US484289A

US484289A - John boultbee brooks

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Publication number: US484289A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-10-11
Anticipated expiration: 1909-10-11

Description

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J. 13. BROOKS. CYCLE SADDLE.

No. 484,289. Patented Oct. 11, 1892.

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"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

CYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,289, dated October 11, 1892.

Application tiled April 8, 1892. Serial No. 428,366. (No model.) Patented in England September 30, 1890, No. 15,424, and April T0 a/ZZ whom it may concern..-

Beitknown that,1 JOHNBOULTBEE BROOKS, manufacturer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Great Charles Street, in the city of Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cycle-Saddles, (for which invention Letters Patent have been granted to me in Great Britain, bearing date September 30, 1890, No. 15,424, and April 13, 1891, No. 6,283;) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specitication.

This invention relates to detail improvements in the trainings, springs, and accessory fittings of cycle-saddles.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents, partly in elevation and partly in vertical section, a cycle-saddle provided with framings and fittings constructed and arranged according to my invention. Fig. 2 represents an under side plan of the baseframing and supporting-springs of the same. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section with some of the parts in elevation and upon the dotted lines A B, Fig. 1, of the L-pin-boss connection, or the means of connection between the L-pin or saddle-iron and the baseframing.

a is the saddle-seat.

b are the seat-frame rods, arranged in double and nearly parallel order and located under the said seat and with the fore part of them jointed at b2 to the connection orjunction b3 of the top terminal members d2 of loop-coiled springs d, whose lower terminal members cl3 are attachably connected to the fore part f of a trussed base framing or bracket f by a screw-pin d4.

The back end of the seat of the saddle is supported upon pillar-coiled springs c, which are at their lower ends connected to a cross end f2 of the said trussed base-framing by pins or pegs f7, upon which the said ends of the springs may be vertically adjustable, while their upper ends are connected in common with the looped ends b4 of the rods b to the back under side a2 of the saddle by screw pins and nuts as, depending from and aixedly connected to the said saddle-seat. The

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base-framingf is composed of a top-pierced member f3 and angularly-directed lower members f4, united at their eXtreme ends by foreand-aft parts or connections f5 f2. Thus it will be seen that the base-framing is trussed or constructed after the manner of a skeleton The middle part of the said base framing or bracket is fitted or provided with an L-pin boss fi, jointed by opposite or side pivots i2 to the lower members f4 of it and having a horizontal hole i3 directed through it for the taking of the horizontal arm of the saddle-iron or L-pin, which is afixed in position by the screwing home of the screw-pin 4. The' upper part of the said boss has a neck 5, through the middle of which a screw-pin 6 takes for the affixing or clamping of the said boss atan angle relative to the framing; hence the imparting of tip or tilt to the saddle. To accomplish the Said tipping or tilting the middle part f5 of the top member f 3 is curved or cambered to the radius of the pivots i2. Likewise is the crown t7 of the boss, to the under side of the said cambered part f5, which has a longitudinal slot or piercing f6, wherethrough the shank of the screwpin i passes. Between the head of the pin t6 and the top part of the cambered part f is a washer j.

The fore part of the framing is supported from a hanging bracket lo, with a screwed hole k2 through it, wherethrough the wormed part of a tensioned screw Z passes and with its plain end Z2 taking into a plain hole b of the junction-piece b3. By rotating the said screw Z the saddle-seats tension is adjusted.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. In a cycle-saddle, the combination, with the seat-framing and springs, of a base-framing composed of trussed parts f 3 f4, and with the latter f4 directed angularly to the former, substantially as described and set forth.

2. In the base-framing of a cycle-saddle, the combination, with a trussed bracket, of a pivotally-mounted L,pin boss e' 2 s e4 t5 i6, as set forth.

3. In a cycle-saddle, jointing the fore part or parts of the frame-rods b to a junctionpiece b3 or to the terminal upper members d2 of loop-coiled springs d, as set forth.

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4. In a. cycle-saddle, the combination, with frame-rodsb, connected at their rearrends to the under side after part of the seat of the saddle and at their fore ends to a junction- 5 piece b3 of the branches d2 of a spring or springs d, as set forth..

5. In a cycle-saddle, the combination, with jointed frame-rods Z7 b2 b3, of loop and pillar coiled springs d c, the former disposed for- 4 1o ward of the saddle-seat and the latter under theafter end, as set forth.

6. In a cycle-saddle, the combination, with 4 the seating framing-rods b, of a joint b2, j unction-piece b b3, tension-sorewl Z2, and bracket k k2, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I havehereunto set my hand this 26th day of March, 1892.

JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS.

Witnesses:

HENRY SKERRETT, ARTHUR T. SADLER,

Both of Birmingham.