Year: 1888

page_text: 1, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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This invention relates to the construction of saddles for bicycles, tricycles and other
velocipedes, as hereinafter described; and which invention is an improvement upon
Letters Patent granted to me and numbered 13056 year 1884 and 15048 year 1886.
The seat of the saddle is supported and elevated upon longitudinal rods, directed
from front to rear, on the underside of the seat of the saddle, and with their ends
secured to the rear and front undersides of the saddle seat. The rear ends are
widened out, and connected to the skirting framing, whilst the front ends are
connected to the tension arrangement, which works within a bracket, jointedly or
fixedly connected to a foot, whose outer end has a pin through it, for the securing of
the upper end of a pillar coiled spring, whose lower end rests upon the front upper
side of the attachment bracket bar.
The longitudinal rods, which form the skeleton framing of the saddle seat, are bent
or shaped downwardly; and directed laterally from the bent down part of the said
rods, is a hanging carrier, consisting of a transversely directed top plate, with eyes or
sleeves on its upper side, wherethrough the framing rods of the saddle seat, pass, and
a lower plate between the upper side of the latter, and the underside of the former,
is a cushion, pad or interposed block or blocks of rubber, through the middle of
which, a terminal plate on the end or ends of a spring stay, or stays, pass.
The spring stay, consists of metal rods, made in one piece with the attachment
bracket bar, and connected rearwardly by a loop, coil or coils. Thus, the spring stay,
whose inner end is isolated from metallic contact, by the rubber blocks as aforesaid,
forms an anti-vibration joint and bearing.
The combined attachment bar and spring stay, are made from a single, or two rod or
wire lengths, directed parallel under the seat of the saddle and then rearwardly coiled
into loops, with the terminal ends of the said rear part, directed obliquely, to the
middle underside of the seat of the saddle, and there secured in an elevated position,
between the rubber blocks, by screws passing transversely through the carrier plates
and rubber.

page_text: The front end of the attachment bracket bar, is made with a clip, upon the upper
side of which, the lower end of a pillar coiled spring is connected.
In another form of my invention, 1 jointedly connect the inner terminal ends or
arms of the spring stay, to the middle saddle seat framing bars, instead of making
the connection by a carrier.
The hanging carrier. I form entirely of rubber, and suspend it at or near its outer
ends, hy hook like metallic hangers, suspended from the connection pins, directed
from the rear skirting framing.
The underside of the rubber carrier. rests upon the top side of the neck of the
spring stay, which is cranked inwards at the junction of the looped coils, with the
stay shank; so that on pressure being applied to the saddle seat, the rubber is distended
downwardly, over and around its middle underside support, thereby rendering the
saddle seat highly elastic and yielding.
The front of the saddle seat is mounted upon the terminal end or ends of a loop
coiled spring, instead of a pillar spring, with the upper end or ends attached to the
tension arrangement, and with the lower end or ends extended and directed rearwardly
under the saddle seat, and with the extreme terminal ends resting and taking within
the outwardly directed ends or parts, of a cross rubber carrier block, whose middle
underside is supported by a fixed, or an adjustable pillar, resting upon the top front
side of the attachment bracket bar.
When pressure is applied to the seat of a saddle, the crossly directed rubber carrier,
which forms the front mounting of the saddle seat, is distended downwardly, over the
opposite sides of the supporting pillar.
By isolating the metallic framing, supporting and connection parts by rubber
carriers, bearings, joints or the like, as described, the saddle is freed from tremor,
and the seat made perfectly yielding.
The connection of the attachment bracket bar, to the bar of a machine, is made
by a socket, whose neck passes between the middle of the parallel bars, and is there
secured by a plate or washer, coming upon the top of the bracket bars, and pressed
home by a screw nut. Thus, the bracket bars are clamped in position between the
shoulder of the socket, and an upper plate.
The hangers whose lower ends are connected to the rubber carrier, may be coiled
about their middles into loops, thus forming with the loop coils of the attachment
bracket bar, and stay, two coils, and which said stay is extended forwardly, and
jointed to an inner extension of the hangers.
As a modification, 1 jointedly connect the inner end of the stay, or the arm of the
stay, to the tension device; and disposed between the underside of the rear of the
saddle, and the attachment bar, two pillar coiled springs are connected. In this case,
the suspended and yielding carrier block of rubber is dispensed with. Or, instead of
two springs, a single spring may be centrally disposed between the top rear side of
the stay, and the underside of the saddle seat.
Although I have spoken that the stay which is an extension of the attachment bar,
as having one coil, yet if necessary, two coils may be employed, and with the arm
extended to the rear underside of the saddle seat.
