Improvements in Cycle Saddles, and their Supports and Attachments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Saddles, and their Supports and
Attachments.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE 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 a mounting or support for cycle saddles, whereby
longitudinal adjustment and tilt of the saddle is attained and has for its object,
to employ as the base framing of the saddle what is usually carried at the summit
of the seat pillar or constitutes the horizontal part of what is commonly known
as the L-pin.
According to my present invention, the attachment boss is carried by the base
framing and is adapted to take upon or fit within the summit of the pillar member
or other seat support of the machine.
In carrying out one form of my invention, the base framing of the saddle is
made of a single longitudinal tube member passing from fore to aft along the
underside of the saddle, and with the topside ends, which are fitted with clip or
other brackets, cross bars or other corresponding rests, supporting the springs
located between them and the front and rear underside of the saddle seat. Or
I may employ branches running direct from the ends of the base bar and con-
stituting the end framings of the seat.
This tubular base bar slides longitudinally within a tilting boss fitted to or carried
by the summit of the seat pillar. This tilting boss may consist of a fixed collar
having bracket sides, between which a clip or a pair of gripping cheeks come, with
transversely directed bolts passed through the upper and lower parts and with
distance pieces threaded upon the lower bolt and coming between the bracket sides
to give solidity to the whole of the boss when nuts on the ends of the bolts are
screwed up. The underside parts of the clip or cheeks have quadrant slotted lugs
or extensions depending from them and wherethrough the said lower bolt passes,
whereby tilt adjustment is admitted by swinging the clip upon the top bolt as a
centre and locking of the parts in their adjusted position relative to the seat
support is effected, whilst the clamping of the saddle bar or tube member to the
boss is made by the upper bolt. It will thus be seen that the top bolt, besides
forming the means for closing the clip for clamping same to the saddle bar, also
forms the centre upon which the clip swings.
As another form of my invention, I make the side brackets from the upper
terminal end of the seat pillar and fit between the said side brackets a split, all-
round or other clip with a webbed or like quadrant-slotted extension depending
from its underside. Distance pieces are arranged between the extension and the
inner walls of the post, and a square sectioned lower bolt passes in common both
through these parts and the slotted extension for locking the adjustment, whilst an
upper bolt passes transversely through the free ends of the side brackets and the
clips for locking the boss to the saddle bar and for forming the centre upon which
the whole of the boss swings when making tilt adjustment.
In carrying out a still further form of my invention, the boss is made up of two
collars in the form of divided clips connected together and arranged to clip the
saddle bar and pillar support respectively.

page_text: Thus the pillar support clip consists essentially of a split lug with eyed ears,
between or over which like eyed ears of the saddle bar clip coincidently come and
through the coincident holes in the whole of the said eyes, a bolt fitted with a nut
at its end, passes. The back of the pillar lug has a split bracket or an eared
bracket, whilst the saddle bar clip rear end has a cranked or quadrant-shaped and
slotted arm or arms adapted to embrace or come upon the sides of the back ear or
ears of the pillar lug, and through the holes in the eyes of the one part and the
quadrant slot or slots in the other, a bolt, having distance pieces or sleeves
threaded upon it to give solidity to the boss, passes, and by screwing up a nut on
the end of the same after swinging the saddle bar clip upon the front bolt as a
centre for effecting tilt adjustment, the said adjustment is locked.
The quadrant shaped slots for effecting tilt, instead of being made in an extension
of the clip, may be formed in the sides of the pillar or an attachment carried by
the pillar.
As a further form in which a universal movement may be attained, I take a
clip boss with depending free ends made wedge shaped and adapted to impinge
upon an inclined plane threaded upon the middle part of the stem of a cross bolt,
whose ends pass through the free ends of a clip and through holes in the wings
or sides of the pillar or its mounting and with the outside faces of the said free
ends of the clip serrated or toothed; or an intermediate and non-rotating washer
may be located between the said sides and the clip and threaded upon the bolt.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1895.
Improvements in Cycle Saddles, and their Supports and
Attachments.
I, 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 principally to improvements in cycle saddle attachment
means and in such saddle pillar supports.
I will describe my invention in connection with a saddle having a base framing
formed of a single longitudinal tube member passing fore and aft along the under-
side of the seat and with the ends fitted with rests or cross bars upon which springs
or supplementary framing parts coming between the underside front and back parts
of the seat and the top of the said tubular base bar may come.
This tubular base bar carrying the seat, slides longitudinally through an
embracing clip fitted and adjustably clamped between plate or cheek-like sides or
branches of a bifurcated end of the seat pillar, by crossing screw pins, bolts or
their equivalents.
In carrying out one form of my improvements, I employ a nearly all round and
split clip, hung or swinging from a crossing screw pin passing through holes in
upper extensions of its end, through bearing holes of laterally yielding cheeks or
bracket plates located at the two opposite sides of the upper end of the seat pillar.
Tilt adjustment is obtained by the lower part of the clip having a quadrant-slotted
web, through which and threaded-on distance pieces and holes in the cheeks or
bracket plates, a screw bolt, drawn up by a nut or equivalent means, passes.

