Improvements in Clips for Attaching Saddles to Bicycles, Tricycles, and other Velocipedes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 30th Jan., 1897
TROVIOIONAL DI DUITIGATION.
Improvements in Clips for Attaching Saddles to Bicycles, Tricycles,
and other 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 has for its object the ready and secure attachment of the saddles
of bicycles, tricycles and other velocipedes to the L pin or upright seat pillar tube
of the same; and consists of the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter
described for effecting that object.
In constructing a clip according to my invention I make the frame of the clip
from a blank of sheet metal, preferably iron or steel, having circular holes in its
ends of a diameter somewhat larger than the pin or upright seat pillar tube with
which the clip is to be used. I bend the sheet metal blank at its middle so as to
give it in end view a U shaped figure the axes of the circular boles in the two
ends being made to coincide. I take a screw bolt and make in the middle of one
side a concave depression. On to the stem of the said screw bolt I pass a washer
having on its inner face a groove or grooves for the reception of the wire or wires
of the saddle frame and I also pass on to the said screw bolt, two gripping blocks
of the kind hereinafter particularly described and a second or outer washer
similar to the first washer, the whole of the parts being bound together by a screw
nut taking on the end of the screw bolt. Each of the two gripping blocks referred
to consists of a block of metal preferably soft or mild steel having in end elevation
an outline somewhat resembling the letter U, the hole in the said block for the
screw bolt to pass through being concentric with the semi-circular bottom of the
said block. The said gripping blocks are flanged at their outer ends the faces of
the flanged ends being checkered or roughened by crossing notches or grooves
therein. The upper inner corner of each block has a quadrant or nearly quadrant
shaped cut away part which with the concave depression in the middle of the bolt
form a nearly semi-circular trough in the meeting ends of the two gripping blocks
of a radius somewhat less than the holes in the frame. The thickness of the blocks
is sufficient to permit of their being passed between the separated part of the sheet
metal frame herein before described, the flanged parts of the gripping blocks bearing
against opposite ends of the said frame.
In order to attach the clip to the saddle frame the screw bolt and outer washers
are removed from the gripping blocks and the wires of the saddle frame being
applied to the outer checkered or roughened flanged ends of the said blocks the
grooved washers are placed on the said wires and the screw bolt is replaced, the
whole being tightened up by means of the screw nut so as to grip the wires of
the saddle frame between the outer washers and the roughened flanged ends of the
gripping blocks.
When it is wished to attach the saddle say to the horizontal arm of an pin
the screw nut on the end of the screw bolt is relaxed so as to permit of a slight
separation of the two gripping blorks, the horizontal arm of the L pin is then
passed through the holes in the frame of the clip and the screw nut being
tightened the quadrant shaped parts of the gripping blocks are pressed against the

page_text: underside of the pin and cause the L pin to bear against the upper side of
the holes in the frame with such force as to securely fix the saddle to the said
L pin.
Clips of the kind hereinbefore described permit the saddle to be used with a
velocipede having either an pin or an upright seat pillar tube and permit the
saddle to be adjusted on the said L pin or upright seat pillar tube either by sliding
the clip thereon or by sliding the wires of the saddle frame in the parts of the
clip between which they are gripped. Further, the said clips permit the saddle
to be tilted or inclined to any desired angle so as to suit the requirements of the
rider.
Clips made according to my invention may be used for connecting to bicycles,
tricycles and other velocipedes saddles having slotted steel supporting plates in
place of the wires herein before referred to.
Dated this Twelfth day of February 1896.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Attaching Saddles to Bicycles, Tricycles,
and other 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 has for its object the ready and secure attachment of the saddles
of bicycles, tricycles and other velocipedes to the L pin or upright seat pillar tube
of the same; and consists of the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter
described for effecting that object.
