Improvements in Cycle Bosses or Clips.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1894-Accepted, 30th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Bosses or Clips.
We, TноMAS MIDDLEMORE, trading as William Middlemore, of 101 Holloway
Head, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and THOMAS EVANS, of
14 Mill Street, Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Fitter, do hereby declare-
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to cycle bosses or clips, and its object is to produce a boss.
or clip having great gripping power when in position upon the saddle pillar, and
at the same time to produce a clip capable of being adjusted to suit varying sizes.
or diameters of pillars.
In carrying our invention into effect when constructing our boss or clip in one-
convenient form, we arrange the entire clip or finished boss as a combination of a.
pair of hook or clip bolts with nuts upon their ends, together with an upper and
lower plate for embracing or pressing upon the pillar bar or tube. The upper
clipping plate we make with side ears or preferably curved beds to receive the
wires of the saddle, while the central portion we form as a channelled bed, either
circular, curved or tapered for resting upon the upper surface of the saddle pillar,
the side ears or beds we cut or pierce in such a manner that a clip bolt or hook
piece may pass freely through the opening so as to engage with and secure the
saddle wires in such a manner as to ensure that they shall be drawn down tightly
upon the beds of the ears when the hooks are placed under tension by the tightening
of their end nuts.
The bottom clip plate we arrange as a bed piece for the under surface of the
pillar, the channel or central portion of the clip being curved or tapered so as to-
provide support for varying sizes or diameters of pillars. The outer portions of
the bottom clip plate we form as eye pieces or cars for the studs or hook bolt ends.
to pass through, for the purpose of receiving a nut or a pair of nuts for locking
the two clip plates together. We sometimes place washer plates or rings between.
the nuts and the clips; and when making our clip plates for very strong purposes
we form teeth or roughened surfaces upon the beds or grooved pressing pieces.
We make our clips of cast or wrought metal and we modify the shape and.
configuration of our plates and hook bolts to suit any particular requirement.
Dated this 26th day of September 1893.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Bosses or Clips.
We, THOMAS MIDDLEMORE, trading as William Middlemore, of 101 Holloway
Head, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and THOMAS EVANS, of
14 Mill Street, Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Fitter, 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 :-
Our invention relates to cycle bosses or clips, and its object is to produce a boss
or clip having great gripping power when in position upon the saddle pillar, and
at the same time to produce a clip capable of being adjusted to suit varying sizes
or diameters of pillars.

page_text: Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figure 1 is an end elevation of our boss or clip.
Figure 2 is a side elevation.
Figure 3 is a similar section, and Figure 4 is a plan.
In carrying our invention into effect when constructing our boss or clip in one
convenient form, we arrange the entire clip or finished boss as a combination of a
pair of hook or clip bolts C C¹ with nuts upon their ends, together with an upper
and lower plate A, B, for embracing or pressing upon the pillar bar or tube D.
The upper clipping plate A we make with side ears or preferably curved beds A'
to receive the wires E of the saddle, while the central portion we form as a
channelled bed A', either circular, curved or tapered as shown in Figure 1, for
resting upon the upper surface of the saddle pillar D, the side ears or beds A' we
cut or pierce in such a manner that a clip bolt or hook piece may pass freely
through the opening as shown, so as to engage with and secure the saddle wires
in such a manner as to ensure that they shall be drawn down tightly upon the
beds A of the ears, when the hooks are placed under tension by the tightening f
their end nuts.
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The bottom clip plate B we arrange as a bed piece for the under surface of the
pillar D, the channel or central portion of the clip being curved or tapered so as
to provide support for varying sizes or diameters of pillars. The outer portions
of the bottom clip plate we form as eye pieces or ears for the studs or hook bolt
ends C C to pass through, for the purpose of receiving a nut or a pair of nuts
for locking the two clip plates A, B, together. We sometimes place washer
plates or rings between the nuts and the clips; and when making our clip plates
for very strong purposes we form teeth or roughened surfaces upon the beds or
grooved pressing pieces.
We make our clips of cast or wrought metal and we modify the shape and
configuration of our plates and hook bolts to suit any particular requirement.
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. A saddle boss or clip consisting in combination of a top plate A, a bottom
plate B, hook bolts C C', the top plate being arranged to bed or hold the wires
and also to grip the L pin, while the bottom plate is arranged to grip the L pin
by means of the screw bolts, substantially as set forth.
2. A saddle boss or clip with top and bottom plates and V or self adjusting
recesses to grip different diameters of L pin, substantially as herein set forth and
as illustrated in the drawings.