Improvements in Parts or Accessories of Cycle Saddles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1893.
Complete Specification Left, 18th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Feb.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Parts or Accessories 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 to be
as follows:-
:-
This invention relates primarily to detail improvements in the parts, or in the
accessory parts of cycle saddles, and is an improvement upon several Letters
Patent granted to me, and bearing date, respectively, the 30th day of September
1890, numbered 15424, April 13th 1891, numbered 6283 and March 31st, 1892,
numbered 5180.
My said invention consists in the first part, to means for connecting the saddle to
the pin, pillar or other seat framing; in the second part, to the framings or base
framings of saddle seats, and in the third part, to combined framings and springs or
resilient mountings.
In carrying out the first part of my iuvention in connection with an pin, and
also in connection with a trussed or girder framing, cut out from strip metal, or
composed from wire, I provide the inside middles of the opposite side members of
the said trussed framing with depending brackets or upright plates, with their
lower ends pivotedly connected to the lower middle parts of the framings, in
manner that the said trussed framings turn about the said pivots as fulcra or joint
centres. The upper middle parts of the said frame sides are quadrant slotted with
radii struck from the centres of the pins upon which the framings turn.
These brackets are concaved or made claw-like upon their inner faces, and seat
themselves upon the two opposite sides of the L pin, when the horizontal arm of
the same has passed through tension eyes, whose screwed stalks or pins, which are
directed outwardly, pass through holes in the brackets, through the quadrant slots
in the sides of the framings, and through washers disposed upon the middles of the
outer sides of the said framing, and partly covering and crossing the said quadrant
slots, and with the extreme ends fitted with screw nuts, which, on being turned,
draw outwardly and in opposite directions, the said eyes, rings or loops, hence the
clamping of the framing to the carrying arm of the L pin member.
Thus, the clamping or gripping means consists of eyes or rings, of an inside
diameter about equal to the outside diameter of the L pin, and of a breadth about
equal to one half of their screwed stalks or stems, which are directed outwardly,
and pass through the parts as aforesaid. These rings lie in juxtaposition, and with
their circumferences upon either side passing between claw-like formations and
clearances at the inside presented faces of the brackets.
It will be understood that the tightening of the screw nuts pulls the rings in
opposite directions, hence the gripping of the same at opposite points.
On the adjustment of the saddle for tilting or changing of position, the nuts are
loosened, so that the framing can turn or rock, and then by subsequent re-tightening
of the nuts, the framing is also locked in position, and the boss to the L pin by the
same nuts or clamping expedients.
In applying my invention to seat pillars, the directions of the brackets and the
eye or ring gripping parts will be changed to suit an upright instead of a longitudinal
position.
Thus, the clamping or confining rings are disposed horizontally relative to the
pillar, whilst the clearances at the backs of the sides of the frame are directed
horizontally, and the concaved faces directed vertically.

page_text: In carrying out my improved boss in connection with frames made of wire, I
provide the outside faces of the brackets with concaved seatings, and the washers
preceding the nuts on the screw stalks with like seatings, so that on the nuts being
screwed up, the rings are drawn outwardly and the wires or rod members of the
framing gripped between the concaved seatings, hence the affixing of the saddle
framing to the boss, and the boss to the seat framing by or through the instru-
mentality of the same nuts or tightening up means.
Or instead of employing the inside brackets, inside seatings for the frame rods
may be sunken within the outer edges of the rings, so that the said rods are clamped
between the special washers and the inside seatings of the rings.
The ends of the screwed stalks may be slotted, wherein bearing cottars with
opposed concaved seatings embracing the members of wire or rod framings take,
and which parts are brought up to their gripping positions by screw nuts taking
over the stalks of the slotted pins.
The framings, or the base framings, when made up of two and separate side.
members, may be stayed, united and otherwise connected together in manner
according to the particular springs or accessory parts employed.
In carrying out my invention in connection with the framings, I provide the rear
ends of each of the side members when made from sheet or other metal, with
circular or other suitable sinkings or gaps, one upon the extreme top-side end, and
another upon the underside of the member, and removed inwards from that of the
first named, and crosswise through and within such gaps, the wire forming the under
frame members, passes.
Thus, the frame or rod members with the middle loop springs, are made from a
single length of wire or rod metal, and fashioned into eyes at their extreme ends,
which take upon the depending pins on the rear underside of the seat, and then
proceed forwardly under the said seat, and with the middle parts of the metal of the
side members evolved into loop coils. Then the parts forward of the coils pass from
the inner sides of the base framing sides through the lower or under gaps, and then
proceed obliquely along the outer sides of the said base framing side members, and
then pass inwardly through the upper gaps, with the metal disposed between the
last named parts of the rod members crossing the space between the said framing
sides, as a bar, stay or transverse connector.
