Improvements in and connected with Adjustable Foot Rests for Vehicles and Rowing Boats.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 1st Aug., 1893-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Adjustable Foot Rests for
Vehicles and Rowing Boats.
We, GEORGE WEARING, and WILLIAM HENRY WEARING, both of Carter's
Green Foundry, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, Ironfounders, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in and connected
with adjustable inclined foot rests for use in traps, dog carts, and other vehicles to
support the driver's feet and for use in rowing boats to support the rower's feet.
In the Specification of a prior Patent No. 18703 of A.D. 1889 granted to one of
us namely to the said William Henry Wearing, adjustable inclined foot rests for
drivers and rowers are described provided with downwardly projecting shanks
which are made adjustable along two metal slides which are fixed parallel with each
other on the bottom of the vehicle or boat and with which the said shanks engage
in such a manner as to removably secure the foot rest in any required position and
permit of the foot rest being turned forward so as to lie flat or almost flat upon the
bottom of the vehicle or boat when the foot rest is not in use. Heretofore as the
said slides have been fixed to the bottom of the vehicle or boat then when an india-
rubber or other mat has been used for the driver or rower, such mat has had to
have slots or holes cut in it to fit around the said slides.
Now according to this invention instead of making the said slides separate from
each other to fix upon the bottom of the trap or other vehicle or boat as
heretofore, we connect or form the said slides, together by means of cross bars or
otherwise so that the said slides then form the two sides of a metal frame which
will lie upon the mat and in order to keep this frame in position against the
pressure of the driver's or rower's feet, the said slides or sides of the frame are, or
the front of the frame is, prolonged beyond the edge of the mat under the driver's
or rower's seat where they engage with corresponding sockets, brackets, eyes, snugs,
or other contrivances fixed to the bottom of the vehicle or boat. The said
connection of the sides or front projecting part of the frame to the said sockets,
brackets, eyes, snugs or other contrivances is such that the frame and the foot rest
thereon can readily be lifted and turned about the said connection as a hinge so as
to enable the mat to be removed or replaced. The said connection also permits of
the frame and foot rest being readily disconnected and removed from the vehicle or
boat when required or of being replaced and connected thereto.
The said connection of the said frame to the sockets may consist of two hooked
like projections on the front of the frame which engage in holes in the top of and
under the top of the sockets, so as to resist the pressure of the driver's or rower's
feet and so that when the frame is raised and turned about the sockets as on a hinge
the frame will be disconnected therefrom; and similarly by holding the frame in
a vertical or inclined position and inserting the hooked parts of the frame in the
holes in the socket and then lowering the frame on to the mat, the hooked parts
will be properly engaged with the sockets.
The said inclined foot rest may either be made with a frame having the projecting
shanks as in the prior Patent No. 18703 of A.D. 1889 above referred to, or the foot
rest and its shanks may be made in other ways to engage with the said frame, as
for instance the two shanks may be made separate from each other and each formed
with an upwardly projecting part to which is fixed a foot rest of wood or india
rubber or other substance as may be required.
Dated this 31st day of Octobe 1800
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Adjustable Foot Rests for
Vehicles and Rowing Boats.
We, GEORGE WEARING, and WILLIAM HENRY WEARING, both of Carter's
Green Foundry, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, Ironfounders, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in and connected
with adjustable inclined foot rests for use in traps dog carts and other vehicles to
support the driver's feet and for use in rowing boats to support the rower's feet.
In the Specification of a prior Patent No. 18703 of A.D. 1889 granted to one
of us namely to the said William Henry Wearing adjustable inclined foot rests for
drivers and rowers are described provided with downwardly projecting shanks
which are made adjustable along two metal slides which are fixed, parallel with
each other on the bottom of the vehicle or boat and with which the said shanks
engage in such a manner as to removably secure the foot rest in any required
position and permit of the foot rest being turned forward so as to lie flat or almost
flat upon the bottom of the vehicle or boat when the foot rest is not in use.
Heretofore as the said slides have been fixed to the bottom of the vehicle or boat
then when an india rubber or other mat has been used for the driver or rower such
mat has had to have slots or holes cut in it to fit around the said slides.
