proved Back Rests or Supports for the Saddles of Velocipedes
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May 1895-Accepted 10th Aug, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improved Back Rests or Supports for the Saddles of Velocipedes
We, CARL HAUPT of Elenstrasse, Dresden Neustadt, Germany, Mechanician
and LOUIS HUGO LANGENHAN, of Antonsti ass in the same place Director of
Manufactory, 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
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The object of this invention is the provision in velocipedes of a support or rest
for the back of the rider who is thereby enabled to change the fatigueing bending
over forward position for a more convenient natural, and healthful position and to
utilise the propelling force in a better way and to greater advantage more especially
in up hill travelling, the rider being at present obliged to bend forward very much
in order in the requisite more powerful treading of the pedals not to be forced
backward off the saddle
A support against which the small of the rider's back bears when in the leaning
back position allows of the action of the whole of the muscular force of the legs
which are so carried between the bach support and the pedals that the whole of
their work is transferred to the latter
In the drawing
Fig 1 shews the turn down back support of this invention applied to the frame
of bicycle behind the saddle thereof, the near side of the back support frame
being broken away, the support being in the turned up or in use position
Fig 2 a somewhat similar view with the back support turned down or in the out
of use position
Fig 3 a plan view of the under framing of the back support and operating
mechanism
Fig 4 an edge view of the back support detached from its frame
Fig 5 a view of the back support shewing the side against which the back of the
11der beals
With a view to cleaness the spring underfiaming of the saddle is not shewn in
the drawing
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c is a sheet
a is the bicycle saddle supported from part 6 of the bicycle frame
metal frame fixed by a clamping screw bolt d to the part b underneath the back
part of the saddle a, said fiame being in the form of short split tubular part
runi ing out into two side cheeks e on each of which is pivotted on the outside at f
an aim g of the back support Each army has jointed to it a pawl h said
pawls being connected together by a bar and engaging each in a notch in the
upper edges of the side cheeks e k is a finger pivotted on the cross rod and
normally at its outer free end pressed in an upward dnection by a spiral spring m
mounted on the same rod with one end fixed in one of the side cheeks n IS a
double lever cared to rest upon or loose on a second cross rod o, jointed at one
end to the finger k and at the other end carrying a disc p adjustable as to height
by turning its screwed shank q up or down in a correspondingly screwed hole in
the end of the double lever n so that when the disc is pressed upon the free end of
the finger will be forced downwards against the resistance of the spring m
This
is accomplished by the weight of the rider, when he takes his seat, bearing
through the saddle upon the disc, and in this pressed down position the rider
may pull up the back support from behind or from the front by means of connecting
cords so that the pawls h engage in the notches and thus fix the back support in
the position for use

page_text: When the rider leaves the saddle the spring m acting upwards against the free
end of the anger will force this upwards, the saddle lifting at the same time,
whereup on the pawls arc released from the side cheeks e and the back support
will fall back partly by its own weight and partly by the action of spring stud r
which presses against a tooth like extension of one of the aims g This spring stud
is carried in a small bracket which is fixed against one of the ide cheeks e
s is the striking or stop point for the bar which connects the pawls
for the bach mounted between the arms g
t is a pad
In addition to the autom itic turning down of the back support when the de
leaves the saddle this opciation may also be performed by the rider at will by
employing a double lever n lengthened as shewn 10 dotted lines in Fig 1 the disc
being dispensed with said lengthened lever being pulled or forced upwards through
suitable levers or connections by the rider or by a duect pull
p
The main object in having the back support to turn down either automatically
or operated by and at the will of the rider is to prevent danger to the ride when in
the act of springing from the saddle
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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In velocipedes a support or re t for the back of the rider constructed and arranged
to turn down either automatically or by manual operation, for the purposes
specified, substantially as described and shewn
Dated this 4th day of May 1895
THOMAS R SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, WC Agent for the Applicants