Bicycle or ride on vehicle seats and saddles

摘要

A seat (10, 20, 30, 70, 80, 90, 110) of a manual or powered ride on vehicle, the seat including at least one resilient elastomeric web seat portion (4, 24, 34, 78, 94, 114) suspended in tension between first (5, 25, 79a,119) and second (6, 26, 78, 79b, 87,118) supports, the suspended web(s) supporting a rider when sat on by the rider with the elastomeric web(s) resiliently stretching with increasing reactive tension under rider weight to react rider weight and give elastomeric tension seat support to the rider.

主权项

1. A seat or saddle of a bicycle or ride on vehicle, the seat or saddle including at least one resilient elastomeric web seat portion having integrally formed respective front and rear web seat portion attachment means, the web seat portion being held in tension between respective front and rear seat frame attachment means of a seat frame by attachment of the integral front and rear seat portion attachment means to the respective front and rear frame attachment means, the tensioned at least one elastomeric web seat portion including a number of transversely spaced elastomer strands extending longitudinally between the integral front and rear seat portion attachment means, and transverse oriented stands transversely interconnecting the longitudinal strands at spaced intervals between the front and the rear seat portion attachment means, the tensioned at least one elastomeric web seat portion supporting a rider's effective weight on the seat or saddle, whereby the tensioned at least one elastomeric web seat portion resiliently stretches under said rider's effective weight with increasing reactive tension until the tension in the at least one elastomeric web seat portion balances the rider's effective weight and the rider is supported by the tensioned at least one elastomeric web seat portion within a concave space defined by the seat frame extending upwards to the front and the rear seat frame attachment means of the seat frame, the amount of deflection of the tensioned at least one web seat portion for a given rider's weight is predetermined by pre-selecting a Shore rating of the elastomer of the at least one web seat portion, the number of said web(s), the cross section of said web(s) and the dimensions of the seat frame.