Improvements in Saddles for Velocipedes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
ODRALITION
Improvements in Saddles for Velocipedes.
We WILLIAM BAXTER TURNER, and JOHN ASBURY, both of Cheylesmore, Coventry,
in the County of Warwick, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows: :―
This invention relates to a novel arrangement of parts for providing an elastic
support for the saddles of velocipedes, and at the same time holding the leather seat
at tension.
The longitudinal saddle bar is provided, as usual, with a socket to receive the stem
which supports the saddle, and fitted to its opposite ends are elastic levers to which
the seat is attached.
These levers are free to yield to the weight of the rider, to a degree sufficient to
maintain the endway tension of the seat.
The saddle bar is formed at rear with a cross head, through which, when the same
is made hollow, a rod is passed to form a fulcrum for a pair of levers to which the rear
of the leather seat is attached.
These levers extend below their fulcrum rod, and are formed with eyes to receive
each a tension rod, which is hinged thereto for the purpose to be presently explained.
These rods are passed through lugs projecting laterally from the saddle bar, and
standing in front of the crosshead, and they are supported in a horizontal position by
the lugs.
Strung upon these tension reds, in front of the lugs, are coiled springs, which are
secured in position by means of nuts taking into screw threads formed on the forward
ends of the rods, and it is through these springs that the supporting levers are
caused to put an endway elastic strain upon the leather seat.
The elastic lever which carries the front end of the saddle may consist either of a
lever pivotted to the front end of the saddle bar, or it may be of a curled spring, the
ends of which are secured in sockets formed in a forked extension of the saddle bar.
When the pivotted lever is used, the like arrangement of tension rod and compres-
sion spring to that described for the back levers, will be employed to maintain the
endway strain on the leather scat.
This endway strain may be nicely adjusted by means of the nuts on the several
tension rods, and in the case of the curled spring, the forked extension may be made
adjustable, the stem of the forked extension which carries the spring being threaded
to receive a tightening nut prior to its insertion into the hollow saddle bar.
It will be obvious that in the place of the coiled springs, the tension rods may be
fitted with hollow blocks of india rubber, the compression of which will regulate the
end way strain upon the leather seat.
Daid this 15th of 10eu
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Saddles for Velocipedes.
WO WILLIAM BAXTER TURNER and JOHN ASBURY, both of Cheylesmore, Coventry,
in the County of Warwick, Machinists, 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 a novel arrangement of parts for providing an elastic
support for the detachable saddles of Velocipedes, and at the same time holding the
leather seat at tension.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a saddle constructed according to
this invention; and
Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, and
Fig. an inverted plan view of the saddle, slightly modified, the elastic longitudinal
strain for the seat being somewhat differently obtained.
In Figs. 1 and 2, A is the longitudinal saddle bar, provided, as usual, with a
socket to receive the stem which supports the saddle.-Mounted on the rear end of
the saddle bar A, is a pair of elastic levers B B, and fitted to the front end thereof
is a curled spring C-D is the saddle seat constructed of leather, as usual, and
attached at front to the spring C, and, at rear, to the levers B B.
These supports are free to yield to the weight of the rider to a degree sufficient
to maintain the end way tension of the seat.
The saddle bar A is formed, at rear, with a crosshead A', through which, when
the same is made hollow (as shewn in the drawing), a rod a is passed, to form a
fulcrum for the pair of levers B B. These levers extend below their fulcrum rod, and
are formed with eyes to receive each a tension rod B¹, which is hinged thereto for the
purpose to be presently explained.
These rods are passed through lugs a projecting laterally from the saddle bar, and
standing in front of the crosshead, and they are supported in a horizontal position by
the lugs.
Strung upon these tension rods, in front of the lugs, are coiled springs B', which
are secured in position by means of nuts taking into screw threads formed on
the forward ends of the rods, and it is through these springs that the supporting
levers are caused to put an endway elastic strain upon the leather seat.
The ends of the curled spring are secured by solder or otherwise in sockets
formed in a forked extension A2 of the saddle bar. The stem of this fork is threaded
to receive a nut c, and a socket is made in the front end of the saddle bar for the
insertion of the screwed stem, which fits loosely therein. To prevent the fork A
swivelling in its socket, a binding screw a is provided for securing the fork
rigidly to the saddle bar.-The head of the spring C is secured to the scat by a
booked extension c¹ of the front plate, which is rivetted, as usual, to the leather.
The rear plate of the seat connects by bolts and nuts with the levers B.
It will now be understood that when the rider mounts the saddle, the tendency of
his weight, to sag the leather will be neutralized by the elastic supports. The tension
put on the seat may be regulated by means of the nuts b and c, the former of which
serves to contract the springs B2, and thereby enable the levers B the better to sustain
the load, while the tightening up of the nut c will force out the forked extension A'
of the saddle bar, and cause the springs C to take up the slack of the leather seat.
In place of the curled spring C, an elastic lever may be employed, as shown in the
modification Figs. 3 and 4.. In this case, the lever is hinged to the head of the
saddle bar, and fitted at its lower end with a tension rod B¹, like the levers B.-
Pendent from the saddle bar is a lug a* for receiving this central tension rod B¹, and
in rear of this lug a coiled spring B and nut 6 are fitted to the tension rod; thus,

page_text: the action of the front and back supporting levers will be precisely alike, their clasticity
being obtained from the restraining power of the coiled springs B².
It will be obvious that in place of the coiled springs, the tension rods may be fitted
with hollow blocks of india rubber, the compression of which will regulate the end way
strain upon the leather seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Constructing detachable saddles for Velocipedes, by combining, with a detachable
saddle bar, adjustable front and rear elastic supports arranged and operating as above
described.
Dated this 15th day of Novamban 1980
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.