Improvements in Means for Securing Cycle Saddles to Cycles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Means for Securing Cycle Saddles to Cycles.
I, EDWIN WOODS, of 13, Wilson Patten Street, Warrington, in the County of Lan-
caster, Wire Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
My said invention relates to improvements in clips or means for securing cycle
saddles or their supporting wires to the saddle pins or other desired parts of
cycle frames.
Various contrivances are now in use for this purpose, but when made light and
flexible enough for easy adjustment they are liable to breakage or bending of the
free ends thereby permitting bending of the securing bolts when screwed up and
when made sufficiently strong are objectionable on account of their weight and
difficulty of adjustment.
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The object of my invention is to provide clips or means which whilst being
light and easily adjusted shall be strong and effective in operation and in which
the securing washers shall be kept parallel or very nearly so and no bending
of the securing bolt can take place.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ a comparatively thin steel or
other suitable metal clip of special construction.
The clip is adapted to embrace or partially embrace the saddle pin or other
desired part of the cycle frame and is an easy fit thereon. The clip is provided
with recesses to accommodate the saddle stays or wires and below these recesses
openings are made through the clip through which a securing bolt may be
passed.
One or both ends of the clip is or are turned inwards so as to abut against
each other or against a suitable fixed piece when the securing bolt is screwed
up, so as to prevent the lower portions of the clip being so forced towards each
other that the securing washers on the bolts are out of parallel. Instead of the
end or ends being turned inwards, a separate strut or piece, adjustable or
otherwise, may be used to prevent the lower portions of the clip being
forced towards each other. Such separate piece may consist of a screw and spring
or of a spring alone the coils of which abut against each other when the securing
bolt is screwed up or of any equivalent device.
In applying my improved clip the saddle stays or wires are disposed within the
recesses. The clip is then slipped upon the saddle pin and a bolt is passed
through the openings in the clip. The bolt carries washers at each end and a
nut whereby the washers can be forced against the wires; this also forces the
sides of the clip against the saddle pin thereby firmly gripping it.
The struts or inwardly turned ends of the lower portion of the clip approach
until they abut against each other when further inward movement of the said
lower portions is arrested.
Further screwing up of the nut will have the effect of binding the wires on
the clip and the clip on the saddle pin without bending the lower portions of

page_text: such clip inwards thereby keeping the washers always parallel or nearly so and
preventing bending of the securing bolt.
Dated this 11th dow of Mov 1808
I, EDWIN WOODS, of 13, Wilson Patten Street, Warrington, in the County of Lan-
caster, Wire 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 and accompanying drawings:-
My said invention relates to improvements in clips or means for securing cycle
saddles or seats or their supporting wires to the saddle pins or other desired parts of
cycle frames.
Various contrivances are now in use for this purpose, but when made light and
flexible enough for easy adjustment they are liable to breakage or bending of the
free ends thereby permitting bending of the securing bolts when screwed up, and
when made sufficiently strong are objectionable on account of their weight and
difficulty of adjustment.
The object of my invention is to provide clips or means which whilst being
light and easily adjusted shall be strong and effective in operation, and in which
the securing washers shall be kept parallel or very nearly so and no bending
of the securing bolt can take place.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood I have attached hereto
a sheet of illustrative drawings to which I will refer.
In the said drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side view illustrative of my improved clip and a portion of the
saddle pin and one of the saddle wires.
Fig. 2 is an end view.
Figs. 3 and 4 show modified forms of the improved clip.
In constructing a saddle clip according to my invention I employ comparatively
thin and flexible metal, preferably steel, which is suitably bent or shaped to
produce the clip a.
The clip a is adapted to embrace or partially embrace the saddle pin b or other
desired part of the cycle frame and is an easy fit thereon when not screwed up.
The clip a is provided with recesses a¹ to accommodate the saddle stays or wires c
and below these recesses, openings are made through the clip through which a
securing bolt d may be passed.
One or both ends of the clip is or are turned inwards so as to abut against
cach other as shown in Fig. 2 in full lines or as shown in dotted lines a³, or
the turned in ends of the clip might abut against a suitable fixed piece between
them, when the securing bolt d is screwed up by its nut f, so as to prevent the
lower portions of the clip being so forced towards each other by the pressure of
the lower portions of the securing washers that such securing washers
bolt are out of parallel, which loss of parallelism would allow bending of the
e on the
bolt d and reduce the grip of the washers on the wires c.
In applying my improved clip the saddle stays or wires c are disposed within
the recesses. The clip is then slipped upon the saddle pin and the bolt d is

