US414089A - William a - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. A. SUTTON.

lSKATE. y No. 414,089. Patented Oct. 29, 1889.

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM A. SUTTON,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 414,089, dated October 29, 1889.

Application filed August 7, 1889. Serial No. 320,050. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. SUTTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skat-es; and I do 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 appert-ains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to ilnprovements in skates; and it consists of a skate in which the runner and the sole and heel plates are cast in one piece, having a forked heel-clamp in combination with the wellknown lever-and clamp mechanism, said hcelclamp passing over t-he rear portion of the runner below the heeLplate and then riveted together.

In the accompal'iying drawings, Figure l shows a side elevation of my improved skate. Fig. 2 is a top view of the heeLclamp of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on line x Q2, and Fig. 4 a vertical section on line y ly, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents a skate, the runner B, sole-plate O, and heel-plate I) of which are cast integral in one piece. E is a fork-shaped heel-clamp, the bowshaped part of which has two/upright spurs c, which, in connection-with the spur d of the heel-plate D, serve to hold the heel of the shoe on the heel-plate of the skate, and the Shanks of which are provided at their terminating ends with eyes e', as shown in Fig. 2.

The fork-shaped heel-clamp E is passed over the rear portion b of the runner B and held in position by means of the supportingstuds b', cast in one piece with the runner. The shanks of the clamp are then pressed together, so that the eyes e. of the same form one opening, as shown in Fig. 3. Through this opening passes an ordinary rivet, by which the Shanks of the heel-clamp are riveted together. By means of this rivet e2 the well-known lever F is also riveted to the front end of the heel-clamp, consisting of the two shanks of the same. By another ordinary rivet e3 the lever F is riveted to the flattened end of the screwbolt F', connecting the soleclamps of the well-known lever-and-clamp device for skates.

In the skates now in use the heeleplates are made separate from the runners and the heel clamp cast or stamped in one continuous piece, with an opening to pass over the rear portion of the runner from above. The heelplate is then riveted to the runner to hold the heelclamp in position below the heelplate. By my construction the heelplate can be cast in one piece with the skate, as the shanks of my forkshaped heel-clamp are passed over the rear portion of the runner from behind and then riveted together, thereby dispensing with the riveting of the heelplate to the runner.

Havin g thus described my in vention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent# l. The combination, in a skate, of a forked heel-clamp, the Shanks of which are passed over the rear portion of the runner and then riveted together, with a h eel-plate cast in one piece with the runner and sole-plate, subH stantially as set forth 2. In a skate, the combination of a forked heel-clamp, the shanks of which are passed over the rear portion and then riveted together, with the lever-and-clamp device for the sole and heel plates, substantially as set forth.

3. The forked heel-clamp for skates, having shanks provided at their terminating ends with eyes, substantially as set forth.

et. In a skate, the combination of the lever, riveted with an ordinary rivet to the front end of the heel-clamp, and also riveted with an ordinary rivet to the iiattened end of the screwAbolt connecting the sole-clamps, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

XVILLIAM A. SUTTON.

Witnesses:

WM. I-I. DUECKER, ALFRED GINsBEEG.

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