Improvements in the Saddles of Velocipedes, and in Clips for Attaching Saddles to Velocipedes.
Year: 1897

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883) as required
by the decision of the Comptroller General of the 8th day of November 1898.
Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Lelt, 22nd Apr., 1898-Accepted, 25th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL DILUITIVA
Improvements in the Saddles of Velocipedes, and in Clips for
Attaching Saddles to Velocipedes.
I, HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGII, of No. 61, Wellington Road, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in part of improvements in the frames of velocipede
saddles and in part of improvements in clips for attaching saddles to velocipedes.
The improvements hereinafter described in the wire frames of velocipedes
saddles have for their object to facilitate the manufacture of the same; and the
improvements hereinafter" described in slotted bar frames have for their object
to improve the bite between the said frame and the clip of the saddle whereby
the inside washers ordinarily employed in saddle clips are dispensed with.
The improvements hereinafter described in saddle clips have for their object
to simplify the construction and arrangement or combination of parts of the
said clips while permitting of the angular and longitudinal adjustment of the
saddle with respect to the velocipede frame and also permitting of the use of
the saddle with either L pins or upright seat pillar tubes.
I will first describe that part of my invention relating to the wire frames of
saddles.
In order that this part of my invention may be the better understood I remark
that in fixing the nose piece, through which the tension screw at the pommel
end of the saddle passes, to the front ends of the frame wires and in fixing the
cantle plate of the saddle to the rear ends of the said wires the holes in the nose
piece are made of the same or approximately the same diameter as the wires
and the said nose piece is forced tightly on the ends of the wires until the said
ends project slightly through the nose. piece when the ends are rivetted over
the nose piece. The rear ends of the wires are ordinarily fixed to the cantle
plate by first forcing on the ends of the wires tight fitting washers and then
inserting the ends protruding through the washers through holes in the cantle
plate and rivetting the ends of the wires over the upper side of the cantle plate.
In carrying this part of my invention into effect, I form near the ends of the
wires and in one piece therewith by an upsetting process, collars or enlarge-
ments which constitute stops or abutments for the nose piece and cantle plate
at the respective ends of the wires. By the provision of the said collars there
is no necessity for the tight fitting of the wires in the holes in the nose piece
and hence the said nose piece is more readily attached to the wires than hereto-
By the provision of the collars at the cantle ends of the wires the
washers ordinarily employed on the cantle ends of the wires are dispensed with.
My improvements in slotted har frames consist in milling or serrating longi-
fore.

page_text: tudinally the inner faces of the middle parts of the said bars so as thereby to
improve the grip between the said bars and the clip.
In constructing according to my invention a clip for attaching a saddle to
the pin or upright seat pillar tube of a velocipede I provide a U shaped
metallic plate having in its parallel sides or limbs, oblong slots. Through the
said slots a bar concave at the middle of its upper and lower edges or sides is
passed, the said middle part passing by inclines into screw pins terminating the
ends of the bar. The said screw pins project through the slots in the opposite
sides or limbs of the U shaped plate. The lower concave edge or side of the
bar forms with the trough or concave side of the U shaped plate a nearly circular
eye for the reception of the L pin or upright seat pillar tube.
The wires or bar of the saddle frame are placed in contact with the outer faces
of the parallel sides or limbs of the U shaped plate and plain or grooved washers
are placed on the screw pins and are forced home by screw nuts so as to grip
the wires or bars between the outside washers and the parallel sides or limbs of
the shaped plate. On the screwing up of the said screw nuts the parallel
sides or limbs of the U shaped plate are made to approach each other and the
slots in the same travelling up the inclines herein before referred to on the edge
of the bar opposite to that between which and the trough of the U shaped plate
the pin or upright seat pillar tube is gripped the said trough of the plate is
made to bear with such tightness on the said L pin or upright seat pillar tube as to
secure a perfectly or nearly perfectly rigid connection of the parts.
The clip described is applicable for use with saddles having single or double
wire frames or slotted bar frames.
Improvements in the Saddles of Velocipedes, and in Clips for
Attaching Saddles to Velocipedes.
I, HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH, of No. 61, Wellington Road, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists in part of improvements in the frames of velocipede
saddles and in part of improvements in clips for attaching saddles to velocipedes.
