Joints and connections – Rod side to plate or side – Laterally spaced rods
Patent
1983-02-28
1985-03-05
Kundrat, Andrew V.
Joints and connections
Rod side to plate or side
Laterally spaced rods
297195, B25G 336
Patent
active
045028117
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to devices known in the cycle industry under the name of "saddle pillars" and intended to form supports for the lower frame of saddles of bicycles, mopeds and like vehicles, with a view to allowing adjustment in angular orientation and in axial position with respect to the upper part of the frame.
It is known that it has recently been proposed to replace the conventional systems incorporating flanges and annular jaws by more elaborate devices, having improved aesthetic appearance and further allowing much simpler use. However, these devices, which most often employ members adapted to move angularly over a part of concave or convex cross section supported by the top of the saddle pillar, are of complex and therefore expensive construction and generally comprise a relatively high number of constituent parts which complicates assembly operations.
The more particular purpose of the improvements forming the subject matter of the present invention is to overcome the above drawbacks and to allow an orientable support or saddle pillar to be produced which is capable of responding particularly well to the various requirements of the art.
The invention consists essentially of providing the upper part of the saddle pillar with a curved section in the form of a shoe with upwardly turned convexity of mounting on this shoe a carriage element provided with impressions which, in cooperation with corresponding impressions provided on an upper head, form jaws for gripping the base of the frame of the saddle, and of ensuring retention of said carriage element and the bringing together of the said jaws with the aid of a single screw which passes through the shoe through an elongated slot and which screws in a topped hole in the afore-mentioned head.
The accompanying drawing, given by way of example, will enable the invention, the characteristics that it presents, the advantages that it is capable of procuring, to be more readily understood.
FIG. 1 is an exploded view in perspective showing, prior to their assembly, the different members constituting a saddle support according to the invention.
FIG. 2 reproduces FIG. 1 after assembly of the members and positioning of the lower part of the frame of a conventional saddle.
FIG. 3 is a schematic vertical section along the plane indicated at III--III in FIG. 2.
In this drawing, reference 1 denotes the upper part of the pillar adapted to be connected to the frame of the cycle in order to ensure adjustable fixation of the saddle. In known manner, the top of the tube 1 presents a shoe 10 of curved section in the form of a butt with upwardly turned convexity. It should be observed that the central part of the shoe or butt 10 has a slot 11 cut therein, which extends longitudinally along the axis of said shoe.
The support according to the invention further comprises a carriage element 2 having a wide central opening 20 made therein. The longitudinal edges of this carriage 2 extend downwardly in order to determine lateral guides or flanges 21 which ensure centring of the whole of the carriage element on the shoe or butt 10. Opposite these flanges 21, the carriage element 2 has longitudinal depressions 22, aligned in two's, hollowed therein.
With the carriage element 2 is associated a head profiled so as to engage by its base 30 in the opening 20 in said carriage element. The head 3 presents two clamping portions having depressions 31 which open downwardly to cooperate with the depressions 22 afore-mentioned; moreover, it is provided with a vertical tapped hole 32 in order to receive an assembly screw 4, adapted to be engaged from the bottom to pass through the slot 11.
The whole of the arrangement of the support or "saddle pillar" according to the invention will be seen on examining FIG. 1. In FIG. 2, it has been assumed that the assembly screw 4 has been positioned and that the two parallel rods 5 which constitute the base of a saddle of conventional type have been engaged between the jaws formed by the opposite depressions 22 and 31.
It will be appreciated
REFERENCES:
patent: 4142813 (1979-03-01), Laborde
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