Improvements in Appliances or Means connected with Securing Saddle Frames to L Pins of Cycles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances or Means connected with Securing
Saddle Frames to L Pins of Cycles.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 125, 126 Long Acre, London, Lamp Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I curve a plate, or strip to conform to the shape of the L pin, and I arrange the
side edges with lips, which I turn, or loop as for a hinge joint, or gudgeon, which
loops can embrace pintles, or wires passed into them. I take another plate, or strip
to form a bridge with side edge loops also to embrace the pintle, or wires. Portions
of the plate and the bridge are also curved to pass under and over the wires of the
saddle frame.
The bridge is provided with a hole, and this, by means of a set screw, can put
pressure against the L pin and strain the plate and the bridge, the loops con-
tinuing their hold upon the pins and the saddle frame until sufficient grip be
obtained to fix the saddle frame to the pin.
As a modification of the foregoing, I may dispense with the pintles, and pass
the wires of the saddle frame into the loops of the curved plate and the bridge over
upon themselves, or the plate, and the bridge may be made from the same piece of
metal by forming holes and bending the side portions through to constitute loops,
the extreme ends serving as the bridge when overlapped for the set screw to be
passed through, and instead of using plates and bridges, as above described,
ordinary wire can be looped a sufficient number of times for the required strength,
and by a liner plate and a set screw the desired tension can be obtained to fix the
saddle frame to the L pin.
ary
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Salsbury.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances or Means connected with Securing
Saddle Frames to L Pins of Cycles.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 125, 126 Long Acre, London, Lamp Manufacturer,
lo hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
o be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention has for object, fixing saddle frames to Ŀ pins of cycles by simple
and efficient means.
My invention will be understood by the annexed drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a plan of a stamped metal blank from which a saddle frame clip can be
produced, such as by bending it into the form shown at Figure 1A which is an end
elevation partly in section of the clip with the gudgeons for nipping the wires of the
saddle frame and the L pin against which it is tightened by a screw. Figure 2 is
a side elevation of the same appliance, and Figure 3 is a plan.
Figure 4 is a half sectional elevation of an appliance made by stamping and
combining two pieces of sheet metal having hinged loops, or gudgeons; Figure 5
being a side elevation of the same, and Figure 6 a plan.
Figure 7 is a plan of a similar combination of two pieces of stamped metal but
forned with a greater number of hinged loops.
Figures 8 and are sectional elevation and side elevation respectively of an

page_text: appliance also formed of two pieces of stamped metal, but without the hinged loops
or gudgeons, the two pieces being doubled upon themselves over the saddle springs.
Figures 10 and 11 are end and side elevations respectively of an appliance made
from wire.
In carrying my invention into practice, I stamp a plate or strip of sheet metal A,
Figure 1, to such a shape that the sides B, B, can be curled and passed through
the apertures C, C, and be drawn tight to form a loop or bight D, D, into which
the saddle frames E, E, can be inserted.
A portion of the sides B, B, are bent at right angles, and rivetted together, as
at F, to form a bridge through a hole in which a set screw G can be passed to
screw through a nut H held between the sides B, B, and prevented from turning
thereby.
The metal plate A is curved to conform to the shape of the pin I upon which
it sits, the wires E, E, of the saddle spring being passed through the loops or
bights D, D, formed by the inturning of the side pieces B, B, through the holes or
apertures C, C, as before described, so that when pressure is brought to bear against
the under side of the pin I by turning the set screw G through the nut H, it
forces down the bridge piece and lifts the curved plate A to draw the loops or
bights D, D, tightly upon the wires of the saddle spring to fix them and the plate A
firmly in position.
Referring to the examples shown in Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7, the plate A is curved
to sit upon the L pin I, and the side edges J are turned or looped as for a hinge
joint or gudgeon, which loops J can embrace pintles or wires K passed into them.
Another plate or strip is used to form the bridge B, B, with side edge loops J' also
to embrace the pintles or wires K.
The parts L, L', of the plate A and bridge piece B, B, are curved to pass under
and over the wires of the saddle spring respectively that when pressure is brought
to bear by means of the set screw in the manner before described, the plate A and
bridge piece B, B, are strained in opposite directions, so that the opposing curved
parts L, L, firmly grip the saddle wires E, E.
In Figures 8 and 9, the hinged loops or gudgeons J are dispensed with, the
plate A being stamped of such a shape that it can be returned upon itself and
rivetted together to form a loop D, into which the wires E of the saddle can be
passed, the bridge piece B, B, being in like manner doubled over the wires, and
overlapped at the bottom for the set screw to pass through, or instead of sheet
metal may use wires, as indicated in Figures 10 and 11, the ends of the wire
corresponding to the curved plate A being curled or looped a sufficient number of
times for the required strength in gripping the saddle wires E, E. The bridge
piece B, B, is also formed of wire, in the manner shown, to allow a set screw to be
passed through for putting tension upon the parts, and fixing the saddle, as before
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction of cycle saddle clips from one or more pieces of sheet
metal, parts of which embrace the pin and parts embrace the saddle wires when
such wires are passed through the curls, in the manner set forth.
2. Constructing a cycle saddle clip in the form or manner shown at Figures 1, 2,
and 3 from a plate of metal of the form, or substantially of the form shown at
Figure 1.
The 101 RAVALARAY
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Salsbury.