Now according to this invention instead of making the said slides separate from
each other to fix upon the bottom of the trap or other vehicle or boat as heretofore
we connect or form the said slides together by means of cross bars or otherwise so
that the said slides then form the two sides of a metal frame which will lie upon
the mat and in order to keep this frame in position against the pressure of the
driver's or rower's feet, the said slides or sides of the frame are or the front of the
frame is prolonged beyond the edge of the mat under the driver's or rower's seat
where they engage with corresponding sockets, brackets, eyes, snugs or other
contrivances fixed to the bottom of the vehicle or boat. The said connection of
the sides or front projecting part of the frame to the said sockets, brackets, eyes,
snugs or other contrivances is such that the frame and the foot rest thereon can
readily be lifted and turned about the said connection as a hinge so as to enable
the mat to be removed or replaced. The said connection also permits of the frame
and foot rest being readily disconnected and removed from the vehicle or boat when
required or of being replaced and connected thereto.
On the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a general view of a foot rest with its slides or frame constructed
according to this invention;
Fig. 2 is a cross section of the foot rest part separately;
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 4 is a plan of the ends of the slides or
sides of the frame and the sockets to which they are removably fixed; one of these
sockets is shewn separately on an enlarged scale in plan by Fig. 5;
Fig. 6 shews how the ends of the slides or sides of the frame are removed from
or replaced in the sockets by lifting the frame into an inclined position as
hereinafter described;
Fig. 7 is a section of part of a trap body shewing the foot rest and frame in
position ready for use.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures of the drawing.
A is the inclined foot rest and a¹ a² are its two shanks the lower ends as of which
engage with the metal slides C₁ Calong which the inclined foot rest A can be
moved and fixed in any desired position or turned down flat thereon as described in
the Specification of William Henry Wearing's Patent No. 18703 of A.D. 1889

page_text: above referred to.
The slides C'C' are rigidly fixed together by the metal cross
piece D which at d' d' d d is rivetted to the slides C'C'; or the slides C₁ C' may
be otherwise rigidly secured or formed together. As will be seen by Fig. 7 this
frame DC Crests upon the mat E or upon the bottom of the trap or other vehicle
or rowing boat and the slides or sides C¹ C³ are prolonged at the front beyond the.
edge of the mat E under the driver's or rower's seat where they engage with the
corresponding sockets F' F' fixed to the bottom of the vehicle or boat in order to
keep the frame D C' C' in position against the pressure of the driver's or rower's
feet. One of the sockets F' is shewn on an enlarged scale in sectional elevation
by Figs. 3 and 6 and in plan by Figs. 4 and 5 and it will be seen that it is hollow
underneath and that it has an inclined hole f' in the top through which the
extreme ends of the sides C'C' can be inserted these ends c¹ being made of a
hooked shape as shewn so as to engage in and under the top of the sockets F1 F2 as
shewn and thus keep the frame in position. To remove the frame D C' C³ from
the vehicle or boat the frame has to be raised and turned about the sockets F' F'
as on a hinge when the ends c' of the frame,can be lifted out of the sockets F¹ F*
as shewn in Fig. 6. Similarly by holding the frame D C₁ C' in a vertical or
inclined position and inserting the hooked parts c c of the frame in the holes f¹
in the sockets F1 F' and then lowering the frame on to the mat E the hooked
parts c c will be properly engaged with the sockets F1 F2.
The said inclined foot rest may either be made with a frame having the projecting
shanks as in the prior Patent No. 18703 of A.D. 1889 above referred to or the
foot rest and its shanks may be made in other ways to engage with the said frame
as for instance the two shanks may be made separate from each other and each
formed with an upwardly projecting part to which is fixed a foot rest of iron, brass,
nickel silver, wood, india rubber or other substance as may be required.
In conclusion we wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves to the
precise details hereinbefore described and shewn upon our drawings as it will be
evident that the same may be varied without departing from the nature of our
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
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1. In combination with an adjustable inclined foot rest of the kind herein referred
to for vehicles and rowing boats, such foot rest being constructed for adjustment
along slides, making the said slides as a metal frame to lie upon the mat or upon
the bottom of the vehicle or rowing boat the front ends of the said frame being
removably connected to sockets brackets eyes snugs or the like contrivances under
the driver's or rower's seat to prevent the forward movement of the frame and to
enable the said frame to be removed and replaced when required all substantially
as herein before set forth.
2. In combination with an adjustable inclined foot rest of the kind herein referred
to for vehicles and rowing boats such foot rest being constructed for adjustment
along slides, the use of the metal slide frame D C C' and the sockets F¹ F' to
which the said frame is connected all substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 31st day of July 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.