Improvements in Oycle Saddle Securing Means or Attachment Bosses.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oycle Saddle Securing Means or Attachment
Bosses.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE 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 cycle saddle attachment bosses or securing means, and is
an improvement upon several former Letters Patent granted to me and bearing date
respectively the 30th day of September 1890 No. 15424, the 13th day of April
1891 No. 6283, the 31st day of March 1892 No. 5180 and the 18th day of March
1893 No. 5829, and has for its object primarily, an interchangeable and partly
universal attachment or boss, whereby the same attachment can be used for both
an pin member and an upright pillar member by simply changing the direction
of the eye or passage relative to the saddle framing.
According to one part of my invention, I make up the attachment boss of five
primary component parts consisting of two inside cheeks semi-circularly concaved
upon their inner presented faces, which when opposed to each other comprehend
nearly a complete circle, a carrier ring with opposite screwed stalks or trunnion
ends over and upon which the parts of the boss are threaded and over the body of
which the cardinal parts of the cheeks come, so that the ring of the said carrier
is to a large extent located within the interiors of the cheeks, which have inner
Binkings for receiving parts of the rings, and two outside washers or plates against
which screw nuts on the ends of the stalks of the ring impinge when screwed
home.
According to my cited Patent No. 5829 March 18th 1893, the locking of the
cheeks and carrier ring within them was accomplished by studs upon the washers
(which had frame rod keep grooves within them) taking into holes in the outer
presented faces of the cheeks.
According to my present invention, I form or sink frame rod keep-channels or
grooves in duplicate within and across the outer presented faces of the said
gripping cheeks and like coincident and duplicate keep-grooves within the inwardly
presented faces of the washers, which come outside the rods of the saddle framing,
so that the said rods or wires, when the boss is to take upon the horizontal member
of an pin, lie in the grooves running in the direction of the eye of the boss, but
when the boss is to be used to take upon an upright pillar member of a machine,
then the said framing rods or wires take into the crossing grooves, which are
disposed at, or about at, right angles to the grooves and the direction of the eye or
passage as aforesaid.
When the boss is fixed up, the framing wires or rods lie within the opposed
grooves of the cheeks and washers, and when the screw nuts upon the ends of the
carrier stalks are screwed home, the whole of the parts are firmly and securely
clamped together, without any possibility of the boss shifting so long as the nuts
remain screwed up.
When each side of the saddle frame has two wire members disposed parallel or
nearly, so to each other, then the keep grooves in both cheeks and washers, or in
the cheeks alone, are made in duplicate and to cross each other at right angles or
at any other desired angle, and with the threading hole through them coming
between the crossing grooves.

page_text: In the case of single wires or rods, the same principle is applied as in the case
of double wires, other than that single keep channels cross or intersect each other
instead of double ones, and these upon parts outside the middles of the said
washers and cheeks.
To give tilt to the saddle seat, as well as to make the boss interchangeable, I
camber or bend those parts of the framing whereupon the boss takes, so that
by changing the position of the frame relative to the boss, more or less tilt is
acquired.
When single wires are fitted with the bosses described I provide the washers
with a distance stud or studs or a lug or lugs, so that they shall be kept evenly in
position.
It will be understood that the keep grooves in the washers need not be in
duplicate, as they may remain stationary upon the wires, whilst the clamping
cheeks are rotated to the desired position when the parts are loosened by the
unscrewing of the nuts, and it will be understood that by the again screwing up of
the nuts when the parts are in their proper positions, the framing is connected to
the boss and the boss to the saddle supporting member at the same time.
Another part of my invention consists of an attachment made up of a number of
primary parts, with the cheeks of the gripping parts jointed together at their outer
ends, so as to admit of the said cheeks opening out for detachment and closing in
upon the member to be gripped. Thus, strung upon an excentrically disposed cross
pin are the free ends of the cheeks which are jointed together at their outer
ends, and having framing rod or wire keep channels sunken within each of the sides
at their junctions with their free ends or eyed lugs at their free ends.
