Improvements in the Metallic Framings and Fittings of Cycle Saddles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 2nd June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Metallic Framings and Fittings of Cycle
Saddles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the metallic under and supporting framings and fittings
of cycle saddles, and is in part, an improvement upon Letters Patent granted to
me and bearing date the 30th day of September 1890 No. 15424.
My present invention consists first, in the construction or formation of skeleton
or trussed framing members; secondly, in the formation of a split framing,
composed of two of the said members; thirdly, in attaching framings to their
pillars or upright supports by clips, made from out of the metal at the middle of
the body part; fourthly, in the general construction of the framing; fifthly, in
adapting trussed framings, as in my former cited Letters Patent, to be used in
connection with upright pillars; sixthly, in means for connecting trussed framings
to L pins.
In carrying out the first, second, third and fourth parts of my invention in
connection with a suspension saddle, I proceed as follows:-
I make up the under framing, or the suspension framing, of two pierced or
skeleton sheet metal members, with the fore parts of them directed side by side,
or nearly so, and in juxtaposition, and outwardly terminated by an underside
attachment bracket.
The other ends of the said members converge outwardly, fork-like into branches,
whose ends are connected by rivetting or otherwise to the underside back skirting
framing of the seat of the saddle, commonly known as the back plate.
The middle parts of the said members are outwardly curved or bulged, so as to
comprehend or form a socket clip or eye, which takes upon the post of a cycle,
and by means of which, connection and vertical adjustment are made.
The sheet metal members are pierced throughout their length with openings,
alike unto a latticed girder, formed of triangular or other shaped ties or bars.
The branched members, or bifurcated rear part has a transversely directed bolt
at its junction with the spring clip, whilst the side-by-side fore parts of the
members are united by rivetting or otherwise.
The back plate consists of a quadrant shaped inside troughed length of metal,
following the contour of the underside back of the saddle seat, and with the top
edge of the said bracket provided with pierced ears, wherethrough rivets pass, for
the attachment of the said back parts and framing to the saddle seat.
The figure of the trussed framing is that of an inverted arch, with the sides
tapering from the middle to the ends, whilst the clip middle part is closed and
clamped upon the pillar, by the screwing up of a screw nut, on the end of the
cross pin, which has threaded upon it, inner convex-faced bearing blocks, which take
within curved seatings at the junction of the boss with the diverging branched
inembers.
In carrying out a further form of my invention, I direct the lower rods of a
framing through opposite lugs of a split or hinged clip, whose limbs work
horizontally or outwards. The free ends of this clip are intersected by a cross
pin, with bearing blocks and nut.
Thus, the clip opens out horizontally, and with the joint directed vertically.
The screwing up of the nut on the pin, closes the clip around the pillar, hence the
affixing of the framing of a saddle to a machine.

page_text: In carrying out my invention in connection with a trussed framing required to
be filled to the horizontal part of an L pin, I fit the upper bars of the framing of
a trussed bracket, with a hook ended crown or bridge, and with the hook parts
turning upwardly, and when in position, taking upon the underside of the top bar
of the trussed framing, whilst the metal at the middle of the lower bar of the
trussed framing is formed with brackets, from the opposite sides of which, a
trunnioned half pin boss, is jointed, so that the space between the half pin
boss, which has a screw up its necked or middle part, and the crown bearer or
plate, is sufficient to take the Lpin, upon which the saddle is secured by the
screwing up of the pin.
As a still further form of my invention, the underside middles of the half
members have ears or brackets directed from them, and formed into a clip, adapted
to embrace the tubular pins.
Directed across the free ends of the clip ends is a screw pin with bearer blocks
and nuts, so that by the screwing up of the pin, the split-like clip is drawn upon
the horizontal limb of the L pin.
The socket or eye clip, as in the first arrangement, may be used in connection
with other forms of framing, other than the trussed one as described.
Dated this 27th day of July 1892.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Metallic Framings and Fittings of Cycle
Saddles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, 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:-
This invention has relation to improvements in the metallic under and supporting
framings and also to the clip connections of the seat pillars or L pin bosses of
cycle saddles, and is an improvement or improvements upon Letters Patent granted
to me and bearing date the 30th day of September 1890 No. 15424 and the
13th day of April 1891 No. 6283.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in longitudinal vertical
section, with some of the parts in elevation, a hammock cycle saddle, with the
supporting framing made and fitted according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 is an underside plan of the saddle with parts of the same in section.
