Improvements in the Attachment Bosses of Cycle Saddles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 20th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Attachment Bosses of Cycle Saddles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to attachment bosses for securing cycle saddles to their
L pins or pillar supports.
In carrying out one form of my improvements in connection with attachment
bosses, I make the body part of the said boss in the form of a split-sided clip-
collar or socket, with bifurcated branches or lugs directed upwardly from the two
opposite sides of the split part, and through which lugs or branched parts, which
come nearly together at the split parts, but recede from each other at the terminal
parts, a transversely-directed screw bolt or pin passes, having a square collar upon
one part, taking into a like square hole made through one of the lug sides of the
split collar.
The outer sides of the branches or lugs surrounding the cross bolt or pin are
faced, against which, inner washers, having frame-rod keep channels sunken across
their outer sides, and strung upon the bolt, come, and also threaded upon the said
bolt are outside washers, having frame rod keep grooves sunken within their inner
faces, alike to and in the same positions as the keep grooves sunken within the
inner washers, and between the said inner and outer washers, single, double or other
wires lie, and are held and clamped between the keep grooves on the screwing up
of nuts upon the wormed ends of the bolt.
The inner washers are preferably made of hard metal, and have teeth or
serrations upon their inner faces, so that when the screw nuts on the ends of the
bolt or rod are screwed up, the whole of the parts are drawn together, the split
collar or socket is closed clip-wise upon the Ĺ pin or upright pillar support, the
teeth or serrations of the inner washer are made to imbed themselves within the
opposed faces of the sides of the socket or collar (which is of softer metal than
the said teeth), and the outer washers are closed upon the inner washers, with the
frame rods or wires clamped within and between the coincident keep grooves and
opposed faces of the washers, hence the connection of the saddle framing to the
boss, and the boss to the L-pin or saddle support.
Instead of employing nuts at both ends of the pin, a headed bolt may be used,
having a nut taking upon its screwed end.
To give tilt to the saddle, loosen the screw nut or nuts at the ends of the bolt,
when the teeth of the inner washers slightly leave the face of the split collar or
socket, which thus allows the washers, and the saddle framing lying between them,
to turn or rotate bodily together upon the outer ends of the pin as centres of
inotion, and on the necessary tilt being acquired, the screwing up of the nut or
nuts again closes the component parts upon the members to be gripped and held.
It will be observed that the boss is universal in its adjustment and can be
applied indifferently to either an L pin or a vertical seat pillar.
In carrying out a further form of my invention, the body of the boss is made in
the form of a fixed frame, with an elongated and vertically disposed eye, having
its inside fitted with a crescent-shaped bearer or clamping piece, having upon its
under or outer side, a shank, furnished with an inclined plane or planes, or with a

page_text: double helix, against which a like shaped inclined plane or planes or helix formed
at the head end of a pin, stud or equivalent come or comes. This head end has a
circular thrust collar or shoulder, which comes or rests upon a like shaped shoulder
or rest formed out of the metal of the frame.
The shank end of the stud has a hexagonal or nut ended head, which on being
turned rotates the clamping stud, and brings forward the inclined plane or planes,
which force the impingement block upon the L-pin or pillar member, and clamps
the same between the said block and the frame.
The frame-carrying and clamping means may consist of double washers, as before
described threaded upon the shanks of screw pins or bolts, whose ends take into the
two opposite sides of the frame. Or the said frame may have fixed screw pins
upon which the saddle frame clamping means come.
Instead of an inclined-ended forcing-up stud, I may employ a screw pin in its
stead, whose end is made to impinge against the loose clamping block.
Instead of employing an inner washer, may dispense with the said washers,
and sink the centres of the faces of the lugs of the split clip collar or socket, or
the flanges of the frame, or the flanges of the ring, with large sized recesses or
sinkings, which said recesses are terminated by ring-shaped raised parts, upon the
faces of which, the frame rods come. The outer washers, which preferably have
keep grooves within them, come as before described, with the frame rods between
them and the face rings, as aforesaid.
By employing the ring facing as the bearing surface, a secure clamping is
effected, without the aid of the middle toothed washers as aforesaid..
The facings, which constitute a contracted bearing surface, by which the holding
is effected, may be circumferentially grooved.
Dated this 25th day of May 1894.
Improvements in the Attachment Dusses Of Cycle Daddies.
1, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 detail improvements in attachment bosses for securing
cycle saddles to their pins or supports, and is an amplification of, or a development
of, my several former Letters Patent dated the 28th day of July 1892 No. 13733
and the 19th day of December 1893 No. 24371, and also of Letters Patent granted
to Frederick Easom and George Pilkington Mills dated the 29th day of July 1893
No. 14620 of which I am the sole assignee.
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Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a side elevation of & universal
boss constructed according to one form of my invention and applied to a double-
wire saddle supporting frame.
Figure 2 represents a cross section of the same, but with the drawing-to bolt
shown in elevation.
Figure 3 is an underside plan of the boss, Figure 1, showing the dispositions of
the rods of the double-sided framing.
Figure 4 represents sections and elevations of the component parts of the boss
separately.
a is a nearly all-round clip, with the terminal and free ends a², formed with

page_text: Jugs a³, having all-through holes at, through them, and with its outside facings as,
being of soft metal. bare washer lugs, each having a circular hole 63, through it,
a keep groove 62, sunken within its inner face, and a rest lug b', upon its upper
inner part, which seats within one of the two keep grooves, f³, formed within
the outer face of an interposed and rotating hardened steel washer, having a
circular hole f, through its middle for taking onto the round outer part 2 of a
screw-ended square spindle c, and teeth or serrations f, upon its inner face. It
will be observed that the said teeth run in directions at right angles to the direction
of the keep grooves.
After the spindle c, has been passed through the eyes a' of the clip, and the
components have been threaded in the proper relative order upon the round end of
the spindle, with the frame wire or rod member e, lying between the keep
grooves 2, f, of the washers and f, then by screwing home the nuts d, upon
the screwed ends c² of the spindle c, the teeth f', are slightly imbedded into the
soft metal faces a, of the clip a, and slightly closes the branches a² thereof, whilst
the frame rods are drawn closer together and secured to the clip, and the clip to
the Lor vertical seat support in any desired position, hence a universal boss which
admits of the saddle being tilted or adjusted, or of the eye of the clip being
directed in any position suitable for taking either upon an L pin or a vertical
support.
Figure 5 represents the said boss Figure 1 applied to a four-wire framing.
The whole of the parts of this form of boss are the same as those of the one
already described, other than that double keep grooves 62, 6, are formed in the
outer washers and the rest lugs 61, are dispensed with, so that the wire e, of the
frame lie within the opposed keep grooves of both the inside and outside washers.
If necessary, the cross pin instead of being square, may be made round and
facetted upon one or both sides, or, in order to fulfil the same function, it may be
made of any cross section other than circular, and instead of employing nuts at
both ends of the pin, a solid head may be formed at one end.
Instead of employing outside washers b, the nuts or heads upon the ends of the
drawing-up pin may fulfil the duty of both drawing up and clamping.
Figure 6 represents a topside plan of a further form or a modified form, of my
improvements applied to a pierced sheet metal saddle frame.
In this arrangement, the outside washers are dispensed with, and the nuts or
heads of the bolt are made to take the place of the outside washers, and sufficiently
large to embrace the sides of the frame whilst the interposed or inside washers are
made stationary or fast with the frame by having keep channels formed within
their outer faces, and holding the same function as the keep grooves in the
intermediate washers described in the previous arrangements.
Figure 7 represents a transverse vertical section of Figure 6, with the drawing-
up pin in elevation, whilst Figure 8 is a side elevation of a part of the framing and
the boss.
a is a nearly all-round clip, with the terminal and free ends a², formed with
lugs a³, having all-through holes at, through them, and with its outside facings a,
being preferably of soft metal. f are interposed or inside washers each having a
keep channel, within which the sides e, of the double-sided frame lie, and also
having a round hole, through its middle for taking onto the outer part c², of a
screw-ended square spindle c, and teeth or serrations f, upon its inuer face, which
teeth run preferably at right angles to the direction of the keep channels and
imbed themselves into the soft metal of the faces a°, of the clip, on the screwing up.
of the nuts d, one of which may be fixed and form a head to the pin.
Figure 9 represents a further modified form of my improvements, in which inner
washers are dispensed with, and the outside faces of the clip are made to fulfil the
functions of them by making the said faces annularly toothed or raised and against
which the opposed inside faces or parts of the frame or frame rods come.
Figure 10 is a section of Figure 9 upon the dotted line x-x.
Figure 11 is a side elevation of the boss.

page_text: a is a hinged clip, with the outside faces a of the upper parts a³, provided
with ring teeth or cross or other serrations or raised parts a', against which the
frame rods e which lie within keep grooves 62, in outer washers b, bear, whilst the
nuts d (or a nut and a head) come upon the rounded outer ends c² of a bolt c,
having a square middle part and taking through like square holes in the body of
the clip, and round holes in the outer washers.