page_text: passed through the openings in the clip. The bolt carries washers e at each end
and a nut whereby the washers can be forced against the wires c. This also
forces the sides of the clip a against the saddle pin 6 thereby firmly gripping it.
b
The struts or inwardly turned ends a² of the lower portion of the clip a or
the struts or equivalents hereinafter described, approach until they abut against
each other when further inward movement of the said lower portions is arrested.
Further screwing up of the nut will have the effect of binding the wires c
on the clip a, and the clip on the saddle pin b, without bending the lower portions
of such clip inwards, thereby keeping the washers e always parallel or nearly so
and preventing bending of the securing bolt. The length of the turned in ends a³
is so adjusted that when the nut f is screwed home to hold the clip firmly, the
washers are parallel.
I do not confine myself to the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as this
may be varied without departing from the spirit of my invention. For instance
instead of the ends of the clip being turned inwards as described a separate strut
or piece, adjustable or otherwise, may be arranged to prevent the ends of the
clip a being thrust inwards.
One arrangement of this kind is shown in Fig. 3. A screwed bolt or rod g
secured to one end of the clip a is free to slide within a sleeve h carried by the
other end of the clip. The traverse of the bolt or rod g within the sleeve has
the clip is being screwed up by the nut f is limited by a nut i, which nut provides
a ready means of adjusting the extent of traverse of the bolt within the sleeve,
and consequently the approach of the ends of the clip towards each other so
that the washers e shall not get out of parallel.
By regulating the nut ia clip made according to this modification can be used
on various diameters of saddle pin the washers e being in all cases kept parallel
when the nut f is screwed up.
In Fig. 4 I show another modification in which a coiled spring j is arranged
between the ends of the clip. When the clip a is screwed up the coils of the
spring abut against each other as shown in the fig. and thus prevent the ends
of the clip a being thrust inwards and the loss of parallelism of the washers e.
The improved saddle clip is light, flexible and can be screwed up to any desired
extent so as to thoroughly and tightly embrace or grip the saddle pin and wires
without disturbing the parallel and vertical position of the washers confining the
saddle wires and without risk of bending the securing bolt.
I do not confine myself to the modifications above described as it will be obvious
that various arrangements of struts or the like can be made without departing
from the nature of my invention.
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:-
1) As means for securing cycle saddles to the saddle pins or other desired
parts of the frame, a clip of flexible steel or other metal provided with inwardly
turned ends, or struts or like parts disposed between the ends, so as to limit the
inward bending of the ends of the clip and enable such clip to be secured firmly
to the saddle pin and wires without disturbing the parallel position of the securing
washers or bending the securing bolt, substantially as described and shown.
2) In clips for securing cycle saddles a curved or bent clip a formed with turned
in ends or struts a adapted to abut against each other and limit the inward
movement of the ends of the clip and maintain the parallelism of the securing
washers, in combination with the washers e, bolt d and nut f arranged and acting
in the manner, for the purposes and substantially as described and illustrated with
reference to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.
3) The modified constructions of improved saddle clip substantially as described
and shown with reference to Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.

page_text: 4) The combination with a clip for cycle saddles of adjustable strut pieces or
like devices adapted to regulate the distance between the free ends of the clip
substantially as described."
Dated this 10th day of February 1899.
For the Applicant,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 5, John Dalton Street, Manchester.