Washers having like frame-rod keep-channels are also strung upon a pin next to
the free ends of the cheeks, and upon the screwed ends of the pin, nuts take, so
that by screwing up the nuts, or one of the nuts (the other may be substituted by a
head) the cheeks which when combined form a hinged clip are closed together jaw
fashion and the frame rods are connected to the boss simultaneously with the boss
being connected to the seat supporting member.
To make this boss interchangeable horizontal and vertical keep-channels cross or
intersect each other upon the outer faces of the free ends of the gripping cheeks,
and if necessary, single or double coincident grooves or channels may be formed in
the inner faces of the washers.
As a modification of this last form of my invention, I may make the clip part
separate and detachable and attachable, and 1 thread upon each end part of the
excentric cross pin, a slide or sliding lug having a square or other non-rotating eye,
each of the inner faces of the same are fitted with channels or grooves for receiving
the wires or frame rods of a saddle, whilst the outwardly presented parts of the
ends of the clip are like and coincidently channelled, wherein the inner sides of the
frame wires or rods take. The screwing up of the nuts or one of the nuts at
the ends of the cross pin traverse the slides or traversing lugs towards each other,
and at the same time contracts the inside dimensions of the clip, thereby simul-
taneously securing both the rod framings to the clip or boss, and the clip or boss to
the seat supporting member of a machine.
Dated this 18th day of December 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Saddle Securing Means or Attachment
Bosses.
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 cycle saddle attachment bosses or securing means, and
is an improvement upon several former Letters Patent granted to me and bearing
date respectively the 13th day of April 1891 No. 6283, the 12th day of
October 1891 No. 17335, the 2nd day of July 1892 No. 12310, the 28th day of
July 1892 No. 13733, the 9th day of December 1892 No. 22608, the 18th day
of March 1893 No. 5829, the 28th day of April 1893 No. 8553, and the 16th day
of May 1893 No. 9756 and also upon Letters Patent granted to Frederick Easom
and George Pilkington Mills and bearing date the 29th day of July 1893
No. 14620, of which I am the sole assignee.
According to one form or part of my invention, the attachment or boss consists
of four primary loose parts, viz. :-a nearly all-round and spring embracing clip,
with lugged and gapped free terminal ends, having frame-rod keep grooves sunken
within their outer presented sides, two hanging and gripping lugs, located upon
the two opposite sides of the free ends of the clips, and having opposed keep
grooves within their inner faces, and an excentrically disposed screw pin, bolt or
the like passing through eyes of the lugs and laterally through the gapped middle
parts of the free ends of the clip.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation a cycle
saddle securing attachment or boss constructed and arranged according to this form
of my invention.
Figure 2 represents a transverse vertical section of the same, upon the dotted
lines - Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a topside plan of Figure 1, showing the relative positions of
the component parts of the boss.
Figure 4 represents an underside plan of the said attachment clip or boss.
Figure 5 is a transverse vertical section of the boss, upon the dotted lines -,
showing more clearly the gapped middle parts of the terminal ends of the nearly
all-round clip, and within which gaps, the clip lugs, which have preferably square
eyes through them, and are threaded upon a square pin, lie and slide, and by
which they are prevented from turning.
Figure 6 represents in section and elevation, the component parts of the clip
separated.
a is a nearly all-round spring or band clip, with the terminal and free ends a²,
formed with lugs a³, having gapped middle parts a, and horizontally directed
frame rod keep channels a³, sunken or formed within their outwardly presented
sides a®.
b are sliding lugs, with claw-like depending parts 61, having keep grooves b³,
formed within their inner faces and coming opposite to and coincident with the
keep grooves a', of the spring clip a, and with square eyes or holes 6ª, passing
over the ends c', of a square pin c, upon the screwed terminal ends of which, nuts d,
take, whilst located within the keep grooves of clip and lug respectively, are:
framing wires or rod members e, through the medium of which members, the.
infibulation of the clip with the other parts of the attachment is made.