The screwing of the nuts (or a nut, in cases where a fixed head is employed)
clamps the frame rods to the boss, and at the same time, the boss to the Lpin or
vertical saddle support of a machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. In cycle saddle securing attachments or bosses the combination and
arrangement of the spring clip a with the pin or bolt c fitting into the sockets or
holes a with the washers f the outer washers band the nuts d all substantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4
and 5.
Secondly. The modification described and shown in Figures 6, 7 and 8 where in
the case of a flat base framing the nuts d are substituted for the washers & and the
nuts & mentioned in Claim 1.
Thirdly. The modification described and shown in Figures 9, 10 and 11 where
the washer f is dispensed with in lieu thereof the outer faces of the clip a are
serrated.
Dated this 26th day of February 1895.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Attachment Bosses of Cycle Saddles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKE, of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to attachment bosses for securing cycle saddles to their
Lpin or pillar supports.
In carrying out one form of my invention, the clip collar or sleeve is made in the
form of a hanging ring, with a screwed stalk, stem or shank and the adjacent upper
part of the ring taking respectively through a hole and within a cavity formed at
the middle part of a bridge-shaped bracket or carrier, having circular flanges
laterally disposed at its two opposite sides, into the faces of which, the teeth or
serrations of inner washers imbed themselves, and with the said flanged ends being
fitted with screw pins or trunnion ends, upon which both the inner and outer
washers are threaded, and with screw nuts taking upon the ends of them.
The opposed faces of the washers have frame rod keep grooves sunken within
them, whilst the end of the screw pin of the hanging collar or ring has a nut
upon it.
The clipping of the frame wires or rods is performed independently of the affixing
of the boss to the L pin or pillar member of a machine.
Thus, the screwing up of the nut located upon the end of the screw pin of the
ring, and coming upon the crown or summit of the bridge-shaped bracket, draws
the said ring upwards or forwards and clamps the L pin or pillar member between
itself and the underside of the bridge bracket as aforesaid.
The screwing up of the nuts on the ends of the pins of the carrier bracket forces
the washers together, clamps the frame rods between them, and presses the teeth of
the inner ones into the metal of the opposed faces of the carrier brackets, which is
of softer metal than the teeth.
In a further form of saddle attachment boss, the ring clip is disposed horizontally,
and is split, or made in two parts or formed into two rings, lying one upon another,
or disposed side by side and each having screwed trunnion ends or screwed pins,
directed outwardly and located at the middles of the flanges, which are inversely
gapped for taking over, or giving clearance to, the shanks of the screw pins.
The drawing of the rings in reverse directions, by screw nuts taking upon their
screwed ends, and coming against the outside washers of doubie gripping washers
threaded upon the said screwed ends, makes the eyes of the rings overlap each
other and so grip the pin or pillar member between them.
The gripping of the wires between the washers of the boss (which is a universal
one) is accomplished in the way as already described with respect to the preceding
arrangement.
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Dated the 23rd day of February .1895.

page_text: Improvements in the Attachment Bosses of Cycle Saddles.
1, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 attachment bosses for securing cycle saddles to their
pins or pillar supports, and is an amplification or a development of my former
Letters Patent dated the 2nd day of July 1892 No. 12310, the 9th day of
December 1892 No. 22608, and the 18th day of March 1893 No. 5829, and also
of Essom and Mills Patent dated the 29th day of July. 1893 No. 14620 of which I
am the sole assignee."
In carrying out one form of this invention, the clip collar or sleeve is made in
the form of a banging ring, with a screwed stalk or stem shank and the adjacent
upper part of the ring takes respectively through a hole and within a cavity formed
at the middle part of a bridge-shaped bracket or carrier, having flanges laterally
disposed at its two opposite sides, into the faces of which, the teeth or serrations of
inner washers. imbed themselves, and with the said. flanged ends being fitted with
screw. pius.or.trunnion ends, upon which both inner and outer washers are threaded,
and with screw.nuts taking upon the ends of them.
The opposed-faces of the washers.have frame rod keep-grooves sunken within
them, whilst the end of the screw più. of the hanging collar or-ring has a nut
upon it.
The clipping of the frame wires or rods is performed independently of the affixing
of the boss to the L pin or pillar member of a machine.