As a still further form of base framing, I pierce the middles of each of the sides
of the base framing with holes struck from the same centre, but having dis-similar
radii.
Thus, each middle piercing has one half of it of less radius than the other part,
and within the moiety or part of smaller diameter, an affixing pin passes, with a
screw nut upon its outer end, whilst taking within and adjacent to the boundary of
smaller radius, is a pin centre. At the junction of the radii, shoulders are formed,
which constitute stops for limiting the tilt or tip. Washers are interposed between
the end nuts and the sides of the framing, so that after adjustment, the screwing up of
the nuts affixes the side framings in position, or both affixes the framings in position
and clamps the pin bosses to the seat carrying means.
As a still further form, I pierce the sides of the base framings with slots and
holes disposed ring-wise. The holes, which are at short distances apart, come
opposite the slots or long holes. By placing the centre pins of the brackets as
described in the first arrangement, the necessary tilt can be given to the saddle, and
also the framing clamped to the seat iron by clamping devices or screws passing
through the slots.
Dated this 17th day of March 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Parts or Accessories 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 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 a part of cycle saddles, viz., the
means for connecting the saddle to the L pin or pillar member of a machine and
securing the frame work of the saddle to the said connecting means, and which is
technically known as the boss; and my said invention is an improvement upon or
an amplification of several former Letters Patent granted to me and bearing date
respectively the 30th day of September 1890, No. 15424, the 13th day of April 1891
No. 6283, the 31st day of March 1892 No. 5180, and the 9th day of October 1892
No. 22608.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation a boss fitted
to an pin member of a machine and constructed and arranged and provided
with improvements made according to my invention. The said boss is shown in
connection with a girder or trussed framing with the sides cut out from sheet
metal.
Figure 2 represents a horizontal section of the same upon the dotted lines A B,
and with the L pin member shown in elevation. This view exemplifies the
dispositions of the gripping parts relative to the parts to be gripped.
Figure 3 represents a cross section of Figure 1 upon the dotted lines C D.
In Figures 1 to 3, the boss is composed of opposite and upright plates a, pivotedly
or swivelly connected at their lower ends a, to the middles of the lower members b²,
of the trussed framing sides b, by pins, pivots or studs c, which are carried by the
said lower ends a³, and take through the bearing holes 6, formed within the middles
of the lower members of the framing band from which middle parts the saddle
is slung or hung from the pin member and about which pins or centres the saddle
turns for tilt. The inside and presented faces of these plates or cheeks a, which are
of a bifurcated or branched order, are concave seated at a', and take and seat them-
selves semi-circumferentially upon the two opposite sides of the horizontal arm of
the pin member d, and with the presented edges a' of the said cheeks having a
clearance or coming within a short distance of each other.
u,
Now threaded upon the horizontal arm of the pin, and located crosswise
between the plates or cheeks a, and also lying within the gap a', coming between
the branched members a, are carrier and clamping eyes or rings e, e¹, having
screwed stalks or pins e³, es directed outwardly from their sides and with the same
and
respectively passing outwardly through the gaps a', of the plates or cheeks
through quadrant or curved slotted holes or piercings 63, cut out of middle plate
parts, of the top members 6, upon each side of the framing, and also through
washers, disposed upon the outer sides of the said framings and crossing the
slots, and with the extreme ends of the stalks or pins being fitted with screw
nuts 9. which, on (either or both of them) being turned, draw inwards and together
the sides of the framing b¹, 6, and with them the plates or cheeks a, coming upon
the inside parts or faces of the said members 61, 63, thus closing the said plates or
cheeks upon the arm of the ✓ pin, and also drawing outwardly and in opposite
directions the eyes or rings e, e, and bringing the contact parts e, e, of them upon
opposite sides of the arm of the L pin, whereby the clamping of the saddle framing
to the boss and the boss to the arm of the L pin at six points is simultaneously
effected.
Figure 4 represents the ☐ pin boss Figure 1 applied to an upright seat pillar
instead of to the horizontal member of an L pin. The said boss is of a like
construction as the said Figure 1 with the difference that the plates or cheeks a,

page_text: are concave seated in a diagonal direction instead of in a cross direction, whilst the
said cheeks have clearances upon their inner sides for receiving the opposite sides
of the rings.
a are the opposite inside plates or cheeks located between the sides b', 6' of the
framing b, and with the same pivoted or jointed at c, and with rings e, e', having
screwed stalks or trunnion ends e³, e, passing through holes in the plates or cheeks,
and also through quadrant slots and with nuts g, coming upon the ends of said
stalks or trunnions. The tilt of the saddle is effected in the same manner as
previously described.
Figure 5 represents a further form of my invention. In this arrangement the
side plates or cheeks are unconnected to the sides of the general framing but have
concaved seatings as before for taking upon the pillar member, and also concaved
keep grooves or channels for the opposite sides of the eyes or rings, adjacent to
their stalks or trunnion ends, to lie within.
