US240426A - Ithographer - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

' M. KINSEY.

Skate. No. 240,426. Patented April 19,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I MOSES KINSEY, OF NEWARK, JERSEY.

' SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,426, dated April 19, 1881.

Application filed February 12, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beitknown that I, MOsES KINSEY, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to adjustable clampskates wherein a lever is made to operate the sole and heel clamps by one action, imparting to both clamps a backward longitudinal movement; and it consists in the order of the arrangement of the heel-clamp relatively to the heel-plate, in the arrangement of a presserbar to act on the front of the heel, in the pivotal arrangement of the lever, and in the combination to operate the sole-clamps.

Figure l is a plan, showing the lever closed against the side of the skate in the act of clamping. Fig. 2 is a plan with the lever partly swung out. Fig. 3 is a side elevation with a heel clamped in position. Fig. 4 is an end view without a heel. The sole is designedly not shown in the drawings.

In my construction, A is a skate-runner, to which is attached the fixed heel-plate B, and above this plate, and sliding on it, is a heelclamp plate, 0, provided with the spurs D, to catch into the rear portion of the heel E, and the studs F, having a flanged side to catch over the edge of plate B, holding it in a sliding position, together with the double-flange stud F, secured to the plate B, with the shank below the flanges sliding in the slot G in the.

plate (J. Other methods of making the sliding connection between these two plates may be employed with the same effect, the one point, in this respect, bein gin the clamp-plate sliding on and above the heel-plate in the backward movement in clamping, this heel-clamp not being attached to the skate, but being made to slide above the heel-plate, and by a rear movement in clamping adds greatly to the strength of the skate, as when it is put on and tightened up there is no strain on the runner or back of clamp G to weaken them, as will be seen.

Connected with the front end of plate 0 is a screw-bolt, H, having a screw-connection with the sole-clamps I, and is used to act upon the clamps in adjusting them to the size of a boot or shoe. The clamp-pieces I have the inclin ed slots K, in combination with the flanged studs L, secured to the foot-plate M, said footplatelyingabovetheclamp-plates. Theflangestud N, also secured to the foot-plate and lying between the clamp-plates, assists to keep them steady in their movements.

At the rear end and on top of the foot-plate M, by the pin 0, is pivoted the lever P. At a short distance back, and diagonally from this pivot, is a pivot-pin, Q, uniting with the lever a presser-bar, R, having an upward curved form, as shown in Fig. 3, and made'to extend back to press against the inside of the heel. The lower portion of the end T of this bar has the stud U, adapting it to slide in the slot Gin the plate 0.

Now, it will be seen that to attach the skate to a boot the lever is thrown out laterally, as seen in Fig. 2, or farther than there shown, when the sole-clamps will be spread apart and the presser-bar be drawn forward, when the skate may be easily put in position on v the boot. The lever is then turned in, approaching a parallel with the presser-bar, which bar is carried back by the action of the lever from therelation of the pivot-pins O and Q, as shown in Figs. 1 and '2. When the lever has closed in against the skate the pin Q has passed the center or pressure line of pin 0 and become a lock for the lever and presser-bar, as seen in Fig. 1; As the lever is turned in the presserbar strikes the front of the heel and presses it back, the clamp-plate O, on which it rests, sliding, as above shown, backward on the heel-plate. This movement of plate 0 draws back with it the sole-clamps I, the outer ends of which, by the inclined slots K being drawn inward, clamp onto the sole and firmly bind the skate to the boot.

B y this construction and operation the strain in clamping is almost entirely taken off from the skate-runner, as before stated, from the heel-clamp not being fixed to the runner, and also from the fact that the clamps both move in one directionbackward-in clamping, and leave no chance for strain, and yet the skate is perfectly clamped to the boot.

Some other form of operating the lever or of sliding back the heel-clamp, and with it the sole-clamps in one continuous action, may be employed, and the same result be securedviz., of clamping the heel and sole by a backward movement of these clamps.

I claim 1. In a skate, the heel-clamp 0, provided with the spurs D and sliding on the top of the heel-plate B, and With the heel E of a boot or shoe carried backward in clamping by operating mechanism in front of the heel, in combination with the sole-clamps I, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the heel-clamp (J, constructed and operating substantially as described, the sliding presser-bar R and lever P, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In combination with the heel-clamp G, constructed and operating substantially as described, the level P, pivoted on a center line to the rear end of the foot-plate M by the pin 0, and the presser-bar R by the pin Q, pivoted to the lever, so that when the skate is clamped on the boot 0r shoe the pin Q has passed the pressure-line of pin 0 and become a locking device, substantially as set forth.

4. The backwardly-sliding heel-clamp G, with its spurs D, arranged above and sliding on the heel-plate B by means of the studs F and F, in combination with the sliding presserbar R, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. The combination of the backwardly-sliding heel-clamp O, presser-bar R, lever P, soleclamps I, and adjustable screw H, substantially as and for the purpose-set forth.

MOSES KINSEY.

\Vitnesses:

HORACE HARRIS, N. O. BRISTOL.

Images