US568547A

US568547A - reinhardt

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Publication number: US568547A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-09-29
Anticipated expiration: 1913-09-29

Description

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SKATE.

C. G. REINHARDT.

PatentedSept. Z9, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

CHARLES C. REINHARDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,547, dated September 29, 1896.

Application filed October 19, 1895.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. REINHARDT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to certain improvements in skates of that class known as racing-skates, which, owing to the greater length of their runners, require a special construction, so as to provide for the eXtra pressure on the forward portion of the same.

The requirements of a racing-skate are an eXtra length of runner combined with strength of construction and greatest possible reduction in weight, so that the skate can stand the extra strain and pressure to which it is subjected when in actual use. These requirements are met by actual tests in my improved skate, which comprises a long thin runner, and a longitudinally-grooved runner-support riveted to the sole and heel parts of the footpiece and tapering at the front end in advance of the point of connection between the sole and the same. The foot-piece i's provided with recesses at the under side for the straps and with a transverse strip of metal which extends across the sole part of the foot-piece and is provided with prongs, said prongs forming in connection with a disk provided with a lug entering into the heel a rigid connection for the rivets that are passed from the runner-support through the foot-piece 'and the sole-strip land heel-disk, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of my improved skate; and Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical transverse sections on lines 2 2 and 3 3, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represen ts the runner of my improved skate, which runner is made of eXtra length, by preference from fifteen to twenty inches in length, so as to eX- tend a considerable distance beyond the toe and heel of the foot. The runner is riveted in a longitudinal groove, of the runner-support B, by which it is connected to the foot-piece C. The runner-support B is preferably made of Serial Nox 566,247. (No model.)

aluminium, which, owingA to its lightness and proportionate strength, is especially adapted for the eXtra strain and pressure to which the skate is subjected when in use, as steel or any other metal by reason of its weight would not permit a practical skate for racing purposes. The runner-support B is made wider below the sole than between the sole and heel connection, and tapers from such wide connected front part to its extreme front end, while at the point of connectionwith lthe heel the runner-support 'is also made wide, and both the wide sole part and the wide heel part riveted by means of transverse rivets to the foot-piece.

The runner-support B is provided with recesses or indentations at its widest portions, so as to make the connection by means of riveting-pins CZ d with the sole and heel parts of the foot-piece. To produce a strong connection between the runner-support and the sole part by the riveting-pins d d, the footpiece is provided at its sole part with a transverse steel strip e, which is provided with pointed prongs c", that engage with the sole of the shoe, While the heel-piece is provided with a disk f, having a headed lug f', that is adapted to engage with a recess of the heel of the shoe. By means of the transverse solestrip d and the disk-shaped heel-piece f a rigid connection between the runner-support and the sole-piece is obtained, as thereby the rivetinglpins have a iirm bearing and can be firmly applied to the foot-piece.

The foot-piece is provided at the under side in front of the sole-piece with a recess g, and in front of the heel-piece with a recess g', through which recesses the straps by which the skate is attached to the foot can be conveniently passed without requiring eXtra holes passing through the foot-piece or runner-support of the straps.

My improved skate combines the eXtra length of runner with considerable strength and lightness, so that the runner is enabled to resist the extra pressure on the same without bending or breaking, the lightness of the skate being due to the use of aluminium for the runner-support, so that racing-skates with runners from sixteen to twenty inches long and from one-sixteenth to three thirty-second parts of an inch 'can be made without IOO the toe of the foot-support and tapering graduaily from the broadened bail portion, means for attaching said runner-support to said footsupport, and a long thin runner heid in the groove of said runner-support.

2. In a skate the combination of a footpiece provided with a transverse metal strip having prongs, a heel-plate provided with an upwardly-extending lug, a long thin runner extending some distance beyond the heel and toe portions of said foot-piece, a longitudina11ygrooved runn er-support extending from the heel portion of said foot-pieee to the tip end of the runner and made wider at the bail and heel portions than between said portions, said support tapering gradually from the widened bali portion to the tip thereof, riveting-pins extending through the transverse metal strip, the foot-piece and the widened bail portion of the support, and rivets adapted to clamp the heel-plate, footpiece and the runner-support firmly together.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I havesigned my name in pres ence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES C. REINHARDT,

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, (ino. W. JAEKEL.