The improvements hereinafter described in the wire frames of velocipede
saddles have for their object to facilitate the manufacture of the same; and the
improvements hereinafter described in slotted bar frames have for their object
to improve the bite between the said frame and the clip of the saddle whereby
the inside washers ordinarily employed in saddle clips are dispensed with.
The improvements hereinafter described in saddle clips have for their object
to simplify the construction and arrangement or combination of parts of the
said clips while permitting of the angular and longitudinal adjustment of the
saddle with respect to the velocipede frame and also permitting of the use of
the saddle with either L pins or upright seat pillar tubes.
I will first describe that part of my invention relating to the wire frames of
saddles.
In order that this part of my invention may be the better understood I remark
that in fixing the nose piece, through which the tension screw, at the pommel
end of the saddle passes, to the front ends of the frame wires and in fixing the
cantle plate of the saddle to the rear ends of the said wires the holes in the nose

page_text: piece are made of the same or approximately the same diameter as the wires
and the said nose piece is forced tightly on the ends of the wires until the said
ends project slightly through the nose piece when the ends are rivetted over
the nose piece. The rear ends of the wires are ordinarily fixed to the cantle
plate by first forcing on the ends of the wires tight fitting washers and then
inserting the ends protruding through the washers through holes in the cantle
plate and rivetting the ends of the wires over the upper side of the cantle plate.
In carrying this part of my invention into effect I form near the ends of the
wires and in one piece therewith by an upsetting process, collars or enlarge-
ments which constitute stops or abutments for the nose piece and cantle plate
at the respective ends of the wires. By the provision of the said collars there
is no necessity for the tight fitting of the wires in the holes in the nose piece
and hence the said nose piece is more readily attached to the wires than hereto-
fore. By the provision of the collars at the cantle ends of the wires the
washers ordinarily employed on the cantle ends of the wires are dispensed with.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings represent in side elevation and
plan respectively, the former partly in section, the wire frame, cantle plate and
nose piece of a saddle containing my improvements.
Figure 3 is a section on the line, Figure 1.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 represent the said improvements applied to one part of a
wire frame to which a coiled spring is connected.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
a, a are the wires of a saddle frame and a², a² are the collars or abutments
formed by an upsetting process near the ends of the same; (Figures 1 and 2)
is the nose piece bearing against the collars a², a² at the front ends of the said
wires and is the cantle plate supported on the collars a², 2 at the other or rear
ends of the said wires (see Figure 3).
In Figures 4, 5, and 6, a coiled spring d is connected to the frame wire a, a
washer being passed on to the reduced end of the wire to receive the expanded
or spread out end formed by the rivetting process.
The saddle frame Figures 1 and 2 is without coils for the purpose of giving
elasticity to the frame but I wish it to be understood that the said frame may
have coils of the ordinary kind to increase the elasticity of the frame.
In constructing according to my invention a clip for attaching a saddle to
the pin or upright seat pillar tube of a velocipede I provide a U shaped
metallic plate having in its parallel sides or limbs, oblong slots. Through the
said slots a bar concave at the middle of its upper and lower edges or sides is
passed, the said middle part passing by inclines into screw pins terminating the
ends of the bar. The said screw pins project through the slots in the opposite
sides or limbs of the U shaped plate. The lower concave edge or side of the
bar forms with the trough or concave side of the U shaped plate a nearly circular
eye for the reception of the 1 pin or upright seat pillar tube.
The wires or bars of the saddle frame are placed in contact with the outer faces
of the parallel sides or limbs of the U shaped plate and plain or grooved washers
are placed on the screw pins, and are forced home by screw nuts so as to grip
the wires or bars between the outside washers and the parallel sides or limbs of
the U shaped plate. On the screwing up of the said screw nuts the parallel
sides or limbs of the U shaped plate are made to approach each other and the
slots in the same travelling up the inclines hereinbefore referred to, on the edge
of the bar opposite to that between which and the trough of the U shaped plate
the L pin or upright seat pillar tube is gripped, the said trough of the plate is
made to bear with such tightness on the said pin or upright seat pillar tube
as to secure a perfectly or nearly perfectly rigid connection of the parts.
