Improvements in the Metallic Framing Parts of Cycle Saddles.
Year: 1894

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Metallic Framing Parts of Cycle Saddles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to the metallic framing parts of cycle saddles, and consists
in a new organization of the wire or rod members from which the framings and
springs are made, and is an improvement upon former Letters Patent granted to
me and bearing date the 5th day of October 1892 No. 17737.
In carrying out my invention 1 may make up each wire or rod member of a
series of strands, arranged side by side or otherwise, so as to form a compound
length, which is continuously and circumferentially close wrapped with fine wire,
hence a wire-wrapped compound rod member.
Thus, in one form, I take two wires, and place them together one above the
other, and then closely wrap them with fine wire, so that the wires form a compound
core to the wrapped wire.
When three strand wires are employed, then the cross section of the wrapped
strand resembles that of a triangle.
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Improvements in the Metallic Framing Parts of Cycle Saddles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, 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 relates to the metallic framing parts of cycle saddles, and consists
in a new organization of the wire or rod members from which the framings aud
springs are made, and is an improvement upon former Letters Patent granted to
me and bearing date the 5th day of October 1892 No. 17737.
In one form of my improvements, I make up a framing rod of a series of strands
or wires, arranged side by side, and with the same either left naked or tied together
by ties, which may be either continuous or separated. When the ties are con-
tinuous, propose-to-wrap: the-compound-lengths with wire, but when they are
separate, I propose that the ties should be in the form of loops or eyes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a cycle saddle having
compound framing rods made according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a compound framing rod made up of two independent
wires a. a¹.

page_text: Figure 3 represents a like compound framing rod made up of three wires a,
a¹, a³.
Figure 4 represents a compound framing rod, made up of four faggotted wires a,
a, a, a³, placed side by side.
Figure 5 represents a cycle saddle provided with compound or faggotted and
wrapped framing rods.
Figure 6 represents a length of the said compound and wrapped framing rods,
and Figure 7 is a section of the same on the dotted lines x-x Figure 6, upon an
enlarged scale.
In Figures 5, 6 and 7, a, a', a² are the three component wires of the length, tied
together by a wrapped wire b.
Figure 8 represents a cycle saddle having compound framing rods, the members
of which are tied together by loops or eyes.
Figure 9 represents a length of such compound and tied-together framing rod.
Figure 10 is a cross section of the same upon the dotted lines - Figure 9.
In Figures 8, 9 and 10 a, a' are framing wires, lying one upon another and tied
or connected together by loops or double eyed loops b.
Figure 11 represents a modified form of my improvements, in which the
component wires or strands of a framing rod are slightly separated from each
other.
Figure 12 is a cross section of Figure 11 upon the dotted lines a-x.
In Figures 11 and 12, a, a' are the component wires or strands, tied or connected
together by a double eyed loop, with the eyes slightly separated from each other
so as to form an intervening space between the component wires.
Figure 13 represents a section of a rod of three wires, tied together by loops or
clips and with the component wires slightly separated from each other by
intervening spaces.
a, a, a, are the component wires and
The application of my invention to
Figure 14) differs in no essential respect
herein described.
the clips.
spring framings (such as represented in
from its application to the plain framings
By making framings and springs from compound rod lengths, as described, the
same are endowed with great strength combined with lightness.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is
First. Making the rods of cycle saddle framings from two or more component
wires or strands disposed one upon another, substantially as and for the purpose
described and set forth.
Secondly. Making the rods of cycle saddle framings from two or more component
wires or strands, laid together or arranged one upon another and tied together
either by continuous wire wrappings or by separated loops or eyes, substantially as
and for the purpose described and set forth.
Dated this 15th day of Ma.. 190:
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
Improvements by wa
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to cycle saddles, and is, in parts, improvements upon
several former Letters Patent grauted to me and numbered 5868 of 1888, 15424
of 1890, 13733 of 1892, 22608 of 1892, 8553 of 1893, 9756 of 1893 and 14620
of 1893, of which latter Patent I am the sole assignee.
