Improvements in and connected with Adjustable Foot Rests for Vehicles and Rowing Boats.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Adjustable Foot Rests for
Vehicles and Rowing Boats.
We, GEORGE WEARING, and WILLIAM HENRY WEARING, both of Carter's
Green Foundry, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, Ironfounders, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in and connected
with adjustable inclined foot rests for use in traps, dog carts and other vehicles to
support the driver's feet and for use in rowing boats to support the rower's feet.
By our invention the construction of the said foot rests is simplified and they are
adapted for use either with or without a mat, which may be of any thickness.
In carrying out this invention we employ an inclined foot rest provided with any
suitable metal wooden or other base and fixed to the front of the base preferably as
far apart as possible we provide two leather metal or other straps or bands which
lie upon the mat or upon the bottom of the vehicle or boat and are connected to
crossbars, brackets, loops or other attachments fixed to the floor of the vehicle or
boat under the driver's or rower's feet. These straps or bands maintain the foot
rest in position against the push of the driver's or rower's feet and being flexible
they will allow of a mat of any thickness being used under the base of the foot rest.
In order to prevent the inclined foot rest being tipped back by the pressure of the
driver's or rower's feet thereon the base of the foot rest is continued at the back or
at the front of the foot rest or at both back and front thereof. The said straps are
by preference made adjustable in length so as to permit of the foot rest being
adjusted and fixed either nearer to or farther from the driver or rower as may be
required; and for the same purpose the foot rest proper may also be made adjust-
able along its base by the base being formed for instance with two metal slides
along which the downwardly projecting shanks of the foot rest can be adjusted and
fixed in any desired position as described in the Specification of the prior Letters
Patent No. 18703 of A.D. 1889 granted to one of us namely to the said William
Henry Wearing.
When the straps are made adjustable as aforesaid then the foot rest proper may
be made fixed to its base the latter being either hinged to the foot rest proper so as
to permit of the latter being turned down flat upon the mat when not required for
use, or the base may be rigidly fixed to the foot rest proper. The base and that
part of the foot rest to which the tread is fixed can very conveniently consist of
two angle brackets fixed to the back of the tread part and adapted for fixing to the
said straps.
The said straps can readily be made adjustable as above described by making the
said metal loops (which as above described are fixed to the floor under the driver's
or rower's seat) like buckle frames each with a peg or tongue to engage in holes in
the strap and having side snugs through which pass the screws for fixing the loops
to the floor. Or straps with buckles may be used either singly or threaded through
the said loops and other loops on the front of the foot rest.
Those ends or parts of the two straps which are fixed or otherwise connected to
the said vehicle or boat floor are by preference spread farther apart than are the
other ends or parts of the straps which are connected to the foot rest so as the
better to prevent the foot rest moving sideways when in use.
Dated this 15th day of November 1892
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Adjustable Foot. Rests for
Vehicles and Rowing Boats.
We, GEORGE WEARING and WILLIAM HENRY WEARING, both of Carter's
Green Foundry, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, Ironfounders, 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 consists of the hereindescribed improvements in and connected
with adjustable inclined foot rests for use in traps, dog carts and other vehicles to
support the driver's feet and for use in rowing boats to support the rower's feet.
By our invention the construction of the said foot rests is simplified and they are
adapted for use either with or without a mat, which may be of any thickness.
We will describe our invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which
Fig. 1 is a general view of an adjustable foot rest and connections for vehicles
and rowing boats formed according to this invention;
Fig. 2 shews one of the loops and strap ends of the same separately;
Fig. 3 is a general view of a slightly different form of the said foot rest with the
same connections;
:
Fig. 4 is a general view of another form of our invention a part of which is
shewn in sectional elevation by Fig. 5 and another part of which is shewn in side
elevation by Fig. 6;
Fig. 7 shews our invention applied to another form of adjustable foot rest and
Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation of a trap or dog cart body and mat with one of our
improved foot rests such as shewn by Fig. 1 in position ready for use to support the
driver's feet;
Figs. 9 and 10 illustrate a further modification of our invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawings.
