of velocipede saddles, and saddle
springs, and is an improvement or improvements upon three several Letters Patent
granted to me, and bearing date the 19th day November 1886 No. 15048,
April 20th 1888 No 5868, and August 31st 1888 No. 12524.
In carrying out my invention, I will describe it, 1st in connection with a tricycle
or safety bicycle saddle.
Directed from front to rear, on the underside of the saddle seat, are seat framing
bars or rods, with the terminal fore parts of them, taking into holes in the opposite
sides of a tension slide, with a bracket base, directed inwardly and upon the under-
side of which, the upper end of a pillar coiled spring, disposed between it and the
front top side end of the supporting or base framing as hereinafter described comes,
so that by the rotation of a tension screw, whose spindle front end, passes through,
and works within, a hole within a depending bracket, attached to the underside of
the saddle, the slide is made to move longitudinally upon the said ends.
The rods of the seat framing, under the back end, or cantle skirting pass through
loops or eyes, secured to hanging brackets, and from thence, continued outwardly,
into single or double loop coils. which terminate in levering rods or arms, whose
inner ends, which approach near the middle of the saddle, are again formed into
double or single loop coils, and from which coils, the bars pass horizontally through
the bar or other socket, to the underside of a pillar coiled spring, supporting the
front of the saddle seat.
When the whole of the seat and base framing is made from out of a single length
of rod wire, or other rod length, the front end is made to preferably pass through
the eye of a screw pin, directed through the lower coil of the supporting spring,
which is affixed by a nut.
The spring preferably takes its bearing upon a washer plate, threaded upon
the screw pin.
From the above, it will be understood that the rod or rods, constituting the seat
framing, and the supporting or base framing, is or are made continuous from the
front underside of the sent of the saddle, to the back thereof, thence into back coils,
back again under the saddle seat, (at a distance from it) thence into coils rearward
of the socket, through which it then passes, and terminating again at a distance
opposite the front of the said seat, and under an interposed pillar coiled spring.
The seat framing bars, and also the base framing bars or rods, are separated
elevated
at suitable distances from each other, to form the necessary proper
support.
The socket is made in two parts, a lower one, consisting of a semi-circular
trough, with opposite directed knuckle eyes, wherethrough the base framing bars
or rods, pass in common with the second part, consisting of a bridge, semi-circular
troughed upon its underside, with opposite bossed eyes, which come coincident with
the knuckle of the other part.
and
The clamping screw passes through a hanging neck of the first part, and when
the same is screwed home, the pressure thus exerted by it, clamps the socket upon
the framing, which normally is rdjustable.
In order to facilitate the connection of pillar coile supporting springs, the
same may be affixed, by closing the terminal ends or coils of them, aroun1 screw

page_text: nuts or heads, which constitute, when in position, screw boxes, wherein ordinary
screw pins, take, for the affixing of the said springs in position. Or the said
terminal ends may be bent hookwise, upon which, the looped ends, of affixing screw
pins, are threaded.
Instead of employing, or supporting the front of the seat of the saddle upon, a
pillar coiled spring, as aforesaid, the front, or fronts, of the rod, or rods, of the base
framing, may be continued into loop coils, and then suitably connected to the
tension slide, moving upon the ends of the fore parts of the framing rods.
To allow these aid last nained loop coil, to give or work in obedience to the
pressure exerted, I provide the saddle framing rods, or the fore parts of them, also
with loop coils.
As a modification the saddle seat may he supported upon the coiled base framing
rods, thus diepen ing with the use of the seat traming rods.
In constructing a saddle, without seat framing rods. I connect the fore parts of
the rods, to brackets, or to the tension on the front underside of the seat of the
saddle, and then direct the said rods, into forwardly disposed vertical loop coils,
which are then continued backwardly at some distance from the saddle seat, into
base framing rods, whose rear and terminal ends are fashioned into horizontally
directed snail coils, whose inner ends, are attachedly connected to the back under-
side of the saddle seat.
Thus it will be seen that the base framing rods, which are employed for the
attachment of the saddle to a machine, are employed in common for both base and
seat framing.
The base framing rods thus arranged are also provided with loop coils, near its
middle.
In applying my invention to an ordinary bicycle saddle. I continue the seat or
base framing rods, through a bridged bracket, and connect the end or ends of the
said rod or rods, by suitable means to the head of a machine, and substitute for the
socket as before cited. a clip for the back bone.
Dated this 13th day of March 1890.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Velocipede Saddles.
1, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street in the City of Birmingham,
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:-
This invention relates to the construction of velocipede saddles, and is an improve-
ment, or improvements upon three several Letters Patent granted to me, and
bearing date the 19th day of November 1886, No. 15048, April 20th 1888, No. 5868,
and August 31st 1888 No. 12524.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents partly in longitudinal vertical
section, and partly in elevation, a tricycle or rear driving bieyele saddle, constructed
and arrange according to one form of my invention. The seat of the saddle, is
shown supported upon framing rods, directed from front to rear on the underside of
the said seat, and with loop and coiled springs, disposed between the ends of the
said rods, and the base framing. It will be also observed, that the base framing,
is loop-coiled about its middle, and is attachedly connected to the boss, whereby
the saddle is secured to a machine; and further, that the loop and dual coils at the
rear underside of the saddle, are made from the wire of the base framing.
Figure 2 represents an inverted plan of the said saddle seat, and framing, showing
the disposition of the parts, and the rear jointing of the springs, with respect to the

page_text: back of the saddle, and also the tensioned connection at the front of the saddle,
with the said front, and the supporting spring.
a is the seat of the saddle, 6 framing rods of the same, directed from front to
rear upon its underside, and with the fore ends 6, and rear ends 6, connected to the
slide and hanging screw pin c, d, respectively.
The lower part of the slide r, is formed into a bracket 2, between the underside
of which, and the front ends of the base framing e, a single pillar coiled spring f
is disposed, and is connected at its respective ends, by screw pins and nuts f
is a tension screw, taking and screwing through the upright part of the
slide c, and with the other and plain end taking through plain holes, passing
transversely through the lower part of the U shaped hanging bracket i, depending
from the front underside of the seat a.
At the junction of the screwed and plain parts of the said screw, is an abutment
collar g, while between the said collar and slide, is a jamb uut g*.
jare dual loop coiled springs, at the rear underside of the seat, coiled and made
out of the same lengths of metal, as the base framing parts e, which are formed
about their middles into loop coils h. having cross bars h², whereby the same are
attachedly connected to the eyed boss k, whereby the saddle is secured to the
of a machine.
bar
The connection of the loop coils j, with the saddle, is made by the joint,
connected to hanging brackets d, taking upon the worm pin d, carried by the
skirting framings d.
Figure 3 represents a longitudinal vertical section, partly in elevation, of a cycle
saddle, constructed, and the springs arranged, and the seat tensioned, according to
another form of my invention.
The saddle seat, rear and aft, is supported upon loop coiled springs, or dual loop
coiled springs, made from out of the same lengths of metal as the base framing.
:
is the seat of the saddle, bare seat framing rods, jointedly connected at its fore
ends 6, to a bracket 2, of a slide c, through the upright c, of which, the plain
end g of the tension screw, passes, and which tension screw, also takes and
screws through an inside wormed hole 2, of a hanging bracket i, affixed to the
front underside of the saddle seat, so that by rotating the head end g³, the slide c,
is advanced or traversed forwardly or rearwardly, and the saddle scat tensioned, or
slackened.
The rear of the seat framing rods, which are marked, are connected to brackets d,
hanging from the rear underside of the side of the saddle, and to whose lower ends
by joints, the coiled loop springs j, are connected.
e are framing rods, with loop coils h, fashioned from the middles of them, and f
is a second loop coil or coils, connected at its or their lower end or ends, to the base
framing rods, and slide c, respectively; thus both ends of the saddle seat, are
supported upon loop coils, made from the base framing rods, and the coils are
connected with the eyed boss k. It will be observed, that the jointing of the rod
and coil supports in manner described and represented, allows perfect collateral
action of the springs, and supporting framing parts.
Figure 4 represents an underside plan of the fore part of Figure 3.
Figure 5 represents a cycle saddle, constructed, arranged, and supported, according
to another form of my invention.
The rear and front underside of the seat of the saddle, as will be observed, is
supported, and elasticity given to it, by obliquely and outwardly directed crook
shaped bow springs, made from the rods, constituting the base framing, and jointed
at their upper and terminal ends, to brackets, in the one case adjustable, and in the
other fixed.
Figure 6 represents an underside plan of Figure 5, showing the disposition of the
coils, and the jointings thereof.
a is the seat of the saddle, 6 frame rods thereof, connected at front and rear to
slide c, and bracket d respectively. The tension screw g, takes through a screwed
hole in the bracket i, and with its plain end g, taking through a hole in the

page_text: upright part of the slide, whose lower part is formed into a hanging stalk,
upon which a vertical sliding bracket, to which the bow spring is connected, is
adjustable.
The said bow spring f, is jointed to the bracket at
while the said how spring f
and the other bow spring, are formed from the same length of metal as the framing
rods e, whose middle parts have loop coils h.
The connection of the bow springs, and is made by a joint
Figure 7 represents partly in longitudinal section, and partly in elevation, a cycle
saddle. constructed according to a further form of my invention.
In this arrangement, the saddle seat is supported upon pillar coiled springs at the
rear, and loop springs at the front, and with the latter formel out of the same
lengths of metal, as the rods of the base framing.
