Improvements in Parts of Velocipedes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 7th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Parts of Velocipedes.
I, ALFRED BLACKWELL, of 264, Icknield Street, in the City of Birmingham
Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention pertains, first, to the seat pillars or supports of velocipedes, and
technically designated the ✓ bars or pins, and secondly, in the saddle clips
or L-pin bosses for securing the said saddles to the said seat pillar.
The horizontal member of the said pillar support has heretofore been made of a
circular figure, and so also have the clips of the saddle.
Now by making the said parts of. such a figure, the saddles turn or work round,
as the affixing or clamping of the saddle to the said member is performed only by
a pin, and as there is no shoulder or stop, the end of the said pin has often to be
forced into the metal before a proper hold is made.
For lightness' sake, the said members are now generally made tubular or hollow,
and if the screw is unduly forced home, the walls of the said tubings become
injured or burst.
The object of my invention is to prevent the saddles turning round upon the said
support member, and consists in making the same, and the saddle boss, of an
angular or irregular figure in cross section, such for example as diamond shaped,
square, triangular, elliptical, half-round and the like.
In carrying out one form of my invention in connection with a diamond
section -member, I make the same preferably from tubing, and I make the
framing of the saddle boss of a diamond shape to take and embrace the said
member, and the said diamond shaped member is preferably made from square
tubing, with the angles or corners disposed in horizontal and vertical planes.
The clip or eye of the boss is of a like sectional figure as the member embraced.
No pin is necessary for preventing rotation, whilst longitudinal displacement is
prevented by the clip, which is drawn together by a screw.
In the case of an eyed boss a set pin is employed.
The vertical member of the seat support, may, if necessary, be made angular, or
of an elliptical figure, which works or is adjustable within an angular shaped socket,
so that the seat support is both prevented from rotating on the machine, and the
saddle from rotating on the support.
Dated this 10th day of February 1893.
ALFRED BLACKWELL,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Parts of Velocipedes.
I, ALFRED BLACKWELL, of 264, Icknield Street, in the City.of Birmingham,
Cycle 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 pertains, first, to the seat pillars or supports of velocipedes, and
technically designated the ☐ bars or L pins, and secondly in the saddle clips
or L-pin bosses for securing the said saddles to the said seat pillar.
The horizontal member of the said pillar support has heretofore been made of a
circular figure, and so also have the clips of the saddle.

page_text: Now by making the said parts of such a figure, the saddles turn or work round,
as the affixing or clamping of the saddle to the said member is performed only by a
pin and as there is no shoulder or stop, the end of the said pin has often to be forced
into the metal before a proper hold is made.
The object of my invention is to prevent the saddles turning round upon
the pin or bar, and consists in making the same, and the boss or clamp, of an
angular or irregular figure in cross section, such for example as diamond
shaped, square, triangular, elliptical, or in short of any cross section other than
round.
The clip or boss is made to correspond in cross section with the _ bar over
which it fits, and it is prevented from slipping horizontally along the bar by a
'screw or some other suitable means.
The bar may be either hollow or solid.
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.
1. The use in a velocipede of an L pin or L bar, angular or irregular in cross
section as set forth.
2. The use in a velocipede of a clip or boss angular or irregular in cross section
as set forth.
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