Improvements in Detail Parts of Cycle Saddles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Aug., 1900-Accepted, 15th Sept., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Detail Parts of Cycle Saddles.
We, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, Managing Director, and JOHN HOLT, Works
Manager, both of J B Brooks and Company Limited, Criterion Works, Great
Charles Street, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain detail parts of cycle saddles and consists
in a means of attaching or detachably connecting the ends of framing or spring
wes on 1ods to other parts of cycle saddles, such as the cantle or peak plates
or to pressed metal or like base frames, but the invention is particularly applic-
able to the connection of the rear ends of framing wires to the back or cantle
plates of cycle saddles of that class in which the seat is separable or detachable
from the framing
Usually such connections are made by forming the ends of the wires into
eyed loops which are passed over bolts or short screw pins and locked by nuts,
but owing to the bends or twists of the wire at its junctions with the eyes,
the metal becomes brittle and liable to break, thus rendering the saddle useless
By our invention, the connection 18 effected without the employment of eyes
and the attachment of the plain ends of the wires 18 made according to one form
of our invention, through the medium of a cambered sping pressure plate,
which, when straightened out, jambs the ends of the wires to be held on gripped,
between its own ends and the sides of the eyes of a pair of separated eye
plates strung-in common with the pressure plate upon a pin hanging from
the underside of the cantle.
Thus the connection device consists of a bottom plate having a central eye
for threading on a bolt depending from the back plate and with eyes or holes
formed near its opposite ends, which may be turned up into feet adapted to
take into the channel of the cantle, so as to make the plate stand away fiom
the bottom thereof and admit of the ends of the wires to be secured passing full
home through the holes A second and coincidently eyed plate is like the
first one, threaded upon the depending screw pin, with the wires passing through
the holes therein, and within the space between these plates, 18 placed a cambered
01 bowed spring pressure plate, having a central eye, which fits loosely over
the pin, and semi-circular impingement and keeper ends, which take a locking
thrust against the inner sides of the wies when the said plate is straightened
out by the screwing up of a nut on the end of the depending pin and thus
at the same time forces the outer sides of the said wires against the outer edges
of the holes in the separated eye plates, thereby effectively locking the wires
which can be readily disconnected when required by simply unscrewing the nut
whereupon the locking plate, is released and takes its ends out of their locked
position
Instead of effecting the connection by straightening a bowed pressure plate
a straight pressure plate may be used with eyed or hooked ends through which

page_text: the wnes are passed and the thrust of the nut is applied in such a manner as to
curve of camber the said plate.
According to another form of our invention, a pair of frame wires may be
detachably connected to a cantle plate or the like through the medium of a wedge
clamping device, consisting, in one form, of a hanging and gapped bracelet
depending from and fitted at its base into a cantle plate or back plate, with the
inner edges of the two ends having semi-circular channels or suitable vertical
grooves adapted to encompass nearly a half part of each of a pair of plain wie
ends required to be gupped The other half of each wire tahes into or is employed
by similar halt grooves formed in the opposite ends of a wedge or clamping
block having a hole through its middle to take onto the stem of a hanging pin
or bolt which may take also through the cantle plate and the hanging bracket
and having a screwed lower end to receive a clamping nut The grooved ends of
either the block or the bracket are slightly tapered, so that on the screw nut
being tightened up, the block is forced in between the ends of the said wires
and clamps them between itself and the ends of the brackets, thereby effecting
the connection by frictional contact. alone
The application of our invention to other parts of cycle saddles differs in no
essential respect from its application as a connection between the framing wires
and cantle plate as herein described.
We wish it to be understood that although the aforesaid improvement 18
described as holding two wes the same may be applied to holding one, two
or more wires, springs or the like as may be desired
Dated this 3rd day of November 1899.
Improvements in Detail Parts of Cycle Saddles.
We, JOHN BOULI BEE BROOKS, Managing Director, and JOHN HOLT, Works
Manager, both of J B Brooks and Company Limited, Criterion Works, Great
Charles Street, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to certain detail parts of cycle saddles and consists
in a means of attaching or detachably connecting the ends of framing or spring
wies or 1ods to other parts of cycle saddles, such as the cantle or peak plates
or to pressed metal or like base frames, but the invention 18 particularly applic-
able to the connection of the rear ends of framing wes to the back or cantle
plates of cycle saddles of that class in which the seat 18 separable or detachable
from the framing
Usually such connections are made by forming the ends of the wires into
eyed loops which are passed over bolts oi short screw pins and locked by nuts,
but owing to the bends or twists of the wire at its junctions with the eyes,
the metal becomes brittle and liable to break, thus rendering the saddle useless
By our invention, the connection is effected without the employment of eyes
and the attachment of the plain ends of the wires is made according to one form
of our invention, through the medium of a cambered spring pressure plate,
which, when straightened out, jambs the ends of the wires to be held or gripped,
between its own ends and the insides of the eyes of a pair of separated eye

