Improvements in or applicable to Skates.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in or applicable to Skates.
I, MONTAGUE STANLEY NAPIER, of Viue Street, York Road, Lambeth, in the
County of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in skutes of the kind described in the
Specification of Patent No. 13856 of 1893 and wherein an ankle support is hinged
to the foot plate and has for its object to provide more simple means for controlling
the brake than heretofore.
According to my invention I connect the brake, which is pivoted as described
in the Specification of the said former Patent No. 13856 of 1893, to the hinged
ankle support in such a manner that the said brake can be controlled by the
movement of the leg to which the ankle support is attached.
In practice I find it advantageous to connect one end of the brake to a pro-
jecting arm on the ankle support by means of a cord.
It will be obvious that the brake can be arranged to act on the front or on the
rear wheel.
Dated this 21st day of November 1896.
Improvements in or applicable to skates.
I, MONTAGUE STANLEY NAPIER, of Vine Street, York Road, Lambeth, in the.
County of London, Engineer, 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 skates of the kind described in the
Specification of Patent No. 13850 of 1893 and wherein an ankle support is hinged
to the foot plate and has for its object to provide more simple means for controlling
the brake than heretofore.
According to my invention I connect the brake, which is pivoted as described
in the Specification of the said former Patent No. 13856 of 1893, to the hinged
ankle support in such a manner that the said brake can be controlled by the
movement of the leg to which the ankle support is attached.
In practice I find it advantageous to connect one end of the brake to a pro-
jecting arm on the ankle support by means of a cord, wire or the like, and the
brake may be arranged to act on one or both wheels,

page_text: To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe it by reference to
the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a road skate having my brake mechanism applied
thereto :
Figure 2 is a sectional plan thereof:
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation of a road skate having a slightly different
construction of brak mechanism; and,
Figure 4 is a sectional plan of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, a, a are the wheels b, b the brackets or forks,
c, c the rods connecting the wheel spindles and between which is fulcrumed the
brake & which acts upon the front wheel of the skate, and e is the aukle support
which is hinged to the foot plate of the skate, all these parts being of ordinary
construction.
f is the nrm rigidly secured to aud projecting from the ankle support e and g is
the cord which connects the free end of the projecting arm f to au oye h screwed
to the short arm of the brake block.
With this construction it will be obvious that when the leg of the skater bears
backwards so as to turn the ankle support e backwards on its pivot, the pro-
jecting arm will be raised and will pull the cord g and apply the brake d to
the front wheel of the skate.
The brake instead of being applied to the front wheel of the skate can be
arranged to act on the rear wheel if desired.
In the construction of my brake mechanism shewn in Figures 3 and 4 the arm f.
is pivoted to instead of being rigidly fixed to the aukle support e and is formed
with a nose f against which a projection el on the ankle support strikes when tho
said support is turned backwards so as to raise the arm f. The cord g is here
shewn replaced by a wire g' and the brake is made in two parts d and d' which act
upon the front and rear wheels respectively of the skate. The said parts d and d
aro hinged on the cross pin and the part d to which the wire g' is attached is
provided with a cross bar which, when the said part is raised by the wire,
comes in contact with two projections secured to the part d so as to raise it thereby
applying the brake to the two wheels simultaneously.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In skates of the kind described, controlling the brake by means of a cord,
wire or the like which connects it to the end of an arm secured to the ankle
support, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. The improved skates, hereinbefore described and illustrated respectively in
Figures 1 and 2; and 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd dor of A
100
G. F. REDFERN & Co., :
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.