Improvements in the Manufacture of Pedals for Velocipedes.
Year: 1885

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Pedals for Velocipedes.
We WILLIAM BOWN of 308 Summer Lane Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer, and JOSEPH HENRY HUGHES of Park Lane Aston
Birmingham aforesaid Machinist do hereby declare the nature of our said inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PEDALS FOR VELOCIPEDES
to be as follows:-
"
Our improvements have for their object increased facility in the production of
pedals for velocipedes and consist in so raising from sheet steel or metal the pedal
plates that a hollow projection is formed in the centre for receiving the tubular
pedal centre for connecting the two pedal plates together, the hollow projection
thus raised on each plate also forms the bearings for the pedal pin to work
against. By our improvements we are enabled to produce pedals more readily and
cheaper and neater in appearance than hitherto.
G. F. REDFERN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Pedals for Velocipedes.
We WILLIAM BOWN, of 308 Summer Lane, Birmingham, in the county of
Warwick, Manufacturer and JOSEPH HENRY HUGHES of Park Lane Aston,
Birmingham aforesaid, Machinist, 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 :—
Our improvements have for their object increased facility in the production of
pedals for velocipedes and consist in so raising from sheet steel or metal the pedal
plates that a hollow projection is formed in the centre for receiving the tubular
pedal centre for connecting the two pedal plates together-the hollow projection
thus raised on each plate also forms the bearings for the pedal pin to work upon.
By our improvements we are enabled to produce pedals more readily and cheaper
and neater in appearance than hitherto.
But as our improvements will be better understood by aid of the drawings
hereunto annexed we will proceed to describe the same, reference being made to the
figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents a section of a pedal but without the ordinary pins for
carrying the rubbers or rat trap plates or bars for the feet to rest on, which pins
or plates are generally passed through the holes a, a, a, a, and rivetted or secured
in position by nuts-Figure 2, is an end view of the plate and Figure 3, an
elevation of Figure 1, but with the plates A, B, withdrawn from the pedal tube or
centre C.
The plates A and B, are cut out from sheet steel or metal and by suitable press
tools generally used for such purposes the hollow projections D, D, are raised as seen
best in section at Figure 1, which projections form not only the connection for the
pedal centre or tube C, but also the bearings for the two ends of the pedal pin to
work upon as seen at Figure 1.-By this construction of pedal plate we are enabled
to manufacture pedals more economically, neater in appearance and also to reduce
the bearing surfaces of such pedals.
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 manufacture of pedal plates by raising projections in the centre for the
purposes substantially as herein described and exhibited.