Improvements in Saddles for Bicycles, Tricycles, and such like purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left 22nd Oct., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Saddles for Bicycles, Tricycles, and such like
purposes.
I, WALTER BRAMPTON of the firm of Brampton Bros. of 24 & 25 Masshouse
Lane Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer of Cycle Saddles do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object "Improvements in saddles for bicycles tricycles
and such like purposes" and is specially applicable to such saddles as described in
my Specification No. 1079 A.D. 1891 and by which I am able most conveniently
to tighten the cover or leather seat with such facility that it may be accomplished
even while the machine is being ridden. This I do as follows:-
Under the front end of the saddle leather or other covering I mount by rivets
or other means a plate nut having a flange through which the rivets pass and upon
which the covering rests. The nut formed upon the back of the plate may be of
any convenient shape but preferably of such a shape that it can be held tightly
while the screw is operated. The screw is simply a set screw with a head formed
either with a large disc, milled edge or for the thumb or spanner and the underside
may be shaped with a collar or cone to fit into the frame of the saddle through
which it passes so as to allow freedom sideways which gives ease to the rider.
Date : 19th
1001
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.
"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Saddles for Bicycles. Tricycles, and such like
purposes.
I, WALTER BRAMPTON, of the firm of Brampton Bros., of 24 and 25 Mass-
house Lane, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer of Cycle
Saddles, 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 bicycles tricycles
and such like purposes, and is specially applicable to such saddles as is described in
my Specification No. 1,079 A.D. 1891 and by which I am able most conveniently
to tighten the cover or leather seat with such facility that it may be accomplished
even while the machine is being ridden. This I do as follows:-
Under the front end of the saddle leather or other covering I mount by rivets
or other means a plate nut having a flange through which the rivets pass and upon
which the covering rests. The nut formed upon the back of the plate may be of
any convenient shape but preferably of such a shape that it can be held tightly
while the screw is operated. The screw is simply a set screw with a head formed
either with a large disc milled edge or for the thumb or spanner and the underside
may be shaped with a collar or cone to fit into the frame of the saddle through
which it passes so as to allow freedom sideways which gives ease to the rider.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon
which is illustrated an example of my invention as applied to a bicycle tricycle or
other saddle and from which other slight modifications may be made to enable the
invention to be adapted to other sections or kinds of frames the one to which it is
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page_text: shewn being composed of a round rod T bent into an eye at the front to receive
any tightening device.
Figure 1, is a broken off side elevation of a saddle with my adjusting device
attached thereto.
Figure 2, is an inverted sectional plan of the same also broken off.
Figure 3, is a sectional side elevation of the end of the plate nut B.
Figure 4, is an end elevation of the plate nut B.
The nut B is formed as shewn with a substantial end and having a plate 6³
thinned out which forms a convenient medium for attachment to the leather or
other covering A. and which is secured thereto by rivets of which there may be
any desired number. A thread is cut through the hole of the 62 portion of the
nut B to receive the shank w of the adjusting screw W. This screw has a conical
neck w¹ or its equivalent which bears against the round bar T at that is inside
the eye formed by the bending of the round bar T as seen at Figure 5, in such a
manner that only a very small contact is made between the two not two shoulders
which would be too stiff-which enables an easy and free movement to take place
as the rider moves sideways and this meets a great need. Of course shoulders may
approximate to the result but I prefer to use the conical neck or the equivalent to
obtain a small bearing surface. The head of the screw W is formed large and
milled or roughed or so made that the hand has sufficient power to operate it even
while the rider stands upon his pedals which is a great convenience.
Of course
this mode of tightening the surface may be adapted to other frames than the one
illustrated and to any form of saddle or design of the back portion.
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 :-
The improvements in saddles for bicycles tricycles & such like purposes of the
adjusting arrangements W and B substantially as and for the purpose herein set
forth and shewn upon the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of October 1901
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.