Bicycle saddle cushion construction method

• US 3,374,517 A
• Filed: 12/27/1965
• Issued: 03/26/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Worley, George W.
• Original Assignee: Worley, George W.
• Inventors: Worley, George W.
• Application Number:
  US04/516,333
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• US Class Current: 29/91.1
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 1/18 Covers for saddles or other seats; Paddings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/481 Method
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49844 Through resilient media

Claims

1. A METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A BICYCLE SADDLE CUSHION COMPONENT UTILIZING A BASE MEMBER INCLUDING A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR HORIZONTAL MAIN PORTION AND A SUBSTANTIALLY THIN FLANGED PORTION DEPENDING FROM AND CIRCUMFERENTIALLY EXTENDING ABOUT SAID MAIN PORTION AND WITH SAID FLANGED PORTION HAVING A CIRCUMFERENTIALLY EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY DIRECTED DISTAL EDGE PORTION;

A PAD MEMBER OF RESILIENT MATERIAL HAVING OPPOSITELY FACING GENERALLY PLANAR UPPER AND LOWER SURFACES AND A CIRCUMFERENTIALLY EXTENDING EDGE SURFACE;

AND A COVER MEMBER INCLUDING A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR HORIZONTAL MAIN PORTION, A SKIRT PORTION DEPENDING FROM AND EXTENDING CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ABOUT SAID MAIN PORTION AND INCLUDING A CIRCUMFERENTIALLY EXTENDING DISTAL PORTION AND A RETAINER BAND CONFRONTINGLY ARRANGED RELATIVE TO AND EXTENDING CIRCUMFERENTIALLY CONTIGUOUS THE INWARD SIDE SURFACE OF SAID SKIRT PORTION AND WITH THE LOWER EDGE OF SAID SKIRT PORTION AND THE LOWER EDGE PORTION OF SAID RETAINING BAND BEING SECURELY CONJOINED IN A CIRCUMFERENTIALLY EXTENDING SEAM AND WITH THE UPPER EDGE PORTION OF SAID BAND BEING UNATTACHED AND SUBSTANTIALLY FREELY DISPLACEABLE AWAY FROM SAID SKIRT PORTION OF SAID COVER MEMBER;

THE METHOD COMPRISING;

(A) POSITIONING IN STACKED ORDER SAID BASE, PAD AND COVER MEMBERS WITH THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID PAD MEMBER ENGAGING THE MAIN PORTION OF SAID COVER MEMBER AND WITH THE LOWER SURFACE OF SAID PAD MEMBER ENGAGING THE MAIN PORTION OF SID BASE MEMBER WITH SAID SKIRT PORTION SUBSTANTIALLY CLOSELY SURROUNDING SAID PAD MEMBER EDGE SURFACE AND WITH SAID SKIRT PORTION AND SAID RETAINING BAND OF SAID COVER MEMBER SUBSTANTIALLY CLOSELY SURROUNDING RESPECTIVELY SAID PAD EMMBER EDGE SURFACE AND SAID BASE MEMBER FLANGED PORTION;

(B) EXERTING A COMPRESSIVE FORCE ON AND MOVING RELATIVELY TOGETHER SAID BASE MEMBER MAIN PORTION AND SAID COVER MEMBER MAIN PORTION THEREBY COMPRESSING SAID PAD MEMBER AND CAUSING SAID COVER MEMBER SKIRT PORTION AND CONJOINED RETAINING BAND TO MOVE DOWNWARDLY ALONG THE OUTWARD SIDE OF SAID BASE MEMBER FLANGED PORTION;

(C) CONTINUING THE MOVEMENT RESPECTIVELY OF SAID BASE AND COVER MEMBER MAIN PORTIONS UNTIL THE UPPER EDGE PORTION OF SAID RETAINING BAND IS SUBSTANTIALLY CONTIGUOUS THE LOWER EDGE PORTION OF SAID BASE FLANGED PORTION;

(D) HOLDING SAID PAD MEMBER COMPRESSED AND WITH THE RELATIVE ARRANGEMENT OF PARTS ARRANGED AS RECITED IN THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING STEP, AND WHILE HOLDING THUSLY (E) WORKING THE UPPER EDGE PORTION OF SAID BAND INWARDLY ALONG THE CIRCUMFERENTIAL EXTENSION OF SAID BAND AND INWARDLY UNDERNEATH AND PAST THE DISTAL EDGE PORTION OF SAID BASE MEMBER FLANGED PORTION AND THEREBY DISPOSING THE BASE MEMBER FLANGED PORTION SUBSTANTIALLY BETWEEN THE UPPER EDGE PORTION OF SAID BAND AND THE DEPENDING SKIRT PORTION OF SAID COVER MEMBER, AND THEN (F) RELEASING THE COMPRESSIVE FORCE ON SAID BASE MEMBER AND COVER MEMBER MAIN PORTIONS AND ON SAID PAD MEMBER, THEREBY ALLOWING THE RESILIENCY OF SAID PAD MEMBER TO MOVE SAID BASE AND COVER MEMBER MAIN PORTIONS APART AND CAUSE THE DISTAL EDGE PORTION OF SAID BASE MEMBER FLANGED PORTION TO SUBSTANTIALLY SEAT AGAINST THE CIRCUMFERENTIALLY EXTENDING CONJOINED SEAM PORTIONS OF SAID RETAINING BAND AND SAID SKIRT PORTION OF SAID COVER MEMBER.