The said framing consists essentially of trussed members, connected at their
extreme ends to the front and rear underside of the saddle scat, and with the
middle parts of the said trussed and "pierced members formed into a clip boss,
which takes upon and embraces circumferentially, a seat pillar, and which pierced
members are drawn together upon the said pillar clampwise by a cross bolt
having a seat washer and seat nut taking upon the stem of the said bolt, and
with the curved faces of the said nut and washer taking and lying within
curved seatings formed at the junction of the clip boss with the rear parts of the
members.
a is the seat of the saddle, supported hammock-wise upon the terminations &¹³,
of a trussed framing, of the general configuration of an inverted bow, and with
the same composed of flat and pierced members 63, with the planes of the said
sides directed vertically, hence the acquisition of great strength with lightness.
The fore parts of the said members come side by side, and form as it were a single
frame, whilst the middle parts are fashioned into a pillar boss or pillar clip 6,

page_text: which circumferentially embraces a seat pillar c, and by frictional contact, is held
upon the said pillar by closing the sides, or semi-circular parts of them upon the
scat pillar c, through a cross or screw bolt d, which takes through piercings b³,
made through seatings 66, formed at the junctions of the said boss or clip with the
branched or spread-out rear 6, of the framing.
The screw bolt is fitted with a seat washer e, and a seat nut f, each having
convexed presented surfaces, alike unto the seatings of the framing wherein they lie,
whilst the parallel part of the side members, on the other side of the L pin boss,
are secured by a cross pin or rivet g. It will be understood further that the rear
members of the parts of the scatings are adjustable, or admit of being draw
together by the rotation of the screw pin d.
Figure 3 represents a longitudinal vertical section of a racer saddle, constructed,
arranged and provided with improvements made according to a further form of my
invention.
Figure 4 represents an underside plan of the same, with the connection clip in
section upon dotted lines A. B. Figure 3, showing how the said clip, which is split
or open upon one side, is mounted and closed, by the screwing home of a drawing-to
nut and pin.
Figure 5 represents an elevation of the middle part of the under-framing.
Figure 6 is a transverse section upon the dotted lines C. D. Figure 3.
The saddle seat a is mounted or slung upon a skeleton or trussed framing b,
composed of side members 63, converging and coming together at their fore ends b',
and terminated by a bracket 1, secured to the underside of the seat.
The other ends 62, of the solid latticed-work sides, are branched or open out, and
have their respective terminal ends, rivetted or connected to the back plate l³,
fixedly connected to the back underside of the saddle seat.
The middle of the under-framing b, is fitted with a split bracket clip g, mounted,
on one side, upon pivots or pins 2, and at the other side by a cross screw pin ǹ,
having a nut h2, at one end, and with the said pin taking through quadrant shaped
slots g³, of the said split clip g, so as to admit of the plane of the seat of a saddle
being changed, or to admit of a tilt adjustment, to elevate either the back or front,
as may be desired.
Fitted upon the said pivots are clip washers i, coming upon the outer sides of the
framing, and with their returned ends 2, (see Figure 6) embracing the upper and
lower edges of the same, and by which means, the said washers are prevented from
rotating, on the screwing home of the pivots and pin.
jis a tubular pillar, connected to a machine, and to which the saddle is adapted
to be connected.
The pivots g, and the pin h, take through slots 6, 7, of the side framings, so
that by the loosening of the said pivots and pin, longitudinal and angular adjust-
ments are admissible.
Thus, the pivots 93, are the centres upon which the clip g, turns radially, for
giving tilt adjustment, which is limited by the vertical extent of the slots g³, and
after the necessary adjustment, both horizontal and tilt, has been obtained, then
the saddle is securely clamped or affixed to the pillar j, by the screwing up of the
nut, when the division or split 9', is closed the said clip forcibly drawn around
the said pillar, and the frame sides drawn slightly together with the clip, hence the
rigid connection of the saddle to it.
Figure 7 represents in side elevation, a modified form of clip constructed
according to a further form of my invention.
