Improvements in Velocipede Saddles, and in Attaching the same to Velocipedes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Velocipede Saddles, and in Attaching the same to
Velocipedes.
I, HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH, of No. 61 Wellington Road, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this-
invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in velocipeda
saddles and in the clips by which the said saddles are connected to the velocipedes,.
whereby the number of parts of the said clips is reduced and the saddles and olips
otherwise improved.
The velocipede saddles and saddle clips to which my present improvements relate
are of the kind described represented and claimed in the Complete Specification of
Letters Patent granted to James Alfred Lamplugh No. 5683 year 1893, and of
subsequent improvements of the same described, represented and claimed in the
Complete Specification filed in connection with my Application for Letters Patent
No. 18,675 year 1894.
In constructing a saddle according to one of my improvements I make the
frame of the saddle of two wires angular in cross section (the cross sectional figure
preferred being triangular) the length of the said wires being somewhat greater
than the length of the saddle. The said wires are arranged with one of their
angular edges turned inwards and with the opposite flat side in the case of
triangular sectional wire in a vertical plane. The front ends of the said wires
engage in tobular sockets carried by or engaged with the tension screw at the
pommel end of the leather seat of the saddle and the said wires are for the greater
part of their length parallel, the parallel parts near the rear ends passing into
vertical coils from which the said rear ends diverge and engage in tubular sockets
on the cantle plate of the saddle.
The saddle clip to be used with the suddle frame herein before described
consists essentially of a middle ring for taking on the L pin or upright seat pillar
tube of the velocipede the said ring having separate or detachable slotted screw
pins at opposite points as described, represented and claimed in the Complete
Specification No. 18675 of 1894 hereinbefore referred to. On the said screw pins
the half clips for gripping the Lpin or upright seat pillar tube are passed and
between the said half clips and outer washers the wires of the saddle frame are
gripped, the said wires passing through the slots in the stems of the separate or
detachable screw pins the said wires crossing the half clips diametrically. The
whole is secured together by the screwing up of screw nuts on the outer ends of
the separate or detachable screw pins. The separate or detachable screw pins
are tubular and their heads for bearing against the inner sides of the ring are
formed by flanging the inner ends of the said tubular screw pins.
By the use of wires in the saddle frame of a triangular or other angular figure
in cross section, grooves or seats in the outer sides of the half clips for the wires
of the saddle frame to engage in may be dispensed with as the angles of the wires
are pressed with such force against the outer sides of the half clips as to form
slight indentations therein in which the angles of the wires firmly engage. Instead
of depending upon indentations or notches formed by the angles of the wires,

page_text: radial notches may be made in the outer sides of the half clips for the angles of
the wires to take in.
The application of my improvements to saddle frames consisting of two or three
wires on each side of the saddle differs in no essential respect from its application
to a saddle frame consisting of one wire only on each side of the siddle as herein-
before described.
My invention consists further in making the half clips of the saddle attachment
or clip hereinbefore described in the following manner.
I cut from sheet iron or steel a blank the two longer edges of which are parallel,
the shorter edges having a nearly semi-circular concave figure. In the middle of
the said blank I pierce a hole of a diameter somewhat larger than the diameter
of the screw pins of the middle ring constituting the essential part of the clip.
I turn up the ends of the strip at right angles to the middle part, the said turned
up ends being parallel to each other and separated by a distance suitable for the
reception of the middle ring. The outer side of the middle part of the half
clip thus made, between which middle part and the outer washer the frame of the
saddle is gripped, is serrated or roughened so as to improve the grip of the said
part on the saddle frame.
My invention consists further in the improved connection hereinafter described
of the pommel end of the leather of the saddle with the front end of the tension
frame whereby the rocking of the pommel end of the saddle on the tension screw
pin is prevented.
