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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1997
Donald A Kesinger, Morrison, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
A bicycle seat employs a suspension platform that provides yieldable flexible support of the weight of a bicyclist through contact primarily with the buttocks rather than the crotch of the bicyclist. The suspension platform is formed by a triangular-shaped flexible membrane attached to and extending over and between rigid rear cross and front nose support members mounted respectively to a front end and a pair of rear ends of a U-shaped frame member such that the membrane is held in a taut flat condition under tension so as to provide the flexible support of the bicyclist's buttocks. The membrane is constructed of an inelastic fabric material having a pair of opposite side wing sheets and a longitudinal central band all made of longitudinal strands extending parallel to one another and held together by cross strands interwoven with the longitudinal strands. The longitudinal strands of the side wing sheets extend generally parallel to opposite side edges of the triangular-shaped membrane and in a rear-to-front converging angular relationship to opposite side edges of the longitudinal central band so as to underlie the bicyclist's buttocks to support the weight of the bicyclist through contact of the side wing sheets with the buttocks rather than contact of the longitudinal central band with t e crotch of the bicyclist.