The clip described is applicable for use with saddles having single or double
wire frames or slotted bar frames.

page_text: This part of my invention is illustrated in Figures 7 to 19 both inclusive of
the accompanying drawings.
Figures 7, 8 and 9 represent in side elevation, end elevation and section respec-
tively, the latter being taken on the dotted line y, y Figure 7, the improved clip
attached to a portion of the ✓ pin and slotted bar frame of a saddle;
Figures 10, 11, and 12 represent portions of the said clip detached.
Figure 13 represents an elevation and cross section of the inner side of one of
the slotted bars of the frame.
Figures 14 and 15 represent in side elevation and vertical section respectively,
the latter being taken on the dotted line, Figure 14, the improved clip
attached to an pin and a portion of a double wire saddle frame, and Figure 16
represents an elevation of the inner side and an edge view of one of the washers
of the clip detached.
Figures 17 and 18 represent
in side elevation and vertical section
respectively, the latter being taken on the dotted line 1, 1 Figure 17, the
improved clip attached to an L pin and a portion of a single wire saddle frame
and Figure 19 represents an elevation of the inner side and an edge view of one
of the washers of the clip detached.
f is the U shaped metallic plate (shown inverted in the drawing) the sides of
which have oblong slots fl, f¹ best seen in the detached views of the U shaped
plate Figure 10. On the opposite sides of the U shaped plate the sides or
branches a, a of the saddle frame take. Through the said slots fl, fl of the
U shaped plate and also through the slots a¹, a¹ of the slotted bar frame a
(Figures 7, 8 and 9) or between the wires a, a of the saddle frame (Figures 14
and 15), a bar g concave on one edge is passed the ends of the said barg terminat-
ing in screw pins g³, (see the side and end views of the bar detached Figure 11)
which screw pins project at opposite sides of the U shaped plate. The concave
edge of the bar forms with the concave or inner side of the U shaped plate f
a circular or nearly circular eye for taking on the pin h. On the projecting
screw pins g, g², washers i, i (shown separately in Figure 12) are placed and on
the terminal ends of the screw pins, screw nuts k, k take, by the screwing home
of which the branches of the frame are gripped between the sides of the U shaped
plate and the screw nuts and the clip is simultaneously fixed on the L pin by
the slight closing or bringing together of the sides of the U shaped plate which
causes the lower edges of the slots f¹, f¹, by riding on the inclined edges g', g¹ of
the bar, to force the said bar g'upwards and thereby contract the eye of the
clip on the L. pin.
I prefer to groove the inner sides of the washers i so as to take on the frame
bars or wires as will be best understood by reference to Figures 12, 16 and 19
and also in the case of clips for wire frames to make serrations at parts of the
washer for the purpose of obtaining a bite on the sides of the U shaped plate
and preventing the rotation of the frame with respect to the clip; but I wish
it to be understood that plain washers, that is, washers without grooves and with-
out serrations may be employed.
Although I have only illustrated the clips constituting part of my invention
as applied to an L pin yet I wish it to be understood that they are equally
applicable to upright seat pillar tubes.
In the case of slotted bar frames, the bite or grip between the bars of the
frame and the sides of the U shaped plate of the clip is improved by milling
or serrating longitudinally the inner faces of the middle parts of the said bars
as is illustrated in Figures 8 and 9 and in the detached view of one of the bars
Figure 13 where the said serrations are marked a³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of " Improvements in the saddles of velocipedes and in clips for
attaching saddles to velocipedes": -
First Forming on or in one piece with the wires of the frames of velocipede

page_text: saddles and near the ends of the said wires by an upsetting process, collars or
enlargements which constitute stops or abutments for the parts taking on the
ends of the wires substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
Figures 1 to 6 both inclusive of the accompanying drawings.
Second: Increasing the bite or friction between the slotted bars of saddle
frames and the parts against which they bear by milling or serrating them longi-
tudinally substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 8,
and 13 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Nineteenth day of April 1898.
HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH.

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Apr., 1898-Accepted, 25th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Saddles of Velocipedes, and in Clips for
Attaching Saddles to Velocipedes.
I, HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH, of No. 61, Wellington Road, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in part of improvements in the frames of velocipede
saddles and in part of improvements in clips for attaching saddles to velocipedes.
The improvements hereinafter described in the wire frames of veloci-
pedes saddles have for their object to facilitate the manufacture of the same;
and the improvements hereinafter described in slotted bar frames have for their
object to improve the bite between the said frame and the clip of the saddle
whereby the inside washers ordinarily employed in saddle clips are dispensed
with.
The improvements hereinafter described in saddle clips have for their object
to simplify the construction and arrangement or combination of parts of the said
clips while permitting of the angular and longitudinal adjustment of the saddle
with respect to the velocipede frame and also permitting of the use of the
saddle with either L pins or upright seat pillar tubes.
I will first describe that part of my invention relating to the wire frames of
saddles.
In order that this part of my invention may be the better understood I remark
that in fixing the nose piece, through which the tension screw at the pommel
end of the saddle passes, to the front ends of the frame wires and in fixing the
cantle plate of the saddle to the rear ends of the said wires the holes in the nose
piece are made of the same or approximately the same diameter as the wires and
the said nose piece is forced tightly on the ends of the wires until the said ends
project slightly through the nose piece when the ends are rivetted over the nose
piece. The rear ends of the wires are ordinarily fixed to the cantle plate by first
forcing on the ends of the wires tight fitting washers and then inserting the ends
protruding through the washers through holes in the cantle plate and rivetting
the ends of the wires over the upper side of the cantle plate.
In carrying this part of my invention into effect, I form near the ends of the
wires and in one piece therewith by an upsetting process, collars or enlargements
which constitute stops or abutments for the nose piece and cantle plate at the
respective ends of the wires. By the provision of the said collars there is no
necessity for the tight fitting of the wires in the holes in the nose piece and hence
the said nose piece is more readily attached to the wires than heretofore. By
the provision of the collars at the cantle ends of the wires the washers ordinarily
employed on the cantle ends of the wires are dispensed with.
My improvements in slotted bar frames consist in milling or serrating longi-
tudinally the inner faces of the middle parts of the said bars so as thereby to
improve the grip between the said bars and the clip.
In constructing according to my invention a clip for attaching a saddle to the

page_text: pin or upright seat pillar tube of a velocipede I provide a U shaped metallic
plate having in its parallel sides or limbs, oblong slots. Through the said slots
a bar concave at the middle of its upper and lower edges or sides is passed, the.
said middle part passing by inclines into screw pins terminating the ends of
the bar. The said screw pins project through the slots in the opposite sides or
limbs of the U shaped plate. The lower concave edge or side of the bar forms
with the trough or concave side of the U shaped plate a nearly circular eye for
the reception of the L pin or upright seat pillar tube.
The wires or bar of the saddle frame are placed in contact with the outer faces
of the parallel sides or limbs of the Ụ shaped plate and plain or grooved washers are
placed on the screw pins and are forced home by screw nuts so as to grip the
wires or bars between the outside washers and the parallel sides or limbs of
the Ushaped plate. On the screwing up of the said screw nuts the parallel sides
or limbs of the U shaped plate are made to approach each other and the slots
in the same travelling up the inclines hereinbefore referred to on the edge of
the bar opposite to that between which and the trough of the U shaped plate
the pin or upright seat pillar tube is gripped the said trough of the plate is
made to bear with such tightness on the said pin or upright seat pillar tube as to
secure a perfectly or nearly perfectly rigid connection of the parts.
The clip described is applicable for use with saddles having single or double
wire frames or slotted bar frames.
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Improvements in the Saddles of Velocipedes, and in Clips for
Attaching Saddles to Velocipedes.
I, HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH, of No. 61, Wellington Road, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
my 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 consists in part of improvements in the frames of velocipede
saddles and in part of improvements in clips for attaching saddles to velocipedes.
The improvements hereinafter described in the wire frames of veloci-
pede saddles have for their object to facilitate the manufacture of the same;
and the improvements hereinafter described in slotted bar frames have for their
object to improve the bite between the said frame and the clip of the saddle
whereby the inside washers ordinarily employed in saddle clips are dispensed
with.
