Improvements in Skates.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SI
GATION.
Improvements in Skates.
I ARTHUR HUGNES BOULTBEE of 9 Hoole Road Sheffield in the County of York,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
My invention of improvements in skates relates more particularly to racing skates,
and the object is to strengthen and support the long thin blades or runnors of such
skates and more particularly the front part of such blades or runners.
It is of much importanco that. racing skates should be light, and they are preferred'
with very long and thin blades, and such blades extend considerably beyond the toe
of the clog and the foot of the skater, and if unsupported the front end would be very
likely to either bend or break.
I therefore propose to form an extension of the clog beyond the usual length, or
that of the foot, out of the solid wood, reducing it in width so as to add very little to
the weight, and grooved to receive the top edge of the blade, and if desirable to make
a somewhat similar extension at the back or heel.
Dated the 20th day of April 1896.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Skates.
1, ARTHUR HUGHES BOULTONE of 9 Hoole Road, Sheffield in the County of York,.
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same has to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention of improvements in skates relates more particularly to racing skates,
and the object of the invention is to strengthen and support the long thin blade or
runner, and more particularly the front part of the blade.
I will premise that it is of importanco that racing skatos should be light, and they
are preferred with vory long and thin blades or runners, such blades are made to
extend considerably beyond the toe of the clog and the foot of the skater, and the
front end if unsupported, would be very liable to bend or break.
The annexed drawings show how I carry my invention into effect.
Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a skate made according to my invention.
Fig. 2, plan of top side of same.
Fig. 8, plan of underside of same.
In carrying out my invention I construct the clog of the skate C, with an
extension E, at the front end beyond the usual termination T, preferably inade from
the same continuous wood as the block or clog C.

page_text: This extension is reduced in width to reduce the weight, and is grooved on the
underside to receive the top edge of the blade or runner R, the said groove continuing
from one end of the clog to the other.
I also in most cases extend both the clog C, and the runner R, backwards beyond the
normal length of the heel H, as shown, but this is not essential in all cases. This
extension is inarked E*.
The two oxtensions instead of being made or formod out of the solid wood of the
clog may be made of other material and secured to the clog as indicated in Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the naturo of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is :-
1. A racing or running skate having the front end of the blade or runner supported
on each side by an extension of the front part of the wooden clog beyond its normal
length, and continuously grooved to receive the top edge of the blade, as hereinbofore
described and set forth.
2. A wooden clog for racing skates having a narrow extension projecting beyond
the toe, to act as a support for the front part of the blade or runner, as herein before
doscribed and shown."
3. A skate having the elongated blade or runner supported at both ends by
extensions E, and E, beyond the normal length of the clog C, and provided witli a
continnons groove to receive the edge of the runner R, such extensions being either
made from the wood of the clog, or being of other material attached thereto, as
heroinbefore described and set forth.
Dated the 94th day of Dec 10
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.