Improvements in and connected with Skates.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Skates.
JOHN HENDERSON WILSON Ironmonger, West End, 9, 11, 13 High Street
Kirkcaldy Fifeshire Scotland do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows
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This invention consists of two or more small sized wheels fitted with any kind of
pneumatic tyre. But preferably a ridged or corrugated pneumatic tyre, fitted
round the face of wheels, and wired on, in any convenient manner, by screws or
nipples, or any other method.
The wheels are made of sheet steel, and have three or more arms on either side,
these reach from the ball spindle spindle fixed in the centre, to the rim, where they are
pinned down or laid over the small edging running round the same. The frame-
work consists of two curved or fluted light steel supports, sufficiently long to admit
of space enough for boots (with or without ordinary skates fitted on) between each
wheel there are three or more cross pieces, or tubes, between these two long supports,
having cavities in the centre to receive the blade of skate. The blade is then
fixed in position by two or more kneed screws with nuts to tighten, or straps may
be used, these being led through the cross pieces already mentioned, and fixed over
the boot. The wheels are placed between the steel supports, at either end, and
have detachable mudguards, and brake attachment on both. The brake is
worked by cords, which are hooked on the clothing within convenient reach of the
hand.
1000
1000
Dated 27th day February 1998.
JOHN H. WILSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Skates.
I JOHN HENDERSON WILSON, 9 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Ironmonger, 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:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a side view of one of my improved pneumatic skates.
Figure 2 a plan of the same and
Figure
an enlarged front view showing the front wheel and tyre in section.
Each skate consists of the following parts, a curved plate 1 to receive the boot
sole of the wearer, the front end of the sole being firmly held between two fluted
clips 2 sliding in brackets 3 rivetted to the underside of the plate 1.
The brackets form bearings for the ends of a rod 4 forming a right and left hand
screw, one end of the screw is made square to engage with a key wrench by which
the clips may be adjusted to receive soles varying in width.
The back end of the plate 1 has a curved and perforated plate 5 rivetted to it
provided with straps 6 to buckle over the instep. The clips and straps resemble
those usually employed to hold the skate to the boot.
Beneath the plate 1 two steel supports 7 are rivetted, perforated at their lower
ends to receive the outer ends of ball bearing spindles 8.
.
The wheels are made of sheet steel constructed as follows:-See Figure 3. A
tube 9 is formed with recessed ends to receive a requisite number of steel balls 10
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page_text: kept in position by screw threaded caps 11 capable of adjustment on the screw
threaded ends of the spindle 8. Each side of the wheel is formed of a circular disk
of steel perforated at the centre to receive the recessed end of the tube 9 to which
it is soldered or brazed, clear of the tube the disk is perforated and pressed out to
form three or more arms 12 as shown at Figures 1 and 3, the outer edge of the disk
is turned over a flange formed by the turned up edge of a ring of sheet steel 13,
the portions of thé disk between the arms being turned down onto the inside of the
ring.
Outside the ring between the flanges an indiarubber tyre 14 is placed, the edges
of the tyre are made thick enough to enclose a wire 15, the ends of which overlap
each other, and are passed through holes in the ring, and turned down portions of
the disk. When one end of each wire is turned down onto the inside of the ring
upon the other end of the wire being pulled tight and turned down the tyre will be
firmly held in position.
Previous to placing and securing the tyre upon the ring 13 a hollow ring of india-
rubber 16 is placed on the ring, the ring 16 being inflated through a tube 17 of the
. usual construction, after the tyre 14 is secured in position.
Each wheel after the ball bearings have been properly adjusted by the caps 11
have the outer ends of the spindle 8 passed through the perforated lower ends of
the steel supports 7 to which they are securely clamped by outer nuts 18.
A wire 19 on either or both sides of the skate, as shown at Figure 1, connects
the supports 7 and prevents the wheels from spreading apart too far when the
skater is using them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. For the construction and employment on skates of a combination of wheels
provided with pneumatic tyres, substantially as described and illustrated in the
drawings annexed.
2. The construction and employment of pneumatic tyres on the wheels of skates,
substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this Eighteenth day of October 1893.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.