Improvements relating to Cycle and like Saddles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1897- Accepted, 5th Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cycle and like Saddles.
We, EDITH WOODS, of 70, Rose Hill Street, Derby, RICHARD WOODS, of Rose
Bank, Borrowash, in the County of Derby, Electrical Engineer, and JOHN GRAY,
of Hampden Cottage, Washwood Heath, Birmingham, Mechanical Draughtsman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in cycle and like saddles of the type
described in the Specification No. 24877 of 1896 of the first named applicant.
In the construction of a saddle having an air tube or chamber fitting upon
the cantle-plate, we form such cantle-plate of a semi-circular, oval, or other suitable
section for the reception of the air chamber. We sometimes provide a flange or
projection on the cantle-plate preferably at its lower side, to which the leather
forming the saddle seat may be secured by rivets or in any other convenient
manner. For the purpose of securing the cantle-plate to the saddle frame, we
provide a groove or recess in the plate for the reception of the heads of the securing
screws or the like, which are thus prevented from protruding on to the air
chamber.
We preferably so form and arrange the cantle-plate that the upper portion of
the leather seating of the saddle shall not come into direct contact with it. To
prevent elongation of the air chamber we provide a projection at the end of the
cantle-plate, either as a part of or as an attachment to such plate.
We form the air chamber from india-rubber or other suitable material and of
such a cross section as will best suit the particular cantle-plate with which it is
to be employed. We fit the air chamber with an ordinary valve.
The fore part of the leather forming the saddle seating is carried around the
peak-plate which is preferably so arranged as to permit of the interposition of an
india-rubber pad or an air chamber.
The rear part of the leather is secured to the cantle plate as hereinbefore
described, and the fore part, after passing over the peak-plate may be attached
direct to the underframe and the seating tightened to the required tension solely
by the inflation of the air chamber or chambers, or it may be attached to a tighten-
ing screw or other suitable adjusting appliance.
We sometimes dispense with the hereinbefore described rubber pad or air
chamber in the peak-plate, and the leather is then passed around the peak-plate in
direct contact to be secured to the frame or to a suitable adjustable connection.
We do not limit the application of our invention to saddles of any particular
form or pattern but adapt the same with such modifications as may be necessary
to saddles for varying types of cycles, motor-cars, and like vehicles.
Dated this Ath day of Rehmuar 1807
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page_text: We, EDITH WOODS, of 70, Rose Hill Street, Derby, RICHARD WOODS, of Rose
Bank, Borrowash, in the County of Derby, Electrical Engineer, and JOHN GRAY,
of Hampden Cottage; Washwood Heath, Birmingham, Mechanical Draughtsman,
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 consists of improvements in cycle and like saddles of the type
described in the Specification No. 24877 of 1896 of the first named applicant.
In the 'construction of a saddle having an air tube or chamber fitting upon the
cantle-plate, we form such cantle-plate of a semi-circular, oval, or other suitable
section for the reception of the air chamber. We sometimes provide a flange or
projection on the cantle-plate preferably at its lower side, to which the leather
forming the saddle soat may be secured by rivets or in any other convenient manner.
For the purpose of securing the cantle plate to the saddle frame, we provide a
groove or recess in the plate for the reception of the heads of the securing screws
or the like, which are thus prevented from protruding on to the air chamber.
We preferably so form and arrange the cantle-plate that the upper portion of
the leather seating of the saddle shall not come into direct contact with it. To
prevent elongation of the air chamber we provide a projection at the end of the
cantle-plate, either as a part of or as an attachment to such plate.
We form the air chamber from india-rubber or other suitable material and of
such a cross section as will best suit the particular cantle-plate with which it is to
be employed. We fit the air chamber with an ordinary valve.
The fore part of the leather forming the saddle seating is carried around the
peak-plate which is preferably so arranged as to permit of the interposition of an
india-rubber pad or an air chamber.
The rear part of the leather is secured to the cantle-plate as hereinbefore
described, and the fore part, after passing over the peak-plate may be attached
direct to the underframe and the seating tightened to the required tension solely
by the inflation of the air chamber or chambers, or it may be attached to a
tightening screw or other suitable adjusting appliance.
We sometimes dispense with the hereinbefore described rubber pad or air chamber
in the peak-plate, and the leather is then passed around the peak-plate in direct
contact to be secured to the frame or to a suitable adjustable connection.
We do not limit the application of our invention to saddles of any particular 3
form or pattern but adapt the same with such modifications as may be necessary to
saddles for varying types of cycles, motor cars, and like vehicles.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
to.-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a cycle saddle cantle-plate and air tube 4
arranged in one manner in accordance with our invention, whilst Figure 2 is a
similar view of another arrangement. n f
Figure 3 is a plan of the cantle-plate on the line ab Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a sectional elevation representing the arrangement and combination
of the saddle seat or upper with peak and with the cantle-plate.
Figure 5 is a section of the saddle peak-plate with a rigid connection of the
seat leather, whilst Figure 6 is a similar view of a peak-plate with an adjustable
connection of the "saddle seat.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.

page_text: The cantle plate A shaped suitably for the reception of the air tube or chamber B
is secured to the saddle frame by a bolt C as in Figures 1 and 4, grooves or
recesses A³ being provided in plate A for the reception of the head of the bolt so
as to prevent it from protuding on to the air chamber B. We sometimes make the .
cantle plate, in two parts as A', A³, Figure 2, portions d of the part A³ being
tightly bent round and secured to the saddle frame e so as to make a rigid con-
nection therewith while similar portions of the loose part A' are loosely bent round
and secured to the frame e in such a manner as to form a hinge. With the
Figure 2 arrangement the leather seat does not come into direct contact with the
air chamber as in Figure 1.
In the arrangement shown in Figure 4 an india rubber pad (or pads) D or an
air chamber is interposed between the pin D' and the leather seating E but such
pads can be dispensed with and the leather E passed round the peak-plate in direct
contact with the same as at Figures 5 and 6. After passing round the peak the
fore end of the leather is attached either to a tightening or adjusting screw such
as F (Figures 4 and 6) or is rigidly secured to the peak-plate, as at Figure 5.
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:-
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1. In cycle and like saddles the arrangement and combination of an air tube
or chamber with a cantle-plate substantially as described and as illustrated.
2. The arrangement and combination with cycle and like saddles having an
air tube or chamber wholly or partially contained within the specially formed
cantle-plate, of a peak and connections, substantially as described and as illus-
trated at Figures 4, 5, and 6.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.