Figure 8 is an underside plan of the same, and Figure 9 is a transverse section
of the said clip upon the dotted lines E. F Figure 7.
g is the clip, composed of two wing or flap sectional parts g', each sectional part
having an upwardly disposed and outwardly directed hook 2, which passes through
a hole or piercing ', of the side member 6, of a pierced or other frame b, whilst
the lower part of each of the said sectional clips g³ is formed into a curved lip,

page_text: with a concaved seating g', and a piercing through it go, wherethrough a screw
pin h, passes, and is fitted with a seat washer and nnt e and f. The side sections 62,
of the framing bare united by bridges or crown arches, which constitute the
upper section of the clip, and between the concaved undersides of them and that
of the lower section comprehended by the parts g, an pinj, is gripped.
Thus by the screwing home of the pin, the adjustable lower sections g', are
drawn together, and the said lower sections connected to the side framings ³, and
the pin boss at the same time connected to the pin.
Figure 10 represents a still further form of L pin boss constructed according to
my invention.
Figure 11 is a vertical section of the same, and Figure 12 an underside plan
thereof.
9,
b is a trussed framing composed of sides 62, united or connected by double arches
or rings Fitted and working within the said rings is a crescent bearer with
a concaved facing 92, a horizontal body part g³, and a transversely screwed hole g³,
through it, wherethrough a screw pin 7, passes, and by the screwing home of the
said pin, the L pin member j, is clamped by the impingement of the end of the
said screw upon its underside, which forces the bearer g, against the lower inside
parts of the said double bridges or rings 64, and also the pin upper part against
the top inner peripheries of the said double arches or rings as aforesaid.
Figure 13 represents an underside plan of a modified form of Figures 7, 8 and 9.
In this arrangement the clip is adapted to be used in connection with framings
composed of rod members.
g is a jointed clip, composed of two sectional members g', jointed at 92, and with
the terminal ends g³, made adjustable by the screw pin, passing through holes or
piercings in the opposed convexed parts, and fitted with a seat washer and nut.
The sectional parts g' carry eyes or loops g', which pass through ears 9, and
which eyes or loops g, comprehend or have rod members 'directed through them.
By the screwing up of the pin h, the adjustable ends g³, are contracted, and the
clip closed upon the upright seat pillar j, and in cousequence of the distance between
the eyes gs, being also contracted, the said clip besides being secured to the seat
pillar is also secured to the frame rods. It is understood that the whole of the
arrangements other than those shown in Figures 10, 11, and 12 are specially adapted
to take upon hollow seat pillars supports or pin members.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what !
claim is :-
:―
First In cycle suspension saddles, making or forming the primary and under
supporting framing or framings, of two flat and preferably inverted-bow-shaped
pierced metal members of a girder like construction, and with the flats or sides
disposed or directed vertically, and with the said frame located under, and at some
distance from, the seat and running fore and aft, as described and set forth in
Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Secondly -In cycle suspension saddles, making or forming the primary and
under supporting framing or framings, of two pierced or plain vertically disposed
members, with opposite middle parts of the same formed into pillar clips, bosses or
attachments, and which embracing parts are drawn and held together by screw pins
or by a screw pin and rivet, or by their equivalents, substantially as described and
set forth in Figures 1 and 2.
Thirdly In a pillar clip of a cycle saddle, consisting of a split or divided body
part, pivotedly connected and lengthwise adjustable at one end, and pivotedly
connected and both lengthwise and tiltwise adjustable at the other end, substantially
in the manner and for the purpose as described and set forth in Figures 3, 4,
5 and 6.
Fourthly-In an L pin boss or saddle connection means, the combination with

page_text: a fixed or rigid bridge or bridges &, carried by the framing, of wing clips g.
adjustably hung by hooks g², and drawn together, substantially as described and
set forth in Figures 7, 8 and 9.
Fifthly In an pin boss or saddle connection means, consisting of a cross
carrier g, with screw pin h, and with the said carrier located within the lower part
of a loop or loops, or a double bridged frame or frames, made fast to, or rigid with,
the side members of the supporting framing, substantially as described and set
forth in Figures 19, 11 and 12.
Sixthly-In pillar clips or saddle seat connections, consisting of a sectional and
jointed clip, with a screw pin passing through the adjustable ends of the same, and
with eyes, loops or their equivalents carried by the said sectional parts engaging
with rods or frame members, substantially as described and set forth in Figure 13.
Dated this 27th day of April 1893.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.