I make the depending arm of the bracket on the underside of the pommel end
of the leather, through which depending arm the tension screw pin passes, longer
than usual. To the said depending arm I fix a plain cylindrical pin the said pin
being situated preferably above the hole in the depending arm through which the
tension screw pin passes. In the nose or front end of the saddle frame, I make
two holes one above the other. In the upper hole of the nose of the frame the
plain cylindrical pin of the depending arm engages and in the lower hole the tension
adjusting screw pin works as usual.
By the use of the two pius and the two holes in the front end or nose part of the
frame the rocking hereinbefore described is prevented.
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Dated this Twenty-fourth day of September 1895.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Velocipede Saddles, and in Attaching the same to
Velocipedes.
I, HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH, of No. 61 Wellington Road, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Machinist, 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 :-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in velocipede
saddles and in the clips by which the said saddles are connected to the velocipedes
whereby the number of parts of the said clips is reduced and the saddles and
clips otherwise improved.
The velocipede saddles and saddle clips to which my present improvements relate
are of the kind described represented and claimed in the Complete Specification of
Letters Patent granted to James Alfred Lamplugh No. 5683 year 1893, and of
subsequent improvements of the same described, represented and claimed in the
Complete Specification of Letters Patent granted to me No. 18675 year 1894.

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In constructing a saddle according to one of my improvements I make the
frame of the saddle of a wire or wires angular in cross section the cross sectional
figure preferred being triangular. The said wires are preferably arranged with
one of their angular edges turned inwards and with the opposite flat side, in the
case of triangular sectional wire, in a vertical plane.
The saddle clips to be used with saddles having angular wire frames consist
essentially of a middle ring for taking on the L pin or upright seat pillar tube
of the velocipede the said ring having separate or detachable slotted screw pins at
opposite points as described, represented and claimed in the Complete Specification
No. 18675 of 1894 hereinbefore referred to. On the said screw pins the half clips
for gripping the Lpin or upright seat pillar tube are passed and between the
said half clips and outer washers the wires of the saddle frame are gripped, the
said wires passing through the slots in the stems of the separate or detachable
screw pins, the said wires crossing the half clips diametrically. The whole is
secured together by the screwing up of screw nuts on the outer ends of the separate
or detachable screw pins. The separate or detachable screw pins may be tubular,
their heads for bearing against the inner sides of the ring being formed by flanging
the inner ends of the said tubular screw pius.
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By the use of wires in the saddle frame of a triangular or other angular figure
in cross section, grooves or seats in the outer sides of the half clips for the wires
of the saddle frame to engage in may be dispensed with as the angles of the wires
are pressed with such force against the outer sides of the half clips as to form
slight indentations therein in which the angles of the wires firmly engage. Instead
of depending upon indentations or notches formed by the angles of the wires,
radial notches may be made in the outer sides of the half clips for the angles of the
wires to take in.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation; Figure 2,
in plan (partly in horizontal section) Figure 3 in cross section on the line x, x
Figure 1 and Figure 4 in cross section on the line y, y Figure 1, the L pin of a
velocipede to which is applied a saddle clip and portion of a saddle frame
constructed according to my invention;
Figures 5 and 6 represent parts of the clip detached.
Figures 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 represent my improvements in connection with a saddle
having three parallel wires on each side of the clip.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures, of
the drawings.
I will first describe the arrangement represented in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
In carrying my invention into effect in connection with a saddle the frame of
which consists of one wire only on each side of the clip, 1 employ a clip the ring
part a of which has detachable slotted screw pins a¹, a¹ at opposite points, the said
screw pins being preferably hollow or tubular as represented (see the detached
screw pin Figure 6). I dispense with the ordinary grooved inner washers on the
outer sides of the half clips b, b and do not provide grooves or seatings in the outer
Bides of the said half clips for the wires of the saddle frame, which grooves or
seatings are ordinarily provided when grooved inner washers are dispensed with.
