US695142A - Cycle-saddle. - Google Patents

Description

No. 695,!42; Patented Mar. Il, |902.

W, BRAMPTN.

CYCLE SDDLE.

4App1icaton led Oct. 26. 1901.)

(jdo Model.)

A TTOHNEYS FFICE.

NVALTER BRAMPTON, OF DORRIDGE, NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

CYCLDSADL.

SPEGIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,142, dated March 1] 1902.

Application filed October 26,1901. Serial No. 80,095. (No model.)

To all whom it muy concern.

Be it known that I, WALTER BRAMPTON, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Moorside, Dorridge, in the county of Warwick, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cycle-Saddles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object improvements in cycle-saddles by which I am enabled toincrease their resiliency, thus making them more comfortable for riding.

In carrying my invention into practice I form with or attach to the back or rear of the leather seat of a cycle-saddle an extended or projecting portion or portions of leather, and to 4the rear edge of this extended portion I fix a metal plate or band to which the rear end or ends of the metal frame of the saddle are4 secured, the front of the frame being attached to the nose or pommel of the saddle in the usual manner. The usual cantieplate for keeping the leather seat extended or in shape is attached to the seat in the ordinary manner. It will thus be seen that as the saddle-seat is suspended in the frame by the extended portion and the pommel end the resiliency of the saddle is increased and the jar or effect caused by the metal frame being connected to the cantle-plateis avoided.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into practical effect, I have appended hereunto asheet of drawings upon which I have illustrated an example of my new saddle. It must, however, be understood that various forms of saddles and varieties of underframes may be used without departing from the broad principle of my invention.

Figure l is a general plan looking upon the leather cover or top A of one of my saddles which shows the extended part A of the cover. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan ofthe same saddle, showin g a frame and its attachments, but other formations of frames may be used instead of the one shown. Fig. 8 is a part section and part elevation looking at the side of the same saddle.

It will be observed that the underframe F :is not directly connected to the cantle-plate P, but to a further or supplemental cantlcplate P', whichis much shorter than the usual cantle-piate P,which extends across the broadest part of the cover A, keeping it in shape, and this plate'simply stifens the leather cover A. The leather cover A, however, extends to the supplemental short cantle-plate P and is attached and secured thereto by rivets or other fastenings r'. Similar rivets 7" secure the cantle-platel? to the leather cover. The particular underframe shown to illustrate the principle finishes with coils f and outward projections f2, which take into ears E, which are fasti to the short cantle-plate P, and permit a cert-ain amount of freedom or movement when in use. The connection therefore between the supplemental cantle-plate P and the usual cantle-plate Pl is entirely and wholly made by the extension 'of the leather covering A', which narrows off to P. This connection through the leather covering constitutes a most simple means of allowing a restrained movement or oscillation of the cantle-plate P both at its ends and other parts, soas to avoid extreme stiffness or undue looseness. Saddles have been previously tried with spiral-spring extensions to a back cantle-plate g but they were not a success, and other saddles have been tried with a supplemental cantle-plate and lever or rod connections to the same; but I find the best results are obtained in the most simple manner by the extension of the leather or its equivalent covering without any other connection between the frame and the cantle-plate P. The frame carries any of the usual bosses B to fasten to the cycle.

In a saddle, a suitable supporting-spring, a curved cantle-plate connected to the rear thereof, a saddle-leather secured to the said plate at its rear end and to the spring at its front end, and a second bar curved substantially concentric with the cantle-plate and secured solely to the saddle-leather in advance of said plate, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

WALTER BRAMPT'ON.

Witnesses:

I-I. W.. DnNToN INGHAM, HECTOR C. GRUNDY.

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