Improvements in and relating to Velocipedes.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Velocipedes.
I, GEORGE COUSINS of The "Seabreeze" Cycle Works, Birchington-on-Sea,
in the County of Kent, Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
iuvention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improvel clip for attaching the underfrunes of cycle
saddles to seat pillars, and it consists essentially of a socket adapted to be fixed
to the seat pillar, of a transverse bolt carrying shaped washers adaptel to clamp
the members of the underframe to the said socket, and of small set screws threaded
into lugs on the socket and adapted to impinge on the members of the underframe
of a saddle.
These set screws not only provide a ready means of adjusting the tilt of the
saddle but they also remove the strain of holding the members of the underframe
in position from the transverse bolt and the necessity for screwing up the said.
transverse bolt very tightly is therefore obviated.
When this clip is applied to a vertical seat pillar it is preferably brazed direct
on to the said pillar and when it is to be applied to the horizontal arm of a seat
pillar it is made in the form of a split socket contractible by the transverse bolt in
the well-known manner.
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ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in and relating to Velocipedes.
1, GEORGE COUSINS of The Seabreeze" Cycle Works, Birchington-on-Sea,
in the County of Kent, Cycle 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 an improved clip for attaching the underfames of cycle
saddles to seat pillars, and it consists essentially of a socket adapted to be fixed
to the seat pillar, of a transverse b.lt carrying shaped washers adapted to clamp
the members of the underframe to the said socket, and of small set screws threaded
into lugs on the socket and adapted to impinge on the members of the underframe
of a saddle.
In the accompanying drawing which shows-by way of illustration only-some
methods of carrying this invention into practice :-
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of my improved clip arranged to be mounted
on a vertical seat pillar, and
Figure 2 is a view in front elevation thereof.

page_text: Figure 3 is a view in side elevation of the clip arranged to be mounted on the
horizontal arm of a seat pillar and
Figure 4 is a view in front elevation thereof.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The socket A adapted to be mounted on the seat pillar is of the usual split type
having a transverse gripping bolt or stud B passing through ears a a on the divided
edges of the socket. The transverse bolt or stud B carries shaped washers C
adapted to clamp the members X of the underframe of the saddle to the socket A.
On each side of the socket A- either fore or aft of the transverse bolt or stud B-
are two lugs a a' each carrying a small set screw D adapted to impinge on the
member of the underframe of the saddle as shown. These set screws not only
provide a ready means of adjusting the tilt of the saddle but they also remove the
strain of holding the members X cf the underframe in position from the transverse
bolt or stud B and the necessity for screwing up the said transverse bolt very
tightly is therefore obviated.
When the clip is applied to a vertical seat pillar it may be brazed direct on to
the said pillar.
Although I have only described and illustrated my invention as applied to a clip
for supporting a saddle having a single member underframe, yet it will be obvious
to anyone acquainted with the manufacture of these articles that it can readily be
adapted to support saddles having underframes of any other type.
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 :-
(1) The improved clip for attaching the underframes of cycle saddles to seat
pillars, substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying
drawing.
(2) In a clip for mounting the underframes of cycle saddles on seat pillars, the
use of set screws or their equivalents mounted in lugs carried by the socket fore or
aft of the transverse locking bolt or stud, as and for the purpose set forth.
(3) In a clip for mounting the underframes of cycle saddles on seat pillars, the
combination with a split socket such as A having a transverse gripping bolt or stud
such as B, of shaped washers such as C carried by the said bolt or stud, aud of set
screws such as D so mounted in lugs on the socket A that they impinge on the
member or members of the underframe of the saddle, as and for the purpose
set forth.
Date
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.