Improvements in Woven Wire Cycle Saddles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woven Wire Cycle Saddles.
I, ALFRED EDMUnd Wale, of The Firm of T. E. Wale & Sons, of Oozells
Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in woven wire cycle saddles,
by which the seat is much more resilient and considerably lighter and better
ventilated than saddles as at present constructed, thus preventing "saddle sore-
ness "which so frequently occurs to cyclists when riding long distances.
In the construction of cycle saddles having a spirally woven wire surface in place
of the ordinary leather seat it has hitherto been the custom to secure the fabric
to a shaped rigid metal cross-bar at the pommel and cantle of the saddle which
in practice have been found to be most uncomfortable and unsightly.
Now according to my invention I dispense with these rigid metal cross-bars
and take an ordinary cycle saddle and cut away the centre of the leather seat
leaving only an unbroken margin of leather about one inch in width and into this
space I fit a panel of spirally woven wire fabric' attached to the leather margin by
rivetting, sewing or by other means. This wire panel is preferably divided
down its centre to prevent perineal pressure, or it may be formed of two or
more separate panels..
In some cases I may employ only a short nose piece or pommel of leather at
the forward end of the saddle and a narrow margin or cantle of leather at the
back, the wire fabric being only attached to the leather pommel and cantle
by its extremities leaving the sides free.
The wire fabric I prefer to use is woven according to that described in my
Letters Patent No. 20,826 of 1891 in which two single woven fabrics cross another
at right angles and in the same horizontal plane, but I may if desired use a
wire fabric known in the trade as single, double or treble woven.
By constructing cycle saddles according to my invention I obtain the smoothly
rounded extremities of the ordinary leather saddle combined with the elastic
and ventilated surface of the wire fabric and I am also enabled to employ the
present well known and satisfactory means of connecting the leather seat to
whatever type of under frame it may be thought desirable to use.
Dated the 10th
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page_text: I, ALFRED EDMUND WALE, of The Firm of T. E. Wale & Sons, of Oozells
Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object improvements in woven wire cycle saddles
by which the seat is made more resilient and considerably lighter and better
ventilated than saddles as at present constructed thus preventing
"saddle sore-
ness" which so frequently occurs to cyclists when riding long distances.
In the construction of cycle saddles having a spirally woven wire surface in place
of the ordinary leather seat it has hitherto been the custom to secure the fabric
to a shaped rigid metal cross-bar at the pommel and cantle of the saddle which
in practice has been found to be most uncomfortable and unsightly.
Now according to my invention I dispense with these rigid metal cross-bars
and take an ordinary cycle saddle and cut away the centre of the leather seat leaving
only an unbroken margin of leather about one inch in width and into this space
I fit a panel of spirally or other woven wire fabric attached to the leather margin
by rivetting, sewing or by other means. This wire panel is preferably divided
down its centre to prevent perenial pressure, or it may be formed of two or
more separate panels.
In some case I may employ only a short nose piece or pommel of leather at
the forward end of the saddle and a narrow margin or cantle of leather at the
back, the wire fabric being only attached to the leather pommel and cantle
by its extremities leaving the sides free.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood and easily carried
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings
upon which I have shewn examples of my improved saddle.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a saddle made according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a plan view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a similar view to Figure 1 shewing a modified form of my saddle.
In carrying my invention into practice I take the leather seat of an ordinary
cycle saddle and cut away the centre portion leaving only the unbroken margin
of leather A about one inch in width. I then fit into the space where the centre
portion of the leather has been cut away the two woven wire fabric panels B
and B₁ which are attached to the leather margin by rivetting, sewing or by
other means. The space is preferably left down the centre to prevent perenial
pressure. Or I may form the centre portion of my saddle of a single panel
of woven wire fabric preferably divided down the centre.
At Figure 3 I have shewn a modified form of my saddle. In this case I use
only the short nose piece or pommel D of leather at the forward end of the saddle
and the narrow margin or cantle 11 of leather at the rear or back, the wire fabric
panel or panels being only attached to the leather pommel' and cantle by its or
their extremities leaving the sides free.
The wire fabric I prefer to use is woven according to that described in my
Letters Patent No. 20,826 of 1891 in which two single woven fabrics cross another
at right angles and in the same horizontal plane but I may. if desired use a
wire fabric known in the trade as single, double or treble woven.
By constructing cycle saddles according to my invention I obtain the smoothly
rounded extremities of the ordinary leather saddle combined with the elastic
and ventilated surface of the wire fabric and I am also enabled to employ the

page_text: present well known and satisfactory means of connecting the leather seat to
whatever type of under frame F it may be thought desirable to use.
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 I
claim is:-
CLAIMS.
First: The improvements in woven wire cycle saddles consisting essentially
in forming the outer edges of the seat partly or wholly of leather with the centre
portion composed of one or more panel's of woven wire fabric secured to the
leather by rivetting, stitching or other means in the manner and for the purpose
substantially as hereinbefore described and as shewn upon the accompanying
sheet of drawings.
Second-Cycle saddles consisting as regards the seat portion of a combination
of leather with panels of woven wire fabric fastened or united together in any
convenient manner substantially. as described and as shewn at Figures 1 and 2.
Third In cycle saddles forming the centre of the seat from one or more
panels of woven wire fabric the front and back portions of which are attached to
the leather cantle and pommel leaving the sides free in the manner substantially
as herein set forth and as shewn at Figure 3.
Dated this 15th day of April.
ALFRED EDMUND WALE,
By George Barker,
Fellow of the Ohartered Institute of Patent Agents.
Agent for Applicant, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.