IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLES FOR BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1884

page_text: I THOMAS WARWICK of Alma Street Aston near Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLES FOR BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES
to be as follows:-
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My invention consists in constructing the frames or supports of saddles for
bicycles tricycles and other velocipedes and in connecting the leather seats or other
flexible seats or coverings to the said frames or supports in the manner herein after
described.
I make the frame or support of the saddle of the general figure of the letter T
but the cross head instead of being straight is bow shaped and the body of
the T shaped frame is also bowed the concave part of the said body of the
T shaped frame being presented to the underside of the leather or flexible seat of
the saddle and crossing the said saddle in the direction of its length The nearly
T shaped frame or support of the saddle is made of two strips of steel the strip of
which the body is made being situated parallel to the plane of the saddle while the
strip of which the cross head of the frame is made is situated at right angles to the
plane of the saddle. The bow or cross head of the frame has the figure of the
outline of the rear part of the saddle and the free ends of the bow shaped head
being compressed the said head is secured by screws and screw nuts or by rivets to
the inner edge or rim of the cupped leather or other flexible seat of the saddle. By
the elasticity of the bow shaped head the required cross tension is put upon the
rear part of the leather or other flexible seat of the saddle. The free end of the
body of the T shaped frame is connected to the underside of the point or front end
of the leather seat of the saddle by means of a screw pin passed through the said free
end and taking into a screwed plate rivetted to the leather seat. By means of the
connection described of the body of the T shaped frame with the front end of the
leather seat the required longitudinal tension is put upon the said seat.
By this construction a saddle inexpensive to manufacture is produced and the
seat of the saddle is capable of readily yielding to the motion of the rider and as
the tapering parts of the seat upon which the thighs of the rider bear are
unsupported by the frame great comfort at those parts is obtained.

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I THOMAS WARWICK of Alma Street Aston near Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLES FOR BICYCLES, TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES
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 constructing the frames or supports of saddles for
bicycles tricycles and other velocipedes and in connecting the leather seats or other
flexible seats or coverings to the said frames or supports in the manner herein after
described.
I make the frame or support of the saddle of the general figure of the letter T
but the cross head instead of being straight is bow shaped and the body of the
T shaped frame is also bowed, the concave part of the said body of the T shaped
frame being presented to the underside of the leather or flexible seat of the saddle
and crossing the said saddle in the direction of its length. The nearly T shaped
frame or support of the saddle is made of two strips of steel the strip of which the
body is made being situated parallel to the plane of the saddle while the strip of
which the cross head of the frame is made is situated at right angles to the plane
of the saddle. The bow or cross head of the frame has the figure of the outline of
the rear part of the saddle and the free oude of the bow shaped head being com-
pressed the said head is secured by screws and screw nuts or by rivets to the inner
edge or rim of the cupped leather or other flexible seat of the saddle. By the
elasticity of the bow shaped head the required cross tension is put upon the rear
part of the leather or other flexible seat of the saddle. The free end of the body
of the T shaped frame is connected to the underside of the point or front end
of the leather seat of the saddle by means of a screw pin passed through the said
free end and taking into a screwed plate rivetted to the leather seat. By means of
the connection described of the body of the T shaped frame with the front end
of the leather seat the required longitudinal tension is put upon the said seat.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in plan of underside and
Figure 2 in longitudinal vertical section a saddle for a bicycle or other velocipede
containing my improvements; Figure 3 represents in plan the nearly T shaped
metallic frame or support of the saddle detached and Figuro 4 represents in plan
the front fixing plate detached.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the drawing.
a is the leather or flexible seat or covering of the saddle the said seat having
a cupped or turned down edge as usual; b, c is the metallic frame or support
of the saddle having the general figure of the letter T, b being the body of the
support crossing the saddle in the direction of its length and c the cross head of the
frame having a bow shape, the said bow shaped head c fitting the rear cupped or
turned down edge of the seat a. It will be seen by an examination of Figure 2
that the body part b of the frame or support is not straight but is bowed, the concave

page_text: side of the said bowed body b being presented to the underside of the leather or
flexible seat a of the saddle. The body b and bow shaped head c are made of two
strips of steel rivetted together at their junction as seen in Figure 2. The bow or
cross head c of the frame or support has the figure of the outline of the rear part of
the saddle and the free ends c², c² of the bow shaped head c being compressed the
said head is secured by rivets d, d (see Figure 1) to the inner edge of the rim or
turned down edge of the seat a. By the elasticity of the bow shaped head c of the
supporting frame the required cross tension is put upon the rear part of the flexible
seat a of the saddle. As the bow shaped head c of the supporting frame does not
extend to the tapering parts u², a² of the seat a the said parts at a², a² are
unsupported and hence can readily yield to the pressure of the thighs of the rider.
The fore end of the body b of the supporting frame is connected to the front end
of the leather seat a by the screwed plate e rivetted to the said seat. The screwed
fixing plate e is shown separately in Figure 4. It has at about its middle a
screwed hole f and at one end a lpg for the fore end of the body part b of the
frame to take a bearing against. In the end of the body b is a plain hole h for
receiving the fixing screw i. In order to engage the end of the part b of the frame
or support with the lip g the said part b requires to be curved so as to shorten its
length.
After the fore end of the body b has been forcibly engaged with the lip g of the
fixing plate e the screw i is passed through the hole h in the body b and screwed
into the hole f in the said fixed plate as represented in Figure 2. The body b of
the frame is thus connected with the front of the leather seat a in a state of
tension and the required longitudinal strain put upon the said seat.
The body b of the supporting frame carries a cross piece and the usual screw
clamping bark by which the saddle is secured to the back bone or frame of the
bicycle or velocipede.
By the construction described and illustrated a saddle inexpensive to manu-
facture is produced and the seat of the saddle is capable of readily yielding to the
motion of the rider and as the tapering parts of the seat upon which the thighs of
the rider bear are unsupported by the frame they readily yield to the thighs of the
rider without occasioning him any discomfort.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Baid
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
Supporting the leather seats or other flexible seats of saddles for bicycles
tricycles and other velocipedes by means of the nearly T shaped elastic metallic
frame or support b, c both the cross head and body of the said frame or support
being bowed in the manner described and illustrated, the said cross head and body
of the frame or support being connected to the leather or flexible seat of the saddle
so as to produce tension crosswise and longitudinally substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.