Improvements in Velocipede Saddles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1892-Accepted, 10th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Velocipede Saddles.
I, PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN of Granville Street, Broad Street in the City
of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to velocipede saddles, and consists first and primarily, in
the ventilation of the same, secondly, in the construction or formation of the seats
of the same, and thirdly in the supporting or under framings.
The invention in the first part, consists in channelling, corrugating, studding or
otherwise undulating the said saddle seats, hence the ventilation of the same.
In the second part, by channelling, ribbing, corrugating and the like, the undue
displacement of the material of the said saddle seat on pressure being applied by a
rider, is prevented.
In the third part, the under framing, comprehending the skirting part, which
passes on the underside of the cantle end, the suspension framing part, elevating
springs, and base framing, are made out of a single length of wire.
In carrying out the ventilation part of one form of my invention, I proceed as
follows:-
The seat of the saddle has one, two or more longitudinal and open ended channels,
running from end to end of the same, in manner that the seat of a rider is thoroughly
ventilated and kept cool.
In a velocipede saddle with a single channel running from end to end of the same,
the seat is, as it were, subdivided or separated about its middle by a deep depression
or gutter-like sinking, which comes between the legs, and under the middle of the
seat of a rider.
On a rider being seated on the said saddle, a free circulation of air is admitted,
as entrance and exit is made through the ends of the channel.
The bottom of the channel may be pierced or perforated in any manner as may
be desired.
In this case, the channel or longitudinal depression may be closed at its ends.
I am aware that ordinary saddle seats are pierced or slitted about their middles,
but these afford little or no ventilation, for immediately a rider becomes seated, the
same are closed, by his seat entirely covering them up, and so preventing the
circulation of air, as is most desirable.
By my invention, no such closing can take place, as the entrances and exits to
the ventilating means, are away from the seat of the rider, hence the same are
prevented from being closed.
As a further form of this part of my invention, I may give unto the whole of the
sent, a series of corrugations, both in the direction of the seat, or in oblique directions
crossing the cantle part, or I may cross-corrugate the said seat, with the open ends
of the corrugations directed from the sides.
As a still further form of the ventilation part of my invention, I may cross-
corrugate or cross channel the seat of the same, leaving as it were, studs or raised
parts between the undulations.
The bottoms of the corrugations or depressions between the outstanding or raised
parts, may be pierced, or entrances and exits for admitting the free circulation of
air may be made by the sides.
The second part of my invention, is incidental to that of the first, and by so
constructing the seats of saddles as described, or with flutings or corrugations
directed in directions as indicated, the tendency to slack and sag is prevented, and

page_text: tensioning device is rendered unnecessary, although such means may be employed if
desired.
To further prevent slack or sagging, the underside of the seat, preferably the
cantle-end, may have directed across it, lengths of thin strip steel.
In carrying out the third part of my invention, to wit:-that relating to the
framing, I take a length of wire sufficient to make the whole of the framing, and I
first bend the middle of the wire into a trough figure, to follow the contour of the
ventilating channel down the middle of the saddle seat, then approximate to the
said shaped middle part, two or more single or double loop coils are twisted; then
the wire proceeding to them, which is to form the under framing and base framing, is
bent downwards and passed through eyes or clip connections of an L pin boss, and
then continued rearwardly and upwardly to near the underside of the_cantle-end,
when the said wire is again fashioned into single or double loop coils, and the
remaining end proceeding from the last named coils, directed into skirting or back
framing, which is completed by the return of the said ends upon themselves.
This complete framing from the single length of wire, may be connected to the
saddle seat, by loops, or by staple eyes with rigid ends, or by other means.
Instead of elasticity being imparted to the framing through loop coils, pillar
coiled springs may be substituted for them.
The connections of the said framings, as a further modification, may be made by
bulging or splitting the wire thereby making eyes or loops, or the wire may be
flattened at parts, and then pierced.
As a further modification of the framing, the same may, if necessary, be made
from two lengths of wire, instead of from one.
The skirting or under framing at the cantle-end of the saddle seat, is divided, or
proceeds only to the middle, and then returns, in lieu of ordinary framing, which
usually extends across the framing, although the wire framing as described, less the
end parts, may be used with skirting framing of the ordinary kind.
The seat of the saddle is preferably made of leather, yet the same, if necessary,
may be made of thin sheet steel, or other like flexible material, and when made
with ventilating channels, the material at the entrances to the said channels is
directed into flanges or extended outwardly into skirtings, thus preventing the seats
becoming too pliable in the direction of the said channels.
Dated this 26th day of October 1891.
PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Velocipede Saddles.
I, PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN, of Granville Street, Broad 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 velocipede saddles, and consists first and primarily, in
means for the ventilation of the same; secondly, in the construction or formation
of the supporting under framings, and accessory parts of them.
The invention in the first part, consists in channelling, or providing or sinking
within the seat, an open ended channel, or open ended channels.
In the second part, the under framing, comprehending the seat framing, the base
framing, and the elevating springs, of each segment, are made from a single length
of wire or rod metal.
In carrying out the ventilating part of one form of my invention, the seat of the
saddle has one, two or more longitudinal and open ended channels, running from end

