US613295A

US613295A - Bicycle-saddle

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Publication number: US613295A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-11-01
Anticipated expiration: 1915-11-01

Description

Patented Nov. I, I898.

No. s|3,295.

B. MGGREGUR.

BICYCLE SADDLE.

(Application filed Aug. 23, 1897.)

(No Model.)

57 mtg i4 3 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BRADFORD MOGREGOR, OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

BICYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 613,295, dated. November 1, 1899. Application filed August 23, 1897. Serlal No. 649,123- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BRADFORD MOGREGOR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Covington, Kenton county, State of Kentucky, have invented a certain new and useful Bicycle-Saddle; and I do declare the following to be a clear, full, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, attention being called to the accompanying drawings, with the reference-numerals marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bicycle-saddles, and particularly to the construction and shape of the seat and the manner of its support. The seat is improved to conform to hygienic and anatomical requirements as well as to comfort, and the support is of a kind to furnish a yielding adjustment at all points in any direction, thus preventing more effectually the transmission of jars and jolts to the rider.

In the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claim is found a full description of the invention, its manner of use, parts, and construction, which latter is also illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows in elevation a part of a bicycle with my improved saddle in position. Fig. 2 is a top viewof the seat enlarged. Fig. 3 is a top View of the springs supporting the same. Fig. 4 is anenlarged side View of the saddle. Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-section of the same. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section showing shape of the seat.

8 is the seat, which I construct of sheet metal finished so as to obtain a smooth and polished as welLas rigid and unyielding surface. Aluminium or plated metal is suggested, with preference for the former. For ventilation a central slot 9 with perforations 10 to either side are provided. The top surface of the seat inside of the outer downwardly-turned edge is slightly depressed toward the center, with portions 11 11 to either side of the central line or slot 9, concaved still deeper to receive the large posterior hip muscles, (glutwus maximus.) The front edge of the seat is practically straight without the usual horn-shaped projection, having in place an indentation 12, thereby avoiding soreness and irritation.

The seat is supported on springs only, there being at no point a rigid connection, as is the case now in most saddles. These spring-supports are distributed around below the outer edge of the seat and across below the straight front of the latter, and consist, preferably, of a nest of spiral springs 13, with their upper ends connected to the under side of the seat. This connection may be in any suitable manneras, for instance, by solder or riveting. The lower ends of these springs rest on brackets 14, one for each spring, and projecting from a supporting-center in form of a hub 15, which is horizontally perforated to receive the usual seat-support 16 of the saddle-post of the bicycle-frame. A set-screw 17 serves to hold it in place. In practice these brackets are formed by extending the Wires 18 at the lower end of each of the springs inwardly and connecting them by solder, riveting, or screw-thread to the supporting-center, near one end thereof. An additional wire 19, connected to the center in a similar manner, is then twisted about wire 18 near its outer end, below the spring, thus forming a rigid and substantial triangular trussbracket which prevents transmission of any strain caused by the movement of the springs to the point of connection at hub 15.

As will be seen, this saddle is very convenient and comfortable, and the seat being shaped to conform to the parts with which it comes in contact prevents irritation and soreness. While the seat itself is rigid and unyielding, its manner of support permits it to yield at any point and in any direction, vertically as well as laterally. The material selected prevents the absorption of moisture and perspiration.

Having described my invention, I claim as new- In a bicycle-saddle, the combination of a metal seat, spiral springs secured to the under side and around the outer edge thereof, supporting-brackets one for each of these springs and a supporting-center 15 to which these brackets are connected, each of these latter being formed by extending at the lower end of each spring, the wire 18 of which they In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my are composed inwardly, and by an additional signature in presence of two witnesses. wire 19 connected to each of wires 18 below the corresponding spring above and also ex- 5 tended inwardly, the ends of both of these Witnesses:

wires being rigidly connected to the support- 0. SPENGEL, ing-center, one below the other. ARTHUR KLINE.

BRADFORD MCGREGOR.