Improvement in Bicycles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1895
CODEBELE DIMOITICATION.
Improvement in Bicycles.
I, JAMES STONE WHITELEY, of 409 Water Street, in the City of Baltimore,.
and State of Maryland, United States of America, Merchant, 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 applies to devices in connection with the seat or saddle of a bicycle.
whereby the wheelman may ride with much greater comfort than with those as-
constructed at present, and consists chiefly in the addition of a spring-cushion upon.
the seat rod.
The drawings illustrate the invention, of which
Figure 1 is an upright side view of the seat of a bicycle and its usual support.
Figure 2 is a sectional view of the same without the seat, and showing the
arrangement of spring-cushion interposed between the seat and its supporting
tubes.
The invention as illustrated, is shown upon a bicycle in which A is the seat
secured to the longitudinal bar B, supported by the rod B¹. a² is the ordinary
curved spring suitably adjusted upon the bar B and supports the seat A. C is
a cylinder of any suitable metal through which is passed the rod B'. This rod
is larger at its upper portion than it is below, and is provided with a screw-
thread 62 upon which is placed the flange or piston 63. Above the piston is
placed an india-rubber disk 6, and below, a similar disk 6. A tube 6 surrounds
the rod B¹ and is provided with a head b', which enters the lower portion of
the cylinder C, and is secured to the cylinder by the set-screws 68. This tube
passes down through the main tubular supports of the machine E, and is secured
therein by the set-screw 6, thus providing the means for raising or lowering the
saddle.
It will be seen by this arrangement that, in addition to the ordinary spring
provided in the usual way for the saddles of bicycles, a cushion is provided on
the main supporting rod for the seat or saddle whereby greater comfort is obtained
and by means of which the wheelman may be able to ride long distances with less.
fatigue.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In a bicycle provided with the ordinary seat and its supporting rod, the com-
bination therewith of a spring-cushion located on the seat-rod and interposed between
the seat and the supporting tubes for the seat-rod.
2. In a bicycle provided with the ordinary seat and its supporting rod or stem, the
combination therewith, of the tube 66, and a spring-cushion supported by said tube,
the rod B' passing through the tube and provided with a flange bearing upon the
spring-cushion, substantially as described."
3. In a bicycle provided with the ordinary seat and its supporting rod, the com-
bination therewith of a flange on said rod, a cylinder surrounding the flange, spring-

page_text: cushions within the cylinder, located above and below the flange, and a sliding-tube
as 6 provided with the head 67 supporting the spring-cushions and surrounding the
rod B, substantially as described.
Dated the 23rd day of June 1896
THEO.
M°KENNA,
17 and 18 Basinghall Street, London, Agent.