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page_text: I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, Birmingham in the County
of Warwick, 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 relates to the construction of saddles for bicycles, tricycles and other
velocipedes as hereinafter described; and which said invention is an improvement
upon Letters Patent granted to me, and numbered 13056 year 1884 and 15048
year 1886.
The seat of the saddle is supported and elevated upon longitudinal rods, directed
from front to rear, on the underside of the seat of the saddle, and with their ends
secured to the rear and front undersides of the saddle-seat. The rear ends are
widened out, and connected to the skirting framing, whilst the front ends are
connected to the tension arrangement, which works within a bracket, jointedly or
fixedly connected to a foot or bearing, whose outer end has a pin through it, for
the securing of the upper end of a pillar coiled spring, whose lower end rests upon
the front upper side of the attachment rods.
The upper or lower framings have rubber blocks or bearings interposed between
them, and which said blocks or bearings constitute yielding joints or junctions.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents partly in vertical section, and
partly in clevation, a velocipede saddle. constructed, arranged and mounted according
to one form of my invention. It will be seen that the junction of the spring stays
with the framing rods, is made by rubber blocks, and thereby forms an anti-vibration
joint and bearing.
Figure 2 is an inverted plan of figure 1, showing the dispositions of the framing
rods, and the attachment rods, with the stays.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the rear end of the saddle attachment, stay and
portion of the framing rods, whilst figure 4 is a back end clevation of the said part
figure 3.
Figure 5 represents a modified form of saddle, for either a tricycle, or a bicycle.
In the latter case, the attachment framing is clipped to the back bone of the machine,
instead of proceeding and continuing to the front underside of the saddle, in the case
of a tricycle.
a is the seat of a saddle, supported and elevated upon the connections of framing
rods b, directed from front to rear of the underside, of the said seat, and with their
fore ends fixedly secured to a suspended cross bracket c, whose underside has a fixed
or jointedly connected pressure bearing d, for the upper abutment of the pillar spring e,
disposed between the said pressure bearing, and the front upper sides of the attachment
rods, whose rear parts are twisted or turned into coils g, and with the termination
ends directed into oblique and upwardly directed stays h, whose extreme ends /² are

page_text: flattened out, or connected to a plate 43, disposed between rubber blocks, which are
connected through the intervention of plates 7. and pins 73, to a transversely directed
carrier, secured to the framing rods b.
The rear framing rods of the saddle are made into loops or eyes 1³, where-
through a screw pin passes, and is thereby secured to the underside of the rear
skirting framing 15.
The pillar coiled spring e, upon which the front of the saddle is elevated, is connected
to the fore parts of the attacliment rods f, by a screw pin f
The framing rod carrying bracket c, is connected to the front underside of the
seat of a saddle. by a fixedly secured hanging carrier k, and by a screw pin ¹ of the
tension arrangement.
The said tension arrangement (see figures 1 and 2) consists of a square headed
screw pin l, with the head thereof taking into a square hole in the hanger bracket k,
and with the wormed part taking through the screwed eye or middle of a bevel
pinion », confined but capable of rotating within a cross gap in the bracket c.
Gearing with the said pinion, is a second bevel pinion s, disposed at the inner end
of the shank of a milled head or turn t, which when rotated works and is supported
within the bracket c.
By turning the said milled head t the pinions s and 2 are rotated, which thereby
gives to the saddle seat, the necessary tension, by the advancing or retiring of the
screw pin, whose carrying bracket c is affixedly connected to the underside of the
said scat.
As a modification, the bevel gear of this tensioning arrangement may be substituted
by tangent gear. Thus, the screw pin 1, which tensions the seat of the saddle, is
made to pass through the screwed middle of a tangent wheel, and gearing with this
said tangent wheel, is a worm which is carried at the inner end of the stalk of the
milled head; so that by rotating the said milled head, the worm rotates the wor
wheel, and causes the screw pin to advance or retire.
The attachment rods, or the base of the saddle is secured to the ☐ bar of a machine,
by a socket u (see figures 1, 2 and 24) consisting of an upper plato u², socket body
part us, which has upon its upper side, channels, wherein the attachment rods lie,
and are there secured by the clamping home of the plate or top u², by the screw n³,
whilst the lower body part u³, has a holding screw pin u, which comes upon the
and which fits within the hole of the said body part.
bar
In the arrangement figure 5, the interposed rubber blocks which intercept
vibration or tremor, and give elasticity to the junctions of the parts of the framing,
is disposed and threaded upon the hanging screw pin, directed from the rear
underside of the saddle seat, instead of between a middle part of the framing rods
and the stay, as in the preceding figures.
a is the seat of the saddle, 6 the framing rods, f the attachment or base rods,
twisted into rear coils g, and with the said rear termination directed into stays h,
whose plated ends are interposed between rubber blocks or bearings i, braced
between plates, and secured to the underside skirting frame 5, of the seat of the
saddle, by a screw pin ^.