In constructing a clip according to my invention I make the frame of the clip
from a blank of sheet metal, preferably iron or steel, having circular holes in its
ends of a diameter somewhat larger than the L pin or upright seat pillar tube
with which the clip is to be used. I bend the sheet metal blank at its middle so
as to give it in end view a U shaped figure, the axes of the circular holes in the two
ends being made to coincide. I take a screw bolt and make in the middle of one
side a concave depression. On to the stem of the said screw bolt I pass a washer
having on its inner face a groove or grooves for the reception of the wire or wires
of the saddle frame and I also pass on to the said screw bolt, two gripping blocks
of the kind hereinafter particularly described and a second or outer washer
similar to the first washer the whole of the parts being bound together by a screw
nut taking on the end of the screw bolt. Each of the two gripping blocks
referred to consists of a block of metal, preferably soft or mild steel, having in
end elevation an outline somewhat resembling the letter U. The thickness of the
blocks is sufficient to permit of their being passed between the separated part of
the sheet metal frame herein before described. The upper inner corner of each
block has a quadrant or nearly quadrant shaped cut away part which with the
concave depression in the middle of the bolt form a nearly semi-circular trough in
the meeting ends of the two gripping blocks of a radius somewhat less than the
holes in the frame. The said gripping blocks are flanged at their outer ends the
faces of the said flanges being roughened or checkered by crossing notches or
grooves therein; the use of flanges may however be dispensed with.
In order to attach the clip to the saddle frame the screw bolt and outer washers

page_text: are removed from the gripping blocks and the wires of the saddle frame being
applied to the outer checkered or roughened ends of the said blocks the grooved
washers are placed on the said wires and the screw bolt is replaced, the whole
being tightened up by means of the screw nut so as to grip the wires of the saddle
frame between the outer washers and the preferably roughened ends of the gripping
blocks.
When it is wished to attach the saddle, say, to the horizontal arm of an L pin,
the screw nut on the end of the screw bolt is relaxed so as to permit of a slight
separation of the two gripping blocks; the horizontal arm of the L pin is then
passed through the holes in the frame of the clip and the screw nut being
tightened the quadrant shaped parts of the gripping blocks are pressed against the
underside of the pin and cause the pin to hear against the upper side of
the holes in the frame with such force as to securely fix the saddle to the said
L pin.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in end elevation a saddle clip
constructed according to my invention;
Figure 2 represents in plan and edge view the pierced blank from which the
frame of the clip is made;
Figures 3 and 4 represent respectively in side and end elevation the frame of the
clip detached;
Figures 5 and 6 represent other parts of the clip detached as hereinafter
described.
Figures 7 to 12 both inclusive represent a modification of my invention herein-
after described in connection with saddle frames made from slotted steel plates;
Figures 7 to 11 both inclusive showing the said clip applied to an L pin and
Figure 12 showing the said clip applied to an upright seat pillar tube.
Figures 13, 14 and 15 represent the said modified clip in connection with a
single wire supporting frame.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
I will first describe the clip Figures 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
In the
The part of the clip or frame a which in attaching a saddle to a velocipede takes
on the pin, or, where an L pin is dispensed with, on the upright seat pillar
tube, I make by bending into a U shaped figure the pierced metal blank
represented in Figure 2. The holes a² in the said blank, which are of a diameter
somewhat larger than that of the largest pin or upright seat pillar tube with
which the clip is to be used, are thereby brought opposite each other.
trough of the said U shaped frame a is arranged the pair of gripping blocks b, b
the outer ends of which are provided with flangea 1, as will be best seen by
reference to Figures 5 and 6 The faces of the said flanged ends b', bare
roughened or checkered by crossing grooves or notches therein. Each of the
gripping blocks & has a hole c through which a bolt or pin screwed at opposite ends
is passed. The pin or bolt d has a concave depression at its middle (see Figure 10)
which forms with the curved cut away parts 62, 63 in the meeting en:ls of the
two gripping blocks b, ba semi-circular or nearly semi-circular trough of a radius
equal or nearly equal to that of the holes a², a in the parallel branches or limbs
of the U shaped frame a. Onto the screwed ends of the bolt or pin d the grooved
washers e, e are passed, the said grooved washers being kept in place by the screw
nuts h, taking on the said screwed ends of the bolt d.
In attaching the clip to the saddle frame the screw nuts h, h, grooved washers e, e
and bolt or pin d are removed and the middle part of the clip, that is, the frame a
and flanged gripping blocks b, b are arranged between the pairs of wires 9, 9
constituting the saddle frame. The bolt or pin d is again passed through the hole c
in the gripping blocks b, b and the grooved washers e, and screw nuts h, h are
replaced on the screwed ends of the bolt d, the grooves of the said washers being
arranged to seat themselves on the wires g, g.
