Improvements in the Pedals of Cycles.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Pedals of Cycles.
We, ALFRED MACDONALD, Managing Director of the Scottish Manufacturing
Company, Limited, and the ScorTISH MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED, 47,
Hozier Street, Bridgeton, in the County of the City of Glasgow, do hereby declare
the nature of our invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has reference to an improved construction of pedal for cycles
which can be readily adjusted to suit the size of any rider's feet.
The improved pedal would consist of two sets of parallel bars at a spaced
distance apart. Each set would consist of two bars, an outer stationary bar and
an inner bar which can adjustably slide between guide projections on the inner
surface of outer bar and be held in position by screw pins which work through
longitudinal slots on the outer bar.
The two outer bars would be secured at their one end to a transverse bar, and
the two inner bars would be secured at the opposite end to a similar bar, and may
have a stay transverse bar near their other end. By this means the two inner
bars can be adjusted to any length, and secured by the screw pins working
through the slots in outer bars.
Dated the 8th dow of September 1807
mprovements in the Fedals of Cycles.
We, ALFRED MACDONALD, Managing Director of the Scottish Manufacturing
Company, Limited, and the ScOTTISH MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED, 47,
Hozier Street, Bridgeton, in the County of the City of Glasgow, do hereby declare
the nature of our 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 has reference to an improved construction of pedal for cycles
which can be readily adjusted to suit the size of any rider's feet.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of carrying same into
practice may be properly understood we have hereunto appended a sheet of
explanatory drawings in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, Figure 2 a plan view.
and Figure 3 an end view of a pedal for cycles as constructed in accordance with
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page_text: our improvements, while Figure 4 is a transverse section as taken on the line 4-4
Figure 2. Referring to these drawings:
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The improved pedal would consist of two sets of parallel bars at a spaced dis-
tance apart. Each set would consist of two bars, an outer stationary bar a and
an inner bar b which can adjustably slide between guide projections al on the
inner surface of outer bar a and be held in position by screw pins c which work
through longitudinal slots a³ on the outer bar a
The two outer bars a would be secured at their one end to a transverse bar d
and the two inner bars b would be secured at the opposite end to a similar bar e
and may have a stay transverse bar f near their other end By this means the
two inner bars 6 can be adjusted to any length and secured by the screw pins c
working through the slots a² in outer bars a.
This pedal frame would be mounted on the pedal pin in a usual manner such
as by having a fixed sleeve h between the transverse bars ef and having the
pedal pin g working within same in ball bearings.
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 :-
The improved adjustable pedal constructed substantially as set forth.
Dated the 2nd day of June 1898.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.