US460279A - Charles e - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. E. MoGLINOHEY.

VELOGIPEDE SADDLE.

Patented Sept. 29, 1891.

3% W WM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. MCGLINCHEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNCR TO CHARLES F. STOKES, OF SAME PLACE.

VELOClPEDE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,279, dated September 29, 1891.

Serial No. 397,085. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. MCGLIN- CHEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new'and useful lmprovementin Velocipede-Saddles, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a saddle of improved construction for use upon velocipedes, and more especially upon Safety bicyles, which shall be particularly light, strong, durable, and comfortable for the rider, capable of adjustment to riders of different weights, and also to regulate the tension of the seat or cover.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved saddle; Fig. 2, a top plan view of the same with the seat removed and with the cantle shown partly in section, and Fig. 3 a view in elevation of a detail.

A is a socket-bearing, havingalower opening 25, which fits in the usual way over the saddle-support of the bicycle, and to which it is secured by means of the set-screw f. The socket-bearing is also provided with an upper rectangular slot .9 and set-screw s.

B is a flat substantially U-shaped spring, the arms r and q of which may be of about equal length. The lower arm 0" of the spring fits snugly but loosely through the socket s of the socket-bearing, and is secured in place by the set-screw s. The upper arm q of the spring is deflected near its free end to produce an offset g, which afiords a bearing for a longitudinallyadjustable brace C. The brace C is curved, as shown, and may be of stiff metal. In the offset (1 of the spring is an elongated slot g and the brace C is adjustably secured thereto by a nut-bolt p, which passes through the said slot and through a bolt-hole in the adjacent end portion of the brace. The forks of the brace C shown fit at their ends into socket-pieces 0 on the cantle D. The socket-pieces 0 are open at their inner or adjacent sides, and closed, as shown, by walls at their outer sides. The forks of the brace C fit snugly into the sockets of the socketpieces 0 against the side walls of the latter, and the said side walls by their contact with the forks prevent the cantle from sliding in either direction or rattling on its bearings. Secured by bolts n upon the spring B forward of the shoulder g is a curved seattensioning spring E, to the free end of which the seat F is secured at its forward end.

Owing to the way the spring E is secured in place upon the spring 13, as described, it may be quicklyand easily removed, when desired, and replaced by another of greater or less resistance.

Constructed as described, the saddle affords a "particularly desirable and comfortable seat for the rider. It is comparatively light in weight, and, moreover, has the appearance of lightness, which commends it to bicycle-riders. The spring B may be lengthened or shortened, as desired,'to accommodate itself to the weight of the rider by adjusting it in the socket-bearing A, and the tension of the seat F may be regulated by loosening the bolt 19 in the slot g and sliding the brace C on the spring to lengthen or shorten it, as desired.

VVhileI prefer to have the end portion of the spring B deflected, as described, to produce the ofiset for the brace C to rest upon, this is not a necessary construction, and may be dispensed with, and the slotq may obviously be in the brace C instead of the spring and effect the same result.

hat 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a velociped e-saddle, the combination, with the saddle-bearing A and seat, of a cantle D, provided with socket-pieces 0, a substantially U-shaped spring B, adj ustably secured near one end to the bearing A, abifurcated brace C, fitting at its bifurcated end into the sockets of the socket-pieces 0 and extending toward its opposite end forward and downward and there adjustably secured to the free end of the spring B, and a spring E, secured at one end to the front end of the seat and at its opposite end portion to the spring B in advance of the brace C, substantially as described.

2. In a velocipede-saddle, the combination, with the saddle-bearing A and seat, of a substantially U-shaped spring B, adj ustably secured near one end to the bearing A,acantle D, a brace C, fitting at one end against the spring B in advance of the brace C, substancantle and extending toward its opposite end tially as described.

forward and downward and there adj ustably 1 v T secured to the free end of the spring B, and CHARLES MCGLLN-GHEX' 5 a spring E, attached at one end to the front In presence of end of the seat and at its opposite end por- J. WV. DYRENFORTH,

tion removably secured by bolts 11 upon the M. J. FROST.

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