Thus, the screwing up of the nut located upon the end of the screw pin of the
ring, and coming upon the crown er summit of the bridge-shaped bracket, draws
the said ring upwards or forwards and the L-pin or pillar member between itself
and the underside of the bridge bracket as aforesaid.
The screwing up of the nuts on the ends of the pins of the carrier bracket forces
the washers together, clamps the frame rods between them, and presses the teeth of
the inner ones into the metal of the opposed faces of the carrier brackets, which is
of softer metal than the teeth.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a vertical section (with the
pillar or pin clamping ring in elevation) of a universal or adjustable boss
constructed according to this form of my invention.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the bridge bracket.
Figure 4 is an elevation of the saddle pin or clamping ring.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 4.
a is a hanging ring grip, with an inside bearing a', screwed stalk or stem a²,
which, with the upper part of the ring takes through a hole 62, made through the
middle of a bridge-shaped bracket or carrier b, having a boundary bearing &, and
flanges, disposed at its two opposite sides or ends, and into the faces 6, of which,
the teeth or serrations c², of inner washers c, imbed themselves. The said flanges
are fitted with screw pins or trunnion ends, upon which both the inner washers c
and outer washers d, are threaded and upon the screwed parts of which said ends,
screw nuts e, take. The opposed faces of the washers are provided with coincident
keep grooves,c³, d², within which the frame rods f, lie, whilst the stem a³, of the
ring a, is provided with a drawing-up nut a and washer a*.
In a further form of saddle attachment boss, the ring clip is disposed horizontally,
and is split, or made in two parts or formed into two rings, lying one upon another,

page_text: or disposed side by side and each having screwed trunnion ends or screwed pins,
directed outwardly and located at the middles of the flanges, which are inversely
gapped for taking over, or giving clearance to, the shanks of the screw pins.
The drawing of the rings in reverse directions, by screw nuts taking upon their
screwed ends, and coming against the outside washers of double gripping washers
threaded upon the said screwed ends, makes the eyes of the rings overlap each other
and so grip the L pin or pillar member between them.
The gripping of the wires between the washers of the boss (which is a universal.
one) is accomplished in the way as already described with respect to the preceding
arrangements.
Figure 5 represents a vertical section of a universal boss constructed according
to this form of my improvements with the ring grips in elevation.
Figure 6 is a vertical section of the same upon the dotted lines - Figure 5.
Figure 7 is a transverse section of Figure 5 upon the dotted line A, showing the
universe gap in the face of one of the ring grips.
Figure 8 represents the grip rings separately and in section, whilst
Figure 9 shows them in elevation.
In Figures 5 to 9, a, a¹ are the side-by-side ring grips, each having a shank
trunnion end a, an eye a³, a face or flange at and an inversely gapped clearance a³, aº,
through which the shanks of the rings pass, and within which they lie. a' are the
gripping faces of the rings.
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Threaded upon the screwed trunnions or shanks a³, are inside toothed washers c,
and outer plain washers d, the opposed faces of which have keep grooves c³, d²,
the reception of the frame rods or sides f, whilst e are screw nuts taking upon the
ends of the shanks a², by the screwing up of which, the rings are drawn upon each
other in opposite directions, and the teeth c³, of the inner washers c, are superficially
embedded into the faces a, of the clamping rings, whereby the L pin or pillar
member is gripped in opposite directions by the impingement of the parts a', of the
ring grips upon the opposed sides thereof, and the frame rods are at the same time
secured to the boss, hence an adjustable or universal gripping ring boss.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the, same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. An independent clamping and universal or adjustable attachment boss for
cycle saddles, consisting of an adjustable ring grip, located within the middle part
of a bridge bracket or carrier, having cheeks or faces and screwed stalks or pins at
its outer sides, upon which latter, toothed inside washers and plain outside washers
both having keep grooves at their opposed faces for the reception of the frame
sides, are threaded, and forced home by screw nuts or other drawing-up expedients,
substantially as, and for the purpose described and set forth in Figures 1 to 4.
Secondly. A universal or adjustable gripping ring attachment boss for cycle
saddles, consisting of a pair of sliding and stalked ring grips, inversely gapped upon
their opposite sides, and having threaded upon the screwed shanks or trunnion ends
(which are inwardly terminated by faces or cheeks) toothed inside and plain outside
washers, having keep grooves in their opposed faces for the reception of the framing
rods or sides, which parts are drawn and forced home, and the saddle framing
secured to the boss, and the hoss to the saddle support, by screw nuts or clamping
expedients, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 6 to 9.
Dated this 26th day of February 1895.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.