US544172A

US544172A - Skate

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Publication number: US544172A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-08-06
Anticipated expiration: 1912-08-06

Description

(No M61161.) O. A. HINSGH & W. G. PRICE.

SKATE.

Patented Aug. 6, L895.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CAROLINE A. HINSCH AND WILLIAM G. PRICE, OF SIOUX CITY, IOWA.

S KATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 544,172, dated August 6, 1895. Application filed December 28, 1894; .Serial No. 533,189. I (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CAROLINE A. HINSOH and WILLLIAM G. PRICE, citizens of the United-States, residing at Sioux City, in the county of Woodbury and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skates; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in skates; and it consists of an improved construction whereby they have an improved spring action under the feet of the skater, as hereinafter specifically described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a skate embodying our invention and having a single spring action. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of said skate applied to a skaters foot, the split spring-runner being shown in its compressed position. Fig. 3 represents'aside elevation of a'modified form of ourinvention in which the skate has a double spring action, and Fig. 4 represents arear elevation of the form of skate shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

A in the drawings represents the sole-plate; B, the clamping devices, and D the runner.-

The sole-plate A is constructed in the ordinary manner and is provided with any suitable clamping devices by which it may be secured to the skaters foot.

The runner D has its lower edge either flat or concave, as desired, and is made of spring metal. This runner is split longitudinally, so as to form an upper sole-plate-attaching portion 61 and a lower spring-runner d, the action of the spring metal being to keep said portions normally separated, as shown in Fig. 1. The width of the space between the portions at d is greatest at the rear and gradually decreases toward the front where said split in the runner ends, leaving the forward end or toe of the runner solid.

The rear end of the portion d is turned upward at right angles, as at d and is provided with a vertical slot 01 closed at the top. The rear end (i of the portion d has its lower edge beveled to form a knife-edge (Z and said end is adapted to be guided vertically by sliding in the slot 01 The portion d at the lower end of the slot d is beveled downward toward the rear, as at d and thus any snow or ice accumulating in the slot at will be forced or cut out of the same as the portions d 01 approach each other by the combined action of the knife-edge d of the portion at and the bevel d of the portiond'.

In Fig. 3 we have shown a'double springrunner. This is constructed in substantially the same manner as that shown in Fig. 1, with' the exception that the forward end or too portion of the runner is provided with a projecting nose 01 and the portion d is made higher and is split from the front toward the rear to form an intermediate spring portion (2 The forward end (1 as well as the rear end (1 of said runner is turned upward.- The end (1 is providedwith a vertical slot similar to slot d said slot having a beveled bottom similar to d The end d is also provided with a knife-edge similar to edge (i and said end works in'the slot d in exactly the same manner that end 61 works in the slot (1 The compression and expansion of the spring-runners as the skater moves along takes the place of the knee movement necessary in the ordinary construction ofskate, so that nearly all the movement that the skater need make to move forward is to sway the body from side to side. As the body sways or-leans to the right the pressure ison the spring of the right skate, which com-- presses it, as shown in Fig. 2. The left foot in the meatime is allowed to drop behind, and as the pressure is removed from the spring on the left skate it expands and pushes the skater forward, and so on vice versa. While this spring action makes a forward movement in straight lines very easy, it also is ad- Vantageous for fancy skating in curved lines.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a skate the combination with a suitable sole plate, of a spring runner consisting of a single piece of'me-tal split longitudinally alonga portion of its length and having said split portions bent apart so as to be normally separated; one of said portions being attached to the sole plate and the other being free and capable of vertical spring movement, substantially as described.

2. In a skate the combination with a suitable sole plate and clamping devices, of a spring runner consisting of a single piece of metal split along a portion of its length and having said split portions bent apart; one of said portions being attached to the sole plate and the other being free so as to be capable of vertical spring action, and devices for guiding the vertical movements of said runner, substantially as described.

3. In a skate the combination with a suitable sole plate and clamping devices of a spring runner consisting of a single piece of metal split along a portion of its length and having said split portions bent apart so as to be capable of vertical spring action, one of said portions being provided with a slotted extension, and the other with a projecting nose adapted to slide and be guided in said slotted extension, substantially as described.

at. In a skate the combination with a suitable sole plate and clamping devices of a spring runner consisting of a single piece of metal split along a portion of its length, and

having said split portions bent apart so as to be capable of vertical spring action, the lower portion being provided with an upwardly extending slotted portion, the lower wall of the slot being beveled, and the upper portion being provided with a projecting nose having a knife edge and adapted to slide and be guided in said upwardly extending portion, substantially as described.

5. In a skate the combination With a suitable sole plate and clamping device of aspring runner consisting of a single piece of metal split along a portion of its length from the front toward .the rear, and from the rear toward the front so that said runner is capable of vertical spring movement at its forward and rear ends, and devices for guiding the split portions of the runner in their vertical movements, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We have affixed our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

CAROLINE A. I'lINSCll.

WILLIAM G. PRICE.

\Vitnesses:

ZENIA M. REEVE, HELEN HUNTER.