US60431A - Improved skate - Google Patents

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@with tetes genet @man GEORGE SCOTT, AND JOHN W. SMITH, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,

.LSSIGNORS T0 'IHEMSELVES AND JAMES SMITH, 0F SAME PLAGE.

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Beit known thst lo, GIORGI Soort, o citizen of St- Johns, in the Frovncopf New Brunswick, but new redding et Besten, in the county ef Sull'elh, ond State of Massnehusetu, end Jeux W. Sums, ef said Besten, han made s new and neeful invention having reference to Skates; und do hereby declare the same to he fully deserbod in the following speotlcstion, end represented in the sceempenylng (Innings, of whichl Figure 1 is s. top view.

Figure 2, s side elevation.

8, s bottom View, smi Figure 4, s kenner-ss section e! e skate prnvded with on: invention.

With the foeffrest ef the uid skate, there s eonxblned l. realtor und two runnen; one portleulnr objeet nf the rocker being to enable n person to spin or turn llvent on m oxs going through the middle of the akute.

In the drawings, A denotes the feat-piece nr rest, which we commonly construe; el weed, and with n nece er benito, provided with on inclined frontI b, the snme Being to extend underneath. the veneno teebeolc e of the weke.;- B, end two runners e c, such henk boing formed ss shown in 5gg. l sed 2, und more perteulerly in ig. 5, which is s front end view et' the skate. The benk a, h3 extending underneath und against the beak c, servcsto nid in keeping the oewest down upon its supporta. The henk e eprw'es also es n guard to prevent he feel-rex! frombew injured by ermtnnl of if.: toe with objeots. The rec'- r B is arranged like on ordinary runner, slant is, midway nuderneeth the fooffrest, extends from the heel to che toe thereof, und is semereulnr, er about so, n transverse section nt. its lower edge. It in connected with the t-ro runners by ernssccuneetione d d' d, they being arranged ot equo) dimmen: from it, und en opposite sides of it, in manner es represented. Enel of such runners hns its lover edge angular, or mnde like that of s common xntrnnner, The lower edge of the rocker is te extend below those uf the two runners, in order that o person while using the akute may easily spin or swing nreimd on the rocker. Il: sluiting under ether circumstances, he will support hirnuelf by new: of the roc-ker nml either of the runners, or by ons of the latter alone. The mid roekernnd the two runners are connected with the foot-res: hy means of serewssf, which gn down through mill rest and screw luto standards g h, erected orrtlxo cross sections d d, there being three of auch standards., viz: 51,1', Il, extending up to washers o,lc, l, arranged on their topa. The: washer l, which is next the heel at the skate, han e rib m pro.

jecting upward from it ns shown n figs. 6 :md T, one of which is l:s Lnp View of the Washer, und the other n transverse reellen of it, ond the heel-screw n. The snd rib is designed to enter n corresponding groove mede in the feet-reet our it, :sud also into the niek w formed in the heed p ot' the seid screw. By so doing, the rib prevents thc washer, as well s: the hcelecrew, from revolving. The lmehserew is a remmen weed screw, omi pones up through n hole in the feet-rest, nud inv held rmly, so' ns not te revolve, relatively te the foot-rest,

l while the lutter may ne in the net of revolving or being revolved for the purpose of einher screwing the screw inta the-heel ol' n persen'e hoot, or unseren-ing it therefrom. The obere mede et applying the heel-nerew 4to the m est, und holding it l'rom revolving relaztively thereto, s vnlunhle, ns lt enables a person lo easily remove v the me foot-rest, and substitute for if. a longer or n shorter one, nr circumstances may require, :nel

besides il. ts ef o commenl wped seran' being employed :u a; heel-screw. Strap bola r r go through the foetreat laterally, wget may he provided with e series of spurs, t, t, t, to ente the sole ofthe bont when plowed on the said rest. A A

We claim n.1 our invention, tlzgarrnngcment, ss well ns the eombnntion, of the rocker B, nud the tno run. ners CC, and the t`eot-rest A.

Wc also claim the combination of the fece-rest with the inclined we henk a arranged nu lt, and to operate lith the beak e, when applied thereto, substantially ns set. forth..

'f" We xlso elnx the mede of applying the heel-scrcw te the skate, riz: hy extending it nplthrough the feotrest, and supporting its head in s hearing, to extend into the nick ol' the screw, ns described.

GEORGE SCOTT,

- JOHN W. SMITH.

Witnesses;

R. H. Emu, Gaone: Axnnnn's.

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