Improvements in Dust-proof Caps for Cycle Pedals."
Year: 1897

page_text: "Improvements in Dust-proof Caps for Cycle Pedals."
I, GEORGE NEWTON VAUGHAN, of the firm of Thompson and Vaughan, of Hurst
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to dust-proof end caps for cycle pedals, and has for its
object, a detachable dust-proof cap, which is equally applicable to rat-trap, rubber
and all other construction of pedals.
My improved cap consists of a hat or dish-shaped shell, with the flange, on one
side, carrying a hook-shaped lip or car which engages with a slot or piercing
formed in the pedal end plate and near to the berging cup of the pedal, whilst
an opposite part of the flange has a spring lip or yielding hook-shaped tongue,
whose free end is formed with an inclined lead, which, when the cap is placed
in position takes over one side of a like and opposite piercing in the pedal plate
to that already described, whereby the cap is firmly secured in position and
securely covers up the end of the spindle and the bearing and prevents the
incursion of dust thereto.
Thus the cap is held on the pedal plate at one side by a rigid hook connection
and at the other side by a yielding or snap hook which admits of being prized
out of its holding position when it is required to remove the cap and of being
again sprung into position over the pedal bearing by a snapping action.
Dated this 4th day of January 1897.
GEORGE NEWTON VAUGHAN,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
- I, GEORGE NEWTON VAUGHAN, of the firm of Thompson and Vaughan, of Hurst
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to dust-proof end caps for cycle pedals, and has for its
object, a detachable dust-proof cap, which is equally applicable to rat-trap, rubber
and all other constructions of pedals.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents the end-plate of a cycle, pedal,
fitted with a detachable dust-cap made according to my invention.

page_text: Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of figure 1, upon the dotted line x.
Figure 3 is a like sectional view as figure 2, but shows the detachable cap in the
act of being removed.
Figure 4 represents an outside and an inside elevation and also an edge view of
the detachable dust-cap separately.
Figure 5 represents the pedal end plate, separately, showing the piercings in
the same, with which parts of the dust-cap engage.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
My improved cap a, as illustrated in the accompanying drawing consists of a
hat or dish-shaped shell a¹, of such a size interiorly as to fit closely over the
upstanding edge cl, of the bearing cup c, and having or being provided with a
flanged edge a³, which fits close down upon the pedal end plate b, and carries on
one side a hook-shaped lip or ear a³, which engages with a slot or piercing 61,
formed in the said pedal end plate b near to the bearing cup c, of the petal,
whilst an opposite part of the flange has a spring lip or yielding and slightly
hook-shaped tongue a³, whose free end 6, is formed with an inclined lead a',
which, when the cap is placed in position, takes over one side of another and
opposite piercing 2, in the pedal plate, whereby the cap is firmly secured in
position and securely covers up the end of the spindle and the bearing and prevents
the incursion of dust thereto.
Thus the cap is held on the pedal plate at one side by a rigid hook connection a³,
and at the other side by a yielding or snap hook a5, which admits of being prized
out of its holding position when it is required to remove the cap and of being
again sprung into position over the pedal bearing by a snapping action.
Instead of the rigid hook connection and the yielding snap-hook engaging with
holes in the end plate, they may engage with cut-out and turned up ears or
equivalent projections formed or struck up from the metal of the said end plate.
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:-
A detachable dust-cap for cycle pedals, having, upon one side a lip or ear,
on the other side a yielding tongue or like snap fastener, which ear and snap
and
tongue respectively engage with piercings, projections or equivalents formed in
or upon a pedal-end plate, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 4th day of Octalian 1907
GEORGE NEWTON VAUGHAN,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row Birmingham Agent for Applicant.