Improvements in or relating to Pedals for Cycles and similar Vehicles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1899-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Pedals for Cycles and similar Vehicles.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18, Buck-
ingham Street, Strand, W.C., Consulting Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Frederick Stewart, of
30, Broad Street, in the City of New York, United States of America, Lawyer,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement: --
This invention has relation to improvements in that class of cushions for
bicycle pedals in which the edges of the rat-trap blade are covered with a rubber
cover, and the object of the invention is to provide separate cushions for each
edge that may be readily applied and secured together, and that will permit of
their being removed and replaced by a new one when it shall have become worn
without discarding the other, if they shall be unevenly worn.
To the aforesaid object the invention consists in the peculiar and novel con-
struction arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and then
specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying
drawings forming a part of this specification, in which accompanying drawings
similar reference numerals indicate like parts in the different figures.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the cushions.
Figure 2 a similar view of the opposite cushion and
Figure 3 a side elevation of a rat-trap blade with a pair of cushions connected
therewith fastened at one end and ready to be secured at the other.
Referring to these figures, 1, 2 are cushions of vulcanized rubber each
roughened on the bearing faces and having a longitudinal channel opening in
the opposite direction and enlarged in the thicker part of the cushion, being
somewhat pear-shaped in cross-section. Accurately fitted in this channel is a
malleable metal blade 3, the plate in the cushion 7 having in its edge narrow
ongitudinal slots 4, 4, and the plate in the cushion 2 having projecting points 5, 5,
adapted to enter the slots 4. In operation the cushions 1, 2, are placed on oppo-
ite edges of the blade 6, the points 5, 5, passing through the slots 4, 4, and bent
ackward, thus clamping the cushions in place.
By this arrangement either cushion may be removed from the blade 6 without
isturbing the other, and in the event of their wearing loose they may be
ghtened by bending the points 5, 5, upward drawing them tighter in the
lots 4, 4, and again bending them down. By making the plates 3 pear-shaped
sectional outline there is obtained greater security in retaining the rubber
shions upon them even if the same size were retained in front and rear of the
roove. Although as illustrated the ends of the rubber are flush with the inner
ates, it may be found advantageous to extend the rubber beyond the inner
ates without departing from the invention,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. An improved bicycle cushion consisting of a piece of vulcanized rubber
substantially a rectangle in section, of suitable length to fit the pedal blade, cut
lengthwise on one side with and opening substantially pear-shaped in section,
substantially as shown and described.
2. An improved bicycle pedal cushion consisting of a piece of vulcanized rubber
substantially a rectangle in section, of suitable length to fit the pedal blade, cut
lengthwise on one side with an opening substantially pear-shaped in section, in
combination with a sheet of metal, curved to conform to said opening and pro-
vided with means, such substantially as shown for uniting it with the oppositely
disposed sheet, substantially as shown and described.
3. An improved bicycle pedal cushion consisting of two pieces of vulcanized
rubber, each substantially a rectangle in section, of suitable length to fit the edges
of the pedal blade, each cut lengthwise on one side with an opening substantially
pear-shaped in section, in combination with malleable metallic plates curved to
conform to said opening, one whereof has a projecting slotted edge and the
other having projecting points adapted to be locked in the slots in the opposite
plate, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 25th day of July 1899.