US536013A - Bicycle-saddle - Google Patents

Description

* (1% Model.)

w. B. BUGKLEY.

BICYCLE $ADDLE.

No. 536,013. Patented Mar. 19; 1895.

WARREN BUCKLEY, OF GLENS FALLS, NEl/V YORK.

BICYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 536,013, dated March 19, 1 895. Application filed September 12 1894. Serial No. 522,782- (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WARREN B. BUoKLnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glens Falls, county of Warren, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Saddles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specifica .tron.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a top plan view of my improved saddle. Fig. 2 is a similar View with the leather seat detached, showing the spring-frame. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the part shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a ver tical section taken on the broken line 4-4, in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a similar section taken on the broken line 5-5, in Fig. 1.

My improved saddle is specially and designed for a ladys bicycle.

The frame shown in Figs. 2 and 3, is made of a single length of spring-wire of suitable diameter, preferably about three-sixteenths of an inch, the ends of the wire forming the attaching shanks A-, A-. These shanks adapted are bent at their ends so as to provide each shank with laterally projecting ofisets A. The shanks are to be secured to the bicycle frame in the usual well known manner by a clip, not shown, and the offsets effectually prevent theshanks from turning in either direction under the clip, when in use. By having two lateral and oppositely projecting offsets on each shank, the ordinary clip usually applied to a straight wire can be used.

The clip need not engage the offsets, but being in close proximity thereto, the offsets on each shank will act independently of each.

other to prevent the wire from turning either way under the clip, even though it should become quite loose.

The rear coils A formthe main springs of the saddle. The small coils A coiled in a reverse direction relatively to the rear coils form auxiliary springs and tend to keep the in Fig. 3.

seat in a horizontal position. That portion of the wire which connects the small coils passes rearwardly from the small coils approximately to the forward edges of the large coils, forming the side-supports A then on ap proximately straight lines to the longitudinal middle part of the frame, forming the rear support A then forward beyond the line of the small coils to form the loop, or middle support A. The normal position of all these supports is such that they occupy approximately the same horizontal plane, which plane is slightly above the horizontal plane of the upper edges of the larger coils, as shown Fitted upon these supports is the seat B' which is made of leather, canvas, or other flexible material.

The seat material is shaped to conform to the general outline of the side and back supports, andthe edges B' bear upon the side supports, and the rear edge B upon the rear'supports.

The'front edge B has its middle part projected forwardly at B to cover the middle support A-.

The edges of the seat material may be secured to the wire in any known manner, as by rivets G'-, or by a stiffening rim D- secured to the edge of the material and adapted to be forced over and back of or beneath the wire, as shown in Fig. 4.

The pommel-saddle commonly in use on bicycles, affords no outside support for the limbs of the rider, and in some instances has seriously and permanently injured lady riders.

My improved saddle aifords a support for opposite sides of each lower limb and prevents the unnatural and excessive outward and dis jointing strain upon the limbs of the rider occasioned bythe pommel form of saddle.

The leather or seat material of my improved I saddle, being flexible, yields sufficiently to form a slight depression support and the middle support, thereby giv= ing more prominence to the side supports.

The forward portion of themiddle support is shown curved slightly downward at A When the flexible seat is secured at its edges only upon the wire supports, the forward portion of the middle part is free to slide transversely of and upon the middle support between each side ICO at the forward end of the latter, so that depressions in the seat between the middle support and the side supports will vary when in use, the depression of either limb of the rider causing an increased depression in the seat on the side of the depressed limb, and a corresponding elevation in the seat on the opposite side, on which side the limb of the rider is elevated, whereby the seat is made to adjust itself in large degree to the position of the riders limbs.

"When desired, the loop A-- which forms the middle support may be dispensed with, the forward edge of the seat being stilfened or reinforced by a cross-bar 13 extending from one side support to the other, as shown in Fig. 5 and indicated by dotted lines 13 in Fig. 1.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A bicycle-saddle frame composed of an integral spring-wire, and comprising a pair of attaching-shanks, a pair of relatively large spring-coils, one coil on the rear end of each shank and in vertical plane therewith, a pair 25 of relatively small spring-coils connected with the large coils respectively by forwardly diverging portions of the wire, a seat-support projecting rearwardly from and connecting the small coils, and a middle-support project- 30 ing from the rear part of the seat-support forwardly to a position in line with, and midway between, the small coils, substantially as described.

2. In a bicycle-saddle, the combination with 3 5 a springavire frame having a middle and separate side supports of a flexible seat secured to the respective side supports and movable transversely of and on the middle support, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of September, 180-1.

WARREN B. BUOKLEY.

\Vitnesses:

CHAS. W. DEAN, GEORGE I-I. ROGERS.

Images