Figure 6 is a cross section of Figure 5 upon the dotted lines ..
In Figures 5 and 6, a are plates or side cheeks, having concaved seatings a³, for
taking upon the sides of the pillar d, and with keep channels or recesses a³, formed
crosswise within the said plates or cheeks, and with holes a', through the middles
of them, wherethrough the trunnion ends e³, e, of the eyes or rings e, el, take in
passing through the plain holes 63, formed within the sides b, of the framing b, and
upon the said ends e³, es, nuts g, take, and with interposing washers, placed between
them and the outer sides of the framing.
By now screwing up the nuts g, the sides 6, of the carrying framing b, are forced
inwards, or drawn together and then impinge upon the backs of the plates or
cheeks a, force their seatings a³, upon the pillars, and at the same time draw the
rings a, a', in opposite directions, hence the clamping of the frame to the boss and
the boss to the L pin.
By loosening the screws, the rings with the plates or cheeks can be rotated to any
desired angle, for either taking upon an upright pillar member or upon the horizontal
member of an L pin.
I might add that the sides 5, of the framing may be pierced with quadrant slots
or holes, through which pins on the insides of the washers pass and take into inter-
spaced holes sunken within the outer faces of the cheeks, thereby preventing any
possibility of the displacement of the parts after setting.
Figure 7 represents a transverse vertical section of an L pin boss, constructed
according to a further form of my invention and adapted to be used in connection
with frames made of wire, and being an amplification of the ☐ pin boss described
and represented in Figures 8, 9, 10, and 11 upon Sheet 2 of my former Letters
Patent No. 22608 of 1892.
Figure 8 represents a side elevation of the said boss, with one of the front washers
or plates removed in order to show the outer presented face of one of the cheeks
or plates which have concaved seatings upon their inner faces and take upon the
upright pillar member of a machine.
Figure 9 represents a cross section of Figure 7 upon the dotted lines E F
whilst Figure 10 represents a horizontal section upon the dotted lines G H
Figure 7.
Figure 11 represents horizontal cross sections and a plan of the component parts
of the boss separately, but without the nuts for taking upon the screwed stalks or
trunnion ends of the ring, which carries the component parts of the boss alike unto
the rings in the previously described arrangements.
Figure 12 represents the back side of one of the outside washers with the
channel seatings or keep grooves crossing the faces of them, and with the stud
upon a part of it adapted to engage with the holes in the clamping plates or
cheeks.
Figure 13 represents the back or inward presented side of an outside washer
having a single channel or sinking for saddle framings with single wires instead of
double ones."

page_text: Figure 14 represents the boss turned round and applied to the horizontal arm
of an L pin instead of to the upright pillar as in the previous arrangements.
In Figures 7 to 14, the boss is composed of clamping plates or checks a, having
concaved seatings a upon their inner presented faces, adapted to take upon the
pillar or pin d, and with the terminations a' of them, coming within a short
distance of each other, and having formed within them, front slotted keep
recesses a', for receiving the opposite sides of the ring e, adjacent to the screwed
stalks or trunnion ends e, e, which pass between the wires 61, 6, of the framing b,
and through plain holes f, in the washers f, which have horizontal seatings or
keep channels, formed within them, wherein the double wires b', b', seat them-
selves and with their inner sides of the said wires abutting against the outside faces
of the plates or cheeks a, which have equidistantly or other arranged holes a³,
wherein the studs f³, of the washers f, take, for locking the said plates or cheeks
in position after adjustment. Screw nuts g, take upon the ends of the screwed
pins or trunnions, which when screwed up upon the said ends, force the plates or
cheeks into intimate contact with the upright seat pillar or the horizontal arm of
the pin, whereby the wires of the saddle framing are connected to the boss to
the supporting member of a machine (as represented in Figures 7, 8, 9, 10,
and 14).
By the keep channels or seatings at the backs of the washers taking upon the
wires of the framing the whole of the inner component parts are prevented from
rotating on the studs upon the said washers taking into one or other of the
adjustment holes within the plates or cheeks.
To give tilt to the saddle, simply loosen the nuts g, when the strung-together
parts of the universal boss become loosened and free thus allowing the plates or
cheeks a, with the ring e, to turn to any angle, and further, if the said boss requires
to take upon a horizontal member of an L pin, then the said cheeks and rings are
turned at right angles to their former position and with the hole through them
horizontal, so as to come lignable with the horizontal member to which the boss
is to be attached as represented in Figure 14.
Figure 15 represents a still further form of boss constructed according to a
further form of my invention and Figure 16 is a cross section of the same.
