Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 25th May, 1888
I JOHN CLAY the younger of No. 18 Princess Road Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Saddler do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in constructing and arranging in the manner hereinafter
described the parts of the saddles or seats of bicycles tricycles and other velocipedes
whereby the said seats are made highly elastic and capable of yielding to the
inclination of the rider in any direction."
I will describe my invention in connection with a bicycle.
I form the foundation of the saddle of a steel plate having a nearly triangular
figure that side sitnated under the rear of the saddle having the same curvature as
the leather seat. The front of the triangular steel plate is jointed by a bingo joint to
an elastic steel bar an arched part of which supports the front end of the leather sent.
The said leater seat is attached to the curved side of the foundation plate and to the
said arch part of the elastic steel bar by riveting. The front end of the said bar is
forked. The saddle is connected to the back bone of the bicycle at three points
namely at the rear at the middle and at the front. The rear attachment consists of a
clip which embraces the backbone and is fixed thereto by a screw and screw nut.
This clip carries two diverging coiled springs to which the roar part of the foundation
plate is fixed by screws. The middle support consists of a clip affixed by screws to
the backbone. This clip supports the pin of the hinge joint. The front attachment
consists of the fork terminating the front end of the elastic bar. This fork embraces
the backbone and prevented from rising by screws passing through the branches of
the fork and engaging under the backbono.

page_text: By the construction and arrangement of parts described great elasticity and power
of yielding is given to the saddle or seat. The rear of the saddle supported on the
coiled springs can yield on one or other side or the whole of the rear part can yield.
When the rider throws his body forward the seat can yield near its middle that is
over the hinge joint described and the front end of the seat can yield by the flexure
of the arched part of the elastic steel bar to which it is riveted.
The application of my invention to the saddies or seats of tricycles and other
velocipedes differs in no essential respect from its application to the saddle or seat of
a bicycle as herein before described.

page_text: and other Velocipedes.
I JOHN CLAY the younger of No. 18 Princess Road, Birmingham in the County
of Warwick, Saddler, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My invention consists in constructing and arranging in the manner hereinafter
described. the parts of the saddles or seats of bicycles, tricycles and other velocipedes
whereby the said seats are made highly elastic and capable of yielding to the
inclination of the rider in any direction.
I will describe my invention in connection with a bicycle.
I form the foundation of the saddle of a steel plate having a nearly triangular
figure, that side situated under the rear of the saddle having the same curvature as
the leather seat. The front of the triangular steel plate is jointed by a hinge joint to
an elastic steel bar, an arched part of which supports the front end of the leather
seat. The said leather seat is attached to the curved side of the foundation plate and
to the said arched part of the elastic steel bar by riveting. The front end of the said
bar is forked. The saddle is connected to the backbone of the bicycle at two points,
namely at the rear and at the front. The rear attachment consists of a clip which
embraces the backbone and is fixed thereto by screws and screw nuts. This clip
carries two slightly diverging coiled springs to which the rear part of the foundation
plate is fixed. The front attachment consists of the fork terminating the front end of
the elastic bar. This fork embraces the neck of the backbone and is prevented from
rising by a screw passing through the branches of the fork and neck of the backbone.
By the construction and arrangement of parts described great elasticity and power
of yielding is given to the saddle or seat. The rear of the saddle supported on the
coiled springs can yield on one or other side, or the whole of the rear part can yield.
When the rider throws his body forward the seat can yield near its middle that is,
over the hinge joint described and the front end of the seat can yield by the flexure
of the arched part of the elastic steel bar to which it is riveted.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents partly in longitudinal section and partly in side elevation, a
bicycle saddle or seat containing my improvements; Figure 2 is a front elevation of
the same and Figure 3 is a plan of the underside of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawings.
a is the leather seat of the saddle; b, 63, 63 is the foundation plate of steel having a
nearly triangular figure, the branches 62, 6 at the rear end of the said plate being
bolted at c, c to the curved plate d supporting the curved rear part of the leather
seat a.
The front 6 of the foundation plate is jointed by a hinge joint e to the
elastic stool bar or platef the arched part of which supports the front end of the
leather seat a as best seen in Figure 1, the said front end of the leather seat being
connected to the arched part of the elastic bar or plate by riveting.

page_text: The front end of the elastic bar or plate f is forked at
and constitutes the front
attachment of the saddle, the branches of the said fork being fashioned into coils or
coiled springs h, h. The front fork g of the elastic bar or platef of the foundation
embraces the neck i of the backbone k of the bicycle and is prevented from rising
by means of a screw pin (see Figure 1) passed through the eyes of the coiled
branches h, h of the fork and through a hole in the neck of the backbone.
By means of the hinged elastic bar or plate f, h, h of the foundation plate, the front
end of the saddle is made capable of yielding vertically when the rider throws his
body forward, the said front end rising and resuming its normal shape on the
restoration of the rider's body to its normal position.
The rear part of the saddle is supported and connected to the backbone of the
bicycle in the following manner.
The rear attachment consists of the clip m which is made to embrace the
backbone and is fixed thereto by the screws and screw nuts at n, n. The rear end
of the saddle is supported by the two coiled springs p, p carried by the plate q. Tho
upper ends of the coiled springs p, p are connected by the screws and screw nuts at
c, c to the rear end of the foundation plate and the lower ends of the said springs are
connected by the screws and screw nuts at c³, c² to the supporting plate q. The
supporting plate q is carried on the tops of the adjusting screws r, which work
in screw boxes at m², m³ in the prolonged upper half of the clip m by which the rear
part of the saddle is connected to the backbone. By means of the adjusting
screws r, the tension of the rear supporting springs p, p may be adjusted.
The rear of the saddle supported on the coiled springs p, p can yield on one or
other side or the whole of the rear part can yield.
A middle elastic clip under the front jointed part of the foundation plate may be
affixed to the backbone for supporting the joint pin of the said jointed part but
generally the said middle elastic support is unnecessary.
Although I have represented the jointed elastic front part of the saddle foundation
in combination with two rear supporting coiled springs yet a bow spring or other
elastic support in place of the said coiled springs may be used in combination with
the jointed elastic front part of the saddle foundation.
The application of my invention to saddles or seats of tricycles and other
velocipedes differs in no essential respect from its application to the saddle or seat of
a bicycle as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in the saddles or seats of bicycles tricycles and other
velocipedes
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First Jointing to the front end of the metallic foundation plate of the saddle an
. elastic arch shaped steel bar or plate to which bar or plate the front of the leather
seat is riveted, the said elastic arch shaped steel bar or plate being attached to the
backbone or other supporting part of the velocipedo and permitting of the yielding of
the front end of the saddle when the rider throws his body forward substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly The combination with the jointed elastic arch shaped front bar or plato
claimed in the first claim of the rear supporting coiled springs or other spring or
springs for permitting the rear of the saddle or seat to yield on one or other side
or the whole of the rear part of the saddle or seat to yield as herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Twenty fourth day of April 1888.