“The advantages of my back support or rest for a bicycle seat will be readily understood by users of the machine.
“Instead of folding the rest down upon the seat as shown, it might be arranged to be folded down behind the seat, if desired.
“I am aware that various forms of seats have been provided with hinged back-rests, and do not claim, broadly, a seat having a hinged back-rest.
“I claim as my invention—
“In combination with the frame and an ordinary seat of a bicycle, an arm secured at one end to the frame under the seat and extending upwardly at the back of the seat, and a back-rest located behind the seat and having hinge-connection with the arm above the top of the seat, whereby it is adapted to be folded down, substantially as set forth.
“Catherine A. Williamson.”
Miss Williamson is mistaken in her disclaimer. I do not think anybody ever put a back on a bicycle seat before.
It is also probable that a “dis” (before advantages) was omitted by the printer in the first line of above brief; but we must not be ungallant to the ladies, and criticise too harshly. Perhaps the invention will come in on the Rovers where the ladies may mount in front.
C. E. Duryea, of St. Louis. Bicycle. No. 364,231. Patented June 7, 1887.