Improvements in Attaching the Frames of the Seats or Saddles of Bloyoles, Tricycles, and other Velocipedes to the said Bicycles, Trioyoles, and other Velocipedes..
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching the Frames of the Seats or Saddles of
Bloyoles, Tricycles, and other Velocipedes to the said Bicycles,
Trioyoles, and other Velocipedes..
1'
I JAMES ALFRED LAMPLUGH of No. 135 Great Colmore Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer 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 frames, of
the seats or saddles of bicycles, tricycles and other velocipedes to the horizontal
arm of the pintor to an upright pin.
I make in the spring frame of the saddle at two opposite points and near the
middle of the said frame, loops of a nearly circular figure. Between the said loops
isa ring having at opposite points screw pins which when the parts are put together
are situated in the said loops. Upon the ring described is a clip formed in two
halves. The said clip is considerably deeper than the ring and the said ring seats
itself in recesses in the said clip. The interior of the said clip is cylindrical and of
slightly less diameter than the interior of the ring. The outer face of each half
clip has a recess in which the loop of the spring frame seats itself, portions of the
outer side of the recess at right angles to one another being cut away to permit of
the ring and half clips engaging with the loops in positions at right angles to one,
another. By this arrangement the ring and olip may assume a horizontal or
vertical position so as to engage with the horizontal arm of an L pin or with a
vertical pin. On each of the screw pins described is a disc or washer external to
the loop of the spring frame the inner face of the said washer being grooved and
Beating itself upon the loop of the spring frame. A portion of the outer side of
the recess is cut away so as to permit of the portions of the wire frame branching
from the said loop to pass out of the groove or seat.
When the parts described are in position, screw nuts are driven home on the
protruding portions of the screw pins, the washers are made to approach each other
with any required degree of force and the loops in the spring frame are firmly
gripped between the washers and the half clips and the said half clips made to
firmly grip the ☐ or vertical pin in the seat post.
The out away parts of the groove in the half clips are made sufficiently large to
permit of the spring frame taking a slight inclination in either direction from the
horizontal position so as to accomodate the seat or saddle to the requirement of
the rider.
Instead of the nearly circular loops described in the frame a curvature of the
wire of the frame may be employed with nearly like effect. In this case, the
grooves in the clip and washers must be made of a figure to correspond with
the curve in the wire.
Dated this 16th day of March 1893.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Attaching the Frames of the Seats or Saddles of
Bicycles, Tricycles, and other Velocipedes to the said Bicycles,.
Tricycles, and other Velocipedes.
'I JAMES ALFRED LAMPLUGH, of No. 135 Great Colmore Street, Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, 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 frames
of the seats or saddles of bicycles tricycles and other velosipedes to the horizontal
arm of the pin or to an upright pin.
I make in the spring frame of the saddle, at two opposite points and near the
middle of the said frame, loops of a nearly circular figure. Between the said
loops is a ring having at opposite points screw pins which when the parts are put
together are situated in the said loops. Upon the ring described is a clip formed
in two halves. The said clip is considerably deeper than the ring and the said
ring seats itself in recesses in the said clip. The interior of the said clip is
cylindrical and of slightly less diameter than the interior of the ring. The outer
face of each half clip has a recess in which the loop of the spring frame seats
itself, portions of the outer side of the recess at right angles to one another
being cut away to permit of the ring and half clip engaging with the loops in
positions at right angles to one another. By this arrangement the ring and clip
may assume a horizontal or vertical position so as to engage with 'the' horizontal
arm of an pin or with a vertical pin. On each of the screw pins described is a
disc or washer external to the loop of the spring frame the inner face of the said
washer being grooved and seating itself upon the loop of the spring frame. A
portion of the outer side of the recess is cut away so as to permit of the portions
of the wire frame brauching from the said loop to pass cut of the groove or
seat.
When the parts described are in position, screw 'nnts are driven home on the
protruding portions of the screw pins, the washers are made to approach each
other with any required degree of force and the loops in the spring frame are
firmly gripped between the washers and the half clips and the said half clips made
to firmly grip the L or vertical pin in the seat post.
The cut away parts of the grooves in the half clips are made sufficiently large
to permit of the spring frame taking a slight inclination in either direction from
the horizontal position so as to accommodate the seat or saddle to the requirement
of the rider.
.
Instead of the nearly circular loops described in the frame a curvature of the
wire of the frame may be employed with nearly like effect. In this case, the
grooves in the clip and washers must be made of a figure to 'correspond with
the curve in the wire.
I will now describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the manner in
which my invention is to be performed.
"
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in plan a portion of the frame
of a saddle and a saddle clip constructed according to my invention for attaching
the said frame to the horizontal arm of the L pin or to an upright pin of a
velocipede as desired, the parts of the said saddle clip being arranged in the said
Figures 1 and 2 for fixing the saddle frame to the L pin of a velocipede.