Figure is a plan of the middle part of the base framing as aforesaid.
Figure 9 is an elevation of one of the pillar coiled springs, and Figure 10 is a
plan of the same, showing one of the hooked ends, by means of which, the springs
admit of being readily detached and replaced, as circumstances may require.
Thus if the springs should get accidentally broken, or stronger or weaker ones
required to be substituted for the carrying of a heavy or light rider, the screw pins
have only to be slackened, when an attachment or detachment may be effected,
hence the interchangeability of them.
1.
a is the seat of the saddle, the framing rods thereof. fixedly connected at their
inner ends to the screws or brackets d, and jointedly connected at their fore ends to
the bracket. The latter has also connected to it, the terminal ends of the wire of
loop coiled springs made from the met: of the rods constituting the base framing,
whose rear ends, (through the intervention of a plate (,) support pillar coiled springs.
is a boss, connected to the framing rods. by knuckles. is a tension screw, with
the inner end, taking into the upper part of the bracket c. and with the screwed
part, worming through a screwed hole in the hanging bracket i.
The pillar coiled språngsj, haya booked terminations 7*. with the inside spaces ♫
of them, of a size suitable for taking upon the necks n. of the screw pins », which
have nuts n³.
To remove the springs, whose hook terminations are in reverse directions, that
is, the open side of the one, is opposite the closed side of the other, slacken the nuts,
when the springs can be laterally removed by turning the same preferably to an
angle.
On the other hand, pass the hooked ends of the springs, over the necks or stems
of the screw pius, adjacent to the nuts or heads, then screw up the nuts, when the
springs will be affixed in position.
1 prefer that the inner sides of the heads, or the undersides of the nuts, should be
slightly shaped or coned, so as to lie or scat themselves within the hooked ends,
thus preventing lateral displacement, even if the screw nuts bo not fully screwed
home.
Figure 11 represents a cycle saddle, without seat framing rods, constructed
according to another form of my invention. In this arrangement, the loops and coil
springs, are made solely out of the metal of the base framing rods.
a is the seat of the saddle, supported at its two ends, by loop coiled springs f, and
serpent shaped springs j, made out of the metal of the base framing rods e, which
may be provided with a loop
The ends of the metal of the ad springs, are connected to hanging brackets or
parts ed, with the plain end, of the tension screw, taking through a hole in the
upper part of the said bracket, and with the wormed part, taking through a screwed
hole in the hanging bracket i.
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 :-
First In a cycle saddle, the combination with the seat of a saddle, or the seat

page_text: framing rods, and base framing thereof, of a pillar coiled spring f, loop coiled
springs, with joints, and base framing loops h, h², all arranged, combined, and
collaterally operating, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 and 2.
Secondly-A cycle saddle, the combination with the base framing rods e, of
middle loops h, 2, and supporting coil loops j, (with joint ) made out of the same
length of metal as the said rods, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1
and 2.
Thirdly -In a cycle saddle, the combination with the seat thereof, of forwardly
jointed seat framing rods, and fore and aft loop coiled supporting springs, made or
fashioned from the same lengths of metal as the base framing, whose middle is
provided with loop coils, and which said saddle, and the parts thereof, are con-
structed, and the seat framing rods and springs jointed, as set forth in Figures 3
and 4.
Fourthly-In a cycle saddle, the construction of the tensioning device, consisting
of screw g, terminal ends g³, g³, and brackets c, i, all arranged and combined, with
their cognate parts, substantially as described and set forth, in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
and 11.
Fifthly in a cycle saddle, mounting the seat thereof, upon fore and aft crook
shaped bow springs, jointed at their terminal ends, to brackets, or parts of the said
saddle, or the saddle framing, and with the said springs, formed from the metal of
the base framing, having middle disposed coils h, as set forth in Figures 5 and 6.
Sixthly-The general construction, arrangement and jointing of the parts of
cycle saddles, as described and set forth in Figures 5 and 6.
Seventhly In a cycle saddle, mounting the seat thereof, upon pillar coiled
springs at rear, and loop coiled springs at front, and with the seat framing rods,
jointed forwardly; and which said parts, are constructed and arranged as set forth
in Figures 7 and 8.
Eighthly —In interchangeable springs, or providing coiled supporting springs,
with terminal hooked ends, whereby the same admit of being readily attached and
detached, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 7, 9, and 10.
Ninthly In a cycle saddle, the general construction and arrangement of the
supporting framing, and springs, with or without the loops, of the said framing,
substantially as described and set forth in Figure 11.
Tenthly In a cycle saddle, the general construction, arrangement, and disposi
tion of the framing parts thereof, and their springs, substantially as described and
set forth in Figure 12.
Dated this 13th day of December 1890.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.