Improvements in Saddle Adjusting Devices for Cycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: IDIONAL
Improvements in Saddle Adjusting Devices for Cycles.
We, JAMES CURNO, of White Hart," All Hallow's Lane, Mechanic, and
GEORGE CECIL G'NAPP, of 49, Victoria Road, Manufacturer, both in Bedford,
in the County of Bedford, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object to provide improved means for adjusting the
saddle of a cycle.
According to our invention the pin carrying the saddle and sliding in th
tubular seat standard of the framing is provided with a toothed rack or the like
with which a pawl or catclt on the tubular seat standard is designed to engage to
hold the said rack and, consequently, also the saddle pin, in any desired position.
We find it advantageous to combine with the said pawl or catch a lever by
means of which the said pawl or catch may be prevented from becoming
disengaged from the rack, the said lever being fixed by a set screw.
The said lever and pawl or catch, are sometimes attached to clips designed to be
clipped upon the seat standards of existing machines.
Deted this 5th day of November 1896.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Saddle Adjusting Devices for Cycles.
We, JAMES CURNO, of "White Hart," All Hallow's Lane, Mechanic, an
GEORGE CECIL G'NAPP, of 49, Victoria Road, Manufacturer, both in Bedford,
in the County of Bedford, 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:-
Our invention has for its object to provide improved means for adjusting the
saddle of a cycle.
According to our invention the pillar carrying the saddle pin and sliding in
the tubular seat standard of the framing is provided with a toothed rack or the
like with which a pawl or catch on the tubular seat standard is designed to engage
to hold the said pillar, and consequently also the saddle pin, in any desired
position.
We find it advantageous to combine with the said pawl or catch a lever by
means of which the said pawl or catch may be prevented from becoming
disengaged from the rack, the said lever being fixed by a set screw.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:-

page_text: Figure
18 a sectional side elevation illustrating the construction and
application of our improved saddle adjusting device:
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same:
Figure 3 is a section on the line 33 Figure 1.
a is the tubular seat standard of the framing, b is the seat pillar adapted to
slide in the said standard and to be fixed therein in any desired position and c is
the saddle pin.
In the seat pillar is formed a number of holes d, d and on the seat standard a
is fixed a bracket e to which the catch fis pivoted the said catch having at one
end a pin g designed to project, through an aperture h in the seat lug i at the top
of the tubular standard a, into one or other of the holes d, d to hold the seat
pillar.
In order to prevent the seat pillar b from rotating upon its axis when the pin g
is out of engagement with one of the holes therein, the said pillar is advantageously
formed with a key way j into which a key or feather k on the inside of the seat
lug enters. is the lever by means of which the catch f is locked in engage
ment with the seat pillar, the said lever being pivoted upon a bracket m on the
seat standard a and at one end designed to engage against the end n of the catch f
and at the other end to be acted upon by a screw arranged in a bridge piece or
support 2 upon the standard a. With this arrangement it will be readily unde:-
stood that when the screw o is slackened so as to allow the lever to move freely,
pressure applied to the end of the catch f will draw the pin g from the hole
in the seat pillar with which it is in engagement theréby permitting the said seat
pillar to be raised or lowered; after the seat pillar has been adjusted to the
desired position, by again introducing the pin of the catch f into one of the
holes d, the screw o is turned to again lock the catch
は
Instead of forming the seat with a series of holes
against movement.
d it may be formed with
teeth in which case the catch f is adapted to engage with the said teeth. Also in
some cases the lever 7 can be dispensed with, a set screw being passed through the
end n of the catch f so as to bear against the seat standard a and lock the said
catch f. The catch f and also the lever 1, if used, can be arranged in conjunction
with clips designed to be clipped upon the seat standards of existing machines in
order to permit of applying our invention to such machines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The improved saddle adjusting device for a cycle consisting of a catch
pivoted upon the tubular seat standard of the cycle and having one end adapted
to engage with teeth or notches in the said seat standard whilst the other end has
arranged in conjunction with it means for locking the said catch, substantially
as described.
2. In a saddle adjusting device for a cycle wherein a catch, such as fis
employed, the combination with the said catch of a lever, such as 1, and means for
locking the said lever, substantially as described.
3. The construction and application to a cycle of saddle adjusting devices,
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.