Certain Improvements in Cycle Saddle Clips.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1898
Certain Improvements in Cycle Saddle Clips.
We, ALBERT EDWARD LOWENTHAL, of The Leatheries, Limited, Nos. 1 and 2, Cregoe
Street, Holloway Head, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and HENRY
VINCENT, of 43, Hunters Road, Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Pattern
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to cycle saddle clips which are used for securing
the spring underframe of a cycle saddle to the seat pillar or
-piece.
Our cycle saddle clip is so constructed that the tilt of the saddle can be altered
without affecting the fixture of the clip to the seat pillar or 7-piece and also the
position of the saddle clip can be adjusted on the seat pillar or 7-piece without
affecting the tilt of the saddle.
In carrying out this invention the body part of the clip is not split or divided and
is made with a central hole to fit the seat pillar or 7-piece and is provided with a
projecting screw at the bottom on which is threaded a washer or plate shaped to fit
against the seat pillar or 7-piece so that by tightening up the screw the seat pillar
or 1-piece will be clipped between the interior of the body part and the washer or
plate. The two wire or one wire or other sides of the saddle spring underframe are
secured to the sides of the body part of the clip by two separate screwed pins which
are screwed into side bosses of the body, one screw being on one side and the other
screw being on the other side of the clip, each of these screws passing through two
clamping washers or plates between which the wire or other side of the saddle spring
is held. The said two clamping washers which are next to the body of the clip are
serrated or roughened as usual as are also the sides of the body so as to prevent the
washers and saddle turning on the pins when the latter are tightened up.
To adjust the tilt of the saddle the two side pins have to be unscrewed slightly out
of the body so as to permit of the washers and saddle underframe being turned
on the side screws until the proper tilt of the saddle has been obtained and-then
these two side screws are tightened up so that the clip will then hold the saddle
in the required position. As these two side screws are quite independent of the
fixing of the clip to the seat pillar or 7-piece, the position of the clip thereon is not
affected by the said two side screws being unscrewed. When it is desired to remove
the saddle and clip from the seat pillar or 7-piece or to adjust the position of the
saddle and clip thereon, this is done by first unscrewing the screw which clamps the
seat pillar or 1-piece between the washer and the interior of the body.
The said two side screws may be made with their heads outside and with their
shanks screwed into the side bosses of the body as above described, or these screws
may be made with their heads inside the clip and with their screwed shanks passing
through holes in the body with nuts outside which are screwed up to hold the sides
of the saddle frame between the clamping washers and the latter against the sides
of the clip.

page_text: Certain Improvements in Cycle Saddle Clips.
We, ALBERT EDWARD LOWENTHAL, of The Leatheries, Limited, of Nos. 1 and 2,
Cregoe Street, Holloway Head, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and HENRY
VINCENT, of 43, Hunters Road, Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Pattern Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement -
This invention has reference to cycle saddle clips which are used for securing the
spring underfame of the cycle saddle to the seat pillar or 7-piece and this invention
consists of the improved combination and arrangement of the parts as hereinafter
described whereby a very secure clip is obtained and the tilt of the saddle can be
obtained without affecting the fixture of the clip on the seat pillar or 7-piece and also
the position of the saddle can be adjusted on the seat pillar or 7-piece without
affecting the tilt of the saddle.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on
which Fig. 1 is an elevation of a cycle saddle clip constructed according to this inven-
tion represented as fixed to the four wires of the spring underframe of the saddle and
securing the same to the seat pillar or 7-piece; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional eleva-
tion of the saddle clip; Fig. 3 shews parts of the clip separately; Fig. 4 is a vertical
sectional elevation illustrating a modification of the said clip and Fig. 5 shews
separately one of the set screws belonging to the clip represented by Fig. 4.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawing.
We will first describe the arrangement of our invention illustrated by Figs. 1, 2
and 3.
