Improvements relating to Cycle Saddles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements relating to Cycle Saddles.
We, JOSEPH FOWLER STEELE and HARRY VAUGHAN CURRIE, trading as the
Albion Mills Saddlery Company, and JOHN JONES, Foreman, all of Harford Street,
in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to the side plates or like parts of a cycle saddle frame,
our cbject being to so strengthen or stiffen such parts as to improve the appearance
of the same, and enable the thickness and weight to be reduced.
In the application of our invention to the side plates of an ordinary cycle saddle,
we form mouldings or projections on the outer surface of each plate by forcing
out the metal from the central portion of each, thus producing stiffening ribs which
give lateral rigidity to the plates and prevent buckling or twisting of the same.
The mouldings or projections are formed along almost the entire length of each
plate or are arranged at intervals along the same, and we make them of a curved
or such other configuration as shall improve the appearance of the saddle frame.
The application of our invention to the frame of a racing saddle and for other
services differs in no essential respect from the application herein before described.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.
We, JOSEPH FOWLER STEELE and HARRY VAUGHAN CURRIE, trading as the
Albion Mills Saddlery Company, and JOHN JONES, Foreman, all of Harford Street,
in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention relates to the side plates or like parts of a cycle saddle frame,
our object being to so strengthen or stiffen such parts as to improve the appearance
of the same, and enable the thickness and weight to be reduced.
In the application of our invention to the side plates of an ordinary cycle saddle,
we form mouldings or projections on the outer surface of each plate by forcing
out the metal from the central portion of each, thus producing stiffening ribs which
give lateral rigidity to the plates and prevent buckling or twisting of the same,
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page_text: The mouldings or projections are formed along almost the entire length of each
plate or are arranged at intervals along the same, and we make them of a
curved or such configuration as shall improve the appearance of the saddle frame.
The application of our invention to the frame of a racing saddle and for other
services differs in no essential respect from the application hereinbefore described.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation
and Figure 2 a plan of a portion of a cycle saddle frame having our invention
applied thereto.
The side plates A are strengthened or stiffened by ornamental mouldings such
as A¹ which are pressed or forced out from the central part of the plates in any
convenient manner.
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: :-
1. The strengthening or stiffening of the side plates or like parts of a cycle saddle
frame in such a manner as to improve the appearance of the same and enable the
thickness and weight to be reduced, substantially as described.
2. The improved side plates for cycle saddle frames having mouldings or pro-
jections A¹ substantially as and for the purposes described and as illustrated.
1000
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C. and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.