Certain Improvements in Cycle Saddles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Certain Improvements in Cycle Saddles.
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I, EPHRAIM PHILLIPS, of 54, Bissell Street, in the City of Birmingham, Screw
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the herein described improvements in cycle saddles
which improvements are designed to prevent saddle soreness and thus add to
the comfort of the rider.
According to this invention the leather or other seat part of the cycle saddle
is not rigidly fixed to the wire or other underframe at the back as is usual, but
is carried by two pins or centres one of which may be the usual pin or tension
screw at the peak of the saddle and the other pin or centre is situated in a boss
or ears formed on the underside of the back plate of the saddle and at the centre
of the same in a line with the pin at the peak, so that the saddle when in use
will rock about these two pins or centres from side to side thus accommodating
itself to the movements of the rider's body. The said back and front bearings
or centres of the saddle or one of them is or are by preference provided with ball
bearings so as to reduce friction and make the saddle rock more freely.
As the saddle can rock about the two pins or centres (which as above described
are kept as high up to the underside of the leather top part of the saddle as
possible) the saddle accomodates itself to the movement of the rider's body and
thus any rubbing or chafing of the rider's legs is prevented.
Dated this 24th day of May 1898.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
Certain improvements in Cycle Saddles.
I, EPHRAIM PHILLIPS, of 54, Bissell Street, in the City of Birmingham, Screw
Manufacturer, 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 consists of the herein described improvements in cycle saddles
which improvements are designed to prevent saddle soreness and thus add to
the comfort of the rider.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on
which Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a cycle saddle constructed
D

page_text: and arranged in accordance with this invention and Fig. 2 is a cross sectional
end view of the same on line X X of Fig. 1.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures.
According to this invention the leather or other seat part A of the cycle saddle
is not rigidly fixed to the wire or other underframe B at the back of the saddle
as is usual, but is made to rock about a pin or centre D situate in a boss or
ears f¹fformed on the underside of the back plate F of the saddle and at the
centre of the same in a line or about in a line with the usual pin or tension
screw C which at c¹ takes into the usual casting E fixed in the peak a¹ or front
of the saddle. The pin D at the back passes through an upwardly projecting
bracket G to which the ends of the spring underframe B are fixed at g¹ g² by the
pins h. Thus the saddle when in use will rock about these two pins C D
from side to side as indicated by Fig. 2 and thus accomodate itself to the move-
ments of the rider's body and any rubbing or chafing of the rider's legs is
effectually prevented. The two pins or centres C D are by preference kept high
up as near as possible to the underside of the leather top part A of the saddle.
The bearing for the pin D is by preference a ball bearing so as to reduce friction
and make the saddle rock more freely and can readily be constructed as shewn in
Fig. 1 where it will be seen that the bracket part G is cupped out at each side g³ g¹
to receive the balls which are retained in place by the two coned washers j¹ j²
threaded on the pin 1 between the ears f₁ f so that the ball bearing can be
adjusted by tightening up the nut d¹ on the pin 1) which squeezes the ears f¹ fa
and the washers together so as to take up any slack or backleash in the
bearing.
If desired the back part only of the saddle is made to rock as above described,
the pin C at the peak or front of the saddle in this case being so fitted into the
casting E that the peak or front will not turn on the pin C as is at present done
in many saddles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim iş:
In a cycle saddle mounting the leather top part on two pins situated respectively
at the peak and at the back part of the saddle on the longitudinal centre line of
the same and immediately under said leather top part so that said leather top
part will rock from side to side about said centre pins, or only about the back
centre pin, to accomodate itself to the movements of the rider's body, substantially
as set forth.
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