In this arrangement, a are the plates or cheeks, having concaved seatings a³,
coming within the inside boundary edges of the ring e, having screwed stalks or
trunnion ends ee, taking through plain holes f1, of washers f, having opposed
channel seatings or keep grooves, sunken within them coming opposite to like
grooves a, in the plates or cheeks a, which have shoulders a, for preventing the
said sectional clamping parts from falling out of the ring. are nuts taking upon
the screwed stalks of the ring, and when these nuts are screwed up, the whole of
the parts, less the ring (which is the carrier as in the whole of the previous
arrangements) are forced upon the seat support.
•
Figure 17 represents a still further form of my invention and Figure 18 is a
cross section of the same upon the dotted lines K L.
a are plates or cheeks with concaved inner seatings a³ and inward presented
ends a' and with the parts a', taking upon the pin or seat support d. e³, e³, are
screw and head ended cross pins passing through coincident holes a', in the cheeks a,
and with nuts g, coming upon the screwed ends and with interposing washers
coming between the said nuts and the outside faces of the cheeks. bare the side
framings, with middle piercings and stops &, and with inside radii of the piercings
struck from the centres of the cheeks.
By loosening the nuts, the clamping cheeks can rotate for giving the necessary
tilt, or for bringing the eye of the presented clamping cheeks into position for
receiving either an upright member or a horizontal seat support.
Figure 19 represents a modification of the boss Figures 17 and 18 and the only
difference between them is the substitution of holes in the sides of the framing for
the entirely cut-out piercing.
Thus, a are the cheeks, with concaved inner seatings and with holes through

page_text: them alike unto Figures 17 and 18, and through which pins e³, e³, pass and receive
nuts at their screwed ends, and which screwed ends also pass through one or other
of a number of holes 6, equidistantly arranged in the framing b, within the path
of the holes in the cheek when the said cheeks are rotated.
By loosening the nuts upon the ends of the pins e, e³, the pins can be removed
and replaced in one or other of the holes through the sides of the frame and again
through the holes in the cheeks.
In all the arrangements with movable rings loose grips may be fitted within the
rings, thus making the ring the medium of gripping and not the actual grip.
Referring back to the arrangements having divided rings with plates or cheeks,
I may add that the said plates or cheeks may be employed without having a
gripped function, but simply to form stays for the framing and a keep for the
gripping rings.
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. A cycle saddle sectional clamping attachment or boss, consisting of
sectional and crossing or face-to-face or separated ring clamps each having a
screwed stalk or trunnion end and with a part or parts of the said rings or screwed
ends fitted and working within keep recesses or grooves formed or made within
plates or cheeks having inwardly presented concaved seatings for taking upon the
seat supporting member of a machine, whereby the said bosses or attachments
admit of being angularly adjusted or rotated, substantially as and for the purpose
as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 6.
Secondly. In cycle saddle sectional clamping bosses or attachments, employing
in connection therewith, sectional ring clamps disposed face-to-face or separated
from each other, and with each of them provided with a screwed stalk or stem and
screw nut or like expedient for bringing or taking the same up to their grip,
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 6.
Thirdly. In cycle saddle sectional clamping bosses, consisting of clamping rings,
each having screwed stems or the like, in combination with side plates or cheeks
having gripping concaved faces, or in combination with stay brackets or cheeks
not having a gripping function and with a part of them jointedly connected to the
framing or to the sides of the framing, whereby tilt is acquired and the framing of
a saddle connected to the boss, and the boss to the seat support, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 6.
Fourthly. A cycle saddle sectional clamping boss or attachment having a ring
or annular carrier with screwed stalks or trunnion ends, and with the said ends or
the parts of the ring adjacent to the stems of them, fitted with adjusted clamping
plates or cheeks concaved or faced upon their inner presented sides, and being
plain upon their cuter sides and having holes or openings for the reception of
locking studs or equivalents carried upon the inner presented faces of washers or
outside plates provided with one, two or more frame rod channels or keep seatings
formed within them and with nuts or like expedients taking upon the ends of
screwed stalks or stems, whereby the said boss is made to revolve and become
universal both for adjustment and interchangeability, substantially as described
and set forth in Figures 7 to 14.
Fifthly. In cycle saddle sectional clamping bosses the general construction,
arrangement and combination of the parts substantially as and for the purpose
described and set forth in Figures 15 and 16.
Sixthly. In cycle saddle sectional clamping bosses consisting of fitted and
rotating or universal gripping plates or cheeks, suitably attached to the framing of
the saddle, whereby tilt is acquired and interchangeability effected, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 17, 18 and 19.
Seventhly. In cycle saddle sectional clamping bosses the combination with plates
or cheeks having inner seatings, of frames or sides of frames suitably gapped with

page_text: clearances or having holes or piercings, substantially as and for the purpose as
described and set forth in Figures 17, 18 and 19.
Eighthly. The improvements in the general construction, arrangement and
combination of the parts of sectional clamping bosses of cycle saddles, sub-
stantially as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 16th day of December 1893.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.