Improvements in and relating to Cycle-saddle Cantle-plates and Cantle-plate Bolts.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1894-Accepted, 18th Aug., 1894
Improvements in and relating to Cycle-saddle Cantle-plates and
Cantle-plate Bolts.
I ADAM ROUND-of-No. 1-Heneage Street Woodcock Street Birmingham in
the County of Warwick Die-sinker and Manufacturer do hereby declare-the
natúre of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in improvements in the cantle-plates and cantle-plate bolts
of cycle saddles hereinafter described.
Hitherto cycle-saddle cantle-plates have been made with square holes to receive
the square necks of securing bolt and it has been found from experience that when
a square-necked bolt is introduced within the square hole provided in cantle-
plate and afterwards locked in position within such square hole by squeezing,
compressing and expanding the protruding square part of bolt neck, such mechanical
action usually causes the cantle-plate to split on one, two or more corners of the
square hole.
To remedy the defects in the old-style method of making cycle-saddle cantle-
plates I pierce in my improved cantle-plate oval holes in lieu of the old-style
square holes and I provide or form on my cantle-plate bolts oval necks instead of
square necks.
By the use of my improved cantle-plates with oval holes in combination with
bolts with oval necks, the oval bolt is passed into the oval hole in cantle-plate
and afterwards secured therein by the compressing, expanding or pushing down-
wards of the protruding oval part of bolt neck so as to push the material downwards
forming a washer or what is equivalent to a washer, namely, the pushed down
portion of the projecting oval shank, such pushed down portion projecting from..
the periphery of bolt in the form of small ears, such ears would not necessarily touch
each other forming a complete washer, but they answer the purpose of a complete
washer.
What constitutes my invention is the providing of oval holes in the cantle-
plates of cycle-saddles in combination with oval necked bolts as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 28th day of June 1894.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in, and relating to Cycle-saddle Cantle-plates and
Cantle-plate Bolts.
I, ADAM ROUND, of No. 1, Heneage Street, Woodcock Street, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Die-sinker and 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 consists in improvements in the cantle-plates and cantle-plate bolts
of cycle-saddles hereinafter described.
Hitherto cycle-saddle cantle-plates have been made with square holes to receive
the square necks of securing bolt and it has been found from experience that

page_text: when a square-necked bolt is introduced within the square hole provided in
cantle-plate and afterwards locked in position within such square hole by squeezing,
compressing and expanding the protruding square part of bolt neck, such mechanical
action usually causes the cantle-plate to split on one, two, or more corners of the
square holes."
To remedy the defects in the old-style method of making cycle-saddle cantle-
plates I pierce in my improved cantle-plate oval holes in lieu of the old-style
square holes and I provide or form on my cantle-plate bolts oval necks instead of
square necks.
By the use of my improved cantle-plates with oval holes in combination with
bolts with oval necks, the oval bolt is passed into the oval hole in cantle-
plate and afterwards secured therein by the compressing, expanding or pushing
downwards of the protruding oval part of bolt neck so as to push the material
downwards forming a washer or what is equivalent to a washer, namely, the pushed
down portion of the projecting oval shank, such pushed down portion projecting
from the periphery of bolt in the form of small ears, such ears would not necessarily
touch each other forming a complete washer, but they answer the purpose of a
complete washer.
What constitutes my invention is the providing of oval holes in the cantle-
plates of cycle-saddles in combination with oval necked bolts as hereinbefore
described..
I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which
Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a cycle-saddle shewing position of cantle-
plate.
Figure 2 represents a plan of Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a back elevation of cantle-plate.
Figure 4 represents an enlarged plan shewing broken off portion of cantle-plate
with the ordinary square hole at present used for the reception of bolts, the corners
of the square hole are shewn split.
Figure 5 represents an enlarged plan shewing broken off portion of my improved
cantle-plate with oval bolt-hole.
Figure 6 represents a plan of Figure 3 together with dotted in saddle.
Figure 7 represents a longitudinal section of the broken off portion of my improved
cantle-plate, on the line A. B.
Figure 8 represents a longitudinal section similar to Figure 7 excepting that. the
oval necked bolt is shewn in position with the oval hole.
Figure 9 represents an elevation of my improved oval necked bolt.
Figure 10 represents a longitudinal section similar to Figure 8 excepting that the
neck of bolt is. shewn compressed by means of the dotted in line.
Figure 11 represents an enlarged transverse section of cantle-plate at C. D.
Figure 12 represents a plan of ordinary square necked bolt used in Figure 4.
Figure 13 represents a plan of bolt, Figure 12 passed into square hole of Figure 4
and afterwards compressed forming four clipping ears.
Figure 14 represents a plan of underside of bolt Figure 9.
Figure 15 represents a plan of underside of Figure 10 shewing the oval neck
compressed forming two ears.
In carrying out my invention I utilize any ordinary cycle-saddle cantle-
plate such as that marked a Figures 1, 2, 3, and 6, in such cantle-plate I
pierce, compress, or otherwise provide an oval bolt-hole as shewn at 6 Figures 2, 5,
and 6.
I next provide bolts with oval necks as shewn at c Figures 9, 10, and 14. The
oval necked bolts are secured to cantle-plate by compressing the oval neck and
causing it to fit tightly against the surface edges of the oval hole 6 or in lieu
of such expansion of the neck within the hole one portion of the oval neck is pushed
downwards by means of suitable tool such as that marked d in dotted lines Figure 10,
the pushed down portion would become flattened out into ears as shewn at e

page_text: Figure 15. I am aware that the process of forming a washer by pushing down part
of the neck of the bolt is old as applied to square necked bolts, the four corners
of the square neck producing four ears as shewn at f Figure 13, therefore the
novelty connected with the pushing down process of the bolt neck is limited to
bolts with oval necks.
My improved cantle-plates with oval holes can be used with oval necked securing
bolts and when the oval necks of bolts are compressed for the purpose of consolidating
the bolt-neck within the bolt-hole, such bolt-hole will not be liable to burst in the
manner shewn at Figure 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. The invention as illustrated and described for use in the manner described.
2nd. The making of a saddle cantle-plate with oval bolt-holes.
3rd. The making of saddle cantle-plate securing bolts with oval shaped necks.
4th. The combination of oval necked securing bolt in the oval bolt-hole of a
saddle cantle-plate by expanding the oval neck part of bolt so as to make such neck
part fit tightly within the oval bolt of cantle-plate.
5th. The locking of an oval necked securing bolt in the oval bolt-hole of a saddle
cantle-plate by pushing down or compressing a portion of the oval neck of bolt and
flattening such compressed part into feathers or flanges as illustrated and described
in reference to Figures 9, 10, 14 and 15.
Dated this 12th day of July 1894.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.