Improvements in Velocipede Saddles and their Supports.
Year: 1891

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 9th day of June 1894,
allowed, under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment of
this Specification.
Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 13th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Velocipede Saddles and their Supports.
I, JOHN BOULTBLE 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 improvements in the mounting of the seats of velocipede
saddles, and in the framings and fittings of them, and consists, first, of a suspension
saddle, or a saddle with the seat strung and stretched outwardly hammock-wise
between its extreme ends; secondly, in the framings and supporting means of
saddle seats; and thirdly, in fittings of the framing, or in means of connection
between the saddle, and the L più or framing of a velocipede. In the fourth
part, in velocipede saddle supports.
In carrying out the first part of my invention, I connect the fore and aft under-
sides of the saddle seat, to the inner ends of suspension arms, proceeding from the
upper part of vertically disposed loop springs, whose lower ends are continued
inwardly into base framing rods, by which the saddle is suspended.
Thus the ends of the saddle seat, are connected to upper continuations of loop
springs, directed parallel, and in double order, and with the lower terminations of
them, directed curve-wise under the seat of the saddle, and forming the base
framing.
The seat of the saddle, which becomes strung hammock-wise between its points
of support, or between the springs, which form, as it were, brackets, between the
said seat and base framing, has its rear skirting framing made of wire, with
encircling loops for its attachment by riveting to the underside of the said seat,
although the said skirting framing may be made in the form of two curved
plates, jointed at the middle, with the branches affixed also by riveting.
Both fore and aft springs of each frame system, with the base framing, are made
from a single length of wire or rod metal, and which base parts, are bent hollow
wise, for giving tilt or adjustment to the seat, when the position of the said
curved part is changed within the clip of the L pin boss.
The loop springs consist of primary and secondary coils, with the latter disposed
excentrically with respect to the former, or in other words, the springs, which are
of a compound order, are composed of large and small coils, with the latter directed
opposite to the inside upper part of the former.
If desired, the springs may be made up of triple coils, to wit, a large primary
loop coil, and two secondary and smaller ones, disposed at the upper and lower
parts of the primary one, so that the metal of the top small coil, leads off to
the supporting bracket, and the metal of the lower small coil, leads off to the base
framing.
These compound and excentric coiled springs, may be employed at both ends of
the saddle. or only at one end.

page_text: The suspension arms of the front coils, take into a cross depending part or snug,
swivelling upon the end of the tension screw, supported through a hanging bracket
secured to the saddle seat.
In carrying out the second part of my invention, I make the seat framing and
the base framing of upper and lower sets of parallel directed rods, with loop coils
at their ends, and jointed at rear and front, so as to admit of the frames yielding,
so that the rods of the seat framing, which run from fore to aft under the said seat
in parallel and double order, are jointed near the junction of the coils at one end,
while the parallel and like rods forming the base framing, are jointed near the coils
at the other end.
In a further form of my invention, transverse slack of the saddle seat, in addition
to the ordinary longitudinal slack is taken up in manner following :-
The skirting framing parts which are secured to the saddle seats, and by which,
the supporting springs, and framing are primarily carried, have hanging stems or
stalks, with rigid L shaped brackets directed inwardly from them, and between the
vertical branches of these brackets, a tensioning device, preferably in the form of a
screw pin, is directed, which on being rotated, or turned, the jointed branches of the
skirting of the two part skirting framing aforesaid, are made to open out, and by
them, the saddle seat crosswise tensioned, thus dispensing with the tight ridge,
running lengthwise of the saddle seat, as is usually the case with length tensioning
only.
This transverse tensioning means may be applied in any position most suitable
to the purpose for which it is employed.
My invention of the third part, consists of a combined pin boss and base
framing clip, and is constructed as follows:-
The clip part consists of two separable hook-shaped checks, with their inner sides
concaved to the bar to be gripped between them, and with the lower terminals of
them provided with holes or eyes, one of which is screwed, and the other plain, and
wherethrough a clamping screw pin passes. The other and upper ends of the clip
parts, are hooked outwardly, and take upon the top sides of the base framing rods
disposed in double order, and parallel to one another, and with the undersides of
the said rods on the two opposite sides of the top part, gripped by the hooks aforesaid,
resting within grooves or channels of a base carrier or plate, which is gapped
inwardly at its middle and two opposite sides, and wherethrough the upper ends of
the clips aforesaid, take.
By the screwing home of the screw pin, the clips are drawn together, and the
framing rods nipped and firmly held in their assigned positions, and with the L pin
bar, clamped between the concaves of the said clips, and a concave on the underside
of the carrier or base plate.
