Improvements in Saddles for Cycles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Saddles for Cycles.
I, ROBERT WOOD, Secretary to the Firm of Emmott & Co. Limited, Publishers
and Proprietors of the "Mechanical World" and "Textile Manufacturer," 2 New
Bridge Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster and 85, Strand, London, in
the County of Middlesex (a communication from Stephan Kempner of 23 Augusten-
strasse, Goelitz, Merchant) do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in the saddles of cycles, the object being
to provide an air-cushion for such saddles which by reason of its elasticity and
resistance to jolting will afford greater ease and comfort to the rider than is at
present the case with the saddles now in use.
To this end the invention consists essentially in the provision of a suitably shaped
air-cushion and to means for attaching same to the saddle and for refilling with air
as required.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which :—
Fig. 1. is a perspective view of saddle and cushion.
Fig. 2. is a vertical longitudinal section of same through the middle.
Fig. 3. is a section through air-valve shewing portion of pipe of air-pump.
Fig. 4. a partial section through valve shewing also method of attaching cushion
to saddle.
From these it will be seen that the cushion a, the shape of which is adapted to
that of the saddle-is fitted on its under side somewhere about the middle, with a
screwed stud which serves for the purpose of securing it on to the saddle and is so
constructed as to be used as a stud for an air-pump.
The construction of this stud will be gathered from Figures 3 and 4, Fig. 3.
shewing the portion of this appliance fitted to the saddle itself together with a
piece of tube for filling the cushion. The appliance consists of a stud b provided
with outside screw-thread, and carrying on its lower surface a plate e which has on
its edge crescent shaped openings for the admission of the air. In order to fill the
cushion a nipple e provided with outside and inside screw-threads and formed with
an annular groove is partly screwed on to the stud b. The object of the
annular groove is to hold tight the air tube which has a flange formed to corre-
spond with it.
This flange consists of soft indiarubber and will easily fit into the
groove so that it can be readily slipped off and on as required. The nipple c has
at the bottom a washer with a central opening. After the cushion has been
inflated the nipple c is completely screwed on to the stud b until the washer f
presses close against the washer e of the stud; this, as will be readily understood,
will have the effect of closing the valve hermetically.
The tube of the pump is now removed from the
order to fasten the cushion on the saddle, the outer
ring is screwed on to the outside of e. The ring
parcels or the like from.
annular groove and, in
screw-nut d, fitted with the
may be used to suspend
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what manner
the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The application of a cushion filled with air to the saddles of cycles so as
to provide the rider with a seat which will be as free from vibration as possible
substantially as described.

page_text: 2. The arrangement of stud and valve for fastening the air cushion to the
saddles of cycles, and used at the same time for fixing the air-pump consisting
of three, bushes, screwed nipples or the like capable of being screwed one over the
other, the two inner ones being provided with washers closely fitting to each other
and the outer one having a ring for securing or hanging any articles the rider
wish to convey with him constructed and arranged substantially as shown and
described.
Dated this 26th day of June 1893.
may
Per pro EMMOTT & CO., LIMITED,
Robert Wood, Secretary,
2, New Bridge Street, Manchester, and 85, Strand, London,
Agents for the Applicant.
Per pro EMMOTT & CO., LIMITED,
Robert Wood, Secretary,
Bridge Street, Manchester, and 85, Strand, London,
Agents for the Applicant.