US1111246A - Ice-skate. - Google Patents

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W. S. BUTTON.

ICE SKATE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1912.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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ii To all whom it may concern:

UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE. 1

wILL AIlrs'rEwAnT BUTTON, or RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA.

Be it known that ,I, WniLLur STEWART BUTTON, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at Riverside, in the county of River-- ,side and State of California, have-invented certainnew and usefulImprovements in Ice- S'kates, of which the following is a specification.

plates.

Another object of the inventlon is to pro vide an iceskate havin Ylneans whereby shock will be absorbed rat er thantransmit.

ted to the wearer.

With the above and other Objects in View whichwill be moreyfully set forthlater on in V the specification, I have invented the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which, v,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved skate, and Fig. 2 is a sectional Copies of this patent may he obtained for view taken online 2-2 of Fig. 1 and showing the under surfaceof the heel and sole plate.

Like reference characters indicate like parts in the specification and in the several views of the drawings i in ;which 1 indicates a skate runner having project ing portions 2and 3 for supportinga heel plate and projecting portions 4 and *5 for,

supporting a soleplate, Theheel plate 7 is'provided with guide members 8, 9, 10 and 11, rigidly connected to the end-portion of said plate 7 and'which are spaced apart in order to straddle the members 2 and 8. Each of the supporting members are provided with elongated slots 12 in the lower ends ICE-SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

This invention relates to improvements in I ice skates and. it has for an object to provide an ice skate forreceiving heel and sole thereof whichareslidable over-the pins 13 in the members 2 and 3. Seated under the central portion of the heel plate is a spring 14. which depends into the space between the members 2 and 3 and over the member 16 and against the surface 17 whereby said heel plate 7 is held out of contactwith the members 2 and 3, and is supported entirely by means of said spring.

The sole plate 18 may be made preferably of spring steel or other flexible material and is secured at its forward portion to the pro jecting member 6 and is supported at its rear portion bymeansof the spring 19 and held in position by the members 20, 21, 22

and 23 in the same manner as the heel plate is supported. a I

My improved skate may be secured to the sole of a shoe by means of screws or in any other suitable Or desirable manner.

I do not limit myself to theconstruction shown and described, but

What I desire to secure by Letters Patent is: t Ina skate, a runner, upstanding projections formed thereon, a plate, spaced brackets arranged inpairs at the endsof the plate and engaging the opposite sides of the projectlons, said brackets having alining slots formed therein, pins extending from the projections through the slots, and a spring disposed between the plate and runner.

Intestimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM STEWART BUTTON.

Witnesses:

,RENA E. SMITH, CHAS. E. JOHNSON.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. 0."

Patented Sept. 22, 1914. Application filed March'12, 1912. Serial No. 683,386.

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