A Spring for use in connection with Saddles for Bicycles and Tricycles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1898
PRUVIDIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Spring for use in connection with Saddles for Bicycles and
Tricycles.
1, ALBERT FRANCIS BLAGDON-RICHARDS, of 5, Cleveland Terrace, Walter Road,
Swansea, Physician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention has reference to a spring to be used as an attachment or otherwise
to bicycles and tricycles. The spring which is placed or used beneath the saddles
of the said machines in the manner hereinafter described is applicable to safety
bicycles either motor or otherwise and all descriptions of tricycles having saddles
and the object of this invention is to prevent the unpleasantness of jolting caused
to the riders when the machines are travelling over rough or uneven roads.
The spring which can be made of steel or other suitable material consists of a
broad flat band forked or otherwise at each end with spiral terminations at one or
both ends. The spring may be made of one piece or the said spiral terminations
can be made of separate pieces of steel or other suitable material so that the same
can be attached or detached from the said band. The said spring might have the
central part of the band rolled, and the remainder of the band flattened out toward
the ends before the spirals commence. The spring need not necessarily consist
of one piece but may consist of two or more pieces laid side by side lengthwise
and fixed or fastened together. These separate pieces may be either flat or round
but when fixed together the general shape of the spring is flat and broad except
the central portion which may as before stated be made flat or round to suit the
saddle attachment.
The spring is placed, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, between the saddle,
which may have its own special springs, and that part of the machine to which the
saddle is generally attached, namely:-The saddle or horizontal bar. In the case
of a safety bicycle it can be placed between the saddle and the horizontal bar fixed
to the hinder part of the frame of the machine, and in the case of a tricycle with a
eaddle it can be attached to the horizontal bar to which that saddle is generally
fixed.
The spring may have either a permanent or removable attachment to the
horizontal bar, the saddle being fixed on the spring by means of plates, bolts,
screws, nuts or other suitable fastenings.
If the spring is made with the central portion round as before mentioned it
would also allow the saddle to be attached to the spring by the same fastenings as
are used for fixing the saddle to the horizontal bar when this spring is not used.
The said spring is fixed above the horizontal bar about an inch and lengthwise
from end to end of the said bar. The two ends of the spring which are forked or
otherwise curve downwards in front and behind towards the sides of the horizontal
bar in the form of spirals. There are thus, when both ends of the spring are
forked, four spirals, two springing from the front end of the spring and lying one
on each side of the anterior part of the horizontal bar; and two springing from
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page_text: the hinder end of the spring and lying one on each side of the posterior part of the
horizontal bar.
The spiral terminations are attached to the horizontal bar by means of metal
rings with short transverse bars or pivots. When the spring is made detachable
the metal rings are not closed so as to allow them to be opened and slipped over
the horizontal bar and made firm or tight by means of screws, nuts bolts or any
other suitable fastening.
When the ends of the band forming the top of the spring are forked or otherwise
the said metal rings have short transverse bars or pivots as aforesaid on each side
of them upon which the corresponding ends of the spirals can be fixed either
permanently by means of an enlarged head to the bars or pivots or detachable by
fixing a nut, washer or screw at the end of the said bars, or pivots.
The said spring is quite distinct from the saddle which must be attached to it
as aforesaid and as it intervenes between the saddle and the horizontal bar to
which the saddle is usually attached it may when made detachable he slipped along
the said bar to any position to suit the riders of the machines.
Dated this 18th dow of Anril 1808
JAS. CATON,
Applicant's Agent.
A Spring for use in connection with Saddles for Bicycles and
Tricycles.
I, ALBERT FRANCIS BLAGDON-RICHARDS, of 5, Cleveland Terrace, Walter Road,
Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan, Physician, 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 a spring for use in.connection with saddles for bicycles,
tricycles or other vehicles and has for its object to reduce the jolting,caused
when a machine is travelling over rough or uneven ground. The spring is fixed
to the saddle.support or that part. of the machine to which the saddle, which may
have its own special springs is usually attached; it can, however, be fixed to any
horizontal bar parallel to the length of the saddle.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a spring-constructed in accordance with this
invention, in place upon an L-pin or saddle support.
Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 except that it illustrates an alternative
mode of attaching the spring to the L-pin or saddle-support of the cycle.
Figure 4 is a section on the line 44 of Figure 3.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
The spring comprises a steel band A forked at each end as at A'. The pair
of,prongs,
,thus formed are, coiled into volute springs A2 A3 which extend down at
each.side.of the L-pin or other saddle-support of the bicycle or tricycle. The ends
of the springs are attached to the L-pin by clips Bihaving horizontal transverse
projections B which have nuts or bolts 13 engaging correspondingly threaded
portions of the projections B' and serving to 'keep the ends of the volute in place
on the projection.
The saddle is attached to the, flat part A of the spring by any.convenient form of
fastening.
In the modification represented in Figures 3 and 4 the pair of volutes A³ A³.on

page_text: each side of the spring are connected together by a rod C: the two rods thus
provided are attached at their ends to the volutes by small lateral extensions C
at the ends of the rods, in the example illustrated. In this construction the spring
is fixed to the saddle-support by a single clip D such as is illustrated in Figure 4,
engaging with the middle of each rod C and provided with screw-threaded arms
or pins D slotted so as to form jaws to receive the rods C which are held in place
therein by nuts D2 screwed on to the ends of the arms or pins D¹. Instead of the
above described clip any other form may be used which will effect the same
purpose. For instance a clip may be used which will permit the spring to be tilted
from rear to front or vice versa.
If desired the upper portion A of the spring may be given a tubular or cylindrical
form instead of being left flat.
Instead of making the spring in one piece the four volutes A³ A³ may be
detachably secured to the upper portion A.
By the use of this spring longitudinal adjustment of the saddle may be effected
either by moving it upon the portion A of the spring or by moving the spring along
the L-pin or other saddle support in the cycle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In a cycle or other vehicle a saddle-spring comprising a horizontal portion
supported by four flat volute springs, two on each side of the seat pillar or support
substantially as described.
2. In a saddle-spring such as described connecting the two volutes on each side
by a horizontal rod, the two rods being attached to the seat pillar or support by
a clip substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the
accompanying drawings.
3. In a cycle or other vehicle the combination with an L-pin or saddle-support
of a spring comprising an upper horizontal portion supported by four flat volute
springs, two descending on each side of the L-pin or saddle support substantially
as described.
4. In a cycle or other vehicle the combination with a saddle spring such as
described of four horizontal transverse projections connecting the ends of the
springs to the L-pin or other saddle support substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of October 1898.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.