My said present invention pertains, in the one part, to the construction and
disposition of the rod or wire members of four-wire under framings or bracket
or base framings; in the second part, to the resilient cushion connections of the
said frames and attachment parts and the components of them; in the third part
to the general construction and arrangements of the under metallic framings of
cycle saddles, and in the fourth part, to the bosses or connection means.
In carrying out the first part of my invention, the framing, or the base framing,
which is of a bracket construction, consists of four wires, members or rods, arranged
in parallel and double order, and forming sides, separated vertically and horizontally
from each other by spaces, and with the fore parts of the members of each side
preferably raking upwards and being made continuous or terminating in a bracket
or connection, and with the rear ends likewise terminating in a cross or rest bracket,
upon the topside ends of which, pillar or other supporting springs may come.
Thus, the member of each side of the said framing, which run one above the
other, are separated by intervening spaces, thus forming vertical and trussed sides,
without the rear terminations of the members spreading, whilst the return fore ends
are gathered in or contracted. If necessary, the framing members may be kept at
equal distances apart, by eyed stays, with the eyes threaded respectively upon the
top and bottom members.
In carrying out the second and third parts of my invention, I take a four-wire
frame or bracket, made truss-wise, and with the members separated, as before, by
intervening vertical and horizontal spaces, and with the top member of each side
preferably formed, at rear, into a loop coil, with the termination of the rod member
directed upwards and being connected to the back or skirting plate, whilst the fore
end or the returned fore end terminates in the bracket of the tensioning device,
which has, upon its underside, a hanging screw pin, upon which two rubber
cushioning blocks are threaded, and seat themselves within the cups of a metallic
bracket coming between them.
This cupped bracket is connected, at an inner part, to the fore end or the returned
fore end of the lower rod member of each side, which is located under, and is
preferably vertically lignable with, the top member, but not necessarily parallel
therewith.
Thus, those lower members of the sides extends rearwardly only a short distance
beyond the middle part of the saddle, and are terminated by duplex cup brackets,
with the sinkings coming upon the top and under sides, through holes in which,
eyed pins, threaded upon and hung from the top rod members, come, whilst also
threaded upon the stems of the said hanging and eyed pins, and coming above and
below the cupped brackets, within which they seat themselves, are rubber cushioning

page_text: blocks, with the tops of those blocks located within the upper sinkings of the cups
coming up to the undersides of the top framings, so that on pressure being put upon
the said top framings, they ride upon the tops of the rubber resilient connections,
which may, if necessary, be prevented from spreading by caps or inverted and
shallow cupped washers.
Instead of employing one pair only of such resilient connections at the rear part
of the saddle, I may employ two, with the same respectively coming upon the two
opposite sides of the boss.
It is thus obvious that these rubber connections form resilient vertical stays,
located between the members of each side, and in order to brace the sides of the
framings together, lateral stays may extend from screw pins directed from the
crowns of the eyes of the hanging pius.
In a modified form of this part of my invention in connection with single sided
wire or rod framings, the rear termination of the framing rod of each side has, or is
rivetted to, a cupped bracket, with the lower end of an upright and collared post or
pillar passing through a piercing in the middle of it, and with its upper end
terminating in the back plate of the saddle.
The fore part of the cupped bracket carries an upright post, with a stud or lug
standing out from near its rear upper part, and opposite to this stud or lug, is a
similar one carried by the post or pillar, whilst threaded and rivetted upon the
opposed lugs are two dished washers, with the cups presented inwards, seated within
which is a rubber cushioning block for receiving horizontal pressure.
The lower part of the first named post, above the cupped bracket, has a collar,
between which and the said cupped bracket, is a rubber block for cushioning
vertically.
It is understood that these resilient buffering and joint connections are in duplicate
at the rear ends of the saddle.
In carrying out a further modified form, I make the fore framing in the form of
a bracket, extending from the front to about the middle of the underside of the
seat, and terminated by two pairs of double cups, into which top and underside
rubber blocks take, with eyed screw pins threaded upon the fore parts of each side
of a single-membered double-sided bracket.
