Improvements in Training Apparatus.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th July, 1893-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by Madame MELOÉ LECHAUDÉ, of 19, Rue Cambon,
Paris, in the French Republic.]
Improvements in Training Apparatus.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS of 70 Market Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Patent Agent, 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 apparatus for use in the training of athletes especially
for walking and foot racing.
Apparatus constructed according to this invention consists essentially of two
wheels connected by a shaft or axle which forms a support for the person using the
apparatus. The wheels may either be loosely mounted upon the ends of the shaft
or axle so as to be capable of independent rotation, or they may be fixed upon the
shaft, which in this case may be surrounded by a suitable sleeve or tube to form a
support or the basis of a support.
The machine may be constructed in different sizes and of any suitable metal and
material, but it is preferred to manufacture the wheels in the way usual in cycle
building and to surround them with indiarubber solid cushion or pneumatic tyres.
In order to increase the portability of the machine and to render it more compact.
when not in use, a hinged or telescopic axle may be used so that the machine may
be folded or collapsed.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner this invention may be
carried into effect and are hereinafter referred to.
In Figure 1 a machine is illustrated consisting of the two wheels A B mounted
one upon each end of the axle C which in this case is straight and furnished with a
gripping piece D for the use of the person training. As before explained the
wheels may be mounted loosely upon the ends of the axle or may be rigidly secured
thereto and the axle surrounded by a sleeve.
As illustrated by Figure 2 another form of the machine may have the axle
cranked or bent, a stay or breast band E being provided over the opening of the
crank. In this case two handles or gripping pieces are furnished one on each side
of the crank. As before A and B indicate the wheels C the axle and D the handles
or gripping pieces.
The machine illustrated by Figure 3 is of similar construction to that shewn in
Figure 2 but the stay or breast band E is dispensed with.
In the modification represented by Figure 4, the axle C is divided in the
middle and is joined by a rigid band which forms a belt or girdle E opening at E¹.
As shewn in Figure 5 the machine may be still further modified the straight
axle C being provided with a raised handle or gripping piece D from which a
satchet F may be suspended.
If desired additional small safety or trailing wheels may be combined with the
axle or the machine in the manner shewn in Figure 6 where the axle C has attached
to it a stay or arm G the lower end of which carries a small wheel H. Figure 6
illustrates the attachment of these safety or trailing wheels to both straight and
cranked or divided axles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
1. A training machine consisting of two wheels mounted upon or connected by a

page_text: shaft or axle furnished with handles or gripping pieces constructed and arranged
substantially as described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination with a training machine constructed as described of a safety
or trailing wheel substantially as set forth and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
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WILLIAM E. HEYS.