Improved Spring Saddle for Velocipedes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Spring Saddle for Velocipedes.
ARTHUR HUNNABLE 1 Lichfield Road Grove Road Bow London. E. Cycle,
Manufactor.. I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I make a rigid frame extending to the front & back of seat pullie lug bent up to
a suitable length at the ends. To the ends of the frame I attach either cranks set!:
at about right angle or rollers. When crank are used it takes this form to one end.
of the crank I attach one or more spiral springs which extends towards to centre,
& is hooked on to an adjustment screw which is passed thrugh a lug which is fixed
to the frame with an eye on it & one or more nutts to screw up the tention, at
the top end of crank is attached the front of the saddle by a bracke or by a
leather strap.
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The same attachment is repeated twice at the back when thus attachd there is a
stretcher fixed to the saddle to adjust the tention of the leather so that there is not
to much drop in the centre more than at front & back thus there is plenty of
freedom for the saddle to rise or fall at any point of the saddle & the tention can
be adjusted to suit from to 14 stone weight or more. When rollers are used I
place roller on the pin that as carried the crank & I attach a strap of leather or
other meteral one end on to the spring, pas the strap over the roller & attach it
to the saddle, thus we get the same result as afore discribed as applied to the safety.
or tricycle I make the frame of oval tube or oval solid metal as applied to the:
ordinary I make a bracket to fit the back bone which extends upwards sprays
out to the form of a fork so that a crank or roller or roller may be attached, the
springs are either fitted to to a lug fixed to the back bone or to a lug fixed to the
stretcher then they are attached to the strap or crank, & afterwards attached to
the back of the saddle as discribed formerly the saddle extends to the front & is
attached either to another crank or roller or may be fixed by adjustment nutts
& screws.
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A. HUNNABLE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Spring Saddle for Velocipedes.
ARTHUR HUNNABLE 82 Lower Railway Street Braintree Essex Cycle Engineer.
I 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 :-
I attach
I make a rigid frame No. 1 with doubled sided forks either of tube or solid steel
curved or angled up a few inches at the front & back as shown in Fig. 1.
a seat lug No. 2 about midway either brazed on or griped by angle book or
eye screws. To the end of the frame is attached either cranks set at about right
angle or rollers No. 3 when cranks are used the crank is of a right angle shape
& has to work freely on a stud that is fixed to back side end of the frame, to
the lower end of the crank is attached a spiral spring which extends towards the
centre.
To the extending end of the spiral spring is attached an adjustment screw which
is passed through an eye on the seat lug or from the back through an eye of a lug
brazed to the frame sides No. 4 the screws have nuts on them to adjust up the
tention. The leather seat is attached to the top arm of the crank by a iron bracket

page_text: or a leather strap the frame is widened at the back to admit two cranks or rollers
to be worked on the stud or stretcher pin the pin on which the roller work is fixed
to each frame side by an adjustment & lock nut which hold the frame tight & rigid.
When rollers are used a strap or band is attached to the seat & extends round-the
roller to the under part the spiral spring is hooked to the strap by one end. The
other end is attached to the adjustment screws the end of which is passed through
the eye No. 4 on the frame side & adjusted to the tention required. In some cases
for extra strenth & adjustment of the leather I attach the stretcher No. 5 to adjust
the leather & prevent the extra drop in the centre. As applied to the ordinary.
bicycle I make a bracket to fit on the backbone with two arms extending upwards
the arms spray out wide enough to receve the back stretcher stud or pin as used
the back of the safety saddle which the cranks or roller works on the eye lugs to
which the adjustment screws are connected too are fixed to the backbone. The
springs are attached to the crank or roller straps as afore described & the nose of
saddle either connected by a bracket & screws to the neck of the backbone or to a
crank or roller attached to the same neck I allso make for lightness a saddle
without a crank or roller in the front the nose of the leather is attached round the
stud that as been described to take the crank or roller.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. A saddle with great qualities of adjustment for the weight to be carried.
2. The leather seat susspended upon a. bracket or leather strap or band which
acts upon a crank or rollers & then acts upon spiral springs connected to adjust-
ment screws as particularly described.
Dated this 8th day of August 1892.
ARTHUR HUNNABLE.