page_text: plates strung-in common with the pressure plate upon a pin hanging from
the underside of the cantle.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a four-wire frame cycle
saddle in which the seat leather is detachable from the framing, and in which the
rear ends of the frame wires are secured to the cantle or back plate by connection
devices constructed and arranged in accordance with our invention In this
view one of the said connections is shown in vertical section, but the other
parts of the saddle are shown in elevation
Figure 2 represents an underside plan of the saddle showing how the rear ends
of the four frame wires are secured to the cantle plate by a pan of connections
Figure 3 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a vertical section of one of the
said connection devices on the dotted liner Figure 2
Figure 18 a horizontal section of Figure 3 upon the dotted line ¹.
Figure 5 18 a view showing the several component elements of the connection,
with a part of the cantle and the ends of a pan of frame wues separately or
disassembled from one another, some of these parts being shown in vertical
section and others in elevation
Figure 6 shows the component parts of the connection fitting, separately and
in plan
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several
figures of the diawings
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a is the seat leather of the saddle and are the framing wires, whose rear
ends are detachably secured to the cantle plate by means of our improved
connection devices d, of which a pair are employed, one to each two wires of
the frame Each connection consists of a top plate e, having a central eye el, for
threading upon a bolt c, depending from the cantle plate c, and eyes or holes e²,
formed near its opposite ends, which may be turned up into feet e³, adapted to
take into the channel of the cantle, so as to make the plate stand away from the
bottom thereof and admit of the vertical ends of the wires to be secured, passing
full home through the holes second plate f having holes f, f, at its ends
and middle coinciding with those in the first-named plate, is also threaded upon
the depending screw pin c', with the wire ends 61, passing through the said end
holes, whilst within the space between the upper and lower plates 18 placed
a cambered or bowed spring pressure-plate g, having a central eye q', which
fits loosely over the pin c¹ and semi-circular impingement and keeper ends g³,
which take a locking thrust against the inner sides of the wes when the said
plate is straightened out by the screwing up of a nut on the end of the depending
pin c, and thus at the same time force the outer sides of the said wires against
the outer edges of the holes in the separated eye plates, thereby effectively locking
the wires, which can be readily disconnected when requned by simply unscrew-
ing the nut, when cupon the locking plate 18 released and takes its ends out of
then locked position.
Instead of effecting the connection by straightening a bowed pressure plate,
a straight pressure plate may be used, with eyed or hooked ends thiough which
the wires are passed and the thrust of the nut is applied to curve of cambel
the said plate and contract the eyes upon the wes
The application of our invention to other parts of cycle saddles differs in no
essential respect from its application as a connection between the framing
wires and cantle plate as herein described, and we also wish it to be understood
that although the connection devices are only described as applied to the holding
of two wires, yet the same may also be applied to the holding or clamping of
one, two or more wires, springs or the like as may be desired
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 18
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First: In cycle saddles, connecting the rod members or parts of a saddle

page_text: to plates, brackets or other component parts, through the medium of a cambered
or curved pressure plate, arranged in conjunction with suitable confining supports,
between which and the impingement parts of the pressure plate, the objects to
be secured are guipped and held when pressure 18 applied to the said plate, aub-
stantially as herein described, and also as set forth in the accompanying drawing.
Secondly. In cycle saddles, connecting the rod members or paits of a saddle
to plates, brackets or other component parts though the medium of a cambered
or curved pressure-plate, which, when straightened out, grips the rods or objects
to be secured between itself and the insides of the eyes of one or more eye-
plates, strung, in common with the pressure plate, upon a fixed screw pin which
carries the nut for straightening the said plate, substantially as herein described,
and also as set forth in the accompanying diawing
Dated this 1st day of August 1900.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
JOHN HOLT.
By Henry Skenett,
24, Temple Row, Bumingham, Agent for Applicants.