Figure 3 represents in end elevation; Figure 4 in vertical section and Figure 5
in horizontal section the said saddle clip and the loops of the saddle frame;
Figure 6 represents in front elevation the saddle clip and one of the loops
of the saddle frame with the washer removed; Figure 7 represents in front

page_text: alevation and Figure 8 in plan the parts of the saddle clip arranged to be used
with an upright pin instead of with an Lpin; Figure 9 represents an elevation of
the ring of the clip separately; Figure 10 represents in side elevation and back
and front elevation one of the halves of the clip and Figure 11 represents in side
and back or inner elevation one of the grooved washers of the clip.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts.
a; a are the nearly circular loops made at opposite points and near the middle
of the spring frame of the saddle. Between the loops a,,a is the ring of the
saddle clip, the said ring having at opposite points the screw pins c, e projecting.
from it. The said ring bfita loosely on the L pin d or the upright pine of the
velocipede. Upon the ring b is a clip made in halves marked, each half clip
being alike in construction. In recesses in the interior of the said halves, f
of the clip the ring b seats itself as seen in the drawing, the interior of the said clip
being cylindrical and of slightly less diameter than the interior of the said ring b
as best seen in Figures 3 and 4. The loops a, a of the spring frame seat them-
selves in recesses in the outer faces of the half clips f, f, portions marked h, i of
the outer side of the said recesses being cut away to permit of the ring b and half
clips engaging with the loops a, a of the saddle frame in positions at right
angles to one another (see Figures 6 and 7) so that the ring may either assume a
vertical position for engaging with the horizontal arm d of the L pin as represented
in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 or may assume a horizontal position for engaging with
the vertical pine of the velocipede as represented in Figures 7 and 8. On each
of the screw pins c, c of the ring b is a grooved disc or washer y external to the
loop a of the spring frame, the said grooved washers g, a seating themselves upon
the loops a, a of the said spring frame as best seen in Figures 4 and 5 of the
drawings. A portion g' of the outer edge of each washer g is cut away to permit
of the portions of the wire frame branching from the loop a to pass out of the
groove or seat of the washer (see Figure 11); k, kare screw nuts working on the
screw pins c, c of the ring for effecting the fastening and unfastening of the parts
of the saddle clip..
In attaching a saddle to the horizontal arm d of the pin of the velocipede,
the ring band its olip fare arranged in the vertical position represented in
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, the half clips being in their separated positions and
the washers g, g and screw nuts k, k being in their relaxed positions. The ring b
being passed by a sliding motion onto the horizontal arm of the pin, the screw
ants k, kare driven home on the projecting screw pins c, c. The washers g, g are
thereby made to approach each other with any required degree of force and the
loops a, a in the spring frame are firmly gripped between the washers g, 9 and
the outer sides of the half clips, and the said half clips made to firmly grip
the horizontal arm d of the pin and thus securely attach the saddle to the
said pin as represented as well as bind the spring frame to the saddle clip. It
will be seen that the cut away parts h, i of the half clips f,f permit of the spring
frame taking a slight inclination in either direction from a horizontal position to
accommodate the seat or saddle to the requirements of the rider.
In adapting the saddle clip described and represented to the fixing of the saddle
to an upright pin in the seat post of the velocipede, the soren nuts k, kare
relaxed so as to release the loops a, a from the washers y, g and half clips f. fand
permit of the ring band half clips f,f being turned through a quadrant upon the
loops a, a. The ring band half clips have now the positions represented in
Figures 7 and 8, that is, the ring is brought into a horizontal position and by
now sliding the horizontal ring upon the upright pine of the velocipede and
driving home the screw nuts k,k and washers g, g as before described, the saddle
is attached to the upright pin and the spring frame bound to the saddle clip.
When the saddle clip is in either of the two positions described, the loops 'a, a of
the spring frame take a bearing. between the uncut away edge of the grooved
faces of the half clips and the projections at the middle of the cut away
parts h. i of the said half clips (see Figures 6 and 7).
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page_text: Figures 12 to 23 both inclusive represent a modified saddle clip constructed
accord
ding to my invention to be used with curvatures in the wires of the spring"
frame 'of the saddle instead of with nearly circular loops in the spring frame, the
said modified saddle clip being adapted for use either with the horizontal arm of
the pin or with an upright pin.
Figure 12 represents in side elevation; Figuro 13 in plan's Figure 14 in end
elevation Figure 15 in cross section and Figure 16 in plan detached, the saddle
clip arranged for use with the horizontal arm of an pin; Figure 17 represents
in eide elevation; Figure 18 in plan; Figure 19 in side elevation and Figure 20
in, cross section, the said saddle clip arranged for use with an upright pin;
Figure 21 represents in end elevation and back elevation one of the grooved
washers and Figure 22 represents in front elevation and Figure 23 in back elevation
one of the halves of the clip.
