Improvements in Road Skates.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Road Skates.
We, MONTAGUE STANLEY NAPIER, of Vine Street, York Road, Lambeth,
and ALBERT RITTER, of 26, Tennyson Street, Lambeth, hoth in the County of
London, Engineers, 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 relates to improvements in that class of skate forming the subject.
of Patent No. 13856 of 1893.
According to the present improvements instead of the foot-stock described in
the Specification of the said former Patent we employ a tubular support on which
are fixed the plates carrying the clips for the heel and toe parts of the boot of the-
skater, the brackets or forks for the spindles of the wheels being connected to the-
said plates. Instead of arranging the brake on a rod fixed to the brackets or forks.
as heretofore we sometimes arrange the brake above the front wheel, in which case
the said brake is connected to a tubular rocking bar fulcrummed between two
tubular supports which take the place of the foot-stock, all as hereinafter more.
particularly described by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figures 1 and 2 Sheet I are respectively a side elevation and a plan of a road.
skate constructed with a tubular support in place of the ordinary foot-stock, and
Figure 3 is a plan of the brake.
Figures 4 and 5, Sheet 2, represent a side elevation and a plan respectively of
our new arrangement of brake, and Figure 6 is a plan of the brake.
In the skate represented in Figures 1, 2 and 3, Sheet 1, of the accompanying-
drawings, a, a are the wheels, b, the brackets or forks, c, c the rods connecting-
the wheel spindles and between which is fulcrummed the brake d, all of which are-
constructed substantially the same as in the skate described in the Specification of
the said former Patent except that the rods c, c are now made tubular and that the
brake is shewn arranged to act on the front wheel only of the skate.
support which we now employ in place of the usual foot-stock.
e is the tubular-
The front end of the support e is carried between the front bracket or fork b
and the plate f which may be in one piece with or rivetted to the said fork b and
which carries the toe-clips g which are actuated in the usual manner, the rear end
of the support e being carried between the heel-plate h and a stirrup piece rivetted
to the plate hand to the rear fork b. The heel-plate is provided with turned-up.
projections which are rivetted to the upper inner sides of the rear fork b.
By this arrangement the construction of the skate is simplified and its weight.
diminished without diminishing its strength.
In the arrangement shewn in Figures 4, 5 and 6, Sheet 2, the brake d is formed.
rigid with the toe-plate f which is connected to the tubular rocking-bar i, which
rocking bar also carries the heel-plate and is fulcrummed at to the side-
supports k, k which now take the place of the support e in the arrangement shewu
in Figures 1 and 2, Sheet 1, and which carry the brackets or forks b, b.
By this arrangement it will be obvious that in using the skate while the heel is
pressed down the parts will be kept in the position shewn in Figure 3, that is to
say, the brake d will be kept free from the front wheel. If, however, the toe be
pressed down the bar i will rock on its fulcrum j pressing down the toe-plate and
with it the brake which will then be brought against the wheel tyre.
In some cases the rocking bar i may be pivoted at the joint marked x, Figure 4..

page_text: the brake being normally raised from contact with the wheel by means of a spring,
which spring would be compressed by pressing down the toe-plate for putting on
the brake.
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
1. In road skates of the kind herein described the tubular bar e to which are
connected the brackets or forks b, b and the heel and toe-plates f, h substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, Sheet 1, of the
accompanying drawings.
2. In road skates of the kind herein described connecting the brake and the toe
and heel-plates to a tubular rocking bar fulcrummed between two side supports
carrying the brackets or forks substantially in the manner and for the purpose
herein before described and illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, Sheet 2, of the
accompanying drawings.
3. The manufacture and use of the improved road skates herein before described
and illustrated respectively in Figures 1 and 2, Sheet 1, and Figures 4 and 5,
Sheet 2, of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of March 1896.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.