An Improved Saddle Spring for Velocipedes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Saddle Spring for Velocipedes.
We, WILLIAM EDWIN Moss, and JOHN MITTON, Alfreton Road,
Nottingham, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This is an improvement for absorbing the vibration arising from the use of a
velocipede upon rough roads, it also has the advantage of tilting the saddle to any
required angle.
Each saddle spring constructed according to our invention, has a tube, to which
is fixed an arın or bracket, having a hole in which is inserted a screwed pin with a
male joint, at one end; the pin is screwed for the purpose of adjustment, and is
secured to the arm or bracket with two nuts.
A pin for bearing a saddle having a female joint at one end which is joined with
the male joint on the screwed pin a second female joint is attached to the saddle
pin which is connected to a male joint and boss fastened to a tube made to slide in
the first mentioned tube, a spiral spring is fitted over the small tube which is kept
in position by the arm or bracket, and boss with joint fixed upon the small tube.
The saddle is fixed upon the saddle pin the opposite end to the joints.
The spiral spring is for the purpose of absorbing vibration, and the pin attached
to the arm or bracket, is supplied with a thread and two nuts for adjusting and
tilting the saddle pin to any required angle.
In the accompanying drawings illustrative of our invention :-
A is the tube first mentioned.
B the arm or humakot
WILLIAM EDWIN MOSS.
JOHN MITTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Saddle Spring for Velocipedes.
We, WILLIAM EDWIN Moss, and JOHN MITTON, Machinists, 101, Alfreton
Road, Nottingham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertaine
in and by the following statement :-
This is an improvement for absorbing the vibration arising from the use of a
velocipede upon rough roads, it also has the advantage of tilting the saddle to any
required angle.
Each saddle spring constructed according to our invention, has a tube, to which
is fixed an arm, or bracket, having a hole in which is inserted a screwed pin with a
male joint at one end; the pin is screwed for the purpose of adjustment, and is
secured to the arm, or bracket, with two nuts.
A pin for bearing a saddle, having a female joint, at one end, which is joined
with the male joint on the screwed pin; a second female joint, is attached to the
saddle pin, which is connected to a male joint and boss, fastened to a tube made to
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page_text: slide in the first mentioned tube; aspiral-spring is fitted over the small tube which
is kept in position by the arm or bracket, and boss with joint fixed upon the
small tube.
The saddle is fixed upon the saddle pin, the opposite end to the joints.
The spiral spring is for the purpose of absorbing vibration, and the pin attached
to the arm or bracket, is supplied with a thread and two nuts for adjusting and
tilting the saddle pinto any required angle.
In the drawings "left with the Provisional Specification" illustrative of our
invention,
A, is the tube first mentioned.
B, the arm or bracket.
C, is the screwed pin.
D, the saddle pin.
E, E, the two joints.
F, is the small tube.
G, the spiral spring.
Having now described 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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Firstly The arm or bracket, B.
Secondly-The screwed pin, C.
Thirdly The saddle pin, D.
Fourthly Entire mode of arrangement.
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Dated this 19th day of November 1891.
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