The improvements hereinafter described in saddle clips have for their object
to simplify the construction and arrangement or combination of parts of the said
clips while permitting of the angular and longitudinal adjustment of the saddle
with respect to the velocipede frame and also permitting of the use of the
saddle with either L. pins or upright seat pillar tubes.
I will first describe that part of my invention relating to the wire frames of
saddles.
In order that this part of my invention may be the better understood I remark
that in fixing the nose piece, through which the tension screw, at the pommel
end of the saddle, passes, to the front ends of the frame wires and in fixing the
cantle plate of the saddle to the rear ends of the said wires the holes in the nose
piece are made of the same or approximately the same diameter as the wires, and

page_text: the said nose piece is forced tightly on the ends of the wires until the said ends
project slightly through the nose piece when the ends are rivetted over the nose
piece. The rear ends of the wires are ordinarily fixed to the cantle plate by first
forcing on the ends of the wires tight fitting washers and then inserting the ends
protruding through the washers through holes in the cantle plate and rivetting
the ends of the wires over the upper side of the cantle plate.
In carrying this part of my invention into effect I form near the ends of the
wires and in one piece therewith by an upsetting process, collars or enlargements
which constitute stops or abutments for the nose piece and cantle plate at the
respective ends of the wires. By the provision of the said collars there is no
necessity for the tight fitting of the wires in the holes in the nose piece and hence
the said nose piece is more readily attached to the wires than heretofore. By
the provision of the collars at the cantle ends of the wires the washers ordinarily
employed on the cantle ends of the wires are dispensed with.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings represent in side elevation and
plan respectively, the former partly in section, the wire frame, cantle plate
and nose piece of a saddle containing my improvements.
Figure 3 is a section on the line, Figure 1.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 represent the said improvements applied to one part of a
wire frame to which a coiled spring is connected.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
a, a are the wires of a saddle frame and a², a² are the collars or abutments
formed by an upsetting process near the ends of the same; b (Figures 1 and 2)
is the nose piece bearing against the collars a, a² at the front ends of the said
wires and c is the cantle plate supported on the collars a³, a² at the other or rear
ends of the said wires (see Figure 3).
In Figures 4, 5, and 6, a coiled spring is connected to the frame wire a, a
washere being passed on to the reduced end of the wire to receive the expanded
or spread out end formed by the rivetting process.
The saddle frame Figures 1 and 2 is without coils for the purpose of giving
elasticity to the frame but I wish it to lie understood that the said frame may
have coils of the ordinary kind to increase the elasticity of the frame.
In constructing according to my invention a clip for attaching a saddle to the
Lpin or upright seat pillar tube of a velocipede I provide a Ushaped metallic
plate having in its parallel sides or limbs, oblong slots. Through the said slots
a bar concave at the middle of its upper and lower edges or sides is passed, the
said middle part passing by inclines into screw pins terminating the ends of
the bar. The said screw pins project through the slots in the opposite sides or
limbs of the U shaped plate. The lower concave edge or side of the bar forms
with the trough or concave side of the U shaped plate a nearly circular eye for
the reception of the pin or upright seat pillar tube.
The wires or bars of the saddle frame are placed in contact with the outer faces
of the parallel sides or limbs of the Ụ shaped plate and plain or grooved washers are
placed on the screw pins and are forced home by screw nuts so as to grip the
wires or bars between the outside washers and the parallel sides or limbs of
the U shaned plate. On the screwing up of the said screw nuts the parallel sides
or limbs of the U shaped plate are made to approach each other and the slots
in the same travelling up the inclines herein before referred to on the edge of
the bar opposite to that between which and the trough of the U shaped plate
the L pin or upright seat pillar tube is gripped, the said trough of the plate is
made to bear with such tightness on the said L pin or upright seat pillar tube as to
secure a perfectly or nearly perfectly rigid connection of the parts.
The clip described is applicable for use with saddles having single or double
wire frames or slotted bar frames.
This part of my invention is illustrated in Figures 7 to 19 both inclusive of
the accompanying drawings,

page_text: Figures 7, 8 and 9 represent in side elevation, end elevation and section
respectively, the latter being taken on the dotted line y, y Figure 7, the improved
clip attached to a portion of the L pin and slotted bar frame of a saddle;
Figures 10, 11, and 12 represent portions of the said clip detached.