2
The curvatures at opposite sides of the spring frame of the saddle are marked, a', a²,
the grooves in the outer faces of the half clips f, and those in the inner
faces of the washers g, g having corresponding figures for the said curvatures a³, a³
to lie in and be gripped by. The grooves in the outer faces of the half clips ƒ ƒ are
marked (see Figure 23) and the grooves in the inner faces of the washers g, g are
marked g (see Figure 21). In this modification the ring b only is turned through
the required angle for fitting it for use either with the horizontal arm of the Lpin
or with an upright pin, the half clips f,fretaining their positions with respect to
the curvatures a³, a² in the spring frame, in either arrangement. In order to
permit of the ring b being placed either in the vertical position' represented in
Figures 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, or in the horizontal position represented in Figures 17,
18, 19 and 20, the inner opposed faces of the half clips f, fare provided with
arecesses situated at right angles to one another the vertical recess being marked f
and the horizontal recess being marked (see Figure 22).'
recess the ring b is seated when the saddle clip is fitted to be used with the
horizontal arm d of the' pin and the said ring is removed from the recess
seated in the recess, at right angles to it, when the saddle clip is fitted to be
sed with the upright pine of the velocipede. The halves of the clip are made to
grip the pin or upright pin of the velocipede for fixing the saddle in its place
and the curved parts a, a of the spring frame at the same time gripped between
the half clips and washers by the driving home of the screw nuts as hereinbefore
described.
1
In the vertical
and
lu order to change the position of the ring for adapting the saddle clip for
either of the uses described it is only necessary to relax the screw nuts k, and
separate the washers and balf clips to such an extent as will permit of the ring b
being turned through a' quadrant within the half clips. The half clips are then
forced together by the driving home of the washers and screw nuts, either the
recesses or the recesses in the inner faces of the half clips taking upon the
ring 6 according as the clip is to be used with an Lpin' or with an upright pin.
"The parts of the saddle clip last described are marked with the same letters of
reference as corresponding parts of the saddle clip first described.
The modified arrangement last described may be further modified so as to fit it
for use with an L pin only or with an upright pin only; that is, the clip so further
modified is incapable of being used both with an L pin and with an upright pin.
In this case, the inner faces of the Half clips have either vertical recesses for
receiving the ring of the clip or horizontal recesses for redeiving the said ring.
This modified arrangement to be used with the horizontal arm of the L pin is
represented in side elevation in Figure 24'; plan in Figure 25, end elevation in
Figure 26 and cross-section in Figure 27. The vertical recesses in the inner
faces of the half clips which take upon the ring in a vertical position, when the
said half clips are driven home, are marked and the other parts of the spring
frame and saddle clip are marked with the same letters of reference as corre
sponding parts of the arrangement represented in Figures 12 to 20, and the action
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page_text: When this saddle clip is to be used for fastening the saddle to an upright pin, the
half clips are replaced by other half clips having horizontal recesses in their
inner faces similar to those represented in Figure 22 and marked, f, the said
horizontal recesses when the half clips are driven home fitting upon the ring
arranged in a horizontal position.
My invention may be applied to saddle frames having parallel straight wires at.
each side, the said parallel wires being gripped either between the outer grooved
faces of the half clips f, and the inner grooved faces of the washers g, g or between.
a pair of grooved washers at the outer side of each half clip.
Figure 28 represents in plan and Figure 29 in end elevation a saddle clip-
constructed according to my invention to be used with a saddle frame having two
parallel wires or rods at each side. In this modification, instead of gripping the
wires between the grooved outer faces of the half clips and the grooved inner faces.
of the washers as before described I use at each side of the clip a pair of grooved
washers for gripping the parallel wires of the frame. In the drawing, the pairs of
grooved gripping washers are marked 9', 9, and the parallel wires of the saddle
frame are marked a³, a. The other parts are marked with the same letters of
reference as corresponding parts of the saddle clips hereinbefore described. The
bearing faces of the half clips f, and the inner washers 9, 9 of the pairs of
washers g', g³; g, gare roughened or toothed to ensure a firm binding together of
the parts and to prevent the turning of the washers upon the half clips when the
former have been driven home by the screw nuts k,, k.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as my invention;―
The improvements in attaching the frames of the seats or saddles of bicycles
tricycles and other velocipedes to the said bicycles, tricycles and other velocipedes
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings; that is to
Bay, the construction hereinbefore described and illustrated of the ring, having
screw pins at opposite points, for sliding upon the horizontal arm of the pin or
upon the upright pin of the velocipede, and the combination with the said ring of
half clips acting upon opposite sides of the L pin or upright pin and recessed for
taking upon the said ring, together with grooved plates or washers, external to the
said half clips and situated upon the screw pins of the ring, the several parts con-
stituting a grip for the L pin or upright pin of the velocipede and for the wires or
frame of the saddle, the several parts being constructed, arranged and acting
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated the Eleventh day of December 1893.
JAMES ALFRED LAMPLUGH.