An Improved Cycle Saddle.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improved Cycle Saddle.
I, FELIX ROSENBERG, of 5, Gitschinerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The cycle saddles hitherto employed all suffer from the drawback that there
is an unfavourable distribution of the bodily pressure, so that the points of the
pelvis bones and the region of the perinæum are subjected to the main pressure,
that is to say exactly those points at which any pressure is unpleasant, and, as
regards the neighbourhood of the perinæum, extremely deleterious to health.
Of course by the use of such saddles so inconvenient and deleterious to health,
the effectiveness of the rider is considerably diminished.
as to be
In order to avoid these drawbacks, I have constructed a saddle which relieves
from any pressure the region of the perinæum and the bones of the pelvis, so
that the whole pressure of the body is conveyed to the soft fleshy parts and the
weight of the body is not as formerly conveyed to the ridge of the back of the
saddle, but by means of a support is carried by the seat and thighs of the rider.
The improved saddle may be arranged in the ordinary manner so
adjustable upwards and longitudinally, and consists essentially of a spring which
carries two horse-shoe shaped halves of the saddle for receiving the two halves of
the buttocks. The spring as well as the two halves of the saddle have preferably
no rectangular section but are formed of a semi-circular shape or the like in order
to impart to them a great power of resistance or great strength with a minimum.
of weight.
Owing to the upper surface of the saddle consisting of two separate parts, a
narrow open space is formed between them which lies precisely under those parts
on which in the previous forms of construction of the ridge of the saddle a pro-
jection was formed which exerted a great pressure on the perineum. As in place
of this projection in the improved saddle there is really a recess, the pressure on
the perinæum which was so deleterious to health is entirely removed.
The horse-shoe shape of the halves of the saddle causes the bones of the pelvis
to enter the remaining recesses within the horse-shoes and they are thus entirely
removed from the weight of the body.
The parts or halves of the saddle are provided with springs of suitable construc-
tion connecting their front open ends, on which the thighs rest elastically. Suit-
able springs are arranged on the adjacent inner sides of the two parts of the saddle
which for this object are here bent downwards.
The saddle may be covered for use as required with a pad or pneumatic cushion,
or even with both, which of course must be so arranged that the conditions herein-
before described are not thereby affected.
320th dow of August 1807

page_text: :
An Improved Cycle Saddle.
I, FELIX ROSENBERG, of 5, Gitschinerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
Engineer, 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:-
The cycle saddles hitherto employed all suffer from the drawback that there
is an unfavourable distribution of the bodily pressure, so that the points of the
pelvis bones and the region of the perineum are subjected to the main pressure,
that is to say exactly those points at which any pressure is unpleasant, and, as
regards the neighbourhood of the perinæum, extremely deleterious to health.
Of course by the use of such saddles so inconvenient and deleterious to health,
the effectiveness of the rider is considerably diminished.
In order to avoid these drawbacks, I have constructed a saddle which relieves
from any pressure the region of the perineum and the bones of the pelvis, so
that the whole pressure of the body is conveyed to the soft fleshy parts and the
weight of the body is not as formerly conveyed to the ridge of the back of the
saddle, but by means of a support is carried by the seat and thighs of the rider.
Such an improved saddle in which the body rests in the manner of a hammock
is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a plan view;
Figure 2, an elevation;
Figure 3, a diagrammatic side view.
The improved saddle may be arranged in the ordinary manner so as to be
adjustable upwards and longitudinally, and consists essentially of a spring a
which carries two horse-shoe shaped halves b of the saddle for receiving the two
halves of the buttocks. The said horse-shoe parts may be attached to the
spring a by rivetting or in any other convenient manner. The spring a as well as
the two halves of the saddle have preferably no rectangular section but are
formed of a semi-circular shape or the like in order to impart to them a great power
of resistance or great strength with a minimum of weight.
.
a
Owing to the upper surface of the saddle consisting of two separate parts 6,
narrow open space c is formed between them which lies precisely under those parts
on which in the previous forms of construction of the ridge of the saddle a pro-
jection was formed which exerted a great pressure on the perinæum. As in place
of this projection in the improved saddle there is really a recess, the pressure on
the perinæum which was so deleterious to health is entirely removed."
The horse-shoe shape of the halves 6 of the saddle causes the bones of the pelvis
to enter the remaining recesses d within the horse-shoes and they are thus entirely
removed from the weight of the body.
The parts or halves of the saddle are provided with springs e of suitable con-
struction connecting their front open ends, on which the thighs rest elastically.
Suitable springs f are arranged on the adjacent inner sides of the two parts b of the
saddle, which for this object, as may be seen in Figures 1 and 3, are here bent
downwards at the point g.
The saddle may be covered for use as required with a pad or pneumatic cushion,
or even with both, which of course must be so arranged that the conditions herein-
before described are not thereby affected.
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:-
An improved saddle for bicycles and the like, characterised by the preferably

page_text: spring mounted upper saddle being composed of two horse-shoe shaped bent
halves (b) which leave a narrow space between them, and by each of them having
a recess for receiving the pelvis bones with the object of avoiding any pressure
on the perinæum and pelvis bones, springs (e and f) being also provided if desired
for further relieving the region of the perinæum and for the resilient mounting
of the arms of the saddle substantially as hereinbefore described.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.