The rear parts of these said members, which are affixed to and terminate in the
back plate, have loop coils, whilst the eyed pins upon which the rubber blocks or
cushioning expedients are threaded, may be braced by cross ties as before
described.
In carrying out the fourth part of my invention I may construct the body of the
boss in the form of a solid and hanging D or inverted D-shaped loop, fitted
interiorly with a loose and adjustable pressure plate, having a concaved seating
opposed to the concaved seating of the loop, and with the outer side of the said
pressure or clamping plate provided with a V-shaped sinking, into which the inner
and wedged ends of screw pins, which pass through holes in the body of the boss,
take, so that on the screwing up of screw nuts on the ends of the screw pins, the
said wedge ends or inclined planes are drawn up the inclines of the sinking, whereby
the pressure or clamping plate is drawn or forced upon the pin member, which
is thus clamped within the boss.
When the boss is employed in connection with a four-wire frame, the pins,
whose shanks are square, pass between the rod members of each side, whilst threaded
upon the ends of the screw pins are clamping washers, with keep grooves in their
inner faces to receive the wires.
Thus the screwing up of the pins both clamps the frame wires, which may be
single or double, to the boss and the boss to the L pin.
As a modified form of boss for taking single rod sides, we provide each of the
washers with a foot, whilst the inner sides of the rods seat themselves within the
keep grooves of loose pieces, having teeth or serrations upon their inner faces,
which embed themselves into the adjacent outside faces of the body of the boss
when the clamping is effected by the screwing up of the nuts.

page_text: The framing members mentioned in the foregoing may be either plain or of the
strand construction.
Dated this ond day of Sentember 1894.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Saddles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, 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 relates to cycle saddles, and is, in parts, improvements upon
several former Letters Patent granted to me and numbered 5868 of 1888, 15424
of 1890, 13733 of 1892, 22608 of 1892, 8553 of 1893 and 9756 of 1893 and also
upon Letters Patent No. 14620 of 1893, of which I am the sole assignee.
My said present invention pertains to the attachment bosses or connection means,
for securing cycle saddles to their pins or saddle supports and consists in bringing
the clamping parts of the boss home through the medium of inclined planes.
In carrying out one form of my invention 1 may construct the body of the boss
in the form of a solid and hanging D or inverted D-shaped loop, fitted interiorly
with a loose and adjustable pressure plate, having a concaved seating opposed to
the concaved seating of the loop, and with the outer side of the said pressure or
clamping plate provided with a V-shaped sinking, into which the inner and wedged
ends of screw pins, which pass through holes in the body of the boss, take, so that
on the screwing up of screw outs on the ends of the screw pins, the said wedge ends
or inclined planes are drawn up the inclines of the sinking, whereby the pressure or
clamping plate is drawn or forced upon the L pin member, which is thus clamped
within the boss.
When the boss is employed in connection with a four-wire frame, the pins, whose
shanks are square, pass between the rod members of each side, whilst threaded upon
the ends of the screw pins are clamping washers, with keep grooves in their inner
faces to receive the wires.
Thus the screwing up of the pins both clamps the frame wires, which may be
single or double to the boss, and secures the boss to the L pin.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a cross section of an attachment
boss constructed according to one form of my improvements.
Figure 2 represents the loose screws with wedge ends, separately.
Figure 3 represents the pressure plate which has inclined planes upon its topside,
separately, and Figure 4 represents a topside plan of the same.
Figure 5 is a section of Figure 1 upon the dotted lines -x, looking towards the
face of the clip.
In Figures 1 to 5, a is a D-shaped loop or band clip, with the ends a¹, bridged
and braced at a, and rectangularly gapped at a², and having the outer sides or
cheeks a³, circularly or otherwise grooved or channelled at a', against the projections
formed by which, the frame rods b, which lie within keep grooves c', formed within
the inner faces of washers c, threaded upon the ends of wedge-ended screw
bolts d, d¹, d, come. The wedge ends d', of the said screw bolts d, bear upon
inclined planes e', of a pressure plate e, having a concaved underside seating e,
which comes upon one side of the L pin or seat support g whilst the other side
rests within the concave of the strap of the clip a. The shanks d, of the pins d.