In one arrangement of carrying out this invention we employ an inclined foot.
rest A provided with any suitable metal wooden or other base B and fixed to the
front of the base B preferably as far apart as possible we provide two leather
(Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 8) or other flexible straps or bands C' C which as shewn in
Fig. 8 lie upon the mat D or upon the bottom of the vehicle or boat and are
connected to crossbars, brackets, loops or other attachments (such for instance as
the loops E Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 8) fixed to the floor F of the vehicle or boat under
the driver's seat f¹ (Fig. 8) or under the rower's seat. These straps or bands. C' C.
maintain the foot rest A B in position against the push of the driver's or rower's
feet and being flexible they will allow of a mat of any thickness being used under.
the base of the foot rest. In order to prevent the inclined foot rest A being tipped
back by the pressure of the driver's or rower's feet thereon the base B of the foot
rest is continued at the back (Figs. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 8) or at the front of the foot
rest A or at both back and front thereof. The straps C'C' are by preference
made adjustable in length so as to permit of the foot rest A being adjusted and
fixed either nearer to or farther from the driver or rower as may be required; and
for the same purpose the foot rest proper A may as shewn in Fig. 7 also be made
adjustable along the base B by the base being formed for instance with the metal
slides 66 along which the downwardly projecting shanks a¹ a² of the foot rest A
can be adjusted and fixed in any desired position as described in the Specification
of the prior Letters Patent No. 18703 of A.D. 1889 granted to one of us namely
to the said William Henry Wearing. The straps C₁ C' are by preference fixed to

page_text: the base B of the foot rest by fitting in sockets * 61 and by cross rivets d as shewn
in Fig. 1 although any other method of connecting the straps C₁ C' to the base B
may be adopted.
When the straps C'C' are made adjustable as aforesaid then the foot rest
proper A is by preference made fixed to its base B as shewn in Figs. 1, 3 and 8 as
the holes c in the straps will give the necessary adjustment of the foot rest nearer
to or farther from the driver as may be required.
The base B and that part of the foot rest to which the tread A is fixed can very
conveniently consist of two angle brackets as shewn in Fig. 1 and in Fig. 3 fixed to
the back of the tread part A and adapted as shewn and as above described for
fixing to the straps C¹˚C².
The straps C'C' can readily be made adjustable as above described by making
the metal loops E E (which as above described are fixed to the floor under the
driver's or rower's seat) like buckle frames (as shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 8) each
with an upwardly projecting peg or tongue el to engage in holes c in the strap C' C³
and having side snugs ee through which pass the screws for fixing the loops E E
to the floor. It will be seen that the strap passes under the cross bar e of the
frame E and is then engaged with the peg e¹ and the loose part of the strap is
passed sideways under the lip e formed on one of the inner sides of the frame E.
Or straps with buckles may be used either singly or threaded through the loops
fixed to the floor or through other loops on the front of the base B of the foot rest.
Instead of employing flexible leather or like straps C'C' as above described
rigid metal straps such as F1 F' (see Figs. 4, 5 and 6) may be used and may as
shewn be formed in a piece with the base B of the foot rest. In this case each of
the loops E may be made with a swinging link H which as shewn in Fig. 4 will fall
down and engage with teeth formed on the top of the metal straps F F so as to
maintain the foot rest A in position and which links can readily be lifted to the
position shewn for instance in Fig. 6 so as to allow of the foot rest and its
straps FF being moved nearer to or farther from the driver as may be required.
Or as shewn in Figs. 9 and 10 the metal straps F1 F2 may be made of hoop iron
fixed to the base B the swinging link H being made with a peg on its underside
to engage in the holes in the straps F'F' as shewn. Fig. 10 shews how the links H
are turned up to disengage the pegs from the straps F1 F* when the foot rest is
being adjusted or removed from the vehicle or rowing boat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In combination with an adjustable inclined foot rest of the kind herein referred
to for vehicles and rowing boats, the employment of leather or other flexible or
rigid straps or bands fixed to the front of the foot rest and to loops or other connec-
tions on the bottom of the vehicle or rowing boat, the said straps being so
constructed as to allow of the foot rest being adjusted along the mat or bottom of
the vehicle or rowing boat to suit the driver's feet or rower's feet, substantially as
hereinbefore set forth.
2. In combination with adjustable inclined foot rests for vehicles and rowing
boats, the employment of rigid metallic straps such as F F formed with or fixed
to the foot rest and adapted to engage with links such as H fixed to the floor of the
vehicle or rowing boat and thus render the foot rest adjustable to suit the driver's
or rower's feet, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 4, 5
and 6 and by Figs. 9 and 10 of the accompanying drawings.
3. In combination, the inclined foot rest such as A adjustable along slides such
as formed on the base B and leather or other flexible straps such as C¹C²
fixed to the base B and to a peg or other connection on the bottom of the vehicle
or rowing boat the whole forming an adjustable inclined foot rest for vehicles and
rowing boats substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Fig. 7 of
the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 4. The combination and arrangement of parts forming the improved inclined foot
rest and connections for vehicles and rowing boats hereinbefore described and
illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 8 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of August 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.