A clip of the kind described and represented permits the saddle with which

page_text: it is used to be applied to a velocipede having either an L pin or an upright seat
pillar tube.
In attaching a saddle to a velocipede, having, say, an L pin, by the use of my
improved clip, it is only necessary to relax the pressure of the screw nuts h, hon
the grooved washers e, e so as to permit of a slight separation of the two gripping
blocks b, when on presenting the holes a, a of the frame a of the clip to
the pin, the said clip may be readily passed to the desired position on the
said pin. By screwing home the screw nuts h, h the curved parts 63, 63 of the
gripping blocks b, b are forced against the L pin and the said pin is firmly
gripped between the said curved parts 62, 62 of the gripping blocks and the upper
edges of the holes a, a in the frame a. The wires g, g of the saddle frame are
firmly gripped between the roughened or serrated outer faces b', 6' of the
gripping blocks b, b and the grooved washers e, e simultaneously with the gripping
of the pin.
The horizontal adjustment of the saddle may either be effected by slackening
the grip of the clip and sliding the said clip on the L pin or by sliding the frame
wires g, g in the parts of the clip between which they are gripped.
If the Ushaped frame a be turned upon the pin or bolt d through a semi-circle
it will assume the position indicated in dotted lines in Figure 7 in which case the
saddle supporting frame will be raised, say about an inch, and the saddle itself
consequently raised to the same extent.
Although I have shown the clip Figure 1 only in connection with a saddle frame
consisting of a pair of wires on each side of the middle of the saddle yet I wish it
to be understood that the said clip may be used on a saddle frame consisting of one
wire only on each side of the middle of the saddle; and by slight modification of
the gripping washers e, e the said clip may be used for attaching saddles supported
upon slotted steel plates instead of upon wire frames.
Instead of making the flanges b', ' of the gripping blocks b, b in one piece with
the said blocks they may be made separate therefrom in which case each separate
flange constitutes with the washer e adjacent to it a pair of saddle frame gripping
washers. This modification of my invention is represented in Figures 7 to 15 both
inclusive of the accompanying drawing.
In Figures 7 to 12 both inclusive a clip is represented for attaching a saddle
the frame of which consists of slotted steel plates; Figures 7 and 8 represent
respectively in side elevation and plan the said modified clip applied to an Lpin
and Figure 9 represents the same in end elevation; Figure 10 is a cross section
of the clip and Figure 11 a longitudinal section; Figure 12 represents in side
elevation the said modified clip applied to an upright seat pillar tube. In the said
figures, 63, 6 are the separate flanges or inner washers and i, i are the slotted steel
supporting plates of the saddle frame. It will be seen by reference to Figure 10
that each of the separate flanges &3, 63 has in it a crossing groove or recess in which
the slotted plate i and outer gripping washer e fit. The action of this modified
clip is substantially the same as that first described.
Figures 13 and 14 represent in side elevation and plan respectively and
Figure 15 in cross section the modified clip last described applied to an L pin and
used with a single wire frame. In this arrangement the two washers and e on
each side of the clip are grooved for receiving the wire g of the saddle frame as
is best seen in Figure 15.
By the use of clips of the construction described and represented the saddle
may be tilted or inclined to any desired angle to suit the requirements of the
rider.
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 clips for attaching saddles to bicycles,
tricycles and other velocipedes " ;-
The construction and arrangement or combination of the parts of saddle clips

page_text: hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying drawing, the said
construction and arrangement of parts consisting essentially of a U shaped frame
in the parallel branches of which are holes for permitting of the said U shape
frame being passed onto the horizontal branch of an L pin or on to an upright
seat pillar tube, the said U shaped frame having in its bend or trough a pair of
gripping blocks through a hole in each of which a bolt or pin screwed at opposite
ends is passed, each of the screwed ends of the said bolt receiving a washer or pair
of washers and a screw nut substantially as and for the purpose herein before-
described and illustrated.
Dated the Seventh day of November 1896.
HENRY ARTHUR LAMPLUGH.