Improvements in Means for Securing Rubber Bars to the Support Pins or End Plates of Pedals for Velocipedes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 4th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 5th Jan., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Securing Rubber Bars to the Support
Pins or End Plates of Pedals for Velocipedes.
We WILLIAM BOwn of Summer Lane, Birmingham in the county of Warwick,
Manufacturer, and JOSEPH HENRY HUGHES of Park Lane, Aston near Birmingham
aforesaid, Machinist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object the secure fastening of pedal rubbers to the pins or
plates of such pedals thereby preventing the said rubbers turning round on the pins so
frequently the case with pedals ordinarily constructed thereby causing inconvenience
and accidents.
In carrying our invention into effect we provide a washer or disc of metal at each
end of the pedal rubber with a hole in its centre of the same shape as the pedal pin
and out of the said washer we raise or form by suitable tools any convenient number
of projections, which projections on such washer or disc are by pressure embedded in
the ends of the pedal rubber so that from the pins being securely fixed in the end
plates and the holes in the washers or discs being of the same shape as the pins the
rubbers are securely fixed in position on the pins without the use of cement or such
like substance as usually adopted. It will be obvious that instead of using indepen-
dent washers or discs as before described suitable shaped projections or pins may be
raised or pressed out of or inserted in the pedal plates which projections or pins may
be by pressure embedded in the ends of the rubber bars thereby securely holding them
firmly in position as in the former case.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Pins or End Plates of Pedals for Velocipedes.
We WILLIAM BOWN of Summer Lane Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturer and JOSEPH HENRY HUGHES of Park Lane Aston near Birmingham
aforesaid Machinist do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR SECURING RUBBER BARS TO THE SUPPORT PINS OR
END PLATES OF PEDALS FOR VELOCIPEDES " and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention has for its object the secure fastening of pedal rubbers to the pins or
plates of such pedals thereby preventing the said rubbers turning round on the pins so
frequently the case with pedals ordinarily constructed thereby causing inconvenience
and accidents.
In carrying our invention into effect we provide a washer or disc of metal at each
end of the pedal rubber with a hole in its centre of the same shape as the pedal pin
and out of the said washer we raise or form by suitable tools any convenient number
of projections, which projections on each washer or disc are by pressure embedded in
the ends of the pedal rubber so that from the pins being securely fixed in the end
plates and the holes in the washers or discs being of the same shape as the pins, the
rubbers are securely fixed in position on the pins without the use of cement or such
like substance as usually adopted. It will be obvious that instead of using indepen-
dent washers or discs as before described suitable shaped projections or pins may be
raised or pressed out of or inserted in the pedal plates which projections or pins may
be by pressure imbedded in the ends of the rubber bars thereby securely holding them
firmly in position as in the former case.
But as our invention will be best 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.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
end and
Figure 1. represents a front and edge view of the plate. Figures 2 and
front views of as much of a pedal necessary to illustrate our invention. The plate
figure 1. is by preference circular, pierced in the centre with a D or other shaped hole
marked A. and the two projecting parts B. B. are formed out of the body and bent into
the form shown in the edge view. A plate so formed is applied to each end of the
rubber bar C. figure 3, and the pin D. is passed through the pedal plates E. plates F. F.
and rubber C. and secured by the nut G. the projecting parts or lugs B. B. (of which
there may be any desired number) gripping the rubber of the pedal as seen at Figure 3
thereby firmly holding the rubber rigidly in position preventing the rubber turning
on the pin and avoiding the necessity of cementing the rubber to the pin as ordinarily
practised.
Figure 4 illustrates a plate in which the projecting parts are formed on the exterior
of the plate instead of being pierced from the body of the plate as at Figure 1. It

page_text: will be obvious from reference to Figure 5. which represents end and edge views of a
pedal plate that instead of using independent end plates as at figure 1 with the pro-
jecting parts or ears, the same may be formed out of the metal of the pedal plate as
seen at B¹ B' and producing the same effect as described at Figures 1, 2, and 3.
Having now described our improvements and the manner of giving effect to the
same we wish it understood that we do not purpose confining ourselves to the exact
details herein described and exhibited, but what we claim and wish protected by
Letters Patent is
The means for securely holding the rubber bars of pedals in a firm and rigid
position on the pins and preventing them turning on the pins substantially as herein
described and exhibited.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.