Figure 13 represents an elevation and cross section of the inner side of one of
the slotted bars of the frame.
Figures 14 and 15 represent in side elevation and vertical section respectively,
the latter being taken on the dotted line z, z Figure 14, the improved clip attached
to an pin and a portion of a double wire saddle frame, and Figure 16 represents
an elevation of the inner side and an edge view of one of the washers of the clip
detached.
Figures 17 and 18 represent in side elevation and vertical section respectively,
the latter being taken on the dotted line 7, 7 Figure 17, the improved clip attached
to an pin and a portion of a single wire saddle frame and Figure 19 represents
an elevation of the inner side and an edge view of one of the washers of the clip
detached.
f is the U shaped metallic plate (shown inverted in the drawing) the sides of
which have oblong slots f¹, f best seen in the detached views of the U shaped
plate Figure 10. On the opposite sides of the U shaped plate the sides or
branches a, a of the saddle frame take. Through the said slots f¹, f¹ of the
U shaped plate f and also through the slots a, a of the slotted bar frame a
(Figures 7, 8 and 9) or between the wires a, a of the saddle frame (Figures 14 and 15),
a bar g concave on one edge is passed the ends of the said bar terminating in
screw pins 93, 9 (see the side and end views of the bar detached Figure 11) which
screw pins project at opposite sides of the U shaped plate. The concave edge of
the bar 9
forms with the concave or inner side of the U shaped plate f a circular
or nearly circular eye for taking on the L pin h. On the projecting screw pins g³, 9ª,
washers i, (shown separately in Figure 12) are placed and on the terminal ends
of the screw pins, screw nuts k, k take, by the screwing home of which the
branches of the frame are gripped between the sides of the U shaped plate and
the screw nuts and the clip is simultaneously fixed on the L pin by the slight
closing or bringing together of the sides of the U shaped plate which causes the
lower edges of the slots f¹, f¹, by riding on the inclined edges g¹, g¹ of the bar 9,
to force the said bar g upwards and thereby contract the eye of the clip on the
L pin.
I prefer to groove the inner sides of the washers i so as to take on the frame
bars or wires as will be best understood by reference to Figures 12, 16 and 19
and also in the case of clips for wire frames to make serrations at parts of the
washer for the purpose of obtaining a bite on the sides of the U shaped plate and
preventing the rotation of the frame with respect to the clip; but I wish it to be
understood that plain washers, that is, washers without grooves and without
serrations may be employed.
Although I have only illustrated the clips constituting part of my invention as
applied to an L pin yet I wish it to be understood that they are equally applic-
able to upright seat pillar tubes.
In the case of slotted bar frames, the bite or grip between the bars of the
frame and the sides of the U shaped plate of the clip is improved by milling or
serrating longitudinally the inner faces of the middle parts of the said bars as is
illustrated in Figures 8 and 9 and in the detached view of one of the bars Figure 13
where the said serrations are marked a³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as my invention of "Improvements in the saddles of velocipedes and in
clips for attaching saddles to velocipedes": -
First Forming on or in one piece with the wires of the frames of veloci-
pede saddles and near the ends of the said wires by an upsetting process, collars

page_text: or enlargements which constitute stops or abutments for the parts taking on the
ends of the wires substantially as herein before described and illustrated in
Figures 1 to 6 both inclusive of the accompanying drawings.
Secondly; The construction and arrangement or combination of parts of saddle
clips hereinbefore described and represented in Figures 7 to 19 both inclusive
of the accompanying drawings, the said construction and combination of parts
consisting essentially of a U shaped plate with slotted sides, a bar with screwed
ends which project through slots in the U shaped plate and having a concave
edge presented to the concave side of the U-shaped plate, the other edge being
provided with inclines, together with washers on the screw pins and nuts on
the terminal ends of the said screw pins the whole being arranged and used sub-
stantially as herein before described and illustrated.
Thirdly; Increasing the bite or friction between the slotted bars of saddle
frames and the parts against which they bear by milling or serrating them longi-
tudinally substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 8, 9
and 13 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Ninotoanth
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