are square and pass through like rectangular holes a², made through the upper

page_text: parts a' of the clip, whilst fare nuts, screwing upon the ends of the said pins or
bolts d, by the tightening up of which, the frame rods are clamped between the
washers and the outer sides of the clip, and the wedges or inclined ends of the pins
or bolts are drawn outwardly and up the inclined planes of the pressure plate or
block, which is forced inwardly and upon the Lpin or seat support and the distance
between the seating of the pressure plate and the inside seating part of the clip is
reduced, hence the simultaneous securing of the boss to the saddle framing and the
gripping of the saddle support by the boss.
Instead of employing single washers in conjunction with grooved faces of the
clip, I may employ inner and outer washers provided with suitable keep grooves for
the frame wires.
Instead of the pins being wedge shaped at the ends, they may have projections
or enlargements in lieu thereof, or the pins may be inclined, whilst the gripping bar
may be formed with projections, such as represented in Figure 54, in which e is the
gripping bar, e the projections and a the incline ended pins.
Figure 6 represents a section of another form of boss constructed according to
my invention.
Figure 7 is a side elevation of the same, with the nut and washer removed.
Figure 8 represents a section of Figure 6 upon the dotted lines A.
Figure 9 is an underside plan of the D-shaped clip separately, and Figure 10 is
a section of the same upon the dotted line B Figure 7.
Figure 11 represents a side view and an edge view of the pressure block or bar
and the screws of the same integral with it.
Figures 12 and 13 represent the nuts and washers of each side.
In Figures 6 to 13, a is a D-shaped loop or band clip, with the free ends a¹,
thickened and formed into overhanging inclined planes or lugs a³, which impinge
and slide upon like inclined planes e, of a pressure plate or gripping bar e, having
a concaved or semi-circular underside e², and opposite square shanks e³, terminating
in screwed pins or trunnion ends e, upon which frame-rod gripping washers c,
having grooves c', within them for the reception of the frame rods b, come, whilst
puts f, take upon the said screwed ends e, so that by screwing the said nuts, the
frame wires are gripped between the washers c, and the opposed serrated faces a³,
of the D-shaped clip a, and the distance between the lug ends a', is contracted,
causing them to forcibly impinge upon the inclined planes e¹, of the pressure plate
or bar e, which is thereby forced downwards upon the L-pin or saddle support and
is made to grip the same between its concaved underside and the concaved seating
of the drawn-together ☐ band clip.
If necessary I may employ inner and outer washers in conjunction with the boss
last described in order to give universal and tilt adjustment to the same, although
the said adjustments may be effected by the frame rods coming between the single
washers and the opposed faces or cheeks of the clip.
Instead of the free ends of the band clip being formed wedge-shaped or with
inclined contacts, the same may carry bulbous or other projections, or the free ends
may be wedge shaped whilst the topside of the gripping bar carrying projections.
Figure 14 represents an elevation of such a gripping bar, in which e is the gripping
bar, e the projections, a¹ a wedge or incline-plane end of the clip a.
Figure 15 represents a further modification in which the bearing block is loose
and is threaded upon a square pin.
a is the clip, terminated by inclined planes or projections a', which impinge upon
inclines e, of the L pin or pillar gripping block e, through a hole e, in which,
a screw-ended and angular pin e, having nuts at its ends, passes.
washers, the frame rod and g is the L pin.
c are the
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 :-
.First. In attachment bosses for cycle saddles, forcing home the clamping plate

page_text: or bar onto the ☐ pin or pillar support through the medium of an inclined plane or
planes of it, or carried by it, upon which plane or planes a contiguous or adjacent
and impinging part or parts of the boss comes or come; substantially as described
and set forth.
Secondly. In attachment bosses for cycle saddles, forcing home the clamping
plate or bar onto the L pin or pillar support through the medium of impinging
wedge parts of the boss bearing against projections upon the clamping plate or
vice versa, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly. The improvements in cycle saddle securing attachments or securing
bosses, substantially as herein described and set forth.
:- 15th day of Lune 1805
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.