The fourth part of my invention relating to the L pin support, consists of
an pin, with the bent part, provided with a loop, or loop coils.
Dated this 11th 1:1 1901
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Velocipede Saddles and their Supports.
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 relates to detail improvements in cycles saddles and in the pins
or bracket-reste of them.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents partly in section and partly
in elevation, a cycle or velocipede saddle, constructed, arranged, and provided with
improvements in accordance with one form of my invention.
The said saddle seat is shown mounted upon both front and rear loop coiled
springs, and with the base framing parts connected and secured to the pin by an
improved boss, constructed in manner that the screwing home of the clamping pin
affixes the said L pin boss in position after adjustment.
Figure 2 represents an underside plan of the said saddle and L pin fitting, as
represented in Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a cross section upon the dotted lines A B Figure 1, of
the pin boss and L pin horizontal branch.
a is the seat of the saddle, which is of the hammock type, mounted and supported
at front by and upon loop coiled springs b, having the outwardly directed
branches,, of them, respectively connected to the front underside of the seat of
the saddle, and to the fore part of the base framing, which is formed continuous
with the rear loop coiled springs. which are of special construction.
Thus, the upper prolongations &, of the spring b, are connected to the underside
of the seat of the saddle, while the lower prolongations 6, pass through holes in the
fure bracket, of the tension arrangement c, and are connected to the rear
bracket, both of which said brackets ³, e, are carried by, or slide upon, the fore
parts of the base framing rods d, directed from end to end of the seat of the
saddle, and with the middle and downwardly bowed part d', fitted with a clawed
construction L-pin boss e.
The rear parts of the framing rods, are evolved into loop coiled springs, situated
or disposed in a hanging manner within the inside boundary parts of the framings
or loops, which have bridge bends f, at the junctions of the said parts with the
base framing rods d.
The upper members, branches, or extensions f', of the said coils f, are connected
by loops, to the back underside of the seat of the saddle by hanging pins, on
which the said loops, are threaded, and there affixed by nuts /'.
It will be understood that the loop coiled springs and rods constituting the
skeleton framing of the said saddle are in double order.
The pin boss e, is built up of two separate parts g and h. The part 9 has a
middle bridge g³, which passes over the top side of the arm, of the pin i, and has
inverted claws o in double order, and disposed on the two opposite sides of the
eyes h, of the part h, and which inverted claws embrace the underside of the
parts d, of the frame rods d, which pass through the eyes h³, of the said part h,
which has a neck internally screwed, and whereup the clamping screw pin i,
passes and screws.
It will be thus understood, that the inverted claw parts embrace the frame rods
at four points, whilst the eye parts g, encircle the saine at two points between the
clawe, so that after adjustment, the screwing of the screw pinj, up the neck, causes
the end of the same said screw to impinge upon the underside of the branch, of the
L-pin i, hence the affixing of the said boss to the framing rods after adjustment.
It may be observed that the L tin buse, Figure 3, is a section upon-the-dotted
lines A, B, Figure-1.
Figure represents an underside plan of another form of the L-pin boss
arrangement.
Figure 5 is a section of the same, upon the dotted lines C. D. Figure 4.
In this arrangement, the sides of the boss are made adjustable upon the L-pin,
through the intervention of a screw pin or pins, passing transversely through
them the said sides.
The part 9,
has a
Thus, the L-pin boss e, Figures 4 and 5, has parts g, h and h.
bridge g, with inverted claws g, which take upon the undersides of the framing
rods d, and which inverted claws are four in number, and are arranged upon the
opposite sides of the hook or claw ends 2, 4, of the sides h, h, which embrace the
lower part of the Ŀ pin horizontal brauch, and to which L pin, the boss is

page_text: secured by a clamping screw cross pin j, with inside convex faced nut and washer,*,
coming against or lying within the concaves of the sides h, ', so that by the
screwing home of the screw pin j, the claws of both segments are drawn upon the
top and underside parts of the base framing rods, by the inclined inside faces of
the said sides drawing the parts together.
Figure 6 represents an underside plan of a cycle saddle, provided with cross or
lateral tensioning means, constructed and arranged according to a further part of
my invention.
The said cross tensioning is shown employed in connection with longitudinal
tensioning, although the same may be employed separately, or independent of the
said last named tensioning.
Figure 7 represents an end elevation of the back end of the saddle Figure 6,
showing the dispositions of the parts, and the mounting of the said cross tensioning
means.