If the attachment barf be extended forwardly, then a rear driving bicycle or
tricycle saddle is made as in figure 1, but if the said attachment rods be clipped near
their their coiled ends, then a bicycle saddle is formed.
Figure 6 represents partly in elevation and partly in section, a tricycle or rear
driving bicycle saddle, constructed according to another form of my invention. In
this said arrangement, the framing rods are jointedly connected to the stay, while an
inner connection of the stay is made by a rubber bearing.
The front of the saddle is elevated upon an adjustable bar and spring, with
attachment brackets.
Figure 7 is an underside plan of figure 6. Figure 8 is a transverse section of the
framing parts upon the dotted lines A B figure 7, and figure 9 is a transverse section
of the said framing parts, upon the dotted lines D of the said figure 7.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in figures 6 to 9.
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a is the seat of the saddle, bare the framing rods thereof, and with the rear and
front ends 62, 13, connected to the rear underside of the seat of the saddle, by a pin b,
and also by a bracket c, whose underside las connected or jointed to it, a bearer i, to
which the upper terminal end e² of the loop spring e, is connected.
The lower and inwardly directed ends or arms e³, of the loop coils e, are provided
with a rubber ring or bearing m, with inside bobbin bearings n. The middle of the
bearing m comes upon the circular rubber block o, threaded or secured upon the
angular end of an adjustment bar l, working vertically within a socket p, disposer
and coupled to the front ends f2, of the attachment rods. The tension device
which passes through the bracket is marked ', and the hanger carrying its
rear end is marked E.
;
The rear portions of the said attachment parts are turned into loop coils
and with
the terminal end or arm directed upwardly into stays h, which are jointed at h², to
the middle parts of the framing rods b.
Suspended from the rear underside of the seat of the saddle are hangers 9, with
inwardly hooked ends q, from and around which, a rubber block or ring i encircles.
The middles of the stays h are directed inwardly, and then run parallel, or side by
side, to the joint connections; so that on pressure being applied to the seat of
the saddle, the middle of the rubber block, ring or pad, comes upon the stays as a
bearing.
The dispositions of the said yielding bearings with respect to their supports and
connections, are best seen in the transverse sections figures 8 and 9.
Figure 10 represents partly in elevation, and partly in section, the rear part of a
velocipede saddle, constructed according to another form or modification of my
invention. Figure 11. is an underside plan of the same, and figure 12 an end elevation
partly in section.
a is the seat of the saddle, bare framing rods, supported at the rear underside of
the said seat, by a bracket or connection 65, and with the ends continued into loop
coils g, and stays h, jointed at 2 to dual stays ³, of coils g², made from extensions of
the attachment rods f.
The joint of the attachment rod loop coils, are made into a single sleeve /*, which
works between the end knuckles 2 of the frame coils g; and which said joint parts
of the dual coils and stays are connected together by a cross pin h³.
Instead of the stays h, 3, of the coils g, g being directed inwardly, they may be
directed outwardly, and there jointed.
my
said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention, and in what maimer the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
First. Interposing between the connection or connections of the lower framing
parts of the seat of a saddle, and the framing bars, or upper frame thereof, rubber
blocks, pads or their equivalents, whereby the junction or junctions of the said parts
is or are isolated from metallic contact, and a yielding joint produced, as set forth in
figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Secondly. The combination with the seat of a saddle, of attachment rods f,
springs, stays h, and frame rods b, substantially as described and set forth in
figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Thirdly. The general construction and arrangement of the parts of saddles as
described and set forth in figures 1 to 4.
Fourthly. Tensioning the seat of a saddle by a non-rotating screw, operated
by an internally screwed bevel wheel, driven by a bevel pinion or a worm wheel,
with screwed hole in its middle, driven by a worm, substantially as described and set
forth.
Fifthly. The combination with the seat of a saddle, the framing rods b, attachment
frames with coils g, with the interposed rubber block joint, and their auxiliary
parts, as set forth in figure 5.

page_text: Sixthly. A velocipede saddle, mounting the said saddle upon a frame or frames b, f
g, h, e, e, e, with interposed rubber bearings i and m, disposed between the upper and
lower parts, substantially as set forth.
Seventhly. The combination of the fore spring e, with the rear end spring y, and
the cognate parts thereof, substantially as set forth.
Eighthly. The general construction and arrangement of parts of saddles, as set
forth in figures 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Ninthly. A velocipede saddle, mounting and supporting the rear underside thereof,
upon loop coiled springs, with their inner presented ends jointed together as set forth
in figures 10, 11 and 12.
Lastly. The construction of attachment sockets u, as constructed and set forth in
figures 1, 2 and 2ª.
Dated this Nineteenth day of January 1880