It will be observed that the clip lugs lie within the middle gaps a, upon.
the two opposite sides of the free ends of the clip, and so also does the bolt c.
The screwing up of the nuts d, upon the ends c¹, of the square cross pin c,

page_text: laterally traverses the clip lugs b, within the gaps a', of the clip, which lugs are
thereby made to approach or recede from each other for tightening up or slackening
the parts of the clip, and at the same time the inside dimensions of the clip are
diminished or increased, hence the simultaneous securing of both the rod framings
to the attachment clip or boss and the clip or boss to the supporting member of
a machine.
Figure 7 represents a vertical section of a modified form of my invention.
In this arrangement the clip part is made of two sections or halves, jointed
together.
a is the clip, made up of two sections a³, connected or jointed together at a'.
b are the lugs, and c is the pin, with nuts d, at the screwed ends of it, whilst e are
the frame rods or wires.
Instead of loose nuts being upon both ends of the cross pin, the same may have
a nut at one end only and a fixed head at the other.
Figure 8 represents a modified form of the first described form of attachment
boss, but adapted to be used with a four-wire framed saddle, such as described in
the Specification of my Letters Patent No. 8553 of 1893, as hereinbefore cited.
a is a nearly-all-round spring clip, with the free or terminal ends a³, formed
into cheeks .or sides as, having pairs of keep grooves a', formed within their outer
faces, and coming coincident with like opposed pairs of grooves 6, sunken within
the inwardly presented faces of the clip lugs or washers b, which are strung upon
the ends of the cross pin or bolt c, which may have a head c³, upon one end and
a screw nut d, upon the other end.
The said bolt c, which is preferably square in cross sections, passes through
lignable holes formed within the terminal ends a³, and lugs or washers b,
respectively.
In order to convert the last described form of boss Figure 8, into a universal
one, the keep grooves or channels in the opposed faces of the parts may be crossed
so that in order to make the said attachment boss Figure 8 (which is to take upon
an L pin member) adapt itself to a pillar member, the opposed faces of the
extensions or cheeks and washers or lugs are (in a four-wire frame) provided
with two sets of crossing channels or grooves such as represented in Figure 9,
which shows a face or cheek of the clip, whilst Figure 10 represents a corresponding
washer or lug.
In Figure 9, as is the cheek or extension of the clip, a is the face thereof,
a one pair of keep grooves or channels, and a" a second pair of grooves or
channels, surrounding the centre eye or middle pin through which the cross bolt
or pine, passes.
In Figure 10, b is the lug or washer, with pairs of keep grooves &,, sunken
within the face thereof, and coming coincident with the grooves a, a³, in the
cheek a³.
Figure 11 represents a side elevation of a universal boss alike unto Figure 9,
but with the same only fitted with crossing keep grooves adapted to receive the
single wires of double sided frames.
Figure 12 represents one of the washers to be employed with the boss Figure 11.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. A cycle saddle securing attachment or boss, consisting of an embracing
spring clip part, with the free ends, or free terminal ends, provided on their outer
sides with keep channels or grooves, coming coincident with like keep channels or
grooves, formed within the opposed faces of eyed lugs or washers, threaded upon
the ends of a drawing-up cross bolt, pin or equivalent, substantially as described.
and set forth.
Secondly. A cycle saddle securing attachment or boss, consisting of an embracing
spring clip part, with the free ends, or the free terminal and gapped ends, provided

page_text: on their outer sides with keep channels or grooves, coming coincident with like
keep channels or grooves formed within the opposed faces of square-eyed lugs or
washers, threaded upon the ends of a square drawing-up cross bolt, having nuts
taking upon it, whereby the clip part is connected to the lug or washer parts
through the medium of the frame rods or wires, which are secured to the
boss and the boss to the saddle-supporting member, substantially as described and
set forth.
Thirdly. In cycle saddle securing attachments as referred to in the preceding
claims, making the clip part in two jointed-together sections, substantially as
described and set forth in Figure 7.
Deted the 21st den of A1004
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.