Improvements in Seats or Saddles for Velocipedes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1897
Improvements in Seats or Saddles for Velocipedes.
I, HERBERT JAMES WELLS of 3 Dowson Street, Blue Bell Hill, in the Borough
of Nottingham, Cycle Depôt Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in seats or saddles for velocipedes or like
vehicles, of the kind in which the seat is formed by two independent parts placed
side by side.
In carrying out this invention the two parts of the seat, are each preferably at or
near the back, hinged or pivotted to a transverse member of the seat frame, the
latter may be formed by the said transverse member and a central longitudinal
member and be mounted on springs which are secured to the seat pillar by a clip
of the usual construction.
Each part of the seat is at a point in front of the hinge or joint connected by
connecting links or other means to the opposite ends of a transverse lever; this
lever is arranged on the underside of the two parts of the seat, and is pivotted
centrally on the longitudinal member of the frame.
With this arrangement the front of one part of the seat is raised about the point
at which it is hinged, as the front of the other part is depressed and it thus
accommodates itself to the movements of the rider when pedalling, that part of the
seat which corresponds to the extended leg of the rider being depressed at the front
by the extended leg which is thus prevented from chafing against the front edge of
that part of the seat, whilst the other part of the seat is raised with the raised leg
of the rider.
The two parts of the seat may be each formed on a suitable foundation and
be padded or formed with pneumatic cushions, or be of any other suitable
construction.
If preferred the two parts of the seat may be hinged at or near the front instead
of at the back; other means may also be employed for transmitting the movement
from one part of the seat to the other.
Dated this 18th day of February 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, HERBERT JAMES WELLS, of 3, Dowson Street, Blue Bell Hill, in the Borough
of Nottingham, Cycle Depôt Manager, 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 relates to improvements in seats or saddles for velocipedes or like
vehicles, of the kind in which the seat is formed by two independent parts placed
side by side.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which :-

page_text: Fig. 2 a plan, and
Fig. 3 a front elevation partly in section of a saddle constructed according to my
invention.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
In carrying out this invention, the two independent parts A and B which form
the seat, are each hinged or pivotted at a point A¹ which is preferably at or near
the back of the said parts, to a transverse member C of the seat frame.
The seat
frame may be formed by the transverse member C and a central longitudinal
member D, and both be mounted on a spring E which may be secured to the seat
pillar by a clip F of ordinary construction.
The free ends of the spring E may be secured at the points CC to the
transverse member C and the front looped part to the end D of the longitudinal
member D.
Pivotted in a lug G secured to the longitudinal member D of the frame, is a
transverse lever H; the ends of this lever are connected to the parts A and B
each by a link J and universal joints J J as shown.
If preferred ball and socket joints may be employed instead of the universal
joints J, balls being formed on the ends of the links, and sockets in the end of the
lever, and also in brackets secured to the parts A and B.
With this arrangement one part of the seat is raised about the point A¹ as the
other part is depressed and the two parts A and B thus accommodate themselves to
the movements of the rider when pedalling. That part of the seat which corresponds
to the extended leg of the rider being depressed as shown at B by the act of
extending the leg, which is thus prevented from chafing against the front edge of
that part of the seat, whilst the other part A of the seat is raised at the saine time
as the leg of the rider is raised.
The two parts A and B of the seat may be formed on a suitable foundation or
frame and be padded or formed with pneumatic cushions of suitable construction.
If preferred, the two parts of the seat may be hinged at or near the front, or in
the middle, instead of at the back as shown. It is also obvious that other
mechanical means may be employed for connecting and transmitting the movement
from one part of the seat to the other, and I do not therefore confine myself to the
arrangement shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A velocipede seat or saddle comprising two hinged pivotted or movable parts
such as A. B. so connected that the lowering of either part effects the raising of
the other.
2. A velocipede seat or saddle formed of two hinged or pivotted parts such
as A and B. connected to a lever H so that one part is raised as the other is
depressed substantially as described.
3. In a velocipede seat or saddle the combination with two hinged or pivotted
parts such as A and B of a lever H, links J, and universal joints, substantially as
described.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete
velocipede seat or saddle substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of December 1896.
HERBERT JAMES WELLS.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.