Improvements in Cycles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 4th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, EDWIN HERBERT
Improvements in Cycles.
LANGLEY, of Tonbridge, in the County of Kent,
temporarily residing at 179 Greenwich Road S.E., Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a movement similar to horse exercise
for cyclists.
According to this invention the saddle is adjustably secured to a lever one arm
of which is connected by a link to a crank on the axle of the driving wheel or
wheels. Foot rests or stirrups are provided. By this means the rising and falling
or to and fro motion of the rider's body acting through the said lever propels the
cycle. In the former case the lever is of bell crank form, and spring-balanced,
and in the latter case the lever is straight and vertical and may, or may not, be
spring-balanced.
Dated this 28th day of Tul- 1001
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycles.
I EDWIN HERBERT LANGLEY of Tonbridge, in the County of Kent,
temporarily residing at 179 Greenwich Road S.E. Merchant 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 has for object, the construction and arrangement of oscillating
saddle support and its combination by links or rods with the crank of the driving
wheel axle that from a motion of the riders body like that of bumping the saddle
while riding horseback the oscillatory support partakes a motion corresponding
therewith and causes the cycle to be propelled.
The rider obtains purchase of his feet and hands by stirrups or rests and by the
handle bar of the guide wheel and to enable the support to recover its position as
the rider lifts his body a spring is fitted thereto and to the back bone of the
machine.
The annexed drawing shows my invention.
A is the saddle. B the support pivotted at C. D link or rod connecting lower
end of support B with crank E of main axle. F rest for feet. G handle bar.
H spring to return support to normal position.
In practice the rider places his feet on the rest and grasps the handles of the
steering wheel, he then sits in the saddle and the weight of his body causes the
vehicle to move forward. As the crank reaches the lower point of its travel,
the rider intuitively rises from the knee joints the saddle following his seat under
the action of the spring until he intuitively again sits down for a repeat operation
in succession, his hands and feet remaining comparatively stationary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The pivotted and oscillatory saddle support and its connection with the crank of

page_text: the driving wheel and the means of obtaining propulsion of a cycle from the
weight of riders body from a motion like that of riding on horseback as set forth
and substantially from the arrangement shown.
DL: 001 1
ד.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said E. H. Langley.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said E. H. Langley.