Improvements in Means for Fixing Velocipede Saddles.
Year: 1893

page_text: The decision of the Chief Examiner, acting on behalf of the Comptroller, of the
24th day of September 1894, allowed, under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act,
1883, an Amendment of this Specification.
Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Fixing Velocipede Saddles.
We, WILLIAM ALFRED LAMPLUGH, of 13, Rue des Combes, Paris, in the
Republic of France, Cycle Saddle Manufacturer, and THOMAS MIDDLEMORE of
101 Holloway Head in the City of Birmingham Manufacturer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to means for fixing velocipede saddles to their supports.
According to our invention we employ a socket or eye, which is widest at its
upper part to give a larger bearing surface and has at its lower part a screw-
threaded stem to receive a nut.
An intermediate plate having an aperture in its centre serves to receive the
lower part of the socket or eye on its upper surface and is curved to the shape of
the socket or eye. This plate is provided with a groove or channel on each side
designed to receive the branches of the spring which supports the saddle.
A second curved plate also having a central aperture and provided with grooves
or channels is designed to embrace the branches of the spring and thus in conjunction
with the grooves of the first plate serves to support the saddle.
The lower part of the second plate is flat in order to form a bearing surface for a
washer placed over the stem of the socket.
.
To fix the saddle upon the saddle carrying tube the latter is passed into the
socket or eye the first named plate is then so placed that the branches of the spring
enter its grooves, the stem of the socket passing through the aperture in the plate;
the second plate is then placed in position upon the first plate, with the branches of
the spring in its grooves, the stem of the socket or eye also passing through its
central aperture. The washei and nut being then placed on the stem and the nut
being screwed up the saddle carrying tube will become clamped or gripped in the
socket or eye and the branches of the saddle-spring will be clamped between the
grooves of the curved plates.
Dated this 1th dow of March 1893
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Means for Fixing Velocipede Saddles.
We, WILLIAM ALFRED LAMPLUGH, of 13 Rue des Combes, Paris, in the
Republic of France, Cycle Saddle Manufacturer, and THOMAS MIDDLEMORE of
101 Holloway Head in the City of Birmingham 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 :-
Our invention relates to means for fixing velocipede saddles to their supports, and
its object is to produce a boss or clip as a means of attachment, having certain
standard parts equally applicable to various diameters of pillar, and at the same
time simple and strong in construction.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings-
Figure 1 is a front or end elevation of one form of our improved boss or clip, for
fixing velocipede saddles to their supports or pillars, and
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a front or end elevation of another form of our improved boss
or clip.
Figure 4 is a corresponding sectional elevation, and
Figure 5 is a plan of same.
Figure 6 is a side elevation showing the clip in position upon an ordinary cycle
Lpin or pillar.
Figure 7 is a front or end elevation of our clip with the plates modified in
design, and
Figure 8 is a side elevation corresponding to Figure 7, showing such clip upon
an ordinary cycle L. pin.
According to our invention constructed in one manner as shown in Figures 1 and 2,
we employ a socket or eye C, which is widest at its upper part C' to give a large
bearing surface and has at its lower part a screw-threaded stem to receive a
nut D.
An intermediate plate B' having an aperture in its centre serves to receive the
lower part of the socket or eye on its upper surface and is curved to the shape of
the socket or eye. This plate is provided with a groove or channel on each side
designed to receive the branches of the spring c, c', which supports the saddle.
A second curved plate A' having a central aperture and provided with grooves
or channels is also designed to embrace the branches of the spring c, c¹, and
this in conjunction with the grooves of the first plate B₁ serves to support the
saddle.
The lower part of the second plate may be flat in order to form a bearing surface
for a washer placed over the stem of the socket.
To fix the saddle upon the saddle carrying tube or Lpillar E the latter is passed
into the socket or eye the first named plate B' is then so placed that the branches
of the spring c, c¹, enter its grooves, the stem of the socket passing through
the aperture in the plate; the second plate B2, is then placed in position upon the
first plate with the branches of the spring in its grooves, the stem of the socket or
eye also passing through its central aperture. The washer d, and nut D' being
then placed on the stem and the nut being screwed up the saddle carrying tube or
pillar E, will become clamped or gripped in the socket or eye and the branches of
the saddle-spring will be clamped between the grooves of the curved plates.
Another modified construction of our invention is shown at Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 ;
we construct our boss or clip of three separate pieces comprising two clipping
plates, A B, and one eye bolt C. One clipping plate A is arranged with two
recesses a, a', to receive the saddle wire and two projections or wings a² to steady a
secoud clipping plate B. The second plate B, passes between the two wings and

page_text: has grooves b, b¹ to fit the wire in opposition to the grooves a, a¹ also fitting the
wire in the first place. The eye of the eye bolt C with a screw end C' fits into a
recess in the second clipping plate; the bolt C², itself passes through both
plates A B and is fastened by a nut D, behind the first plate.
eye bolt
The pin or pillar E (Figures 6 and 8) passes through the eye of the
and is pulled up against suitable curved surfaces 36 in the second plate in such
manner the pin is held between these curved surfaces and one side of the interior
of the eye bolt C. The screwing up of one nut D thus holds the two plates A, B,
together firmly gripping the saddle wires and at the same time fastens the L pin
immovably by means of the eye of the eye bolt C, and the curved surfaces in the
second plate B.
The recesses a, a¹ b b¹ in the two plates A B for carrying the wires may
be curved to fit sharply curved parts of the saddle wires; the tilt of the saddle
may thus be adjusted by slacking the eye bolt and sliding the clipping plates to a
different part of the curved wire.
We prefer to construct our eye bolt C, and nut D of steel, and the clipping
plates A, B, of cast malleable iron.
By this device we produce a very simple, strong and convenient boss or clip in
which the clipping plates are of standard dimensions for all diameters of L pin,
and the only part requiring alteration for different diameters is the eye bolt itself.
We arrange the exterior dimensions of the eye bolt for different sizes to be identical
or nearly so, and by this arrangement we greatly reduce the number of parts to be
kept in stock to suit different diameters of 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 we
claim is :-
1. In a cycle boss or clip the combination of a separate eye bolt with two
clipping plates, the said plates having opposing grooves to clip or hold the wires or
spring frame and the eye bolt being arranged to hold together the clipping plates
and to firmly hold the L pin passed through the eye between one side of the said
eye and suitable surfaces on one of the plates, substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described.
2. That construction of a cycle boss or clip in which one metal clipping plate
such as B or B¹ forms a bed or channel such as 63, for the eye of the eye bolt C,
and an pin as E, is held between the interior of the eye and surfaces as 63, 6* on
the said plate B or B' and another plate A or A¹ together with the said plate B
or B' holds the wires as c c¹ the whole clip or boss being firmly held together by
one nut as D, or D' substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. In a eyele boss, the construction of a clipping plate with projecting side wings
locking pieces snugs or guards formed therein or thereupon for preventing the
companion plate-from-twisting.
4.3. The particular arrangement and construction of cycle bosses or clips herein-
before described with reference to Figures 1 to 8 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1894.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.