Improvements in Cycle Saddle Securing Attachments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Saddle Securing Attachments.
We, GEORGE SALTER of the Firm of George Salter and Company, of West
Bromwich in the County of Stafford Manufacturer, and JOHN WALKER of
Overend Street, West Bromwich aforesaid, Foreman of Works, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to cycle saddle securing attachments or clips known in
commerce as bosses, and has for one of its objects, a simple and efficient means for
connecting the saddle framing to the boss and the boss to the L pin and for another
of its objects, the self locking of the nut or fastening means.
According to our invention, the boss consists of two primary parts, viz. a spring
bed and a clamping ring-pierced and T-shaped cross head having a drawing-up
screw shank which takes through the middle of the former component. The spring
or yielding bed consists of an inverted arch shaped piece of sheet steel or other
suitable metal having a hole through its middle and semi-circular keep gaps upon
the two opposite sides of its turned-up edges for the reception of the crossing
framing wires of the saddle, whilst sunken within the two opposite edges of the
said plate are shallow concaved seatings for the reception of the crossing | pin
member, which is embraced by the ring part of the ring-pierced cross head of the
clamping device.
Thus the said clamping device consists of a ring or middle circular pierced cross-
head having a screwed stem upon its underside for taking through the hole in the
plate of the locking bed. Formed within the underside of the wings of the cross-
head are concaved sinkings or seatings which come opposite the concaved frame
rod seatings in the edges of the locking bed plate and are adapted to take upon the
topsides of the frame rod members on the same lying crosswise within their seatings
in the bed plate.
Assuming that the screwed stem of the cross head has been passed through the
hole in the spring bed plate and that a nut has been placed upon the end of it
extending beyond the convexed underside of the said plate, and that the cross head
lies in the general direction of the trough of the said bed, with the framing rod
keep grooves or sinkings of the one coming lignable or coincident with the rod
sinking of the other and with the eye or middle piercing of the clamping part
coming coincident with the pin sinkings of the other part, and assuming also that
the frame rods are in position and that the eye of the boss has been passed over the
pin then by the screwing up of the nut, the whole of the components are drawn
together and the saddle rods are secured to the boss and the boss to the L pin and
the nut locked and the inverted arch shaped and spring bed plate, which keeps the
grip constant, is slightly straightened out thereby.
Dated this 6th day of March 1894.

page_text: MEIE TEULE TOATION.
Improvements in Cycle Saddle Securing Attachments.
We, GEORGE SALTER of the Firm of George Salter and Company, of West
Bromwich in the County of Stafford Manufacturer, and JoHN WALKER, of
Overend Street, West Bromwich aforesaid, Foreman of Works, 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 relates to cycle saddle securing attachments or clips known in
commerce as bosses and has for one of its objects, a self-locking of the nut or
fastening means of the boss, and for another object, a simple and efficient means
for connecting the saddle framing to the boss and the boss to the L piu.
According to our invention, the boss consists of two primary parts, viz., a spring
bed and a clamping ring-pierced and T-shaped cross head, having a drawing-up
screw shank, which takes through a hole in the middle of the former component.
The spring or yielding bed consists of an inverted arch-shaped piece of sheet steel
or other suitable metal, having a hole through its middle and semi-circular gaps
upon the two opposite sides of its turned-up edges, for the reception of the crossing
framing wires of the saddle, whilst sunken within the two opposite edges of the
said plate are shallow concaved seatings for the reception of the crossing
member, which is encircled by the ring part of the ring-pierced cross head of the
clamping device.
pin
The said clamping device consists of a ring or middle circular pierced cross-head,
having a screwed stem upon its underside for taking through the hole in the plate
of the locking bed. Formed within the underside of the wings of the cross-head
are concaved sinkings or seatings which come lignable with the concaved frame rod
seatings in the edges of the locking bed plate, and are adapted to take upon the top-
sides of the frame rod members, on the same lying crosswise within their seatings in
the bed plate.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents, in side elevation, a cycle
saddle securing means, constructed, arranged and provided with improvements
according to our invention.
Figure 2 is an underside plan of the same, showing the spring bed, which forms
a bracing for the rods, a seating for the pin, and a means for locking the securing
nut of the drawing-up expedient.
Figure 3 represents a vertical section of the boss upon the dotted lines-x,
Figure 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows, whilst Figure 4 shows a section
upon the dotted lines A-A of the said Figure 1, with the pierced cross head or
Tpiece left in elevation.
:
Figure 5 represents a front elevation of the said pierced cross head and
drawing-up screw shank upon its underside, and Figure 6 is an edge view of
the same.
Figure 7 is a side elevation of the inverted arch-shaped spring bed, and Figure 8
is an end view of it.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is a ring-shaped cross head or T-piece, having a circular hole a², through its
middle, suitable for taking over the horizontal member ', of the L-pin b, and
opposite winged extensions a³, having gaps a, upon their underside, which come
lignable with like gaps or grooves c³, of an inverted arch shaped spring bed or
yielding plate c, through a central hole c', in which, a screwed shank a', of the head
or cross piece a, downwardly passes, and upon the end of which, a screw nut d,
e, are the framing rods, lying within the lignable grooves a³, c², of the
takes.

page_text: parts a and c, respectively, and care opposite shallow seatings for receiving
the underside of the L pin.
Assuming that the screwed stem a', of the cross head a, has been passed through
the hole c', in the spring bed plate c, and that a nut d, has been placed upon the
end of it extending beyond the convexed underside of the said plate and that the
cross head lies in the general direction of the trough of the said bed, with the framing
rod grooves or sinkings of the bed plate coming lignable with the rod sinking a
of the cross head, and with the eye or middle piercing a³, of the clamping part
coming coincident with the pin sinkings, of the other part, and assuming also
that the frame rods are in position and that the eye of the boss has been passed
over the pin, then by the screwing up of the nut d, the whole of the components
are drawn together, and the inverted arch-shaped spring bed plate is slightly
straightened out, whereby the nut is locked, the saddle frame rods lying within
the gaps of the respective opposed parts are gripped between the drawn-together
components, and the top edge a, of the walls of the piercing a³, is drawn upon the
top side of the ✓ pin, and the lower side of the L pin in its turn, is forced or
passed upon the seatings c³, whereby the frame rods are secured to the boss, and the
boss to the L pin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what wo
claim is :-
First. In cycle saddle securing attachments, employing in conjunction therewith,
a spring or yielding bed, consisting of a curved or cambered and resilient plate,
substantially as, and for the purpose as, described and set forth.
Secondly. In cycle saddle securing attachments, the combination with a pierced
head, having frame rod grooves and a screwed shank with screw nut, of a yielding
or spring bed plate c substantially as, and for the purpose as, described and set
forth.
TAVILHOUNKU ABUS NIMUM▬▬▬
GEORGE SALTER,
JOHN WALKER,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.