page_text: By clamping the tilt at a distance from the centre of mounting or the Doss,
increased holding power is obtained.
Figure 1 represents a complete vertical section of such an attachment boss and
its fittings as above described.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a part vertical section of the upper end of the seat pillar, showing
the plate sides or walls of the same, which yield laterally and between which the
clip or boss is gripped.
Figure 4 shows a section and a side elevation of the said clip.
a is the tubular base bar of the saddle and d is the clip, hung from a cross screw
bolt h, passing through extensions d', of the clip and through bearing holes f³,
of laterally yielding side plates or cheeks f', terminating the upper end of the
seat pillar f.
h' is a screw nut taking upon an end of the screw bolt h, for compressing together
the sides of the clip on closing the same upon the tubular base bar. is a quadrant-
slotted lug formed integral with the clip d, and through the slot in which and
distance pieces, and lower bearing holes f, in the side plates f', a bolt e with a
screw nut e, upon its end, passes.
a, through
By releasing the top nut ', longitudinal free movement of the base bar
the clip d, is admitted and by the re-tightening up of the same, the saddle is
affixedly clamped to the summit of the pillar in its adjusted position.
To effect tilt adjustment both the nuts h¹, e¹ are slackened, when the clip can
swing upon the top bolt h, as a centre, the lower bolt e, working as a guide within
the quadrant slot of the lug d. On re-screwing up the said nuts, the whole is
firmly clamped in its tilt-adjusted position.
As a modification of the last named arrangement, the clip may be split or made
in two halves, brought together by lateral adjustment, as represented in vertical
section in Figure 5, whilst Figure 6 shows an elevation of one of the half clips
separately.
d, d' are the halves or sections of the clip, which swing upon the upper screw
pin h, supported or working within bearing holes f, of the laterally yielding
sides, of the bifurcated upper end of the seat-pillar f, whilst the lower screw
pin or bolt e, passes through quadrant slots d³, made in lower extensions d³, of the
sections d, d', of the clip.
Longitudinal and tilt adjustments and the clamping of the parts in their adjusted
positions are effected in the same way as described in connection with the preceding
arrangements.
Instead of the grip being obtained directly by the closing of the sides of a band
or split clip upon the tubular case bar, the gripping may be effected by an inter-
mediate operation, viz., by making inclined-plane ends of the split clip impinge upon
a bearing block threaded onto the upper screw pin or bolt.
Figure 7 represents a sectional view of such an arrangement, in which 6 is a
clip with the free eyed ends d', d, freely hung upon a crossing screw pin h, which
passes also through an eye, of a clamping block j and through bearing eyes f³,
in the yielding plate or cheek-like sides ¹, of the upper end of the seat pillar f.
By tightening up the nuts on the pin, the inclined planes a³, of the ends of the
clip impinge upon the inclined ends, of the block j, which, having some play
upon the said pin, is brought down upon the tubular base bar a, whilst the clip
surrounding the other parts of the said bar also grips the sides thereof, aud in
order to prevent the displacement of the clip after tilt adjustment has been given
to it, serrations or hardened teeth do, on the outsides of the clip are caused to
imbed themselves into the softer metal on the insides f³, of the yielding side
plates, so that the screwing up of the nuts h', on the enls of the single pin h
simultaneously affixes the clip or boss to the upper part of the seat pillar and also
the boss or clip to the saddle base bar.
Figure 8 represents the bifurcated end part of the seat pillar made in the form
of a separate cap attachment brazed or affixed to its summit.

page_text: Figure 9 of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation a cycle
saddle and its tubular base bar adjustably fitted to the summit of the seat pillar
through a nearly all-round clip, in accordance with another form of my invention.
Figure 10 represents the end of the seat pillar in elevation and the clip in section
separately.
Figure 11 is a vertical section upon the dotted line Figure 9, whilst Figure 12
is a like vertical section of Figure 9 upon the dotted line ..
Figure 13 is a horizontal section upon the dotted line a², of the said Figure 9.
a is a single tubular base bar, supporting the seat b, at its ends through the
medium of springs or other expedients c, c¹. d is a nearly all-round clip having a
pains of ears d', and a pair of short arms d³, the latter of which are quadrant
slotted at d³, and through which and eyes or holes f, in branches or plate horns f,
directed from the back edges of the laterally yielding walls or cheeks, of the
bifurcated upper cap part of the seat pillar f, the screw pin e, having nuts e¹, upon
its ends, passes.
The said clip d, swings upon the screw pin h, which has nuts h¹, upon its ends
and passes through the eyes d, of the ears d', on the clip d, and through the
eyes, of the upright cars or extensions f³ of the said side plates or cheeks f³.
i is a distance-sleeve located between the arms d of the seat pillar for giving
solidity to the bearings when tightened up.
To effect a sliding adjustment, loosen one or both of the nuts e', when the grip
of the band clip is relaxed and the tubular base bar can freely slide longitudinally
within it to any horizontally adjusted position, in which the same is secured by
again tightening up the nut or nuts.
To give tilt to the seat loosen the screw nuts h¹ and e¹, when the clip d, can
swing upon the piu h, as a centre and with the quadrant slots d³, working over
the pin e, as a guide. After the required tilt has been obtained the nuts are
tightened up, when the whole of the parts become tightly clamped in their adjusted
positions.
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. Mounting cycle saddle attachment clips or bosses between laterally yielding
ears, side plates or arms formed or carried at the summit of the seat pillars for
purpose of embracing the said clips or bosses which said clips grip or secure
within them saddle or base framings, the whole being clamped together by means
of a screw boli oi bolts.
the
Secondly. In cycle saddle mountings, the combination with a seat pillar
terminated by laterally-yielding ears, side-plates or arms as referred to in the
preceding claim of a radially-swinging clip d, substantially as described and set
forth in Figures I to 12.
Thirdly. In cycle saddles and their mountings, the combination with a saddle
having a base bar, or a tubular base bar or equivalent, of a clip d, having quadrant
slotted arms d², and eyed ears d' and being adjustably mounted and turning upon
the summit of the seat pillar, substantially as and for the purpose described and
set forth in Figures 1 to 5.
Fourthly. In eyele saddle mountings, the general construction, arrangement and
combination of the parts, substantially as described and set forth in Figure 12.
Dated this 22nd day of August 1896.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.