It will be understood that the base framing parts of the said last form are
removed.
a is the seat of the saddle, fitted or provided at the underside of its back end,
with framing parts or section lengths b, 62, jointed together at , and with the other
parts of the said framings connected to the saddle seat by rivettings or otherwise,
so that by jointing the said framing in manner as set forth, instead of being rigid, the
same admits of opening out instead of being rigid, and any cross slack of the seat
may be taken up thereby.
care longitudinal frame rods, directed on the underside of the seat of the saddle,
and with the rear ends c², of them formed into loops or eyes, which take upon or
surround the joint pin 6, of the back framing parts b, b.
The metal of the other or rear end ³, passes continuously loopwise through an
eye d, of a bracket d, of a front tensioning device e, which on being rotated, draws
forward the screw box bracket e², which is attached to the front underside of the
saddle, hence the longitudinal tensioning.
In the cross and back tensioning,,, are swivelling and hook ended arms,
jointed at, by pins or otherwise, to the middle parts of the framings b, b. is a
screw tensioning device, with angular head g², stud end g³, and screwed shank g', t
, the
latter taking through a screwed hole or screw box f³, of the arm, whilst the
stud end g, takes within a plain hole, made through the angle end of the arm f
so that by rotating the said tensioning screw g, the saddle seat is transversely
tensioned. Instead of connecting the rear end, of the framing rod e, to the
joint pin, the same may be connected to the joints or pins ", of the framing
parts b, are supporting springs.
Figure represents-a eyele saddle-L-bar, constructed according to my invention.
Figure-0-is-a-topride plan of the came, whilst Figure 10 is a cross-section-on-the
dotted lines-Figure-
i-ure-double-loop coil, with horizontal-and-vertical extension-12, 13, fitted with
semicircular-cheeks-/-Up instead of cheeks, the extensions of the coils may be
fitted within tubes-or-hollow arts, forming the necessary form for litting into the
socket of either machine or titille.
In the pin boss arrangement, Figure 3, instead of employing eyes on the parth,
claws may he h-tituted for them, and further, in the cross tensioning, the
inwardly presented ends of the framings,, may overlap each other, and he
disposed, one within the other, so as to admit of the said parts sliding, hence the
expansion or contraction of them. und still further, the raid erors tem ioning may be
employed-without-direct longitudinal tensioning.
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 1
claim is:
First In the supporting springs of eyele saddles, disposing inwardly and
excentrically within the inside Loundary edge of a bow chains or bow string

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deseritent and forth, and applied to the at the year-part, as in Figure 1 and 2,
Secondly In-a-relealle, the combination and arrangement of the springs.
and low framing put on described and set forth in Figures 1 and 2.
Thirdly First In L-pin bosses of eyele saddles, making up the same of looped
and clawed sertions, or clawed sections only, which respectively embrace and clip
the base framing rods, by the screwing home of a screw pin, passing through one
of the said sections, upon the L pin, and which parts are constructed, arranged,
fitted together and operate, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1, 2
and 3.
Fourthly Secondly-In an L pin boss, consisting of three section parts, arranged
with clawed gripping parts, inclined sides or arms to two of them, wherethrough a
screw pin or pins pass, and on being screwed home, cause the claw parts to embrace
the framing rods, and the bar by the same movement, substantially as set forth
in Figures 4 and 5.
Fifthly In vele cuddle, tem-ioning the seats of the same transversely or cross-
wise, by a screw tin or pins, disposedl transversely across the back, or underside of
the back of a saddle, and with the screwed and plain ends of the same, taking into
and-through-serewed and plain holes of swivelly mounted arms or brackets,
connected to the underside of the seat of the suddle, or to the back framing parts
thereof, which may be jointed at their inner presented ends as in Figures 6 and 7,
or-with-their-inner-presented ends sliding upon one another, substantially us
described and net forth.
Sixthly In combination with cycle raddle cross tensioning, making the under-
side rear-framings of two reption, jointed together at their inwardly presented ends,
or clicking one upon another, or one within the other at their said inuer ends;
substantially as described and set forth.
Seventhly Thirdly-In cross tensioning, or combined cross and longitudinal
tensioning of saddle seats, with parts, framings and adjuncts, arranged and
combined and set forth in Figures 6 and 7.
Eighthly In-evele-salle-L-bars, provided or fitting the angle at the junctions
of the arms of the came or near the sail ungle, with a loop coil or coils, as set forth
in Figures & aut
Ninthly In cycle-suddle L burs, making or building up the ends of the arms
or brunchies, of extensions of the springs, with side cheeks, or encircled by tubes or
other like parts, to as to give the desired figure for taking into the house and
sockets of endille and machine re-pectively, as net forth in Figures 8, 0-and-10.
Dated this 19th day of January 1899
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.