A New or Improved Skate.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
A New or Improved Skate.
I, FRIEDRICH KALKNER, of 2 Weissenburgerstrasse, Hildesheim, in the Empire
of Germany, Doctor of Philosophy, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
This invention relates to a skate which is fixed to the fout by the action of a
lever actuated by the pull of the fastening strap. The mechanism of this fastening
and still more the manipulation thereof is characterized by great simplicity and the
arrangements are such that adjustment to suit various sizes of the heels of the
wearer's boots can easily be effected.
The construction of the skate is shown in the drawings hereto annexed in which
Figure 1 is a view of the underside of the skate with part of the blade broken away
to show more clearly certain of the working parts, and Figure 2 is a side
elevation.
The lever to is pivoted on the pin rivetted to the sole plate a of the skate, and
a pin e rivetted to the same lever takes into an E-shaped slot in the sliding bar d
which, at its hinder end is bent upwards and formed into a claw d' adapted to press
against the front part of the heel of the boot in order to secure the skate thereto...
To the lever is fixed one end of the fastening strap, whilst the short length
of strap to which the buckle is fixed is rivetted to the sole a of the skate.
The mechanism acts as follows:-After the foot is placed on the opened skate
the front part of the foot is secured by passing the free end of the strap w¹ over
such front part of the foot and buckling it to the buckle on the strap w (this
buckle is not shown in the drawing). The pull on the strap w¹ in the direction of
the arrow fover the top of the front of the foot to effect this buckling draws the
lever w into the position shown in Figure 1 whereby the bar d is pressed backwards.
with great leverage forcing the heel of the boot against the back wall a' of the
skate so as to clamp the heel between such back wall a' and the claw d'.
Small differences in the length of heel are compensated for by buckling into the
various holes of the fastening strap. But to compensate for greater differences
the lever o can be turned on its fulcrum 6 so as to bring the pin e into the
longitudinal part of the E-shaped slot in the bar d, from whence it may be shifted
into any of the cross slots of the same, so as to bring the hinder end of the bar d
nearer to or further from the back wall a' of the skate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A skate in which the heel of the boot is clainped by a claw slide d moved by
a lever w, a pine on which acts in an E-shaped slot of such slide, the said lever w
being operated by the pull of the front fastening strap in the act of buckling the
same, substantially as described and illustrated in the annexed drawings.
Dated this 5th day of August 1893.
Dated this on day of August 1895.
F. KALKNER,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.