page_text: to end of the same, in manner, that the seat of a rider is thoroughly ventilated and
kept cool.
In a velocipede saddle with a single channel, running from end to end of the same,
the seat is, as it were, subdivided or separated about its middle by a deep depression
or gutter-like sinking, which comes between the legs and under the middle of the
seat of a rider.
A free circulation of air is admitted, as entrance and exit is made through the
ends of said channel.
By constructing the seats of saddles as described, or with channellings, flutings
or sinkings, the tendency of the material of the seat to slack or sag is prevented.
In the supporting under framing part, a length of wire or rod metal is bent into a
section or one half of the framing, and which section comprehends a seat framing
rod, a base framing rod, and the usual supporting springs.
Two of these sections make up a complete under framing, with supporting springs.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in vertical section, a cycle
saddle, ventilated and provided according to my invention.
The ventilating means consists in directing an open ended channel, trough or
longitudinal depression, along the middle of the topside of the seat, from the cantle
to the pummel end, whilst the said seat is mounted upon section framings, made out
of a single length of wire respectively.
Figure 2 represents a topside plan of the said saddle, or the seat of the
saddle, showing the open ends of the channel or trough, and the means employed for
giving rigidity or stay to the figure of the ends.
Figure 3 represents a back end view of the said seat, with portions of the metallic
underframing removed.
This view shows how the end of the trough is flanged or extended and turned
downwardly into a skirting, which gives rigidity to, and preserves the figure of, the
trough.
Figure 4 represents a front end view, showing the metallic bracket, terminating
the front of the ventilating channel.
Figure 5 is an underside plan of the saddle, showing the dispositions of the under-
framings, and the convex side of the ventilating channel of the seat.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 5.
a is the seat of the saddle, having a longitudinal and open ended channel b, running
up the middle, and directed from end to end of the said seat, and by which means,
the seat of a rider is thoroughly ventilated and kept cool, 62, 6', are the open ends
of the same, and with the end &, extended and turned downwards into a skirting or
flange 6, which preserves the trough figure of the sinking within the seat.
The front open end of the trough or channel of the seat, is fitted or provided with
a U-shaped bracket 6, which preserves the figure of the front, and also serves as a
support for, or carries the tension pin c, whose outer wormed end, is faceted or
angled, and takes through a like-shaped hole c³, passing through a bridge bracket c*,
connected to the upper members e, e, of the section framings d, d, and which
connection is made by screw pin eyes . Adjustment is performed by a nut c²,
taking as an abutment against the front shoulder of the bracket of.
Each of the said section members d, d' of the metallic underframing, have seat
framings e, el, running from end to end, on the underside of the said seat, and with
portions of the metal forward of the said seat rods, fashioned into upright loop
coiled springs g, 9', whilst the metal of the rods proceeding from the said coils are
directed into base framing rods h, h³, and the metal of the terminations of them,
fashioned into pillar coiled springs f,, with looped eyes 's, which come upon the
underside of looped eyes e, of the rods e, e', and through which said eyes, hanging
screw pins i, pass, and with the whole of the parts secured by nuts .
Thus the underframing of the seat of the saddle is composed of two sections,
having seat, base and spring members, and which sections are made from a single
rod or wire length.

page_text: Figure 6 represents a cycle saddle ventilated according to a further form of my
invention.
In this arrangement, the sinkings or depressions are made ramified or branched.
a is the seat of the saddle, b is an open ended trunk channel, with open ended
subsidiary or branched channels 6, 6, directed from the said trunk or primary
-channel.
The terminations of the said channels are provided with brackets, or turn down
extensions, so as to give stay or rigidity to them or to the seat.
Figure 7 represents a saddle ventilated according to another form of my invention.
a is the seat of a saddle, b is a closed ended trough, with a pierced bottom 6*.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First: In a ventilated velocipede saddle, providing or forming
or sinking within
the seat of the same, an open ended channel or channels, or a longitudinally directed
open ended channel or channels, sinkings or gutter-like passages, substantially as,
and for the purpose, described and set forth in Figures 1 to 6.
Secondly-In a ventilated cycle saddle, providing or sinking within the seat of
the same, an open ended channel or open ended channels, having the material at
the open ends of them, directed or turned down into flanges or skirtings, whereby the
said channels and the seat are stayed, or their figure or figures preserved, as set
forth in Figures 1 to 6.
Thirdly-In an open ended channelled ventilated cycle saddle, fitting or
providing the open ends, or the front open ends with metallic brackets or stays, as
set forth in Figures 1, 4 and 5.
Fourthly In a ventilated cycle saddle, the combination with the seat of the
same, of a closed ended trough channel or sinking, with a pierced bottom or pierced
sides, substantially as described and set forth.
Fifthlylu a cycle saddle framing, making the framings or the section framings,
composed of seat framing, base framing and elevating or supporting springs, from a
single rod or wire length, as described and set forth.
L
1000
PATRICK ALPHONSUS MARTIN,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.