A Detachable Steel Wire Toe Clip for Cycle Pedals.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Detachable Steel Wire Toe Clip for Cycle Pedals.
I, ALFRED TRUEMAN, Manufacturing Jeweller, 7, Vyse Street, Birmingham,
do hereby delare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the herein described detachable steel wire toe clip for
the pedals of bicycles tricycles and other velocipedes.
The said toe clip is formed of a piece of steel wire which is bent about centrally
so as to form a hook shaped loop over the rider's toes and a base under the same
the ends of the wire being formed into eyes and brought together and fixed to a
central stem which is screw threaded and provided with nuts for fixing to the
central hole in one of the cross bars of a rat trap pedal. By screwing the nuts
along the stem the toe clip can be adjusted either nearer to or farther from the
centre of the pedal and by first removing one of the nuts the toe clip can be
detached.
Delhi th d M. 1900
ALFRED TRUEMAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Detachable Steel Wire Toe Clip for Cycle Pedals.
I, ALFRED TRUEMAN, Manufacturing Jeweller, 7, Vyse Street, Birmingham,
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 consists of the herein described detachable steel wire toe clip for
the pedals of bicycles tricycles and other velocipedes.
The said toe clip is formed of a piece of steel wire which is bent about centrally
so as to form a hook shaped loop over the rider's toes and a base under the same.
the ends of the wire being formed into eyes and brought together and fixed to a
central stem which is screw threaded and provided with nuts for fixing to the
central hole in one of the cross bars of a rat-trap pedal. By screwing the nuts
along the stem the toe clip can be adjusted either nearer to or farther from the
centre of the pedal and by first removing one of the nuts the toe clip can be
detached.
I will now refer to the accompanying drawing and particularly describe how my
said invention is to be performed.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 is a plan of my said improved detachable
steel wire toe clip attached to a rat-trap pedal;
Fig. 3 is a side elevation and Fig. 4 is a plan of a modified form of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
By an examination of the drawings it will be seen that the piece of wire
(preferably steel) of which the toe clip is formed, is bent about centrally so as to
form the hook shaped loop a over the rider's toes and the base b under the same
and resting upon the usual cross bar c of the rat-trap pedal. The end parts d¹ d³ of
the wire are bent at about right angles to the base band inclined downwardly and
each is formed into an eye, marked respectively el e³ which are brought together
as shewn and fixed by solder or otherwise to one end of the central screw threaded
stem f the other end of this stem pointing towards the front of the toe clip. g'g'are
the two fixing nuts which I provide on the stem f.

page_text: To fix the toe clip to the pedal cross bar e the nut gis first removed, then the
front end of the stem is inserted in the usual hole in the cross bar c; the
nut g is then replaced on the stem and screwed up so as to clamp the cross bar
between the two nuts g¹ g². By screwing the nuts g¹² along the stem towards the
eyes the front of the toe clip will be adjusted farther from the centre of
the pedal and by screwing the nuts g¹g in the opposite direction that is towards
the front end of the stem the front of the toe clip will be brought nearer to the
centre of the pedal. Thus the toe clips can readily be adjusted to suit the length
of the rider's feet. When the wire of which the toe clip is formed is bent as shewn
in Figs. 3 and 4 to form a single loop over the rider's toes I prefer to strengthen
this loop in the usual way by a thin metal plate which is soldered to the wire;
but this plate is not required in the form shewn by Figs. 1 and 2 where the wire is
bent so as to form a double loop over the rider's toes.
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 :-
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The improved detachable wire toe clip for cycle pedals, hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawing that is to say a toe clip for the
purpose stated consisting of a piece of wire bent so as to form a hook shaped
foop over the rider's toes and a base under the same adapted to rest upon the
cross bar of the pedal the ends of the wire being bent and fixed together and to a
screwed stem which is adapted for fixing adjustably to the pedal cross bar all
substantially as herein before set forth.
Dated this 9th day of February 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.