US823916A - Cycle-saddle. - Google Patents

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No. 823,916. PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906. J. B. BROOKS & J. HOLT.

CYCLE SADDLE.

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CYCLE SADDLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6. 1905.

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JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, OF BIRMINGHAM, AND JOHN HOLT, OF ASTON,

ENGLAND.

CYCLE-SADDLE.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Application filed November 6, 1905- Serial No. 286,163.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN BOULTBEE BRooKs, residing at Criterion Works, Great Charles street, Birmingham, and JOHN HOLT, residing at 97 Frederick road, Aston, near Birmingham, England, subjects of the King of Great Britain, have invented. certain new while at the same time the proper shape ofthe seat is preserved, lateral stretching or spreading is prevented, and an effective support for the load is provided.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an under side plan of a cycle-saddle constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the said saddle, taken upon the dotted line 00, Fig. 1, and looking toward the cantle end. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section upon the dotted line 00 Fig. 1, while Fig. 4 is a section of the after part, taken diagonally upon the dotted line 00 Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an under side plan, partly in horizontal section, of a saddle provided with a system of tension seat-supports, showing a modification. Fig. '6 is an end View, partly in vertical section, of a portion of the construction as illustrated by Fig. 5.

The same reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in the said figures.

In the particular arrangement represented in the said figures the seat 10 is carried between a cantle or back plate 11 and a peakplate 12, supported by an underframing 13 in the usual way; but the leather is left in a moderately-tensioned state, so that its natural softness and pliability are preserved. The cantle-plate has attached to its middle part a bracket-like stretcher member 14 of the seat-sustaining system, which consists of an arm or tongue fashioned from spring-wire and is arranged to extend forwardly in an ap proximately horizontal plane underneath the 'saddle to such a distance thatits free end will come at about the center of the body part of the seat, while upon each side of the said stretcher member is disposed a strap, band,

or like supporting medium 15, preferably'of leather, and directed from the cantle-plate obliquely inward toward the inner or yield, ing ends 16 of the stretcher, to which they are collectively connected or coupled by forming the said ends into loops or eyes to which the inner extremities of the straps are riveted or otherwise attached, while their outer ends are riveted in between the extremities of the cantle-plate and the leather. With such an arrangement when the saddle is loaded the flexible stretcher member (or combined stretcher and coupling member) and the oblique supporting media of the triangulated system are depressed and the said stretcher is transformed into an active spring which operates in unison with ties or connected series of supportingstraps for flexibly sustaining or upholding the body part of theseat, while still preserving the shape of the same and conserving the natural softness of the leather.

The flexible stretcher member may be made in the form of a steel tongue, and instead of anchoring its outer end immovably to the cantle-plate it may be adjustably attached thereto by screw connections, which admit of its movement in the longer direction of the saddle for the purpose of tensioning or Patented June 19, 1906. i

stretching the diagonal supporting-straps or the like. (See Figs. 5 and 6.)

18 is the stretcher member, whose free inner end supports and links together the inner extremities of the pair of diagonally or obliquely-disposed seat-supporting straps 19, while the outer ends of the branches or sides of the said stretcher are made to take or socket into plain holes 20 in a pair of adjustingscrews 21, which are engaged with the wormed holes 22 of a pair of brackets 23, secured to the cantle-plate, the arrangement being such that when the screws are wormed inwardly through the brackets they force the stretcher member (around the plain extremities of' which they freely swivel) inward with them,

and thus tension or tighten up the connected.

ing the latter, and yielding means connected to the inner end of the said devices and to the rear portion of the seat.

2. In a cycle-saddle, the combination of a seat, diagonally-directed flexible seat-supporting devices arranged under the rear portion 0 the said seat, and yielding bracket means connected to the inner ends of the said devices and to the seatcantle, the outer ends of the devices being also attached to the cantle.

3. In a cycle-saddle, the combination of a seat, means for upholding the seat-leather from the under side and consisting of diag-

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