In carrying out this invention the body part A of the clip not split or divided
and is made with a central hole a¹ to fit the seat pillar or 7-piece B and is provided
with a projecting screw a² at the bottom on which is threaded a washer or plate C
hollowed at c c2 to fit against the seat pillar or 7-piece B so that by tightening up
the nut B on the screw a the seat pillar or 7-piece will be clipped between the
The two wire or one wire or
interior of the body part and the washer or plate C.
other sides of the saddle spring underframe are secured to the sides of the body
part A of the clip by two separate pins marked respectively E1 E2 which are screwed
into side bosses a³ of the body A the screw E¹ being on one side of the clip and
The screw E¹ passes
the other screw E2 being on the other side of the same.
through two clamping washers or plates marked respectively F1 G¹ between which
the wires H¹ H2 or side of the saddle underframe is held. The other screw E2 passes
through two similar clamping washers or plates F2 G2 between which the other two
wires H3 H4 or side of the saddle spring is held. The two clamping washers G1 G2
which are next to the body A of the clip fit on the boss as a and are serrated or
roughened at g2 as usual as are also the sides as a of the body A so as to prevent the
washers G G and saddle turning on the pins E¹ E2 when the latter are tightened up.
The adjacent faces of the washers F1 G¹ and also the washers F2 G2 are grooved as
usual at f¹ g¹ to receive the wires of the saddle underframe. When the screws E¹ E2
are screwed up tightly the side wires H¹ H2 or other sides of the saddle spring are
respectively gripped between the washers F1 G¹ and F2 G2, and the washers G₁ G2
are clamped against the sides as a of the body A and thus the saddle spring is
securely fixed to the clip and the latter as aforesaid is secured to the 7-piece by
tightening up the nut D'on the screw a².
To adjust the tilt of the saddle the two side pins E¹ E2 have to be unscrewed
slightly out of the body A so as to permit of the washers F1 G¹ and F G and the

page_text: saddle underframe being turned on the screws E¹ E2 and side bosses a³ at until the
proper tilt of the saddle has been obtained and then these two side screws G1 G2 are
tightened up so that the clip will then hold the saddle in the required position. As
the two side screws E¹ E² are quite independent of the fixing of the clip to the seat
pillar or 7-piece B the position of the clip thereon is not affected by the set
screws E¹ E being unscrewed.
When it is desired to remove the saddle and the clip from the seat pillar or
-piece B, or to adjust the position of the saddle and clip thereon, this is done by
first unscrewing the nut D on the screw a² which clamps the seat pillar or 7-piece B
between the washer C and the interior of the body A.
Instead of the two set screws E' E2 being made with their heads outside and with
their shanks screwed into the side bosses eet of the body A as above described and
illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the screws E1 E2 may as shewn in Fig. 4 be made
with their heads e¹ inside the clip and with their shanks passing through the holes in
the body A and with nuts e² outside which nuts are screwed up to hold the sides of
the saddle underframe between the clamping washers FI G¹ and F2 G2 and the latter
against the sides of the clip A. The heads e¹ of the screws are recessed into the
body A of the clip and are by preference made square or oblong so that the screws E¹ E²
will not turn.
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 saddle clip the combination of the undivided body A adapted to fit on
the seat pillar or 7-piece and fixed thereto by having a screwed shank a² on which is
a washer or plate Cand nut D, said body being made with serrated sides a5 a6 and
projecting side bosses a³ at tapped to receive side screws, the washers or plates G³ G²
fitting on the side bosses a³ at and serrated to match the sides of the clip A, the side
screws EE2 screwed into the side bosses a³ at, the washers F1 F2 threaded on said
screws, the said washers F1 F2 and corresponding plates G1 G2 having their adjacent
faces shaped to receive and hold between them the sides of the saddle spring when
the screws E¹ E2 are screwed up said parts being arranged and combined together
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the
accompanying drawings.
2. In a cycle saddle clip the combination of the undivided body A adapted to fit on
the seat pillar or 7-piece and fixed thereto by having a screwed shank a² on which is
a washer or plate C and nut D, said body being made with serrated sides a a" and
projecting side bosses a at with holes to receive side screws, the washers or
plates G1 G2 fitting on the side bosses a³ a and serrated to match the sides of the
clip A, the headed side screws E¹ E2 arranged in the side bosses a³ a with their
heads inside the body A, the washers F1 F2 threaded on said screws, the said
washers FF2 and corresponding plates G1 G2 having their adjacent faces shaped to
receive and hold between them the sides of the saddle spring when the screws E' E²
are screwed up, said parts being arranged and combined together substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by Fig. 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of January 1899.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.