In order to obtain a firm and secure attachment of the saddle frame to the L pin
or upright seat pillar tube when the inner grooved washers and grooves or seatings
in the outer sides of the half clips are dispensed with I make the saddle frame of
hardened and tempered steel wire of an angular figure in cross section, the section
D. preferred being triangular as represented in the drawings, where the wires are
marked c, c, one of the angular edges of each wire being turned inwards so that
when the saddle is applied to the clip the inwardly turned angular edge of each
wire is presented to the outer face of the half clip b. The said half clips are
preferably made of mild or soft steel and with the central part of its outer face
5 sunken as is best seen by reference to the cross section Figure 3 so that when the
outer washers d, d, which have diametrical grooves or recesses on their inner sides
as is best seen in Figure 5, are forced by the screw nuts e, e against the wires, e, c

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the angular edges of the said wires dig or impress themselves into the edges of the
half clips b, b as will be best seen by reference to Figure 4 and thereby prevent
any possibility of angular motion of the saddle on the clip after the same has been
tightened up.
When the saddle frame has two wires on each side of the clip, the screw: pins
are made without slots the wires on each side being disposed one above and the
other below the screw pins. The outer washers in this case have two grooves or
recesses in their inner faces.
Figures 7, 8, 9 and 10 show the application of my invention to a three wire
saddle frame, solid detachable screw pins a¹ being represented at opposite points
of the ring part a instead of hollow or tubular screw pins; Figure 11 represents
the triple grooved outer washer used with the arrangement Figures 7, 8, 9 and 10
separately.
I wish it to be understood, that I do not limit myself to the use of half clips
having plain or ungrooved outer sides as the edges of the said outer sides may be
radially notched the angular edge of the frame wire engaging in a pair of the said
radial notches when the saddle is connected to its support by the clip.
My invention consists further in making the half clips of the saddle attachment
or clip herein before described in the following manner.
I cut from sheet iron or steel, a blank of the kind represented in elevation and
edge view in Figure 16. I turn or bend the ends of the strip at the dotted lines
Figure 16 at right angles to the middle part as is represented in the plan view of
Figure 17, the said bent ends being parallel to each other and separated by a
distance suitable for the reception of the middle ring. The outer side of the
middle part of the half clip thus made, between which iniddle part and the outer
washer d the frame of the saddle is gripped, as is represented in Figures 12, 13, 14
and 15 where the saddle frame is marked e', is serrated or roughened so as to
improve the grip of the said part on the saddle frame.
My invention consists further in the improved connection hereinafter described
of the pommel end of the leather of the saddle with the front end of the tension
frame whereby the rocking of the pommel end of the saddle on the tension screw
pin is prevented.
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I construct and arrange the parts of the saddle at the ponimel end as represented
in Figures 18 and 19, that is, I make the depending arm of the bracket on the
underside of the leather seat g longer than usual and employ in connection therewith
a plain horizontal pin in addition to the horizontal tension adjusting screw piu i.
The nose k of the saddle frame c, c, c is provided with two holes for the pins h, i to
pass through the screw nut on the tension adjusting screw pin i bearing against
the said nose k of the frame.
By providing the said pommel end of the saddle with two pins and making two
holes in the nose part of the frame for the said pins to engage with the rocking
herein before referred to of the pommel end of the saddle on the tension screw is
prevented.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that 1 claim as my
invention of "Improvements in velocipede saddles and in attaching the same to
velocipedes "
First. Making saddle frames from hardened and tempered wire of a triangular
or other angular figure in cross section so as to dispense with inner washers in the
saddle clips and with grooves or seatings in the half clips substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the
accompanying drawings.
Secondly. In saddle clips of the kind hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings, the use of detachable hollow or tubular screw pinis at
opposite sides of the ring part of the clip substantially as herein before described
and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3,
and 6.

page_text: Thirdly. Making the half clips of the ring clips herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings from sheet metal substantially as
described and represented in Figures 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17.
Fourthly. Preventing the rocking of the pommel ends of saddles on the tension
adjusting screw pins of the same by providing the pommel end of the saddle with
an additional and preferably plain pin and modifying the parts of the pommel end
of the saddle frame to receive the said additional pin substantially as berein before
described and illustrated in Figures 18 and 19 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 16th day of June 1896.
HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH..