Disclosed is an improved saddle comprising a saddle tree which is padded and upholstered on its top. The saddle tree is attached to a padded and flexible saddle skirt by connecting flaps which are affixed to the top of the skirt and which overlie marginal portions of the upholstered tree. Screws or other fasteners are employed to connect the flaps to the upholstered tree. Preferably four flaps are provided, one at each corner of the tree. Cinch rings are mounted on the forward pair of flaps. A s...

A horsesaddle is described providing close contact between horse and rider. The saddle comprises a saddle tree having two narrow side bars of about oval cross-section having a major axis of from about 4.2 cm to 5.8 cm length and a minor axis of from about 0.5 cm to 0.8 cm length. Padding is provided corresponding to the area of the two side bars and the padding is located below the tree. The skirt of the saddle is cut out around the position of the rider's legs and the cut out areas are inserted...

A saddle for pedal-powered devices, especially bicycles, with two spaced apart seat halves (1), each of which supports one half of the buttocks, and with a cup joint arrangement on its bottom. The cup joint arrangement (5) has an essentially hollow spherical socket (6) and a cup element (7) which can be moved in it. A support rod (11) has two supports (10), each of which is attached to a respective cup element (7), for connecting the saddle to a saddle support (13) by the support rod (11). The c...

A saddle defined by padding presenting an upper layer and a lower layer, webbing straps embedded between the layers of padding, and front and rear tree sections connected to the padding and independently movable with respect to each other and responsive to the movement of a horse. The arrangement is such as to provide a seating area between the front and rear tree sections and to, thereby, distribute pressure onto a large area on the horse's back, eliminating the necessity of bulky riggings and ...

A saddle comprises upper and lower saddle coverings formed from composite sheet material consisting of outer fabric layers bonded to an intermediate layer of flexible foam. Preferably, the outer fabric layer consists of synthetic such as nylon and the foam is a closed cell foam.

A saddle such as a bicycle saddle, having a carrier part and spring elements such as helical springs located between the carrier part and the saddle bridge near the rear end of the saddle, wherein each spring element is provided at one end with a thread like form having at least one thread convolution, which is fastened by means of a securing member having a corresponding thread to the carrier part and/or to the saddle bridge.

A European style horse riding saddle includes a tree with a downwardly depending point on each side adjacent the front thereof wherein there is provided on an outer accessible surface on each side of the saddle a pocket extending behind the respective point of the tree with an opening for receipt of an insert.

A stainless steel rod frame for a saddle is bent in a general U-shape with an upstanding fork bight. D-ring plates on the rod provide attachment for each D-ring. The saddle built over the frame has an opening through the top of the tree bars to the rod for the stirrup leather so the stirrup leather is free swinging and nonbinding.

A saddle for a bicycle and the like elastically mounted on the bicycle so as to provide a suitable cushioning effect thereon. This saddle has at the back side thereof a twisted wire consisting of a plural number of wires wound around each other, each wire being preferably as resilient as possible, said twisted wire fixing said saddle to the seatpost of the vehicle so as to provide a suitable cushioning effect and comfortable sitting thereon.

A saddle support of a metal tubular body is mounted to the bottom side of a bicycle saddle and has a front section, a substantially horizontal intermediate section, and a rear section. The front section has a substantially horizontal V-shaped portion connected to a front section of the bottom side of the bicycle saddle, and a diverging portion having two downwardly inclined arms which extend rearwardly and respectively from two ends of the horizontal V-shaped portion. The intermediate section ha...