Improvements in Saddles for Cycles and other similar purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
.Improvements in Saddles for Cycles and other similar purposes.
I, WALTER BRAMPTON of the Firm of Brampton Brothers Saddle Manufacturers
of Oliver Street Nechells Birmingham, in the County of Warwick do hereby declare
the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in saddles for cycles and other
similar purposes which are more compact at the pummel or nose end with a greater
range of action for the spring and more simple and less expense in construction.
The foundation or frame of the saddle may consist of a square or other rod bent
into a bow to receive the tension screw at the front end and opening out to support
the back springs. But the front spring which principally concerns my present
invention is at the upper end formed into a bow or eye which corresponds with the
bow or hole in the frame. Between the eye of the frame and the eye of the spring
I place a leather or other deadening liner piece which also comes underneath the
bottom convolution of the spring and then bends up to form a shoulder for the head
of the tension bolt which screws up against it thus tightening the top surface of the
saddle and fixing the end of the front spring and securing the front end of the
supporting frame with the one screw. The front of the tension screw is tapped into
the pummel bracket as usual. By this means I dispense with the usual top spring
bolt and its parts and obtain more vertical action for the spring as well as decreased
height at the front part of the saddle.
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GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.
Improvements in Saddles for Cycles and other similar purposes.
I, WALTER BRAMPTON of the Firm of Brampton Brothers, Saddle Manufacturers,
Oliver Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature
of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object improvements in saddles for cycles and other similar
purposes which are more compact at the pummel or nose end with a greater range
of action for the spring and more simple and less expensive in construction.
The foundation or frame of the saddle may consist of a square or other rod bent
into a bow to receive the tension screw at the front end and opening out to support
the back springs. But the front spring which principally concerns my present
invention is at the upper end formed into a bow or eye which corresponds with the
bow or hole in the frame. Between the eye of the frame and the eye of the spring
I place a leather or other deadening liner piece which also comes underneath the
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page_text: bottom convolution of the spring and then bends up to form a shoulder for the head
of the tension bolt which screws up against it thus tightening the top surface of the
saddle and fixing the end of the front spring and securing the front end of the
supporting frame with the one screw. The front of the tension screw is tapped into
the pummel bracket as usual. By this means we dispense with the usual top spring
bolt and its parts and obtain more vertical action for the spring as well as decreased
height at the front part of the saddle.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into
practical effect I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon
which is illustrated an example of the same as applied to such a saddle and frame as
is the subject of one of my previous inventions for which Letters Patent was granted,
viz. No. 16899. A.D. 1895 entitled "Improvements in saddles for cycles and other
such like purposes" but it must be distinctly understood that my present invention is
not confined to the particular form of saddle shown but may be adapted to other
frames and forms of saddles with the same or similar effect.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a saddle showing my invention applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same saddle as shown in elevation at Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an end elevation of the front or pummel spring M removed from the
frame so that its formation may be clearly seen.
It has been customary hitherto to attach the front or pummel spring M to the
upper frame A at its upper end by a bolt such as m' at the back end which is a
complicated arrangement and has the effect of limiting the downward action of the
spring and causes the surface S of the saddle to stand higher from the lower frame R
besides which the front spring M has be longer. By my present invention 1 make
the front spring M as seen in elevation at Figure 3 with the metal m³ turned at the
upper portion into a bow or eye so as to leave the hole m in a turned up position, so
that the tightening and adjusting screw E may pass through it into the bracket K
which is secured in the usual manner to the leather or other surface of the saddle S
as set forth in my previous Patent No. 16899 A.D. 1895 before mentioned. To
prevent undue vibration or jar in use I provide the leather or other soft liner picce L
which is bent up at land turned at 12 down to 13 and through which the tightening
screw E passes. It will thus be seen that I avoid the screw head such as m and
simplify the front part considerably besides allowing the pummel spring M more
freedom of action which is a great advantage but beyond this the pummel end may
be built lower from its base frame R. It will of course be evident that more than
one spring M may be fixed in a similar manner and that the case given is shown as
an example only.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in saddles for cycles and other similar purposes consisting of a
spring or springs M made with a such like turned up part as m³ with provision such
as m for fastening it and either with or without such a liner piece as L substantially
as herein set forth and illustrated upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1897
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.